Making Kids Cleverer

David Didau’s new book is basically a trad manifesto for closing the advantage gap, whose core argument runs: we...

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School uses ‘nurture room’ to calm pupils at risk of misbehaviour

Students at Aureus School in Oxfordshire who feel at risk of misbehaving are encouraged to “self-refer” to a nurture...

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Safeguarding software ‘normalises authoritarian approaches’ in schools – academics

Academics are concerned safeguarding software that allow firms to keep watch on pupils’ activity on computers is “normalising extreme...

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Schools Week Reporter
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ACE Schools Trust: The MAT branching into family services

ACE Schools Multi Academy Trust, an alternative provision trust in Devon, is developing a new way to provide wraparound...

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Ofsted’s curriculum focus ‘risks being a tick-box exercise’

Ofsted’s focus on curriculum risks being a tick-box exercise that does nothing to assess whether children are actually learning,...

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Schools Week Reporter
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Should home education have statutory monitoring?

With the second reading of the Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill due in parliament, we brought together...

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Luke Tryl, director of corporate strategy, Ofsted

Luke Tryl, Ofsted’s director of corporate strategy, is one of those people who always appears impeccably presented – which...

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The school leading on job shares from the top

“Why did you leave, and why are you coming back?” Simon Knight fizzles with delight as he tells the...

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Can schools make any more savings?

With chancellor Hammond’s autumn budget offering schools a one-off payment of £50,000 for “little extras” but no increase in...

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