It was an accident waiting to happen. As soon as I heard an Ofsted Inspector saying, “You can tell so much from looking at pupils’ books” the alarm bells started ringing. The word “only” had been missed out. Continue reading
There are now three results days in my calendar each year; arguably four but Key Stage 1 drifts in over a number of weeks rather than being a set day. Starting in early July with Key Stage 2 with A-levels in mid-August followed a week later by GCSEs. They have been a mixture of individual pupil and organisational triumphs and disasters, over the year. Continue reading
The accountability system for primary schools is so broken it could take a decade to fix. In secondary schools the fix could be quicker; the problem is we are currently measuring the wrong thing. Continue reading