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🗞️This week's Schools Week front page:
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Ofsted has been deluged with 5,000 emails praising schools since
@GavinWilliamson
told parents to contact the watchdog with complaints
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Exclusive: Ofsted has received 13,000 emails praising schools since Gavin Williamson urged parents to flag remote education concerns with the watchdog - but only around 260 complaints
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Exclusive: 'I could lose my job, but I feel like if I don't stand up...the system will never change,' says
@FloraSCooper
as she plans to boycott an
@Ofstednews
school inspection tomorrow
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📢 School leaders have voiced outrage after a primary teacher with an 'unblemished' career was brought before a misconduct hearing over an isolated glue gun incident
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The Department for Education has removed transgender rights charity Mermaids from its mental health and wellbeing resources for schools
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Three unions have now called for
@Ofstednews
to pause inspections following the death of Ruth Perry
@NEUnion
,
@ASCL_UK
and
@NAHTnews
say the watchdog should undertake an immediate review of the impact of inspections on staff wellbeing
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🤫 Ministers have finally revealed how much two influencers were paid to promote its £3.6 million back-to-school campaign after lockdown – releasing an eight-word response after a two-and-a-half year battle for transparency
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'So much wrong here… The total lack of support from the head and trust. Asking the person to resign. The media and social bullying by the parent. The media sensationalising. The destruction of a committed young teacher. All involved should be ashamed'
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❗Exclusive: At least 11 schools that had 'waste of money' rebuilds scrapped by Michael Gove when the Conservatives came into power in 2010 have closed because they have 'crumbly' concrete, a Schools Week investigation suggests
#RAAC
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An education leader says he 'will never forgive' Sir Gavin Williamson after it emerged the former education secretary opposed face masks in schools because he didn’t want to 'surrender' to unions
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Exclusive: Schools face a 'high risk' of successful legal challenges if they follow several elements of today’s controversial trans guidance, advice written by the government’s own lawyers reveals
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Breaking: Ofsted halts all inspections after government ramps up coronavirus outbreak measures
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A school at the centre of a gender row now under government investigation has said none of its pupils “identify as a cat or any other animal”
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The government has confirmed today that free school meal vouchers WILL now be available over Easter after a backlash from the sector
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Breaking: The government will provide free laptops and tablets for disadvantaged year 10s and other vulnerable pupils to help them learn at home during the coronavirus lockdown
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Breaking: Michaela school has won a High Court case after a judge ruled any disadvantage to Muslim pupils caused by its prayer ban was 'outweighed by the aims it seeks to promote in the interests of the school community as a whole'
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Breaking news: Ministers are expected to announce this afternoon that both A-level and GCSEs students will be awarded their teacher grades in a major U-turn following this year's results fiasco
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Ofsted was yesterday trending across Twitter as parents took to social media to voice their displeasure at the government and encourage others to use the newly established complaints procedure to praise the hard work of teachers
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'What Ofsted don’t seem to understand is the impact that single word has on people, and how it can destroy them'
Amid widespread anger over the death of Ruth Perry, a headteacher who described his Ofsted experience as 'uncannily similar' speaks out
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Exclusive: A leaked government report has laid bare the school workload crisis, with two in five school leaders working 'unacceptable' 12-hour days and teachers' working weeks cut by just 48 minutes in three years
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Ofsted found teachers' workload has soared during the pandemic due to remote learning expectations
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Confirmed: A-level and GCSE pupils to be awarded their centre assessment grades in major government U-turn
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UPDATE: Children's minister Edward Timpson has lost his seat to a teacher and school funding campaigner
#GE2017
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Quite extraordinary breaking news: Ofqual REMOVES mock exam appeals policy just hours after publishing it - saying it's now being reviewed
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Teachers must not be 'guilt-tripped' into working on summer catch-up programmes run by schools, says
@CharteredColl
CEO
@AlisonMPeacock
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BREAKING: In a major U-turn, the government has abandoned its divisive policy of forcing schools to collect pupil nationality and country of birth data. Read our exclusive story here:
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'I’m writing to let you know that, despite just 12 hours notice and no help with devices, [my son’s] primary school are delivering really good online learning'
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School leaders have had to read almost 100 updates to government guidance during the coronavirus crisis – a quarter of them published during antisocial hours
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Exclusive:
@educationgovuk
staff have had to work in corridors and canteens after the government’s return-to-the-office edict because the DfE has almost twice as many workers as desks
#Covid
#omicron
#workingfromhome
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Exclusive: The government plans to make face masks compulsory in secondary school classrooms, a DfE official told sector representatives during a briefing this week
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Five U-turns in five days: a damning timeline of the woeful week that ensured any lingering trust between the profession and education secretary
@GavinWilliamson
was blown to smithereens
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Geoff Barton is to serve a second term as general secretary of the ASCL school leadership union, after being re-elected unopposed
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🌹 A major study to inform a potential Labour government's education manifesto has proposed a review of Ofsted, a reformed "creative" national curriculum and less focus on exams
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School where teachers don't have to do marking gets government backing
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💻 The CEO of
@MowbrayEdTrust
has warned parents across its seven schools she will lose teachers if they don't cut out 'personally abusive' and 'sometimes threatening' emails and social media posts
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'We thought you would shout and scream that our children are in trouble. That’s not what happened.'
An anonymous director of education calls out Ofsted's silence on devastating poverty
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The sector has paid tribute to 'education giant' Sir Tim Brighouse, remembered as 'a towering beacon of light for schools' whose legacy will 'last forever'
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Breaking: Schools will NOT reopen immediately after February half term, prime minister Boris Johnson has confirmed
#schoolsreopening
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🚨 1,694 heads quit the state sector last year for reasons other than retirement (7.7 per cent of the workforce) - the highest on record and more than double the number leaving in 2015-16
@RealGeoffBarton
says: 'We cannot go on like this'
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'The job that teachers are currently trained for does not match the daily reality of providing emotional and mental health support, resolving family conflict and providing food and clothes', says
@McBreartySinead
in a new
@EdSupportUK
report
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The government should appoint a ‘chief education officer’ to advise ministers on schools policy in the same way Professor Sir Chris Whitty does for health, a new report has said
@fededucation
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Breaking: Ofsted will delay inspections next week by a day to give lead inspectors urgent extra training on dealing with anxiety and when to pause their visits
It comes after a coroner ruled inspection contributed to Ruth Perry's death
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"Nobody should be questioning the teaching profession’s commitment."
@NAHTnews
general secretary, Paul Whiteman responds to *that* tweet by
@Andrew_Adonis
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Breaking:
@NickGibbMP
announces primaries won't have to administer KS1 SPAG test following paper leak
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Prime minister Boris Johnson told officials not to make contingency plans for schools last year in the event of another lockdown, according to an explosive new report
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📈 Two schools are trialling a four-day teaching week to boost ailing recruitment and retention, with one head saying “yoga or free biscuits” just aren’t enough anymore
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School leaders have shown their quality of leadership time and time again during the pandemic – but at what cost to their own wellbeing, asks
@Carter6D
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The Department for Education knew about the highly infectious new Covid-19 variant before ordering Greenwich council to rescind its request for schools to close early for Christmas, its most senior civil servant has admitted
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Breaking: School leader who delivered school meals on foot and Oak academy principal among those recognised for contribution during Covid in Queen's birthday honours list
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Ministers chose not to follow scientists’ advice on reopening schools on a rota basis as full-time education was “more effective” to get parents back to work
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Five U-turns in five days: a damning timeline of the woeful week that ensured any lingering trust between the profession and education secretary
@GavinWilliamson
was blown to smithereens
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Exclusive: The multinational company that ran the Covid free school meals voucher scheme faces fresh scrutiny after posting 'eye-watering' profits this year
#FreeSchoolMeals
#edenred
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The coroner investigating the death of headteacher Ruth Perry has warned of a 'risk of future deaths if there is only lip service paid to learning from tragedies like this'
She also urged ministers not to ignore a report aimed at preventing future deaths
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Breaking: Michaela Community School, frequently referred to as 'Britain’s strictest', is facing a High Court challenge from a pupil over its policy banning prayer rituals
The school can be named after an application for anonymity was rejected today
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The government has quietly scrapped a scheme which promised schools up to £25,000 each to help improve the literacy and numeracy of year seven pupils
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📝 The headteacher and deputy at the first school revisited under the Ofsted rapid re-inspection system – introduced after Ruth Perry’s death – have resigned, saying the process was still too 'traumatic'
Read more 🔽
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BREAKING: School staff will be able to access free coronavirus tests, the government has announced
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The BBC will restart broadcasting lockdown lessons on TV under the 'biggest education offer in its history' to ensure homebound children without internet access can keep learning
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“We can’t have heads of academy trusts earning over £300,000 a year while we can’t pay teachers and support staff” -
@AngelaRayner
#NAHTConf
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🔍
@Ofstednews
has removed a school's 'inadequate' inspection report from its website after admitting the findings were 'not reliable'
@qem_school
had requested an internal review over the way its formal complaint with the watchdog was handled
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BREAKING: Health secretary
@MattHancock
confirms the list of those roles defined as 'key workers' for the purpose of school care 'will be published tomorrow', not today, as originally promised
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Breaking: The
@NAHTnews
school leaders’ union has threatened a judicial review of Ofsted’s refusal to pause inspections following the death of Ruth Perry
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A primary school has set up a pen-pal scheme with two local care homes as part of its English curriculum
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Teacher wellbeing has reached its lowest level in five years, with stress, insomnia and burnout all continuing to rise and working in schools 'unsustainably demanding', a new survey has found
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The flood of positive reports followed a social media campaign that turned the tables on Gavin Williamson
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Ofsted inspectors are calling on
@amanda_spielman
to suspend plans to begin on-site visits during the national lockdown – warning it is 'simply unacceptable'
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❗️ Breaking: Conservative donor and media mogul Sir Paul Marshall has stood down as chair and trustee of
@ArkSchools
It comes after he was accused of liking and sharing far-right extremist posts and conspiracy theories on social media
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'[The government] is behaving like a playground bully and this is the last thing that schools need at the end of a gruelling and exhausting term' -
@RealGeoffBarton
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🔍 A Labour government would consult on scrapping
@Ofstednews
' current grading system and replacing it with a 'report card' for schools
Shadow education secretary
@bphillipsonMP
will announce the move at the
#ASCL2023
conference this morning
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Staff and older pupils will be expected to wear face coverings in schools in England from September following a government U-turn, Schools Week understands
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Exclusive: Headteacher
@Miss_Snuffy
has quit as Social Mobility Commission chair, telling
@SchoolsWeek
her controversial opinions 'puts the commission in jeopardy' and it is doing 'more harm than good'
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Breaking: More results chaos as schools told NOT to issue BTEC results tomorrow after an eleventh hour grading U-turn from Pearson
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BREAKING: Coasting schools will no longer face forced academisation and schools commissioners will be BANNED from sending staff in to inspect schools,
@DamianHinds
to announce today
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A leading food poverty charity has removed four MPs from its board after one voted against a motion to extend free school meals over the holidays
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Academies minister Baroness Barran 'worries' that teachers 'don’t believe' the government is committed to reducing their workload
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Breaking: Exam boards have promised to provide schools their GCSE results tomorrow morning as usual - allowing pupils to receive their final grades on time
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🗣️ "If the school makes a decision a parent doesn’t like, they immediately get on social media and before you know it you have 300 people piling into a member of staff"
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Exclusive: Ofsted is not able to back up claims it made under oath that inspectors had paused inspections where headteachers were distressed, saying it does not hold a record of such instances
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ICYMI: Ofsted and the government have been given 56 days to set out what actions they will take in response to a prevention of future deaths report following the death of headteacher Ruth Perry
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Ruth Perry’s sister said it is 'far too hasty' for
@Ofstednews
inspections to resume later this month, as she revealed plans for headteachers with 'uncannily similar' ordeals to meet the chief inspector and share their stories
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The government told schools not to use rota systems for the return of pupils despite scientific advice that it was 'likely to be the most effective strategy' for bringing them back, official documents show
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'Hold our nerve? The teachers, leaders and support staff that I speak to tell me that they feel abandoned' - writes
@MaryBoustedNEU
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The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and families during the pandemic
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Breaking: All London primary schools will now stay closed after another chaotic U-turn by education secretary Gavin Williamson on back-to-school plans he announced just 48-hours ago
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Breaking: The government has finally admitted schools will miss out on around £90 million in pupil premium funding, after insisting that individual schools would not lose out as a 'direct consequence of the change'
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Exclusive: More than 350 academy leaders have written to the PM, warning of 'grave concerns' about schools’ ability to stay afloat without extra funding
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Breaking: The education secretary is 'deluded' and 'living in a fantasy world' over the school recruitment and retention crisis, union leaders have said
@NEUnion
@MaryBoustedNEU
@cyclingkev
#NEU2023
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‘And when peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place’
Her Majesty The Queen - 1926-2022
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Duchess of Cambridge: “It is clear that the positive development of our children is directly linked to those who care for them: teachers, carers and parents”
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.
@GavinWilliamson
: ‘By maintaining school provision, leaders of our schools – and your staff – rightly take their place next to our NHS staff and other critical workers as central to our country’s efforts in battling this virus’
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Breaking:
@NAHTnews
has become the third union to formally reject the government’s pay offer
Leader
@PaulWhiteman6
warned any failure by ministers to return to the table to solve the dispute would 'stick two fingers up to a dedicated profession'
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Update:
@AngelaRayner
writes to the PM demanding she 'correct the record' after May repeats 'misleading' school improvement claim in parliament
#PMQs
#schoolcuts
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Updated: Williamson says the government is 'removing caps on every single university in the United Kingdom, so that they have the ability to expand the number of places, welcoming more students into those universities, as many as possible'
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