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SCHOOLS NorthEast attended Policy Exchange’s 2nd Annual Education Lecture, held at Pimlico Academy in London last week, where the acclaimed American academic E.D. Hirsch was keynote speaker. Many school leaders will be aware of the profound influence Professor Hirsch’s work has had on shaping the current course of education policy. Delegates at the lecture were …
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St John’s Primary School has just been Quality Marked as a Mantle of the Expert training school, one of only four in the country and the only one north of Birmingham. Mantle of the Expert (MoE) was developed by Dr. Dorothy Heathcote in Newcastle, where she was an academic at Newcastle University until her retirement in …
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Dr Bernard Trafford, Headmaster of the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle, opened his ReTHINK Conference speech yesterday by calling for more support for schools to tackle pupils' mental health issues, which he argues are now heightened by modern age. "Improving our pupils' mental health is beyond what we do in schools, but we can tackle …
I remember once, as a secondary school pupil in a general studies lesson, we did one of those trust exercises. You know the type of thing. You are told to fold your arms in front of you, close your eyes and rock back on your heels over the point of balance into the waiting arms (you hope) …
The Government is under pressure to continue to fund free meals for infant school pupils. Sharon Hodgson MP, new Shadow Minister for Children and Families and MP for Washington and Sunderland West, has written to Chancellor George Osborne urging him to continue with the free infant school meals policy first introduced by former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg …
The lowest number of coasting schools are recorded in the North of England, according to a new 'Guide to Regional Schools Commissioners' published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). Their data shows that the North also has one of the lowest numbers of sponsored and converter academies, as well as free schools, studio …
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The New Schools Network, the charity that sets up free schools, said parents should have the legal right to force intervention in failing schools, as well as ordering a school to become an academy. According to the charity's plan, regional schools commissioners should be able to impose an immediate school improvement plan after a certain …
Continue reading Should parents have the right to trigger Heads’ sacking?
Lucy Powell has been confirmed as the new Shadow Education Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn's new shadow cabinet. This comes in the wake of Tristram Hunt ruling himself out of serving Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet, citing "substantial political differences". Jeremy Corbyn elected leader of the Labour Party - what does this mean for education? Interviewed by …
The last few years have seen an increase in concerns over GCSE and A-level exams marking process, aside from the fundamental issue with comparing pupils' examination results after using different means of measuring their ability. The marking crisis of 2014 saw one exam board heavily criticised by Ofqual Chief Regulator for the delay in marking …
In 2016 my 11 year-old daughter will be given an indexed score that ranges from 80-120 . She will pass or fail her KS2 SATS. This event marks a change in measurement trend that first appeared in 1991. 25 years of testing history, (which can now be considered ‘comparably irrelevant’) gone as we are left with a …
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