Richard Selfridge

Databusting Surrey with The Educakers A practical one-day workshop for primary and MAT senior leaders on making assessment and data work in practice, without adding to workload.

We're really excited to announce that @insighthq.bsky.social @jpembroke.bsky.social @richardselfridge.bsky.social will be running their 'Databusting Surrey with the Educakers' event with us in June.

Have a look at the link below for more information.

We'd love to meet so many of you in person!

DfE set to ditch 'average' labels for school progress scores Government also fleshes out plans for additional progress score for low prior attaining pupils

Thanks @richardselfridge.bsky.social for sending this. Proposed change to DfE performance bands, away from confidence interval-based approach to a simpler quintile method. Whether it gives useful info is another matter schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-wants-to...

Absolute belter of an album.

Life changing stuff.

Unbreakable - Keiino
Øve Os På Hinanden - Fyr & Flamme
Higher Ground - Rasmussen -
Take Me To Your Heaven - Charlotte Nilsson
Euphoria - Loreen
#FridayFive (and restraint not to have Keiino for all five 😍)

My Silver Lining is a stone cold classic - nice.

#FridayFive Scandinavia

1. Eple. Röyksopp.
2. I’d Rather Dance With You. Kings of Convenience.
3. All That She Wants. Ace of Bass.
4. Dead Passengers. Sondre Lerche.
5. Thank You For The Music. ABBA.

Join @jpembroke.bsky.social and me as we look under the hood of the IDSR in the latest Insight Inform podcast.

www.insightinform.co.uk/podcast/

Please listen, comment and repost!

*DATABUSTERS LIVE*

Join us in beautiful Derbyshire. Details below.

Looking forward to discussing the Ofsted toolkit and DfE performance measures, amongst other things, at Databusting Derbyshire on Friday 27th February.

Join @jpembroke.bsky.social & me as we bring our latest Databusters Day to Ashover.

More detail & tickets: www.insightinform.co.uk/event/databu...

#FridayFive is Poorly
1. Touch me I’m sick. Mud Honey.
2. The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn. The Pogues.
3. Doctor, Doctor. The Thompson Twins.
4. I wanna be Sedated. The Ramones.
5. Still Ill. The Smiths.

*DATABUSTERS DERBYSHIRE* tickets now available for the first of our Databusters days. Join us in beautiful Ashover on the edge of the Peak for a whole day of data fun. Morning focused on accountability/IDSR; afternoon on assessment, tracking, reporting.

www.insightinform.co.uk/event/databu...

When it all kicks off half way through - boom!

Green Isaac - lovely.

#FridayFive is nostalgic.
1. Think for a Minute. Housemartins
2. Def Con One. Pop Will Eat Itself
3. I Wanna Be Adored. Stone Roses
4. Green Issac. Prefab Sprout
5. Spotlight for Sunshine. Gavin Clark

1. 1880 or So - Television
2. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
3. 1963 - New Order
4. 1969 - The Stooges
5. 1901 - Phoenix
#fridayfive

Snap on the REM - I miss being blasé about the end of the world 😳

#FridayFive is nostalgic.
1. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). REM.
2. The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades. Timbuk 3.
3. My Hometown. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.
4. The Polaroid Song. Allo Darlin’.
5. Old Friends/Bookends. Simon and Garfunkel.

The Data Wave returns? - Insight Inform Between the 2000s and the early 2020s a data wave washed over education, peaking in the mid-2010s. The data wave has been receding. Are there signs that it may be about to return?

New for me for Insight Inform: The Data Wave Returns?

The data wave has been receding. Are there signs that it may be about to return?

www.insightinform.co.uk/2026/01/30/t...
Please read, comment and repost!

It’s Thursday at BETT and we’re at Stand SL54 in the Wonde Marketplace once again!

If you are here, come and talk all things school data over a Wonde Coffee ☕️

#BettUK2026 #DiscoverEdtech #WondeDiscover

It’s time for #WondeDiscover #DiscoverEdtech #BettUK2026

Looking forward to three days of madness with @insighthq.bsky.social - we’re on SL54, if you’re here, come and say hello!

#FridayFive Live

1. 5am in Amsterdam. Michelle Shocked.
2. Do Bears… Rowan Atkinson & Kate Bush.
3. Star-Spangled Banner. Jimi Hendrix.
4. While My Gently Weeps. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison and Prince.
5. Impact (The Earth lies burning) Glastonbury 1995. Orbital.

The Databusters are getting the band back together and going on the road with a new one-day course:

AM: external data: IDSR, ASP, performance measures
PM: internal data: TA, tests, SEND, reporting to parents/govs

@insighthq.bsky.social schools, get in touch if you’re interested

Ofsted report cards: 1 in 7 schools in first wave gets ‘exceptional’ grade The first set of the new inspection report cards has been published by Ofsted, showing that no school was given the lowest grade of ‘urgent improvement’

TES reports (££)
www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Ofsted publishes first school report cards Leaders give their views on new inspections as reports for 21 volunteer schools are released

Schools Week's report:
schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-publi...

The first new Framework Ofsted reports - filtered for Secondary:
reports.ofsted.gov.uk/search?level...

The first Ofsted reports under the new Framework are out (filtered for Primary Schools):
reports.ofsted.gov.uk/search?level...

This is pretty urgent if you want a ticket …

FridgeCast 2025 Another fine End of Year mix from Fridge Towers, from Acid Techno to wayward Electronica and all poitns inbetween.

For anyone who likes a a bit of electronic eclecticness, here’s my end of 2025 mix; a bit of acid techno followed by some house, DnB and left field down tempo beats. Enjoy!

www.mixcloud.com/richardselfr...

Lunch with old school friends in Newcastle; perfect end to the festive season 😎

Crown Posada & the Broad Chare, the Quaysde and a bit of snow.

Happy New Year, everybody!

#FridayFive.
New year, more beginnings etc.
1. Just Like Starting Over. John Lennon.
2. Apply Some Pressure. Maximo Park.
3. First Day of My Life. Bright Eyes
4. This Is the Day. The The.
5. Feeling Good. Nina Simone.