Aim: To identify more able students, develop teaching methods that encourage them to reach their full potential, and examine whether identifying the more able students enables teachers to be more effective in meeting their needs.

Aim: The aims of the project were to improve our whole school lesson planning, classroom delivery and pupils activities, personalise learning with pupils developing their skills of self-evaluation and self-monitoring and focus on developing their problem-solving and thinking skills.

Aim: To examine the impact of primary science teaching on children's attitudes to, and understanding of, health and enviromental issues.

Aim: Research undertaken by the Excellence through Collaboration and Enabling Leadership (EXCEL) networked learning community has focused on the extent to which learning can be enriched and extended by working in a cross-phase, cross-local authority and cross-national context. The key strands running through the research activities generated by EXCEL are pupil voice, internationalism and the creation of a culture of school-based research in which teachers and pupils have been empowered to lead their own learning.

Aim: To discover what makes formative marking an effective learning tool, by investigating the patterns of teachers' feedback and children's perceptions of that feedback.

Aim: To find out what 8-9 year old children understand about writing and the writing process in order to: Improve standards in the teaching and learning of writing; Inform assessment procedures in writing; and Engage all children as enthusiastic writers.

Aim: To increase the record of achievement among Year 7 and Year 12 pupils in a girls comprehensive school through regular mentoring interviews between pupils and teachers.

Aim: To investigate how different pupil groupings affect pupil dialogue and to develop and evaluate strategies and resources to support collaborative group work and pupil dialogue.

Aim: To use evidence from a long-standing whole school initiative on reading coaching and the wider body of research into reading coaching, to design and assess intensive cross-curricular interventions that would generate measureable gains in extended writing skills at Key Stage 3, that could be sustained into GCSE.

Aim: The overall aim of the project was to improve the attendance, attainment, progression and life opportunities for vulnerable students. In particular to focus on SEAL to develop lifelong learning skills and improve life chances for vulnerable students, create a personalised curriculum for vulnerable students and use data to identify key groups of vulnerable students.