Monthly Archives: October 2022

We’ve been hard at work over the past few months giving our Schools Like Yours tool a makeover. For the uninitiated, Schools Like Yours is a free tool designed to help you benchmark your school against similar schools, giving you … Continue reading →

For as long as I’ve been writing about education many commentators have argued that teaching should seek to balance teacher-led and student-led activities. Although this is often presented as self-evidently obvious, it rather begs the question. But what’s so great … Continue reading →

This is the second part of a two-part post on the latest Key Stage 4 data, published earlier today. You can read the first part here. Today the government has published the latest data on secondary school performance, along with other … Continue reading →

This is the first part of a two-part post on the latest Key Stage 4 data, published earlier today. You can read the second part here. Today the government has published the latest data on secondary school performance. This is, … Continue reading →

Later this week the Department for Education (DfE) will publish provisional Progress 8 measures for secondary schools for the first time in two years. Quite how much we will be able to read into measures of school performance given the … Continue reading →

Over the years I’ve recommended that teachers ‘teach to the top’ on too many occasions to count. For the most part, I’ve caveated this by included the need to ‘scaffold down,’ but, honestly, I’ve come to believe that the phrase … Continue reading →

Back in 2018 we tracked the incidence of special educational needs (SEN) of a single cohort from Reception in 2004/05 to the end of Year 11 in 2016/17. Here we found that 44% of pupils had been recorded as having … Continue reading →

According to TeacherTapp, 72% primary and 45% secondary teachers use mini whiteboards (MWBs.) There are big variations between different subjects in secondaries with 69% of MFL and 57% science teachers claiming to use them but just 28% of English teachers. … Continue reading →

Working across 43 schools means I get to see a lot of English lessons and talk to a fair number of English teachers. I’ve learned from every single one of our schools and, working with my colleagues in the English … Continue reading →