In the midst of a teacher retention crisis, this episode asks how primary schools can keep hold of their teaching staff, especially their early career teachers.

With more than 114,000 teachers having quit teaching for reasons other than retirement in the last three years, our expert panel discuss general principles for creating a school environment that encourages teachers to want to stay.

We talk about pay, equity of opportunity, creating belonging and psychological safety across our workforces, the vital role of CPD and support for career progression, and much more.

We ask what effective school leadership for retention looks like, including the support we must offer and how to build trust and those vital relationships.

We discuss strategies to address workload, a key driver of teacher retention, including flexible working, and how schools can help teachers to achieve a better work/life balance.

We focus in particular on strategies to support early career teachers, a third of whom are likely to quit after their first five years.

Ultimately, we ask how headteachers can make their school a place where teachers want to work and feel they belong.

This episode considers what an inclusive primary school looks like and how we can create a culture of inclusion that enables every pupil to thrive regardless of starting points.

We interview two experienced educators and discuss how we can support all learners, no matter their background and barriers to learning.

We talk about how to create the right ethos and culture of belonging and family in our schools, including and how we can overcome barriers to pupil wellbeing.

We discuss how we can address equity and equality of opportunity and we hear a number of real-life examples of inclusive practice.

The conversation also touches upon how to use external and additional expertise to deliver true inclusive practice.

In this episode, we discuss how primary schools can maximise the impact of our staff team to deliver excellent SEND provision, with our panel offering a range of innovative ideas and approaches.

Our three experienced guests begin their discussion with nine quick ideas and go on to develop these during the podcast, considering how the impact of our SEND staffing can be optimised to ensure we support our most vulnerable pupils.

We ask how we can work within incredibly tight budgets to maximise the staffing of SEND – what approaches have been shown to be effective.

We talk about ideas for the effective and efficient deployment of staff and we consider how we can get CPD right for all our colleagues who work to support SEND children, especially our teachers and teaching staff.

We discuss the challenging role of the SENCO and how they can be supported by school leadership to oversee and lead SEND staffing and provision in the school.

We talk about provision mapping and discuss how we can keep our practice and our SEND pupils central to our planning and at the heart of our inclusive school culture.