There is understandably a fair bit of controversy about free schools, the way they are funded and to what extent they are succeeding or failing. However, I have been much impressed about what I have read and heard about the Michaela Free School. In his post David Didau writes about his experience of visiting the school – see here.
I heard of Katharine Birbalsingh and knew that she was opening a free school, mainly due to it being reported in the papers. I kind of kept up with it but was too busy being a full-time teacher to really follow-up.
The debate about their no excuses policy seems to have created a lot of heat so I thought I would visit the school website and look at the behaviour policy for myself. You can read it here.
While I would have liked to have seen what merits are awarded…
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