Year: 2020
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Three Government actions to remove deadlock
Hamid Patel CBE, Chief Executive of Star Academies Prolonged absence from school is hurting our children and widening inequalities. With every day that goes by in lockdown, the situation worsens and…
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The ‘Roadmap to Recovery’- the five ‘Rs’ and an approach to the wider re-opening of our 21 primary, secondary and special schools in the East of England.
Stephen Chamberlain is CEO of The Active Learning Trust. On the 18th March 2020 the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced that: “After schools shut their gates from Friday afternoon, they will…
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Starline: a collaborative civic response to support parents
Hamid Patel CBE, Chief Executive of Star Academies The unexpected opportunity to spend endless days in each other’s uninterrupted company has undoubtedly brought golden moments for some families. Parents are…
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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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