My neighbours have their Christmas decorations up. Does anybody think this is acceptable....

⚠️ Most headteachers would not recommend the job, while fewer assistant and deputy heads want the top post, shows a new survey from the leaders’ union NAHT schoolsweek.co.uk/most-headteach…

Breaking: Michaela Community School, frequently referred to as 'Britain’s strictest', is facing a High Court challenge from a pupil over its policy banning prayer rituals The school can be named after an application for anonymity was rejected today schoolsweek.co.uk/michaela-schoo…

It's the little things that staff appreciate, when they leave after a busy day 🙌

As we enter 'exam season' spare a thought for our colleagues who deliver NEA subjects having spent hours marking and moderating. And now, the endless admin pressures of preparing moderation samples, candidate record forms, centre forms followed by the technical battles of

Breaking: Education secretary Gillian Keegan has lost her seat in Parliament schoolsweek.co.uk/election-2024-…

Hurrah! This is the moment (I hope) #education has been waiting for. My plea - value a diverse curriculum, offer pathways where all students can thrive and most importantly, value the creative subjects! #GeneralElection2024

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Do we see the much needed resurgence of creative subjects and a focus on skills to enrich the current knowledge based curriculum? Bridget Phillipson schoolsweek.co.uk/the-proudest-d…

Government priority #1 - Social Justice > "Persistently disadvantaged pupils are around 1 year behind their peers by the end of primary school - by age 16 it's around 2 years." Stark but not surprising.

The pinnacle of my career...

Schools who had cut back or even scrapped creative subjects to play the P8/Ebacc game will hopefully realise the shortcomings of their morally wrong decision making after this review.

I'm looking forward to the new curriculum reflecting this skills focus!

Perhaps this is a silly question... Bridget Phillipson has made such a strong and structured start as #education secretary, showing a real drive and commitment to our profession. So, why couldn't our previous government have done this?

Having trained under a Labour government 20 years ago, where skills, creativity and innovation were at the heart of the curriculum, this fills me with joy......a life before Ebaac, P8, and all other out of context progress metrics

Good. Oops 🤦, I mean excellent (news) 👍