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At Shireland Collegiate Academy, we have come to the end of our two year Embedding Formative Assessment Programme. At the end of our first year, we saw that teachers valued the programme and could see a difference in their classrooms when being consistent with the use of whole class response systems; embedded use of WALTs and WILFs; and a school-wide ‘no hands up’ strategy.

Invicta Grammar School has just become one of only three schools nationally who have been recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education.

St Andrew’s Catholic School in Leatherhead, Surrey has just become one of only three schools nationally to be recognised for ‘transforming’ practice in all 12 strands of SSAT’s Framework for Exceptional Education.

Did you know that children with a learning disability are 28 times more likely than children without a learning disability, to have a serious sight problem?

The 2023 OxWell Student Survey for non-mainstream schools (specialising in SEN) is now live and will run from June to December 2023.

Sitting in my office writing this article feels rather surreal. This is likely to be my last piece that I write for SSAT. Earlier in the year I was interviewed for a book on leadership. The author asked me about my style.

Last weekend The Guardian published a piece by John Harris about the teachers’ strike. As usual, he made some astute observations. He highlights the extent to which teachers’ pay has decreased in real terms (20% since 2010) and key data
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SSAT’s Leadership Legacy Project has been a core part of our membership offer for several years now. It is designed to support teachers who are in the early stages of their career and showing clear leadership potential. As schools start
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Starting your first teaching job in September? Some advice from those who have been there. As we near the end of this term, those teachers preparing to take up their first posts in September will be looking ahead. I think
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Laura Burton, Senior Education Lead at SSAT and head of our Primary Network, reflects upon the key themes from the SSAT Primary Conference – Principled Leadership: reconnect, re-inspire, restore, which took place earlier this term.  Dr Dan Belcher, Senior Education
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