Blogs
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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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National Offers Day – Why School Choice Matters
Our Campaign Manager Mike Burke has written this blog: Today is National Offers Day, where parents and pupils around the country find out what school their child will be attending…
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Why We Shouldn’t Scrap GCSEs and A-Levels
Our Campaign Manager Mike Burke has written this blog: Every year it feels like the daffodils in the back-garden bloom earlier and earlier; this year I saw the first shoots…
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