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Issue
19
- Gifted and talented - using your specialist skills and interests to
bring out the best in children
- FREE DOWNLOAD Supporting pupils with a parent in prison
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Trade unions for teaching assistants - complete guide to what they
offer, and what they cost
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Your health: bad breath
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"Mathslexia" - helping children with no head for figures
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The big move - secondary transfer
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Making football fair in the playground
Issue 18
- Child neglect What is it, and what should you do?
- What makes a good TA? By the TA who judges the Teaching
Awards
- How TAs get by on their pay
- Classroom
displays: health and safety matters
- Children's health: Incontinence
- New NVQ standards What has changed, and will it
affect you?
- Craft project: windchimes
- Your health: snoring can be a real nightmare
Issue
17
- More talking please! How
speaking can help children
- think and learn
- Displays - Make yours more
effective as teaching tools
- Autistic spectrum That
squeaky door could be upsetting your pupil
- "Our school is for whole
families." TAs take a lead on family
learning
- Children's health
Don't let school damage their backs
- Reading - TAs' role in the
new catch-up literacy drives
- Wet play - it doesn't have to be hell
Issue 16
- What a foundation degree could offer you
- Display know-how - new series on what works best
- Don't
be bullied
- Helping children make the most of PE
- Autistic spectrum -using rewards to motivate children
- Working with parents
- Is a food intolerance making you ill?
- Craft: make a winter patchwork
Issue 15
Issue 14
- New term, new teacher? How to make sure the two of you are
working as an effective team
- Left-handed children - don't
let them lose out at school
- Women's
work? Male nurses are a common site. So why are so
few men working as teaching assistants? FREE DOWNLOAD
- Child poverty Why low family income can put children at a
serious disadvantage at school
- Autistic spectrum New expert series of tips on working with
children with autistic disorders
- New dawn for TA pay? National pay scales for school support
staff are on the horizon
- Children's health All about eczema
Issue 13
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How to cope in class when the temperature soars
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Is that child sad, or could he be depressed?
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Taking first aid seriously
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Different job, same skills - would you consider working
in a secondary school?
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Creepy-crawlies craft project
- ICT - how to make a quiz
- Curriculum - where to find what you need to know
Issue 12
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How teaching assistants are getting
parents involved in school
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Playground basics - first of a new expert series for
playground supervisors
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Going green: TAs take a lead in making schools
more environmentally friendly
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Networking: why meeting up with TAs from other schools
can benefit everyone
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Children's health: all about anaemia
Plus news, reviews, "Me and my job", successful circle time,
craft project, ICT tips, Advice Please, and much more.
Issue 11
- Helping children whose parents drink too much
- Develop your skills and knowledge while you work - new CPD
series
- How
to find your perfect job
- Circle time expert Jenny Mosley starts a series on how TAs
can run great
circles with small or
large groups
- Your health - get a good night's sleep
- Special needs: differentiating work for children with
learning difficulties
- Children's health: HIV infection
- Our club: readers write about the clubs they are running
- ICT: Making labels with Microsoft Word
- Plus: News, Me and My Job, Playtime, Advice Please, and more
Issue 10
- Working with children who don't speak any English
- Could you be a school goveronor?
- How to ask for a pay rise
- Supporting children in care
- Your health - coping with pain
- Special needs: gifted
and talented children FREE DOWNLOAD
- Children's health: obesity
- Our club: readers write about the clubs they are running
- Using the internet to find the best pictures for your
displays
- Plus: News, Me and My Job, Playtime, Advice Please, and more
Issue
9
- Looking after children's medical needs
- Supporting
children when their parents separate FREE DOWNLOAD
- How to start a club
- Teachers who are working as teaching assistants
- A practical guide to tackling bullying in your class or
playground
- Your health - look after your feet
- Special needs: children with a hearing impairment
- Plus: news, book reviews, expert advice on HLTA roles, How
to Use a Spreadsheet, Me and My Job, Playtime Games, and more
Issue 8
- Touchy subject - the pros
and cons of
physical contact with children
- Managing children with
challenging
behaviour
- How
to improve your school library FREE DOWNLOAD
- Special needs: supporting a
child with a
visual impairment >
- All about asthma
- Staff vetting: what the new
rules mean for
you
- Assessment for learning:
make sure your
feedback gives children the right messages
- Your health: keeping fit
for the job
- Plus news, book reviews,
playtime games,
ICT advice, Me and My Job and more
Issue 7
- Making the most of school trips
- Manage
behaviour in the playground FREE DOWNLOAD
- Dyspraxia
- Supporting a bereaved child
- Asking questions to deepen learning
- Healthy Schools - teaching assistants are taking the lead
- Nursery nurses' place in today's schools
- Depression - spot the warning signs
- Don't miss out on tax credits
- New ICT column answers your questions
- PLUS news, reviews, Advice Please, playtime games and "Me
and my job"
Issue 6 Free sample issue
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- Helping children prepare for secondary school
- Children who are carers
- Manage your time better
- Stammering
- What is assessment for learning?
- Understanding sickle cell disease
- Here's to safe drinking!
- PLUS news,
reviews, Advice Please, playtime games and "Me and my job"
Issue 5
- School councils - teaching assistants are making the
difference
- Using your body language to improve children's behaviour
- The teaching assistant who became a prize-winning
author
- Child sexual abuse
- Shattered?
You don't have to put up with
chronic tiredness
- Understanding ADHD
- PLUS news,
reviews, Advice Please, playtime games and "Me and my job"
Issue 4
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- How new TA roles are affecting classroom
relationships
- Are children with special needs getting enough
support?
- How teaching assistants are preventing bullying
- How to avoid the classroom cold
- Pull-out guide to story-telling
- Help children learn to care for their teeth
- PLUS news,
reviews, Advice Please, playtime games and "Me
and my job"
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