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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

🔍 Former Ofsted chief Baroness Spielman warns there ‘will no longer be any real subject inspection’ under the new inspections starting next month

Spielman: No 'real subject inspection' in Ofsted plans

Former Ofsted chief inspector tells the Conservative Party conference that there is a lack of subject scrutiny in the new report card system

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 1d

V true - far easier to implement I suspect! Wonder if the potential change of position reflects the number of members now considering a ban themselves anyway (if they haven’t already introduced one). www.naht.org.uk/News/Latest-...

Mobile phone 'ban' a distraction from more pressing issues says NAHT

Responding to new guidance from the government on banning mobile phone use in schools, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “Schools have been dealing with mobile pho...

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 1d

This was somewhat surprising at yday’s #cpc25 - heads have tended to argue for autonomy over mobile phone policies in their schools when the question of a ban’s come up previously.

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

The general secretary of @naht.org.uk has said he believes his union is likely to support a ban on mobile phones in schools

Heads likely to support a ban on mobile phones in schools

NAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman tells Conservative Party conference event that he suspects union policy will come out in favour of a ban

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile @annelongfield.bsky.social tells Tes reporter @ktorm-social1.bsky.social that the DfE needs to make racial inclusion “a key thematic priority” because it “too often” falls off the education agenda.

Exclusive:

Racial inclusion ‘falls off’ the education agenda, says Longfield

The inclusion taskforce member calls on the DfE to make anti-racism a ‘key priority’, warning that Black children can feel ‘unsafe and over-policed’ at school

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 5d

“You can just feel the atmosphere changing and tension rising.”

Schools say they need more support to deal with the fallout from debates around immigration and flags.

This report by the @tesmagazine.bsky.social news team reflects huge concern on the ground right now 👇

Schools criticise support ‘vacuum’ as racial tensions rise

Concerned leaders tell Tes the government has not equipped them to deal with debates on immigration, race and St George’s flags

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John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social · 6d

More than 1,000 school employers have been written to and urged to take steps to ensure school staff are protected during new Ofsted inspections, a union estimates. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

1,000 school employers urged to protect staff against ‘Ofsted risk’

School leaders’ union rallies its members to ask their employer to carry out a wellbeing risk assessment over Ofsted’s new school inspections

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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social · 8d

This week the government pledged to ensure all primary schools in England have libraries. It seems a well-intentioned policy, but do 1,700 primaries really not have one? And how important is a separate library room in instilling a child’s love of reading anyway? My @tesmagazine.bsky.social piece

Does the government primary school library promise add up?

Labour has announced that every primary school will have its own library by 2029, but questions about funding and implementation remain, finds Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 8d

The education secretary wants conversations with parents by school leaders to be “meaningful, face-to-face, supportive and challenging if necessary, but doesn’t drift into judgement”...

I am sure school leaders would want the same back from parents...

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Phillipson: Heads need training to avoid ‘talking down’ to parents

The education secretary says school leaders should not ‘drift into judgement’ when engaging with parents

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 8d

🔊Exclusive:

By @cerysturner.bsky.social

Oak legal challenge set to go ahead

The judicial review was made against the formation of Oak National Academy as an arms-length body of the Department for Education

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 8d

“What can policymakers do differently? Fund the support, not just the sanctions, because the current approach brings a high burden on schools to reallocate existing funds from teaching to welfare.”
#Lab25

‘Support not sanctions’ will help schools tackle absence, DfE told

Schools need to be able to pay for attendance teams without ‘starving the classroom’, MAT leader warns

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 10d

Illustrating the point: the 3rd sesh at #lab25 this morning 👇

Not that this isn’t a very important issue to dissect, but it shows where the discourse is focused right now.

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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social · 12d

Despite alarming headlines on youth violence, a @tesmagazine.bsky.social FOI request reveals that in-school knife incidents are down in many areas. I spoke to leaders about what schools are doing to drive this reduction

What the data on knife crime suggests schools should do next

New figures show that in-school knife crime incidents have decreased in many areas of England. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears from leaders about what they are doing to drive this reduction, and whether it...

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 12d

Is Ofsted’s inclusion measure fair to over-capacity special schools directed to take pupils whose needs they’re not equipped to meet?

Lots of concern from the specialist sector here inc from @simonknight100.bsky.social and @warrencarratt.bsky.social

Great reporting by @johngroberts.bsky.social

Special schools fear ‘subjective’ Ofsted judgements

Inclusion focus risks ‘danger’ for schools directed to take on pupils whose needs they cannot meet, warns leader

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 12d

Exclusive: Ofsted cannot say how many more monitoring visits schools can expect – but is ‘confident’ it can afford them, director Lee Owston tells @cerysturner.bsky.social

Ofsted can’t say how its plan is affordable

In an exclusive interview, Ofsted’s national director of education insists it will be able to fund an increase in monitoring inspections under its new system – despite not having tried to predict the likely number

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 12d

Exclusive: “Huge frustration” after 2 in 3 teachers faced technical problems with the Reception baseline assessment.

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RBA technical problems prompt concerns over progress data

Teacher Tapp survey of KS1 and EYFS teachers finds 67 per cent faced technical issues when administering the Reception baseline assessment

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 12d

And this rises to 70% of secondary heads. Pretty horrifying.

Story by @cerysturner.bsky.social

1 in 4 primary heads deals with pupil sexual violence or harassment

And nearly half of primary teachers now say that pupil misbehaviour affects their wellbeing, DfE survey finds

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 13d

One alternative suggested by Sir Dan Moynihan this morning on Radio 4 was block grants instead of per-pupil funding to help primaries hit by falling rolls.

Ex-minister calls for school funding rethink as London rolls plummet

With schools being hit by a drop in student numbers, one former education secretary warns that the per-pupil funding formula is leaving them unable to cover their fixed costs

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 13d

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 13d

"There’s been tunnel vision towards the boys."
Why has the national conversation about white working-class pupils' underperformance overlooked girls, and what needs to change?

My long-read for @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 22d

A minister's due to respond to this debate - but which minister? The DfE tells us portfolios haven't been confirmed though at least one minister's already announced their role via social media. 🤔

John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social · 23d

A packed Westminster Hall debate is getting underway into a petition signed by more than 120,000 people calling on the government to "retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND". www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Don’t remove the legal rights of children with SEND

The SEND system is in need of reform but restricting children’s access to support through EHCPs isn’t the answer, warns IPSEA’s Catriona Moore

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Jonathan Mountstevens @mrmountstevens.bsky.social · 23d

Gender split on Sir/Miss in these @teachertapp.bsky.social results would be interesting.

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 26d

School leaders warn that getting pupils through the gate is only part of the attendance challenge, and that internal truancy could be about to get worse. @cerysturner.bsky.social investigates the scale of the issue and the potential solutions ⬇️

The hidden problem inside the attendance crisis

Internal truancy is a drain on teachers’ time and resources, harms pupils’ life chances – and could be about to get worse, a Tes investigation reveals

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John Roberts @johngroberts.bsky.social · 26d

The head of a new taskforce has warned it will be wrong to judge schools as strong on inclusion if they are happy for some local students “to be sent in a taxi elsewhere”. Geoff Barton weighs in on Ofsted's inclusion drive not looking at school admissions . www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Barton: Ofsted inclusion plan ‘diluted’ without admissions focus

Taskforce chair says it will be wrong to consider schools to be strong on inclusion if they are happy for local students ‘to be sent in a taxi elsewhere’

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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social · 27d

Just seven of the 100 schools with the highest rates of disadvantage and the lowest rates of EAL have a positive Progress 8 score.

Leaders say the metric leaves schools in an “impossible situation”. Nick Gibb says it simply reveals which need to “improve”...

Is this system inherently unjust?

The ‘impossible situation’ of Progress 8 in white, working-class schools

Just seven of the 100 schools with the highest rates of disadvantage and the lowest rates of English as an additional language have a positive P8. With the metric on pause, is it time to rethink it?

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Charlotte Santry @charlottesantry.bsky.social · 29d

There's a new system for deciding when schools get support and when they have to academise or move trusts. It'll partly depend on yet-to-be decided 'metrics' to identify low attainment.

Here's what you need to know: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

RISE teams’ remit extended to low-attaining schools

DfE confirms plans to intervene in more ‘stuck schools’, and will consult on how to define low attainment

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