So Many Teachers are Lonely at Schools
Amanda Martin, the new president of the NEU teaching union, states that ‘teaching is still the best job in the world, it’s just tough.’ Amanda’s main goals as the president is to try and make teaching less tough and less lonely. Teachers spend so many hours planning and marking, being with their students and jumping […]
New Ofsted Framework: Brutal
The new Ofsted framework has started this academic year, the first teachers to experience the new inspections have described it as ‘brutal’ and ‘intense.’ One such teacher even wrote to the Ofsted Chief, Amanda Spielman, complaining that her Ofsted experience was ‘soul-destroying.’ Focusing on Curriculum The biggest significant change in the new framework of Ofsted […]
New Teachers to be Given Behaviour Training
Behaviour in schools is a huge problem for many educational schools in England, a lot of individuals leave the profession naming behaviour as one of the main reasons. Ofsted have finally clocked on and are now tracking how teachers manage behaviour during their initial teacher training under the new inspection plans to come into effect […]
Thousands of School Leaders Anxious for New Ofsted
From this academic year, Ofsted will be inspecting schools based on the new framework. It was announced in October 2018 and would focus on schools providing a rich curriculum to its students instead of exam success at the expense of a broad education. Headteachers have had nearly a year to get in touch with Ofsted […]
‘Outstanding’ Schools No Longer Exempt from Regular Inspections
It used to be that if your school achieved an ‘outstanding’ outcome from an Ofsted, that it would be a very long time until they returned. In some extreme cases, some children would start school in nursery and go all the way through to finish in Year 6 and never have an Ofsted; this is […]
