The Queen’s Speech for another Parliamentary session has been delivered and the prospect of far more schools being forced to become academies looms large as well as a few hundred new free schools. Being called a coaster is now something which has potentially far reaching consequences. Continue reading
Assessment is integral to curriculum design and delivery including at the class room level as teaching and learning … so starts the first draft of our new Assessment Policy. We attempting to nail the principles – there isn’t a +/- or a, b, c in sight. Continue reading
Another promise to myself has come and gone in the blink of a tweet. I had promised myself no more blogs about Ofsted but then Sean Harford HMI and Ofsted’s National Director for Schools went and tweeted this: Continue reading