Month: April 2020

Learning in Lockdown
Jenny Thompson is Principal at Dixons Trinity Academy. In the absence of routine, everything becomes negotiation perched upon the emotions of the moment. It can be exhausting. Alarms and times that…
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“This was our moment” – How Jane Austen College took on Covid-19
David Thomas is Principal at Jane Austen College in Norwich Two days before schools were told to close we had a middle leadership meeting to run through our contingency plan.…
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Developing a remote-learning curriculum
Summer Turner is Director of Curriculum at Inspiration Trust Remoteness is a quality of an academic curriculum, pupils are being introduced to new knowledge and to fields of study which…
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Challenge AnnekaEd
Matt Hood is Principal at Oak National Academy A text message here led to a whatsapp group there. Followed by a call to this person and then another call to…
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In the service of others – ATT’s response to Covid-19
Debbie is CEO of the Academy Transformation Trust (ATT) Halfway through week 4 of the ‘lockdown which isn’t a lockdown’ and in which ‘schools are closed but not closed’, it…
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Great Education Thinkers : Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet, a literary critic and for thirty-five years an inspector of schools. His influence on educators is encapsulated by a famous passage in Culture and…
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Best-laid schemes…
Martyn Oliver is CEO at Outwood Grange Academies Trust As Robert Burns wrote in ‘To a Mouse’ in 1785, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley”. Certainly…
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In this strangest of times . . . embracing a new way of learning and leading
Claire Heald is Standards Director and Executive Principal at Inspiration Trust Reflections on a MAT response to the prolonged school closure caused by COVID-19 – PART 2 I have no…
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