Blogs

Why Avengers: Endgame Supports Knowledge-Led Curricula
WARNING: the following blog contains full, gigantic spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and all preceding films. Do not read it if you don’t want to know intimate details about the plot…
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Return to Charter
When I visited Great Yarmouth Charter Academy last spring, I was blown away not just by what I saw myself, but also by the testimonials of staff and students who…
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Open Letter Regarding SATs
Assessment is a vital part of the school system, and it is right its implementation is debated. However, Labour’s pledge to scrap SATs without any idea of a replacement could…
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A Response to The Guardian on Exclusions
Our Campaign Manager Mike has written this blog… The Guardian have published an editorial this week on exclusions in schools. Disappointingly, it makes the same mistakes as many others in…
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Why The Multiplication Tables Check Matters
Cassie Young is Head of School at Brenzett CofE Primary School. You can find her on Twitter @ModernCassie. When was the last time you used some basic numeracy? Was it…
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Claire Heald: My Curriculum Journey
This is the latest blog in a series that asks various education figures a few key questions about their own personal curriculum journeys. Claire Heald is Standards Director and Executive…
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Emma Lennard: My Curriculum Journey
This is the first in a new series of blogs that will ask various education figures a few key questions about their own personal curriculum journeys. We begin with the…
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Developing a Knowledge-Rich Science Curriculum
Heena Dave, Learning Design Manager for Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching, has written this wonderful blog for us, following up from her talk on the topic at our…
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Porn, Pythagoras and Poetry – What Should Schools Teach?
Our Director Mark has written this blog: At PTE we keep a list of calls from others for schools to teach something, and last year the most common call was to do…
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