Charlotte Santry

There are pros and cons to this plan (and I’ve heard quite a few concerns about AI tutors lately) but it’s quite obviously not going to work in schools with rubbish wifi or a shortage of devices - ie a lot of primaries.

SCOOP by @cerysturner.bsky.social 👇

Ofsted ‘confused’ about school admissions role MAT leader Jonny Uttley warns Ofsted is ‘refusing’ to scrutinise schools that ‘push’ students out

Ofsted is ‘confused’ about its school admissions role and is ‘refusing’ to look at data showing how inclusive schools are, @jonnyuttley.bsky.social has warned in an exclusive Tes webinar on the new inspections ⬇️

ASCL considers legal action over Ofsted report card plans The Association of School and College Leaders has confirmed it will explore legal action against Ofsted over the impact of report cards on school leader wellbeing

ASCL union confirms there's no plan to ask school leaders to withdraw as Ofsted inspectors, but possible legal action's on the cards 👇

YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry UK Covid-19 Inquiry Live Stream

Former education secretary Sir Gavin Williamson is giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry today. Will be posting updates here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12M...

Ofsted’s new inspection framework: all you need to know Ofsted is pushing ahead with its plan for a five-point grading scale but announces a series of changes to school inspections launching this term

Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver & the watchdog's board chair Dame Christine Gilbert are facing MPs to discuss Ofsted's incoming inspection framework🧵

It's part of regular accountability updates Ofsted committed to following the death of Ruth Perry.

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Only 6 per cent of Sendcos can complete their tasks in work hours The government’s SEND reforms must ensure that special educational needs coordinators get better support, say experts, as exclusive data reveals their ‘unsustainable’ workload

The exclusive findings in @johngroberts.bsky.social story make clear that, whatever comes out of the education white paper & broader inclusion push, it mustn't simply heap more tasks onto overworked sencos.

Fab panellists for this FREE Ofsted webinar.

And hopefully a half decent chair :)

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

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

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-...

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.

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

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:

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

“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 👇

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

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...

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

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

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

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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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

🔊Exclusive:

By @cerysturner.bsky.social

‘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

“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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Story by @cerysturner.bsky.social

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

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.

"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

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. 🤔

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

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

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 ⬇️

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’

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...