The Workload Reports published over the Easter weekend was not so much a missed opportunity as one that never existed. There is a certain amount of confirmation bias in making this statement as back in November 2015 I blogged Why Workload Working Groups Won’t Work. The blind man of the title is each one of us; we all have a responsibility to act within our sphere of influence. The workload challenge is likely to be one of the defining issues of the next few years; it is looking like one of many. Continue reading
Depending on your approach, the race to results day is focussed on planning and delivering great lessons in class or making sure you get the right interventions in place for those who need them during and beyond the school day. Both have been well articulated in recent copies of Schools Week; I want to move more towards the former but we still have a lot of the later. Continue reading
This blog post might not make total sense if you haven’t had a look at my previous one: The Implications of GCSE Changes to School Accountability. In the post there was an exercise to complete on calculating Attainment 8 and this is the follow up post with the answer to the exercise. Continue reading