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It is widely recognised that teaching subject content is no longer enough to prepare students to be ‘work-ready’ when they leave school. So what are the skills that students will need as they enter into the workforce?

For a car to run efficiently, all four tyres need to be pumped up to the correct specification. At Hillcrest, we see children work towards their full potential when we feed into their four ‘tyres’ of overall wellbeing, academic success, emotional intelligence and their spiritual growth.

I Love Reading (ILR) is a unique literacy program designed to facilitate the rapid learning of reading. ILR uses a unique colour and number system to identify key phonetic sounds in the English language.

What does communication look like in an increasingly digital world, and what are the skills needed to effectively get our point across?

A well-known educational magazine recently ran an article that claimed, “Tech is firmly established as the foundation of learning”, but is technology truly at the heart of education, and is that where we want it?