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
This was one of those six and a half week summers that comes around every now and again; where has it gone? The last academic term ended in an absolute furore over the new Key Stage 2 SATs and dashed hopes that the policy of retesting those pupils who had “failed” the SATs, at the end of primary school, was disappearing into the long grass. Continue reading
During June I’ll be speaking at a few conferences including a mini-input via a back door route at the Wellington Festival of Education. A couple of the talks focus on what I’m calling Liminal Leadership and the others are about assessment. Continue reading