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Christmas

A Christmas mission from GCHQ

Schools Week brings you a classroom activity for your pupils from GCHQ, with love

JL Dutaut

Year in review

Alternative Provision been heard, but now we need action

2022 began with encouraging signs APs and PRUs were finally getting the attention they deserve, says Sarah Johnson, but…

JL Dutaut

Sarah Johnson

The Knowledge

How is levelling up progressing in the north east?

The latest survey of schools in our region shows some progress in one respect but concerning trends in all…

JL Dutaut

Chris Zarraga

Year in review

Creativity saw us through a year of plentiful challenges

A week from retirement, Madelaine Caplin looks back on a tumultuous, frustrating but also joyous final year of her…

JL Dutaut

Madelaine Caplin

Year in review

As ministers hokey cokeyed, schools took the lead again

A year characterised by an in, out, in out, shake it all about of people and policy ends with…

JL Dutaut

Diana Ohene-Darko

Year in review

What we need now is consolidation, not upheaval

We can be grateful 2022 ends with more stability and fewer financial pressures, writes Katharine Birbalsingh. Now let’s focus…

JL Dutaut

Katharine Birbalsingh

Year in review

Governance has emerged transformed and stronger

Continuing crisis has proven the benefits of a re-imagined school governance emboldened in its priorities, writes Ruby Bhatti

JL Dutaut

Ruby Bhatti

Opinion

This was the year teachers decided enough was enough

As 2022 comes to a close, the effects of turmoil and financial strain remain in spite of a late…

JL Dutaut

Patrick Roach

Trust leadership

The changing face of the MAT CEO

The CEO profile is changing and the pipeline is strong (for now) but lack of succession planning is a…

JL Dutaut

Rachael Gacs

Must Read

Opinion

Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker

Jon Hutchinson

The Research Leader

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Our review of 550 pupil premium strategies found many schools aren’t strategic at all – which suggests leaders need…

Freddie Whittaker

Emma Dobson

Opinion

Repairs to the school-parent contract must come from the top

The situation is not irreparable, and the first small steps have already been taken towards forging a more positive…

Freddie Whittaker

Victoria Hatton

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut

Melanie Renowden

ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut

David Spendlove

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens

6mo

Sam Sykes

6mo

Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut

James Handscombe

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