Back in February 2020 there was a parliamentary debate on ‘Education and Attainment of White Working-Class Boys’. Part of the expert evidence stated that ‘We know that on average boys consistently underperform against girls, and white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds underperform against boys of all other races and ethnicities.’ The... View Article
This one slipped under the radar a little bit when it was first mentioned in Ofsted’s ‘Overview of Research’ (ref. 180045) back in 2019. This was the document that summarized the findings from worldwide research that underpinned the Education Inspection Framework (EIF). And it included one short paragraph when comparing... View Article
Self-evaluations are a closely guarded document and headteachers rarely see any others apart from their own. So here are some top tips to bear in mind when writing, or updating, your self-evaluation based on what I have found is fairly typical in many self-evaluations, regardless of the format used. School... View Article
I am very lucky to visit many, many schools and as we all know visiting other settings is always a wonderful opportunity to see how things are done in a range of settings and to basically pinch ideas. With many schools working on raising aspiration for their children I thought... View Article
It is one of the dilemmas of the middle leadership role in primary schools, that monitoring and evaluation is a vital element of the role and yet can be very time consuming and difficult to do it rigorously and effectively. It is however crucial to have at least some form... View Article
Developing Middle Leaders in primary schools I’ve been working in and around Sunderland recently and a lot of the work has been around middle leadership in primary schools, speaking at conferences and also working with a couple of my ‘package’ schools. We call them package schools because they have bought... View Article
