SATs

Scaled scores for 2025 key stage 2 SATs announced

Department for Education publishes marks pupils need to meet the 'expected' standard

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
The early years

‘Best start in life’ strategy: Primaries to get ‘intensive’ RISE reception support

New plan to boost school-readiness also includes more early years training for heads and reception teachers

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Ofqual scrutinising Edexcel’s A-level maths replacement paper

Pupils complain that replacement paper missed swathes of content they had expected it to cover

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Revealed: DfE tsar’s five principles of ‘promising inclusion’

Know children 'well, early and often' and offer 'coherent and expert' support to be inclusive, says report

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

‘Judge me on what happens in September’ says Ofsted chief

Sir Martyn Oliver says he only put out 'foundations' of a plan because sector demanded 'urgent' reform

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted research proposes definition of pupil ‘vulnerability’

Study commissioned by the watchdog found 'broad support' for a definition looking 'beyond the existing list of factors'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Pupils ‘settled’ in special schools won’t be moved under reforms

But senior official tells MPs the DfE hopes to meet the needs of more pupils with autism and ADHD...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

DfE drafting guidance on medical interventions by school staff

Non-statutory guidance will clarify 'roles and responsibilities', says minister, after Schools Week reveals 'accident waiting to happen'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Honours

‘I’m a champion for teachers’: How Mr P got his MBE

‘The influencer label lets people put you on a pedestal only to knock you off’

Freddie Whittaker
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