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24 April 2026

Author: Schools Week Reporter

The best emerging education bloggers of 2017

We’ve asked our blog reviewers to mix it up and recommend not their old favourites, but someone they’ve recently followed or who’s new to the edu-blogosphere. We think you’ll enjoy their suggestions…   Iesha Small’s top new blogger The blog: All Ears By @PositivTeacha “There has been violence in my life.” Mr Pink (possibly a […]

Schools Week summer book giveaway – win education books!

We love it when publishers and authors send us books to review, but every so often our shelves get too full. So, to spread the love, we’re offering a special summer subscriber offer. We will send three publications from our bookshelf to 15 lucky subscribers drawn at random. To participate, you need to complete a […]

Scaled scores for 2017 key stage 2 SATs announced

Note (added July 10 2018): Here are the 2018 scaled scores for key stage 2 SATs. The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2017 key stage 2 tests to achieve the government’s “expected” score. The pdf document can be viewed below or downloaded directly from the Department for Education. To meet […]

Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference

The Northern Rocks conference kicked off with a minute-long round of applause for its co-organiser Emma Hardy, who was elected to parliament this month. The new MP for Hull West and Hessle, a former primary school teacher and an organiser of the event, was hailed by some, including the NUT’s general secretary Kevin Courtney, as […]

What does a no-majority government mean for education?

One week on and the dust is still settling on the General Election. As Theresa May forms a government and prepares for her first parliamentary test in the Queen’s Speech next week, those of us who spent the election period wondering what a new government would mean for education are still left wondering. School funding […]

Sponsored: NUT school cuts campaign video goes viral

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has seen a huge response to its campaign that reveals the full scale of possible cuts to local schools in England, according to the various party manifestos. The School Cuts website has been updated to reflect what the three main political party pledges on education funding will mean for education in England: The […]

Requires Improvement

Jim is a drama teacher (“any resemblances [sic] to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental”…) tormented that the academic obsessions of “central government” have relegated his subject to third class. He’s also a tormented genius, who – despite losing his father when he was ten and dropping out of school to support his […]

Sue Bailey, assistant head, Arthur Terry School

Sue Bailey is not your average assistant head. Her colleagues are in awe of her, and it’s not just for her (apparently legendary) baking skills. Over her 41-year career at Arthur Terry School, Bailey seems to have held almost every role there is. She’s now teaching grandchildren of former pupils, yet never seems to tire […]

Invisibly Blighted: The digital erosion of childhood

There’s something incoherent about how this book is presented that I’m struggling to articulate. Perhaps it’s that its cover photo of a 16th-century “child-eater” statue makes it looks like a guidebook to the Swiss city of Berne. It could be the pathos-laden title: Invisibly Blighted, or the subtitle’s apocalyptic tones: The digital erosion of childhood. […]