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Passionate about promoting a truly inclusive education where every child can show the best version of themselves every day. Inclusion Lead, English teacher.

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Ofsted’s report cards: everything you need to know The new school report cards will launch in November, with plans to scrap ungraded inspections and subject deep dives

So Ofsted's proposal for inspections post September 2025 is here:
➡️5 grades
➡️at least 9 categories of judgement for schools
➡️ No more deep dives or ungraded inspections
➡️ A lot of anger from the unions...
www.tes.com/magazine/new...

03.02.2025 06:50 — 👍 17    🔁 17    💬 5    📌 5
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EfratFurst - Understanding Understanding What is understanding from the "learning brain" point of view? Exploring the components of 'understanding' (with some visual examples) What can be applied in the classroom? and how can we help stu...

Can we do a little thread where people post blogs they read a while back and think others should read?

Mine is this by Efrat Furst. Post yours below!

sites.google.com/view/efratfu...

29.10.2024 16:33 — 👍 41    🔁 21    💬 19    📌 1
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How I Try to Help Schools to Teach Reading More Effectively Warning: Parts of this blog are going to feel like an advertisement for my consultancy work and books. This is unavoidable as I have written this for those who ask me about the issues relating to r…

It's crucial that we develop strong readers, right?

But how do we go about doing it?

An intriguing blog here, by @suchmo83.bsky.social giving us some ways that we can go about it effectively.

Some more thoughts ⬇️⬇️⬇️

29.10.2024 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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5 practical ways to increase attendance across your trust One education director at a trust of special schools explains the practical steps it took to improve attendance - with some remarkable results

5 practical ways to increase attendance across your trust: Kevin Buchanan of special schools trust Ed Start Schools writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social:
tes.com/magazine/ana...
Understand the issues
Give practical support
Offer personalised learning plans
Change perceptions &
Celebrate wins

13.10.2024 16:27 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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To my colleagues in education. Here's your annual reminder of how we're all tired at the same time (unlike in most other jobs), which can make everything feel tough. Honest communication, plenty of appreciation in every direction and kindness (to self and others) recommended.

13.10.2024 20:30 — 👍 44    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3
What are Ofsted going to do next? by They Behave For Me In this episode, Amy and Adam revisit Ofsted's Big Listen and explore their proposals. Are their suggestions and next steps corporate wool, or do they represent a concrete attempt to improve and rebui...

🚨 New episode alert 🚨

We’re talking all things new over at OFSTED towers.

✅ what’s coming down the pipe?
✅ our usual nonsense
✅ some fancy words from Boxie himself

What more could you want to take you into the weekend?

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ada...

04.10.2024 19:53 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Yes, summer term we study the novel, A Christmas Carol. Spring term, we focus on poetry 'Love and Relationships '.

29.09.2024 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking to connect with colleagues who have devised a workable Inclusion structure for a secondary school. Also keen to connect with colleagues who have whole school literacy remit for large secondary school. Thank you!

29.09.2024 20:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This bitesize CPD collection brings together a range of useful resources to help teaching assistants support students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Access it here:my.chartered.college...

#SEND #TA

20.09.2024 06:00 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Curating Positive Classrooms This one-hour talk is designed to help class teachers to really consider how to generate a positive classroom learning environment

Need a one-hour online talk this September outlining how create a positive clsssroom?

Here you go…

www.eventbrite.com/e/curating-p...

13.09.2024 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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researchED Surrey 2024 Eventbrite - Jack Tavassoly-Marsh, Reigate School presents researchED Surrey 2024 - Saturday, 12 October 2024 at Reigate School, Reigate, England. Find event and ticket information.

Hello everyone!

I organise researchED Surrey and we are back on Saturday 12th October in Reigate.

All speaker details and the content of presentations can be found on the link below.

Please share with CPD leads and Trust leads. The more the merrier.

#sharing

www.eventbrite.com/e/researched...

28.08.2024 19:06 — 👍 40    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 4

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