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Heads’ union loses appeal against Ofsted ruling The NAHT had appealed against a decision not to grant a judicial review into the launch of new Ofsted school inspections

Breaking: NAHT loses appeal against rejection of its call for judicial review into Ofsted’s new school inspections

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Will more state schools set up lucrative overseas campuses? With one state grammar announcing plans to open schools in Dubai and India, what are the implications for the state sector? ‘Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells Emma Seith

🌏 Could more state schools look at launching schools overseas to bolster their finances? 'Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells @emmaseith.bsky.social

The government is pushing these forms of partnership pretty hard, but as I wrote in the briefing this morning: is this about closer control of trusts, replacing them, or a smokescreen to back them? Or something different...

Really! That is mad!

School autonomy shouldn’t mean having to find ‘gaps in hedges’ If we want to be a truly inclusive education system, the assessment and accountability frameworks that penalise inclusion need to be changed, argues this headteacher

"We are constantly finding those gaps in the hedges, small spaces where we can reshape curriculum and pedagogy to meet the diverse needs of twenty-first century learners. Yet while our practice evolves, assessment procedures have not kept pace."

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SEND: Resource bases ‘can be exclusion in its worst sense’ Mainstream and AP leaders question the government’s focus on resourced provision and SEN units in its drive to create a more inclusive school system

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Ofqual chief: Schools can already cut exam times Choosing between exam boards enables schools to reduce exam times to a degree 'not all that different' to that envisaged by the Francis review, says Sir Ian Bauckham

Schools already have the ability to cut exam times by switching exam boards, says Ofqual chief Sir Ian Bauckham in response to the curriculum and assessment review

Why do teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay? With women making up the vast majority of the workforce, could better maternity leave pay help tackle the teacher retention crisis?

Despite the majority of the school workforce being made up of women, teachers receive far less maternity pay than many others in the public sector, including Department for Education officials

An essential investigation here from @cerysturner.bsky.social

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Do ‘fear appeals’ really motivate students to work harder? Warning pupils about the consequences of not putting effort into their studies can backfire, writes Mark Roberts, who shares some alternative approaches to motivate classes

Fear appeals. We've all been guilty of them. I recognise I resort to them far too often as a parent. But as @mrenglishteach.bsky.social makes clear in a @tesmagazine.bsky.social piece today, they are not very effective in motivating people to change behaviours...
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Great day chairing Day One of the main stage at Schools And Academies Show - the @tesmagazine.bsky.social team have filed numerous stories from the day including Ofsted, RISE, Funding and more...

Check out tes.com/magazine for all - here is the Ofsted one below

I love that the @tesmagazine.bsky.social has more and more interviews with amazing scientists, explaining learning from the position of someone who spends their days immersed in it.

This is the true “science of learning”

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Are pupil attention spans really decreasing? Professor Nilli Lavie speaks to Tes about the science of attention, why teachers are reporting shorter attention spans and what that means for classroom learning

"If you get into a certain habit, you have expectations in relation to that habit, but that doesn’t mean your real ability has changed"

Fascinating piece on the 'attention' crisis among pupils

👉Are pupil attention spans really decreasing?

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How international school groups tackle teacher quality on a global scale How do international school groups set and monitor teacher expectations while working across multiple countries, curricula and languages of instruction? Emma Seith talks to senior leaders at six major groups to find out

🌍 Leaders at six international school groups talk to @emmaseith.bsky.social about how they manage teacher quality and outcomes across multiple countries, curricula and time zones

Mr Tice said: "the sight of children in classes wearing ear defenders - I’m sorry, this is just insane. It’s got to stop. The teachers want it to stop. Heads want it to stop. It’s not the right way forward.”

"Nearly a decade ago I highlighted the farce of comparing groups when I discovered that pupils living in even-numbered houses achieved less well than those in odd numbers. Of course it was a nonsense, but the gap in the statistics was greater than for boys and girls"

Why AI attendance targets will make inclusion harder There are multiple issues with the government’s new AI-powered attendance targets - but the most pressing is that they will deter schools from being inclusive, argues headteacher Michael Tidd

"No headteacher should ever have to consider the impact on the figures of accepting a pupil onto the school’s role - but a new target will inevitably make it a consideration."

@michaelt1979.bsky.social on the AI attendance targets

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How enrichment helped our trust improve attendance By introducing four new core sports across its 20 schools, Redhill Academy Trust bolstered attendance, with a particular benefit for disadvantaged pupils. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears how it did it

"Young people eligible for pupil premium who went to just one co-curricular session experienced an average attendance boost of 4.4 percentage points (from 82 to 86.4 per cent) over the course of a term"

V interesting case study from @ellencph.bsky.social

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SEND register decisions are a ‘mystery’, warn experts Lack of guidance on using the SEND register leaves schools under- and over-recording pupils as needing support for special educational needs and disabilities, say leaders

“The difficulty drawing the line between who is and isn’t on that SEND register is always going to be really challenging, because there is no line"

The huge disparities in how SEND Registers are formed and used need urgent action, finds @johngroberts.bsky.social

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DfE announces 36 new attendance and behaviour hubs The latest cohort brings the total number of hub lead schools to 57, with more expected to be announced

The DfE has announced the latest wave of attendance and behaviour hub lead schools, with 24 secondaries and 12 primary schools joining the programme

Yep, it is quite something to behold

DfE sets AI-powered attendance targets for schools Headteachers’ leaders dismiss new individual attendance targets for every school as a ‘Whitehall diktat’ that will be an extra burden on staff

➡️ DfE sets AI-powered attendance targets for schools

What a complex issue like attendance does not need is blunt measures driven by contextless data...

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Ditch the ‘Andrew Tate assembly’ and start having proper discussions A former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer says schools can’t just tell boys to avoid controversial content - instead, they need to give them the tools, time and space to discuss the world they i...

"teachers convinced by the ‘boys are being corrupted by Andrew Tate’ narrative and unaware about what is really going on online, live in fear of the unknown. As a [result], boys who try to air their feelings often get closed down"

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Some of these schools have had inspectors and/or LA in recently too!

Made me chuckle in Bosham today so I took a picture of it

‘Major concerns’ over Ofsted data changes Schools that volunteered to be first for new inspections should be allowed to withdraw because of changes announced by Ofsted just days before the new system begins, say heads’ leaders

ICYMI: #Ofsted has been criticised for revealing new details about how inspectors will use data just days before its new school inspections are set to launch

Another one from @missgoodyear.bsky.social and I - why we think ‘the readiness is all’ when it comes to the CAR.

What the curriculum review means for schools As the profession digests the curriculum and assessment review’s recommendations, thoughts turn to putting them into practice, write Tracy Goodyear and Sam Gibbs

You've read the curriculum and assessment review and the government response - what next?

Here are six steps for schools from @samgibbs.bsky.social and @missgoodyear.bsky.social

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This is a very interesting development indeed - and unsurprisingly the most read yesterday

What will push the last single-academy trusts to merge? Nearly 850 single-academy trusts remain, including some of the highest performing schools in England. Labour wants them to join multi-academy trusts, but persuading them won’t be easy, finds Jabed Ahm...

Can single-academy trusts survive?

Labour wants schools to be in groups - but many SATs are financially stable with good results. So what will - or can - make them give up their autonomy?

An excellent, thorough analysis from @jabedahmed.bsky.social
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AI qualification at risk of rapid obsolescence, warns exam chief In an exclusive interview, AQA chief Colin Hughes warns that an AI qualification stemming from this week’s curriculum and assessment review may not have a long-term future

A new GCSE in artificial intelligence stemming from the curriculum review could date quickly, warns @aqaeducation.bsky.social chief Colin Hughes in an exclusive interview