News What happened to the School Food Plan The group tasked with supporting the implementation of a £16 million school food improvement plan has shut up shop… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Heads want parent RE opt-out overturned The legal right of parents to pull their children out of religious education should be removed, headteachers have said…. Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Scrap KS1 tests and create ‘working’ baseline, says union leader A working baseline test should be introduced for reception pupils and statutory key stage 1 assessment should be “scrapped… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Russell Hobby: Heads should be ‘in the classroom, not the boardroom’ Plans to convert all schools into academies risk creating “boom times for lawyers, auditors and consultants” while teachers struggle,… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Academy chain fights for right to name feeder schools A secondary academy is fighting to give preference to children attending primary schools operated by its trust rather than… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Headteachers consider industrial action over academies plan Headteachers will consider industrial action over a bid to turn all schools into academies after a union passed a motion opposing… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Morgan to manipulate primary floor standards The number of primary schools which fall below government floor standards this year will be in the hundreds rather… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Nicky Morgan rejects ‘sexist’ question about Nick Gibb role A sexism row has erupted between Nicky Morgan and a headteacher after she was quizzed on the balance of… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y News Council faces £5.6m bill for free school Hertfordshire county council has been forced to stump up cash for an expensive new free school or face a… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Academy head pilots super-size classes of 60 Super-size classes of 60 pupils with a single experienced teacher will be piloted next year by one of the… Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Tory shires rebel against plan for academies Conservative councils are opposing the government’s academisation plans, adding their voices to a growing number of rebelling local authorities…. Nicky Phillips 10y Nicky Phillips 10y News Heads can’t condone SATs boycott, but parent fines unlikely Plans by parents to keep pupils away from primary schools on Tuesday in protest against the government’s testing regime… Nick Linford 10y Nick Linford 10y Newer 1 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 1,015 Older
