Month: October 2021

The PTE Newsletter: Friday 15 October
Her critics would rather Ms Trunchball taught their kids, but to those opposed to the ‘woke orthodoxy’, Katharine Birbalsingh is a breath of fresh air as the government’s new Social…
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Choosing a School: Visiting School Open Days
In the last piece we covered three really important sources of information that families can use to come up with a shortlist of school preferences: Recent applications data, school websites,…
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The PTE Newsletter – Friday 8 October
Party conferences are now done for 2021 and it’s already Friday! Hopefully your week has been a good one! Pupils and teachers still have a few weeks left until they get a…
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The PTE Newsletter – Friday 1 October
Finally – finally! – schools have been told what is planned for exams next summer. They were promised details before the end of September, and this deadline was narrowly met, with…
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Choosing a School: Sources of Information
In the last piece we covered a couple of “formal” datasets about schools – the government’s Performance Tables, and Ofsted’s inspection report. In this article we are going to cover…
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