@sarahbeanscott @MsGHist It still doesn’t explain why they’re needed? Schools are accountable to so many people & academy bosses too, so why this bunch of old retired dudes & people doing their bit for ‘charity’ or whatever it is? They’re so pointless. Happy to be corrected but in 20 yrs, not understood!

Mail on Sunday report mistakenly imagines that Damson Idris [surname: Idris, born in Peckham, parents from Nigeria] must be the brother of Idris Elba [surname Elba, born in Hackney, parents from Sierra Leone & Ghana]

Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover. Earlier I spoke to @Telegraph about how important cars are for families to live their lives. It’s something anti-motorist Labour just don’t seem to get. And it’s why I’m reviewing anti-car schemes across the country.

Last night's sunset over Derry - MAGICAL 📷😍 @Derryvisitor @dcsdcouncil

This may be about to become a much bigger story than I anticipated when I submitted my SAR, turns out it’s happened to a lot of people! Many people are afraid to speak out because they’re worried about their work and there is an imbalance of power at play here. Of course as a

The DfE have released the updated Reading Framework today:

We have drawn on the evidence for ‘sustained shared thinking’ and 5-year-olds are now expected to meet more demanding standards:

Is there any more hotly contested debate in education than the arguments over curriculum content? And thank goodness it is contested - because curricula thinking needs to evolve over time.