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Achievement Show 2014 preview: a free SecEd supplement

Ahead of this year’s SSAT Achievement Show (26 June 2014), this SecEd supplement describes some of the innovative practices that have led five SSAT Leading Edge schools to become outstanding. The case studies cover a range of crucial areas, including
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Life after levels – an ‘extraordinary opportunity for schools’

Professor Dylan Wiliam introduces his forthcoming pamphlet, to help schools design their own assessment systems… The premise of my forthcoming publication – Redesigning Schooling – 8: Principled assessment design – is that any assessment system should be designed to support
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Michael Gove hasn’t banned anything …

… but he has changed the emphasis of exams; does it really matter? Tom Middlehurst, Head of Research SSAT writes …  Hopefully we all now know that the Secretary of State has neither banned the teaching of American texts in
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SSAT partners with the Global Learning Programme to inspire and support whole-school improvement

Many schools across the country are already using global learning as a way to support wider school development. Sir John Lawes is just one of many now also participating in the Global Learning Programme for England (GLP). The GLP is
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Implementing the revised SEND code of practice – easy as 1 2 3?

No, that’s the number of days until it becomes statutory guidance! (As of 1 May 2014) Jessica Nash, Head of Special Schools Network and Special Education Needs SSAT, writes… Although we don’t yet have the final version of the revised SEND
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Pupil Premium: evidence-based decisions & planning for impact

Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Primary SSAT, writes… Given Ofsted’s recent recommendation that schools should ‘prove it or lose it’, headteachers and governors are under pressure to provide hard evidence of the impact that pupil premium has had on standards. Here
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What really makes ‘outstanding’ schools outstanding?

Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Primary SSAT, writes… With just 17% of primary schools currently rated as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted, many schools ask how attainable this status is for the majority. Looking at what some of these schools actually do may
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The impact of research at Bay House

Saturday 5th April saw the first of researchED’s regional conferences, researchED Midlands, take place in Birmingham. A fantastic group of speakers were present, imparting their wisdom to the brave souls who gave up their Saturday to listen and learn. As
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A review of the European Jobs and Skills Summit 2014

Chris Smith, Student impact coordinator SSAT, writes… On Tuesday we were fortunate enough to attend the European Jobs and Skills Summit, hosted by IPPR and J. P. Morgan. The event formed part of J. P. Morgan’s ‘New Skills at Work’
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Inspection reform and Watching the Watchmen

Sir Michael Wilshaw is not long off stage at the ASCL annual conference. In his speech, he reinforced the message that Ofsted does not have a preferred teaching style – indeed he said he would personally take issue with inspectors
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