And what a fantastic evening it was so uplifting and a fitting finale to the Ark Schools year. A big shout to all the schools and the fabulous choirs and muscians. Never ceade to be amazed by the incredible talent of our students.

Agreed!

Fabulous to see how motivated the students were to meet additionally 50 professionals from a wide range of roles, huge thank you to the staff who cajoled every relative/friend to come and mingle at the networking reception at the end of the day.

How reliable are exam grades? - excellent blog by ⁦Mary Curnock Cook⁩ explaining the importance of a national exam system. ‘Teacher assessed grades’ during the pandemic exposed the (unintended) bias in awarding grades at teacher and school level. hepi.ac.uk/2023/08/14/how…

As GCSE and A-level exam results days loom, tilda martin reflects on the journey these cohorts have faced to reach the big day over the past four years – and asks leaders if a return to 2019 standards is fair tes.com/magazine/analy…

Oh my goodness! Never tweeted on football BUT I remember when Theo was a rising teenage star at West Ham - my club, on basis my son supports them/ St Angela's was round the corner from Green Lanes(before the 'move'). He was the great hope. He cant be retiring - Im still going !

🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳 Cake, chocolates, and celebrations for all at Ark today as we celebrate our birthday! Primary turned 15, Secondary 13 and Ark Academy 6th Form 8. 🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳🎂🥳

Looking forward to further updates from the Ark Sport Football Scholars Programme!✨

Ark Schools & Ventures Ark Sport Absolutely brilliant first day. ENORMOUS thank you to Delia Smith Ark Academy for hosting and to Salesforce.org for funding this exciting work.

The more I think about it, it’s not culture that eats strategy for breakfast, it’s your values. Trying to persuade someone to change a school’s culture means you have to change their values, and without this shift nothing happens. Your values inform your culture & your culture is

Students work harder for teachers they feel care about them, support them, and appreciate their hard work. Adults do too! #2024

Huge congratulations to Ark Charter Academy following the grand opening of their therapeutic learning centre offering students a space to access holistic support. After school hours and during holidays, The Jonathan Centre will also be a community hub.

Oh so sad, just a great stalwart of St Angela's, Serviam

Couldnt agree more, students who struggle to hw will be absolutely penalised by coursework. Its bad enough trying to get Alevel coursework for Enlish history etc. Not sure I understand rationale for those either but do know Alevel teachers spend hours trying to get it completed

What's not to agree with. The rest is smoke and mirrors

From London to Wales, Essex to Manchester, Brighton to Birmingham and everywhere in between. Our communities stand together for solidarity and justice. There is no place for hate here.

We live in hope

Where has all the educational discourse gone? I have just wasted half an hour going through endless mind-numbing videos. Nothing! Are there no serious professionals left other than Matt Jones or am I not in the right chats?

I love this graphic! It can be applied to so many pedagogical approaches but for me; questioning is a powerful lens. Ask yourself - and I mean really ask yourself - does your questioning approach move ALL students into the top right quadrant? If not, refine your approach. 🥳👇👌

Really worrying to see an organisation like National Foundation for Educational Research go down the discredited 21st skills rabbit hole - skills like problem-solving and creativity are largely domain-specific and trying to teach them as generic skills will backfire.