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Why has book scrutiny become an integral part of monitoring standards in school?

Over the past three or four years, many headteachers have used book scrutiny as a central feature of evaluating the quality of education in their schools. Clearly, book scrutiny has been important well before this. However, more recently it has grown in importance. In part, this could be down... View Article

Posted by: Clive Davies, OBE Category: Inspection School Leadership Subject Leadership

Settling the unsettled – How to help refugee pupils thrive in your schools

Behind the daily headlines are the schools and the teachers struggling to settle and teach new asylum-seeking and refugee pupils. And the support that you receive to achieve this is patchy at best and often non-existent. Autumn term will undoubtedly bring more of these pupils into your classrooms – often... View Article

Posted by: Sarah Christie Category: School Leadership

So we’ve assessed – what now?

Just about every school I worked with this year has been developing their summative assessment systems and practice, especially in foundation subjects. And now as we finally approach the Summer break that information is being finalized and subject leaders will then have a look at it. But very few subject... View Article

Posted by: Tim Nelson Category: Assessment School Leadership

The Science Curriculum – When do children stop saying ‘But why?’

As I scanned my news app this morning, I was not surprised to see that a large proportion of articles were in some way related back to science – from the sunny weather boosting clothing sales and Amazon helping NASA return to the moon, to endangered komodo dragons being hatched... View Article

Posted by: Emma Ford Category: School Leadership

Attending to Attendance – Let’s Tip the Balance Back to School

As the government expands their Attendance Hub programme with more schools and trusts being nominated, I thought it would be good to distil some national thinking and provide you with a quick checklist to ensure we are all doing as much as we can. The Attendance Action Alliance have stated... View Article

Posted by: Emma Ford Category: School Leadership

Top Tips for Writing your Self-Evaluation

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

Posted by: Tim Nelson Category: Inspection Middle Leadership School Leadership Subject Leadership

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Why has book scrutiny become an integral part of monitoring standards in school?

Settling the unsettled – How to help refugee pupils thrive in your schools

So we’ve assessed – what now?

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Top Tips for Writing your Self-Evaluation

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Why has book scrutiny become an integral part of monitoring standards in school?

Settling the unsettled – How to help refugee pupils thrive in your schools

So we’ve assessed – what now?

The Science Curriculum – When do children stop saying ‘But why?’

Attending to Attendance – Let’s Tip the Balance Back to School

Top Tips for Writing your Self-Evaluation

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