Blogs
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A Response to Rachel Sylvester
Our Campaign Manager Mike Burke has written this blog… This week Rachel Sylvester produced an article for The Times encouraging ministers to tackle knife crime through the method of reducing the number…
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What I Learnt at the Wonder Years Conference
Spencer Harris, Head of History and Politics at a school in Leicestershire, recently attended our Wonder Years conference, and has written this great blog about what he got out of…
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Developing a Knowledge-Rich Art Curriculum Part 1: The ‘Why?’
David Morel, Head at Willingham Primary School, gave a talk with his colleague Sara Varty at our Wonder Years conference on knowledge-led art curricula. Here, he writes down some of…
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How an Ofsted Judgement Became the Catalyst in our Curriculum Journey
James Kilsby, Head at Cottenham Primary School, has written this great blog for us… Having now had the time to look through the documentation and consider things properly, I believe…
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Exclusions Make Our Schools More Inclusive
Our Director Mark Lehain has written this blog: Yesterday I had my attention drawn to a newly-released Ofsted inspection report. It was glowing about the school in question, and a…
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Return to Brenzett
Our Director Mark Lehain has written this trip report… Last week I had the pleasure of a second visit to Brenzett Primary School. In the middle of Romney Marsh,…
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Developing a Team Culture in Schools
The author Michaela Khatib is an original proposer and Executive Head of Cobham Free School, an all-through establishment, which opened in wave 2 of the government programme in 2012. The…
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Primary languages: the problem and the way forward
Ian Bauckham has written this excellent blog for us… I was asked recently to contribute to a conference about the future of modern foreign languages in primary schools in England.It…
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The Joy of Flex: recruiting and retaining teachers for the future
Michelle Thomason (@mikithomason) has written this excellent blog for us… Not many professions have more qualified people outside of it than working within it.Sadly, the teaching profession appears to be…
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