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Away from all of the intensity of school life, I am having a wonderful time reading at the moment! I have just completed Giuseppe Tomasi di [...]
April 29, 2016
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Difficult not to laugh at the moment at the DfE’s language. This morning, ahead of the NAHT’s annual conference (oh, how I wish they [...]
April 29, 2016
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Our partner school in Witney, the Blake CE Primary School, where we often visit and for whom the head, Tim, provides a great talk partner – [...]
April 26, 2016
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Across England, parents of children in Year 6 are getting to grips with the fact that the assessments that their children will be sitting in just [...]
April 26, 2016
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Last week, along with the artistic flourishing I noted in the previous post, I noted some serious flourishing in other ways. On Tuesday, I spent [...]
April 25, 2016
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I have spent the last week walking among the riches of the work that goes on in this school, and which every day blesses me. The local branch of [...]
April 20, 2016
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Courtesy of Diane Ravich’s blog, I came across this excellent and heartening little essay on what makes a good school. It is written by [...]
April 15, 2016
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The Office of National Statistics has for the first time put a value on the work that is done in the home in Britain, and apparently it is worth [...]
April 12, 2016
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The Department for Education has lived up to its name and yesterday responded to a report from the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) that the [...]
April 8, 2016
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Here is a quote from a Times article on the recent decision at the ATL conference to oppose the foisting of academisation on English schools and [...]
April 6, 2016