Monthly Archives: May 2019

You might know them as Fertile Questions, Enquiry Questions, or plain old, Big Questions, but the idea that the curriculum ought to be organised around broad, disciplinary, substantive enquires is a… Continued here http://bit.ly/2HKU9Me

The Baron: Can teachers be trusted to teach primary school pu…: Anderton Park Primary School has found itself at the centre of what some would characterise as a dispute between two very different value …

Originally posted on fish64:
I came across a tweet recently which saddened me. “For shy kids, MFL can feel like torture”. This was then used as an argument for ditching the opportunity to learn a second foreign language in school and…

While undertaking analysis of the National Pupil Database (NPD) to produce our recent post-Timpson Review blogposts (like this and this), I became intrigued by a strange phenomenon in which Year 11… Continued here: http://bit.ly/2W07klj

One of two posts exploring the relationship between state-funded alternative provision and exclusion Continued here: http://bit.ly/2Huofn5

One of two posts exploring the relationship between state-funded alternative provision and exclusion Continued here: http://bit.ly/2YIkwIh

Originally posted on Governing Matters:
As you know Ofsted published its new education inspection framework (EIF) on 14th May 2019 which will come into effect from September 2019. I have extracted those parts of the handbook which mention governors/governance. I’m…

There is considerable variation in performance, as measured by inspection judgments Continued here: http://bit.ly/2EfDfTB

Originally posted on fish64:
As an MFL teacher and head of department, I am naturally interested when something like the following appears. In response, we usually get a flurry of tweets proposing solutions to the problem of declining language take…

Once KS1 Levels are no longer the starting point for value added calculations, a number of challenges exist Continued here: http://bit.ly/2VgCfVf