‘From Here We Saw What Happened’
A collaboration between our student cultural ambassadors and the art department at Ricards Lodge High School by Michelle McKenzie and Sebastian Rainsford.
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Creating Anti-Racist School Communities
In the light of recent news, Angelina Idun considers the responsibility schools have for tackling discrimination and reflects on how listening to our children and young people can help us move our race equality work forward.
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Creating a Collective Conscious Curriculum
Chorlton High is a large, truly comprehensive school in South Manchester. Our school is extremely diverse in terms of the socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds of our learners; a diversity that continues to expand as we routinely welcome new communities. Given the significant differences amongst our learners and their families in terms of their culture, experience and material wealth, the degree of positive interaction, inclusivity and harmony is a salient characteristic of the school, and one we are very proud of.
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Re-visiting the Recovery Curriculum
A conversation with Professor Barry Carpenter
Here we reflect on the impact of Covid on our students, the impact of the recovery curriculum and the importance of supporting our young learners. We hear Barry’s reflections on how and what we can teach our young people to support their personal and academic wellbeing as we continue to move forward.
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Funding Crisis in Special sector has potential to compromise operational safety
Pauline Holbrook, Head of SEND, SSAT reflects upon the key issues raised during the webinar on 14 September 2022. Funding or rather the lack of it was clearly the major concern for those on the webinar. All agreed that teaching
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A message to the new Secretary of State
Sue Williamson and Prof. John Howson have a message for the new Secretary of State, Kit Malthouse. His most important job is to ensure that there are enough teachers. There are three issues that affect recruitment and retention; pay, morale, workload.
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Teacher recruitment crisis – the worst since the Second World War
Schools are facing the worse teacher recruitment crisis since the Second World War, but there is little recognition of this in the mainstream media and little comment by the DfE. Sue Williamson, CEO at SSAT spoke to Professor John Howson, a renowned expert on teacher recruitment.
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Leadership lessons from HM Queen Elizabeth II
The death of Queen Elizabeth II last week has caused many of us to stop and reflect, as we tend to do at the end of an era. She was not only the only monarch that we have known, but for many of us the only monarch our parents remember. As several commentators put it, she was not just a queen, she was the Queen.
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Don’t overlook the need of learners with SEND to grieve too
In this blog Pauline Holbrook, our Head of SEND reflects on how we might support our learners with SEND understand death and their grief and that of others.
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“Thank you, your Majesty,”
Sue Williamson, Chief Executive, SSAT, pays tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II following the announcement of her death.
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