🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet. This new cabinet marks a historic moment in British politics, with a record number of state-educated Ministers and the lowest proportion of privately educated Ministers since 1945 🧵👇

England haven’t been convincing so far, but without players born outside the UK or with at least 1 parent or grandparent born abroad, we wouldn’t still be here. And today, we’d be down to just 3 players. #ENGSWI #ThreeLions

Over 2 years of work paid off on Thursday night with our school's Inclusivity Alliance winning Pride Group of the Year at the Just Like Us Awards 🥹 Well done to Mrs Barratt and Miss Clarke and the Inclusivity Alliance for all your hard work and great initiatives at our school!

England have done brilliantly to reach the men’s #Euro2024 final. But we wouldn’t have got this far without immigration. All of our goal & penalty shoot-out scorers so far are the children or grandchildren of immigrants. And if you trace the families of almost all the squad

"Accade facilmente, a chi ha perso tutto, di perdere se stesso" Il 31 luglio 1919, a Torino, nasce Primo Levi

This haunts me.

Watching the far right set fire to the newly reopened Spellow Hub library in Liverpool should be lesson enough on how much these thugs really care about “communities” and “young children.” Let none of these thugs pretend they are motivated by anything other than racism and hate.

Absolutely

It is not right for a few people to possess everything and to absolutise it so that no one else can touch it while the marginalised masses are dying of hunger —St Oscar Romero, 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), 1979. Read/listen buff.ly/2VC2vPM #StOscarRomero

Results in each subject are set using a principle called 'comparable outcomes' (although Ofqual tends not to use the term any more). The idea is that a pupil achieves the same result this year as they would have done last year.

This is done so that results are 'fair' to pupils from year to year. It's important because pupils' performance can vary from year to year due to extraneous factors, like harder exam papers, new specifications, or pandemics.

This year's standards (and last year's) are broadly anchored to 2019, so the cohort is protected from lost learning as a result of Covid: even if performance is lower, grades are maintained.

So, how do exam boards achieve these 'comparable outcomes'? Grade boundaries are set every year, AFTER exams are sat and marked. Because the difficulty of exam papers varies each year, grade boundaries move up or down to compensate for this.

So if the paper was harder, boundaries will be lower, so that the same proportion of students will get an A (for example) as would have done if they'd sat last year's (easier) paper.

Segregation is bad for social cohesion, but it’s also bad for pupils’ education. Local authorities with high levels of segregation have larger attainment gaps in GCSE grades between their least and most disadvantaged pupils.

If we neglect: a) excellent teaching & learning within a high quality curriculum b) enrichment: social inclusion & broad vistas c) a personal development curriculum: confidence & agency d) wellbeing: physical & mental health Our disadvantage strategies are doomed to difficulty.

Always makes me happy to give something away... Want a Fabulous Mr Benn badge? I'm giving one away. All you need to do is RT this tweet. I'll select a winner one week from today.

To brighten up budget day, I am giving a set of these Fabulous Mr Benn badges away. To be in the bowler hat, all you have to do is retweet this tweet. I'll choose a winner this time next week. Good Luck!!