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This morning sees the publication of the report on the impact of assessment on children by the House of Commons Education Select Committee. [...]
May 1, 2017
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We have a wholly unnecessary general election to get distracted by. Talking to a colleague the other day, we agreed that there is now no [...]
April 27, 2017
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For children in Years 3-6, there is a statutory expectation that they have about 25 hours of teaching in each week, about 5 hours a day, [...]
March 19, 2017
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I have been a headteacher of three different primary schools since 2002 and the current funding settlement is by far the worst I have come across [...]
March 8, 2017
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This article in the Guardian about the secondary school at Easingwold makes for difficult reading. It underlines the fact that there is an [...]
February 8, 2017
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The Church of England, last summer, launched its vision for education, entitled Deeply Christian, Serving the Common Good, and at the back end of [...]
February 6, 2017
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Fear and its attendant, anxiety, are ever present among school leadership these days and are one of the givens of the role. I just say that [...]
January 2, 2017
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On Friday I had a short conversation with two inspiring leaders from the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation schools in Slough and Tottenham. I asked [...]
November 24, 2016
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I have refrained from talking about Donald Trump’s electoral victory partly because everyone else has not so refrained, and there are [...]
November 14, 2016
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If you were an alien (and many of you reading this blog must be), and came to visit schools in Scandinavia, you would rapidly come to some [...]
November 3, 2016
