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Anne Heavey, national director, Whole School SEND

Anne Heavey hated school so much that she dropped out when she was 13, and it took the local…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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The school giving pupils stolen bikes

When Churchill Community College brought in three local employers to talk about career opportunities, some of the “most disaffected”…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Should Ofsted be abolished? Bousted debates Mastin

Should it stay or should it go? Or should it be reformed? The debate on the future of Ofsted…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Frank Norris, Director, Co-op Academies Trust

Frank Norris is either the most relaxed academy boss I’ve ever met or he’s got an incredible poker face….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Shireland Collegiate Academy: The school replacing TAs with technology

Shireland Collegiate Academy has been signposted by the DfE as an example of EdTech best practice. Schools Week went…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Exclusions: are there too many or too few?

As the debate on school exclusions becomes increasingly polarised, we brought together two people with opposing views to see…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


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Should you hand back an EHCP if you think the child no longer needs it?

Ed Vainker is the co-founder and executive principal of Reach Academy Feltham, the school featured in the documentary H…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Michael Merrick, Deputy head, St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community School

Eight years ago, Michael Merrick and his wife moved from St Andrews, where he was partway through a PhD…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Paul Luxmoore, CEO, Coastal Academies Trust

When we exchanged descriptions so we could recognise one another on the platform, Paul Luxmoore, CEO of the Coastal…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Zoe Carr, CEO, WISE Academies

Ofsted has just descended on the most challenging school in the WISE Academies trust, and CEO Zoe Carr is…

Catherine Murray
Catherine Murray
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David Laws and Natalie Perera, Executive chairman and Executive director, Education Policy Institute

I’m at the new Education Policy Institute offices at 9am on a sweltering Monday to meet its executive chairman,…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Peter Lee, Head of School, Q3 Langley

I emerge from the loo at Q3 Langley to find my path blocked by a single-file procession of year…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter

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