Female oppression through quest for perfection

Your eyebrows are ‘on fleek’! Your hair is ‘on point’ – your outfit is ‘peng’ – all expressions and phrases that I have heard girls bandy about this week to compliment one another – the worrying undercurrent of all this ‘flattery’ is a dangerous obsession with appearance.  Focusing on how girls look and not what …

Justine Greening’s speech at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit

Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening gave a keynote speech at this year's Summit. Her entire speech is available to view below:

Sir David Carter’s speech at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit

The National Schools Commissioner Sir David Carter addressed an audience of 500 Head Teachers at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit on Thursday 13 October. You can watch his full speech below:

Schools Minister says schools should only collect data required to improve children’s education

Nick Gibbs told the Education Select Committee on Wednesday (19 October) that schools should ensure they are only collecting data that is required to improve their pupils education. The Schools Minister said it is important to return to "simply marking" pupils' work so that it's graded, adding that "time consuming written dialogue between the teacher …

Education Committee Primary Assessment Inquiry: your thoughts

On 23 September, the House of Commons Education Committee launched an inquiry into primary assessment. According to the Committee's website, "This inquiry scrutinises reforms to primary assessment and their impact on teaching and learning in primary schools. It also covers the wider effects of assessment on primary schools, as well as possible next steps for …

Justine Greening sets out new primary assessment plans

Education Secretary Justine Greening announced yesterday that plans to make pupils resit Sats will be axed.  This was part of new plans drawn up by the Secretary of State to "improve and simplify assessment arrangements". In her ministerial statement, Ms Greening said: "we will not introduce statutory mathematics and reading resits on children's arrival in …

Gateshead pupils rank 8th nationally in EYFSP score

The average Early Years foundation stage profile results for Gateshead children place the Local Authority in the top 10 across England. The Department for Education has today published statistics that show the average EYFSP total point score for children in the North East has increased from 33.9 to 34.4; this is higher than the North …

Opportunities for North East young people get boost at House of Lords event

The need to further improve young peoples’ access to life-changing opportunities in the North East was pushed into the national spotlight yesterday (19 October) at the House of Lords, Westminster. Teenagers and MPs from across the North East joined influential delegates from the region and nationally at a National Citizen Service (NCS) North East event, …

Show me the money!

In the film ‘Jerry Maguire’, Tom Cruise is an agent for a NFL player played by Cuba Gooding. In a memorable scene Gooding’s character keeps repeating the same refrain, “Show me the money” as a means of stating very clearly that he was looking for an improved contract with his team. As a high school …

Twelve North East schools lauded for changing lives

North East teenagers led an awards ceremony this week, in which a dozen schools representing every local authority in the region were recognised for their outstanding work in changing lives through the youth movement National Citizen Service (NCS). At the ceremony on Thursday (October 6), Emmanuel College was unveiled as the first ever Regional Ambassador …