Just because you haven’t seen or read me here recently doesn’t mean that I haven’t been thinking. Probably thinking too much and doing a little internalised crying at the fact that we still haven’t managed to change the nature of educating our young people. In spite of all of the […]
In the big quango cut Ofsted have survived … It is not that inspection (a really bad word for what should be happening) is, in itself, a poor idea it is just that it needed more than just a spruce up and a refit. It needed a real ‘Are you […]
I understand from reading the BBC article that school governors are being told that it is their responsibility to make sure that children sit the KS2 Sats. This could be the end of people volunteering to be governors … could it … or do parents, ‘governors’ really think that they […]
Unfortunately I do actually think for this year it is too late … pity. The problem I think will lie in the fact that any boycott now may well be poorly supported and that will do the general case of removing Sats completely no good at all. In today’s TES […]
In March 2009 I wrote extensively about removing Sats and the fantastic amount of money , time, frustration, effort, tears, tantrums etc etc that each year go into these events. Well now it seems that the time has come to be counted. On 16th April members of the NAHT backed […]
A fish out of water On 26th March 2009 I wrote a post re the potential boycotting of Sats and today I notice that this topic has risen its head again as ‘that’ time of the year begins to loom. But this is January. Perhaps it is the first sign […]
BBC Education News announce today what might prove to be one of the greatest educational ‘turn rounds’ – the end of the ‘strategies‘ : The government is set to abandon one of its most significant education policies in primary schools in England. From 2011 schools will no longer have to implement […]
The other man’s grass … The BBC report this morning that primary school science Sats are to go next year. As Jim Rose sets up a core of literacy, mathematics, ICT and personal skills ( I have read my way through the report now and still haven’t a clear idea of what […]
Its good to have a break from thinking … over the past week I have tried to stop thinking about the things that I normally think about and to focus my energies somewhere else. This refocus took me to the coast of Northumberland and 3 days of fantastic orienteering and […]
Schools may try to boycott Sats (BBC report) … what wonderful news I do hope it comes to fruition. The NAHT and NUT say the tests damage children’s education, because teachers are forced to “teach to the test”, narrowing the curriculum. This together with the good bits, and there will […]