Year: 2020
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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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In this strangest of times . . . how can we best support our most vulnerable learners
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 1 This is the…
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Character and Curriculum
Ian Bauckham is CEO at Tenax Schools Trust What is the purpose of education? This is a question which every generation asks itself, and indeed it is being asked anew…
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Great Education Thinkers: John Dewey
“The native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind” –…
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Three years or two years for key stage 3? The question about the ideal length of key stage 3 is actually more complex than it may seem
Claire Heald is Standards Director and Executive Principal at Inspiration Trust In the wake of the new Ofsted framework identifying the length of key stage three (KS3) as an inspection…
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Another look at critical thinking.
Rethinking critical thinking. One common accusation levelled at those who promote a knowledge rich curriculum is that there is an insufficient focus on allowing students the space to think…
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