Reading Steve Willshaw’s new book prompted me to consider reading aloud as part of pupils’ intellectual entitlement and its place within an ambitious KS3 curriculum.

Why do I keep returning to researchED? I reflect on its sense of community, the challenge of choosing just six sessions from 137 and the ideas that left me with plenty to think about.

The Geographical Association has published its analysis of the 2026 GCSE Geography results which you can download here. The overall picture is one of relative stability but as departments return for the new academic year there are several findings worth reflecting on as subject leaders look more closely at their own results. Across the UK, there were 299,306 GCSE Geography entries this year and Geography remains the sixth most popular GCSE subject, narrowly behind history. In