I wish I could tell you how long it took to pull together this video but since I didn’t do it I can’t. Thanks to Liz Horne, Assistant Head teacher, who spent hours and hours on it; we’ve brought alive our Teaching, Assessment & Learning Policy. Continue reading
Parents keeping their children at home, tests leaked on the Department for Education website and talk of ever increasing stress amongst young children; this testing season has been more fraught than most. Add primary school teachers being uncertain about the standards expected, some standards are unknown with others given too late, and testing a multi-year curriculum which has only been taught for one year; unsurprisingly things are getting fraught.
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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