The SecEd Podcast is dedicated to supporting best practice in the secondary school – with practical advice, examples, discussion and tips for teachers, support staff and school leaders across the range of topics relevant to day-to-day secondary school life. A new episode every half-term
SecEd Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Pete Henshaw
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112 episodes
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The SecEd Podcast is dedicated to supporting best practice in the secondary school – with practical advice, examples, discussion and tips for teachers, support staff and school leaders across the range of topics relevant to day-to-day secondary school life. A new episode every half-term
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June 3, 2026
The SecEd Podcast: New to leadership?
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">This episode offers practical advice to those taking on new leadership roles in the secondary school, with dos and don'ts, useful tips, and lessons learned from our experienced panel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">If you are a teacher taking on a new leadership role in school – whether that be a headteacher, senior leadership or middle leadership post – then this episode is for you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Three experienced school leaders offer us some golden rules for taking on a leadership role and discuss how we should start out in our new post, including how we should approach the first half-term in post and what missteps we should avoid.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">We ask what the biggest misconceptions of leadership are and what surprised our panelists most when they first stepped up.</span></p> <p class="xmsonormal">We discuss how new leaders can establish credibility and ask our panellists what they would do differently if they could go back to their first term as a leader.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">We look at how leaders can prioritise and at people management skills, offering tips for managing difficult conversations. We also advise on managing workload and work/life balance as a leader. We touch on the power of mentoring and coaching for leaders and hear about some of the early leadership experiences of our three panelists.</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">It's a discussion with lots of practical tips and powerful ideas.</span></p>
April 15, 2026
The SecEd Podcast: Teaching high-attaining students
<p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">This episode offers practical insights for teachers on how best we can support our high-attaining students in the secondary school classroom.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">Our panel discusses the language we use when referring to this cohort of students and how we might define what "high-attaining" means.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">We then move on to outline a number of classroom strategies for teachers to help them teach and support these learners as well as some common mistakes to avoid.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">We discuss how we can create a culture of scholarly ambition in our classrooms and approach the curriculum challenges faced by high-attaining students. We also offer tips for making a success of extension activities.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">We ask, too, how we can help learners to become increasingly independent and to stay motivated and engaged – even in the face of challenges and set-backs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-US">The panel includes an English and a maths specialist but many of the strategies discussed apply across the curriculum.</span></p>
March 25, 2026
The SecEd Podcast: Communication needs in the year 7 classroom
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;" xml:lang= "EN-GB">In this episode we offer practical tips and ideas for how teachers can support the communication skills of students as they make the step-up to the year 7 classroom and key stage 3 study.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;" xml:lang= "EN-GB">An experienced panel – including a speech and language therapist – discuss how we can help those students who struggle with communication needs, including oracy and vocabulary.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif;" xml:lang= "EN-GB">We consider the increase in academic rigour that students transitioning into year 7 encounter, including increasingly complex language and vocabulary.</span></p> <p class="xmsonormal" style= "margin: 0cm; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> We then outline some adaptive teaching techniques as well as tips for developing o</span><span lang="EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" xml:lang="EN-US">racy and speaking skills, vocabulary and academic language, and literacy and reading skills – with lots of ideas for the year 7 classroom.</span></p> <p class="xmsonormal" style= "margin: 0cm; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span lang="EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" xml:lang="EN-US">We also explore general lesson planning and teaching tips that support SLCN in the secondary classroom with e</span><span lang="EN-US" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" xml:lang="EN-US">xamples of practice from our guests' schools. And we talk briefly about effective interventions to support these learners.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang= "EN-GB" style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;" xml:lang="EN-GB">This episode has been supported by our friends at Speech and Language Link. Visit</span> <span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang= "EN-GB"><a href="http://www.speechandlanguage.link"><span style= "font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> www.speechandlanguage.link</span></a></span></p>
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