This is the month when secondary school headteachers age quickly. It’s not just last year’s examination results playing on their mind or the start-up of the year; their haggard look is from numerous evenings making presentations to parents on the annual primary school merry-go-round. Continue reading
In writing Schools that Enable All to Thrive and Flourish, we never sought to respond to Education Excellence Everywhere nor Schools that Work for Everyone rather to demonstrate there was another way; one in which our children and young people can thrive and flourish. Continue reading
Over the past twelve months, I’ve never sat in as many meetings where I’ve said “we just don’t know”. This week was no exception; we were trying to think what GCSE English & Maths data we could usefully collect at a whole school level during this academic year. Continue reading