If you’re keen to simplify and rationalise data for governors, this blog post might help insightinform.co.uk/2025/04/24/wha…

Went to see Springsteen in Berlin. He’s much smaller than he looks on the telly.

Converting human opinion into a number gives it the illusion of accuracy. It is a mistake to think we can use teacher assessment to compare attainment in different subjects, measure progress over time, evaluate teacher performance, or monitor school standards.

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It’s KS2 results day tomorrow. If anyone has any questions about accountability measures, which pupils are included and which ones aren’t, and how things are calculated, please do ask. I’ll be around all day.

*NEW POST* KS2 Results: who’s included and who isn’t. A look at test participation, calculation of accountability measures and discounting pupils from results. insightinform.co.uk/2025/07/07/key…

Evening all Insight schools. Once you import KS2 results tomorrow you can view them alongside EYFSP, phonics, MTC and KS1 (if you do them) in the statutory assessment report. If you don’t use Insight, we’ll publish a link to a webpage with headline data.

school data updates If people don’t use Insight then they need to switch. Best product ever in our opinion. We love it and the team behind it…

Good luck everyone #KS2results2025 Obviously, I’m talking about getting on to the Primary Assessment Gateway.

KS2 results are in and all test results and combined are up by a point on last year …e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…

Turns out DfE have released KS2 higher standard results now for a change (usually it’s September). Thanks ⁦Sophie Bartlett⁩ for finding this. …e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/pe…

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The world of SEND learning plans/IEPs/ILPs/ISPs/IPPs is wild. 150 LAs with a 150 different ways of doing things and 150 different templates. Plus schools and MATs coming up with their own approaches. Here’s mad plan: how about we have a common approach?

Vast majority of school policies are about statutory compliance. There should be no process of writing, redrafting, checking, reviewing, or ratifying. DfE should write them and schools adhere to them. Maybe they can change the school name or something. Current system is nuts.

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