Applegarth Academy is a part of the Fischer Family Trust Apex Project, a longstanding collaborative and adaptive project to explore how to improve early literacy success in the first years of primary school. On May 7th, 2021, the Ofsted Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, visited the school to see the work in action, as follow up to a previous meeting with … Read More

There are some rather obvious problems with the current vision screen system: not all pupils are screened, screening varies, and schools are not informed of the result. Often, responsibility falls to parents or teachers to notice eyesight problems, and subsequently for parents to take a child to the opticians. This means that, in England, a very large number of children … Read More

From the earliest days of Research Machines in the 1970s, Mike always aspired to having a well-thought through, efficient approach to management.  His initial plan for the company was to hire someone to run it once it got going.  He was conscious that neither he nor his co-founder Mike O’Regan had any experience in running a large business.  As this … Read More