Admissions : towards greater transparency and equity -- Appraisal : an integrated system -- Assessment complexities -- Attendance : improving pupil attendance -- Baseline assessment : strengths and limitations -- Behaviour and its improvement -- Benchmarking : a machete not a scalpel -- Bullying : not in our school -- Child protection : awareness and procedures -- Classroom management : developing interrelated skills -- Curriculum changes -- Differentiation : the importance of planning -- Direct teaching : some strengths and weaknesses -- Early years : nursery developments and reception classes -- Efficiency of the school and how it may be improved -- Emotional and behavioural difficulties -- English as an additional language (EAL) : guidelines and confusions -- Equal opportunities : beyond the platitudes -- Governing bodies : clarity about their role -- Group work : learning together -- Head teachers : leadership and management -- Health and safety : a manageable framework -- Homework : the importance of whole-school planning -- Inclusion : ideology or pragmatism? -- Information and communications technology : exciting developments -- Initial teacher training : routes and structures -- Inspection : getting the most from it -- Learning resources and their full use -- Literacy : a national strategy -- Marketing the primary school -- Media management for the school -- Numeracy -- Organisation of pupils in school (including class size) -- Parents and the community : improving partnership -- Planning for teaching and learning -- Project management in primary education -- Research : action research in the school -- School improvement plans within strategic planning -- Security of the school -- Sex education : steering a steady course -- Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development : complex interrelationships -- Staff development including newly qualified teachers -- Standards : the new watchword -- Support for children : maximising outside help -- Target setting -- Teaching assistants and associates -- Topic work as an approach to the curriculum -- Value added measures and their relation to league tables -- Very able pupils.