Aim: To discover whether Early Years children who have autism and additional learning difficulties can learn to use pretend play within a class group and to explore the nature and implications. of this.

Aim: To investigate factors that affect the motivation of less able boys in Science and, from this, to see how teachers may improve that motivation.

Aim: A group of very able boys in a particular cohort appeared to struggle with AS/A level English Language despite good performances at GCSE level. This study specifically aimed to investigate the factors that limit boys performance at English Language A level and identify strategies that can improve their independent learning and motivation.

Aim: The research aimed to explore the extent to which assistant headteachers were contributing to the leadership of primary schools. Nationally, leadership groups were introduced in September 2000 and a new post of assistant headteacher was created. The research identified the rationale for the appointment, examined the variety of leadership activity that assistant headteachers were involved in and sought to determine the impact that this had in their schools. The enquiry focused on actions that were agreed by the participants to be leadership in nature, as opposed to managerial activity.

Aim: The study set out to create a long term online action research activity involving collaboration between European teachers. We created a European project to look at the issue of Global Warming. We decided to monitor butterflies as indicators of climate change. This required a long term commitment to gain maximum value from the data collected. Hence teacher motivation was important. It was hoped from this to create a motivational checklist for teachers to help them when setting up online action research communities in the future.

Aim: To assess the impact of voting sticks technology in terms of engaging hard to reach learners, creating interactive learning resources across the curricula and assessment.

Aim: To use a year's teaching of Geography for a Year 1 cohort to seek opportunities to employ ICT to support learning.

Aim: The aim of this project was to create a community of enquiry across a network of schools which would engage with research to inform school improvement. The project also set out to establish ways of working with an external specialist to maximise the research capacity of the network.

Aim: The aim of the project was to improve our drama teaching and raise the standards of the childrens writing through drama.