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The Department for Education announced yesterday the second stage of its consultation on developing a fairer funding formula for schools. SCHOOLS NorthEast submitted a response to the first stage of the consultation and will collaborate with Head Teachers again to draft a response to the second. You can also read our response to the announcements …
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Dear colleagues, As the Christmas holidays are quickly approaching, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the fantastic support you have shown us yet again this year, to congratulate you for continuing to make education in the region thrive and to bring you up to speed with what's to come …
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- Sunderland, Gateshead, Redcar and County Durham rank in top 25 of all English local authorities in national curriculum assessments at Key Stage 2 Primary schools in the North East continue to be the strongest of any region outside of London despite receiving half the funding of schools in the capital, according to new data …
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Royal Grammar School Newcastle has announced its successor to retiring Headmaster, Dr Bernard Trafford. Following a national recruitment process, Paul Walker (Chair of Governors) has announced that John Fern will take over the reins of the North East’s leading independent school from September 2017. Speaking of John’s appointment, Paul Walker said, ‘We’re delighted to have …
A Newcastle University-led programme aiming to encourage more young people into higher education has received multi-million pound funding. The North East Collaborative Outreach Programme has been awarded a £7.7 million grant to increase the number of young people from low participation neighbourhoods entering higher education by 2020. The outreach activities will be carried out by …
- New schools funding formula fails ‘Fairness’ test and will divert vital resources from schools in disadvantaged areas to affluent areas - Calls grow for Government to better fund education on the day the National Audit Office publishes report that schools face £3bn cuts The Secretary of State for Education announced new funding arrangements for …
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We have been totally overwhelmed by the response to our pupils’ letters to the FA. The whole thing came about as part of our enrichment writing week held 21-25th November. Each year we choose a topic to inspire our pupils to write for a purpose and this year’s theme was ‘Football and Gender Equality,’ an …
Do you remember your first week as a teacher? It was probably a while ago but hopefully significant enough that it was memorable. Quite possibly, if you are old enough, it was also a bit of an “in at the deep end” experience because induction was still to be invented. In my case it involved …
On 12 September the Department for Education released a new Green Paper entitled “Schools That Work For Everyone”. This contained a range of proposals with the aim of creating “an education system that extends opportunity to everyone, not just the privileged few”. Given the impact these proposals could have, SCHOOLS NorthEast submitted a response to …
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The Government has abandoned plans to create a National Teaching Service (NTS) following an unsuccessful pilot in the North West of England. The initiative, launched by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan in 2015, was intended to recruit good teachers to work in deprived areas. The goal was to see 1,500 of the country's "top teaching talent" …
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