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Attendance at Astrea Academy Woodfields is improving rapidly. Why? And why is David talking about diabetes? 🧵 Lorraine Yates Richard Ayres

We held our first secondary attendance strategy day today, led by Lorraine Yates our National Attendance Lead. Attendance leads from each secondary attended, helping shape 25-26 planning. A very productive day. The Trust Dividend in action! Thanks to Astrea Academy Sheffield - Secondary Phase for hosting.

Today we were brave, kind and present. We talked, we QA’d and we worked on our next steps for 25-26. We agreed actions, we collaborated and we shared our vision.

An advantage of knowledge-rich curricula over skills-based ones that I haven't seen discussed much is with the former students can see they are making progress—they know things they formerly didn't. When students see they are making progress they are more likely to invest effort.

'Be Astreanomical'! ❤

Have to constantly remind myself of this whenever I’m writing anything… perfect is the enemy of good.

So excited for this! 🥰

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson is calling on parents to 'put their phones down and pick up a book' as part of a government campaign to improve reading habits and make more children school-ready schoolsweek.co.uk/phillipson-lau…

‘The universe is made of stories, not of atoms..’ Thrilled to have been invited to No.10 today to learn more about the 2026 Year of Reading. Reading is an entitlement to all children Bridget Phillipson National Literacy Trust Department for Education The Reading Agency English Association Astrea Academy Trust

Wonderful! Brilliant work to the whole Astrea Academy Woodfields team! Astrea Academy Trust

This is a great thread. In Astrea secondaries, we have a common curriculum, fully resourced with booklets as our 'best bet' curriculum product, along with Intellectual Preparation at trust, department and individual level to help support Composite Planning.

'Yesterday I announced a National Year of Reading in 2026 – a mission not just for schools and libraries, but for all of us, and part of our Plan for Change. Because if we want children to love books, we need to show them that we love books, too.' independent.co.uk/voices/reading…

Powerful knowledge, school subjects and the curriculum: an international and comparative perspective tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This article by Jacqueline Magee 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 & Kate O'Connor is superb. Really pulls together underlying issues of why knowledge-rich goes wrong when certain generic pedagogies (eg lesson structures, blanket approaches to retrieval prac) distort it. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'If' (Rudyard Kipling) recital Astrea Academy Woodfields. Wonderful Julie Atkins David Scales. Its hard to believe that this school was an 'Inadequate' school 18 months a go.

5 pathfinder Astrea secondaries are going completely phone-free from September. Another element of our deeper improvement work. ✅7+hours free from social media (and the average 192 alerts per day) ✅⬆️ social interaction ✅7+ hours less distraction ✅⬆️ belonging ✅⬇️ bullying

Seriously impressive what David Scales and his team has done and is doing at Astrea Academy Woodfields. 👀 at the massive moves for 25/26! 😊 Astrea Academy Trust

Really excited to be speaking at researchED National conference! #rED25

Evolution, not revolution: Curriculum and assessment review bera.ac.uk/?p=59251 via BERA