Grant Strudley FCCT

I saw your show in Reading recently and I was very grateful for the reasonable finish time on a ‘school night’! Really enjoyed the show - thank you!

@bracknellforest.bsky.social Ofsted Report on SEND. files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5027...

Utterly damming (despite the spin operation). Real change needed and quickly. Too many children are being failed!

SEND plans will fail to stop private school costs soaring, DfE warned Warning comes as Tes analysis reveals the local authority areas where spending has jumped by up to 477% over the past four years

The government’s SEND reforms won’t curb spending on private special schools, say experts – as Tes analysis from @johngroberts.bsky.social reveals the areas with the biggest growth.

Read the full story here ⬇️

Great show! Thank you.

SEND and special school provision: the capacity crisis The number of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has soared in recent years. But is there enough provision to meet their needs? Tes analyses the latest data

"in 2016, there were an average of 81 pupils per special school. As of 2024, the average was 103 pupils per school."

Deep dive into specialist provision capacity here from @ellencph.bsky.social showing just how squeezed capacity has become - with dire consequences

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Jeez. President Trump now calls Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator without elections’ and says that he ‘better move fast or he won’t have a country left’

Trump really is Putin’s useful idiot

Trump calls Zelensky “a dictator without elections” having lauded Putin, a man who hasn’t had a free or fair election in years and who has prevented elections in Ukraine because he invaded.

Ukraine latest: Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator' as he hits back at 'disinformation' criticism It comes after the Ukrainian president suggested Donald Trump was

Next time Trump talks about the USA standing up for freedom and democracy, I’ll take it with a large pinch of salt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

What a week! Children, parents, staff…. One thing after another! There are times when I remember I once did this for a job…. And then decided to come home to teach 😂😂😂😂😂

It’s a fair point. I suppose it depends on the purpose of the test. If you want to assess if someone has achieved a certain level of education or not, I think it’s good that standards rise (e.g. nobody complains when Year 6 Reading SATs results improve).

Doesn’t that depend on whether your exams are norm referenced or criterion referenced?