Ofsted’s 5-year plan
Much of Ofsted’s recently published 5-year plan reiterates previous statements. It explains what Ofsted are looking to do rather than how they will do it, but there are a few points that are worthy of note.
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Establishing and embedding a precedent of support of PLAC and SGO pupils
The Romsey School share some reflections and practical advice on support for looked after children. After taking on a new role with responsibility for looked after children, Gabrielle Bradbeer undertook research in order to better understand the needs of looked after children and to gauge levels of awareness and knowledge amongst her colleagues. She shares the practical strategies that they have implemented.
The role of education in achieving social mobility and social justice
Our overarching theme for this year’s summer series is Deep Social Justice in Action: Tackling disadvantage and discrimination. We launched the series last week, by sharing with teachers and leaders who booked places to join the live online events, a
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The importance of keeping the ‘unique child’ at the heart of the Early Years Foundation Stage
Beatrice Merrick, CEO at Early Education, considers the importance of keeping the principle of the ‘unique child’ front and centre when navigating current challenges for Early Years pupils and will be exploring this further at later this month as a keynote speaker.
Will the Green Paper proposals mend our broken SEND system?
SSAT’s Pauline Holbrook, Head of SEND, comments on the government’s Green Paper on SEND ‘Right support, right place, right time’
Metacognition
Maeve Quinn of The Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School uncovers the crucial aspects of metacognition and how they can be applied to any educational environment, to improve the ways learners monitor and purposefully direct their learning
Bringing courageous conversations about race into the classroom
In January this year, Lyfta launched their first ever CPD course on diversity, equity and inclusion. In this blog Anna Szpakowska, Professional Development Lead at Lyfta, shares the insights that were unearthed about how best to lead courageous conversations about race.
Opportunity for all? Reflections on the white paper
SSAT Senior Education Leads representing our networks in all phases shared their thoughts on the White Paper earlier this week. Sylvia King captures these reflections in this blog.
Upskilling Students and Staff in the Cognitive Science of Learning to support a Mastery Curriculum
St John The Baptist School, Woking Over the last six years SJB has focused on developing and implementing a mastery approach for teachers to support their move towards a mastery curriculum. Through their work researching and trialling strategies for a
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Teachers and schools have never been more important
As we come to the end of the Spring Term, I have been reflecting on the work that teachers have been during the last two years. Everyone who is associated with or works in a school knows that the pandemic
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