I speak/email/DM and meet lots of teachers … all the time! Many of these teachers are in FE and I have to take my hat off to them as I’m not sure I could work in that sector especially given the policy of enforced resits. It must be draining on all levels to be relentlessly … Read more
Back in December 2015 the DFE published a document -> GCSE_Early_Entry_Guidance that clarified some rules about “early entry” – you may remember when new early entry rules for key stage 4 qualifications were announced on September 29 2013 (I remember it well!) that only a pupil’s first entry to a key stage 4 qualification would counts towards their school’s … Read more
The above was me last week!! You can’t have failed to notice that last week, in a speech about primary assessment Justine Greening announced that the government “will not introduce statutory mathematics and reading resits on children’s arrival in year 7.” It seems that sense (for once) has been seen and all the kerfuffle that … Read more
Whilst we are waiting for the promised consultation on the year 7 resits (now being called progress tests!) I am going to try to persuade as many “bloggers” (I still don’t consider myself one of those … I’m a teacher!) as I can, to write a blog post (or should that be “another” post because … Read more
I’ve edited this post to make it a bit clearer! As you do … I have been looking at the DFE and Ofqual publications page of the .gov site (I used to read books before sleeping now I read this sh1te! .. no seriously!) and I came across something that at first had me worried … Read more
I have to take my hat off to Ofqual for their recent response to an freedom of information request I made to them .. I’m quite impressed because someone has thought it through and not just sent a standard response. Having seen some payments on their “transparency” data that they have to publish I noted … Read more
Whats the name for an edit comment that appears at the start of a post? Don’t know? Me neither … Well this is one of them … I started to write this post and it became something else but I’ve left it as it is … apologies in advance! This will be the first of … Read more
So the year 7 catch-up funding has been confirmed again for 2016/17. It’s not something that concerned me greatly until the year 7 resits reared their ugly head and confirmation of how the funding works for this year is just another reason why the resit idea stinks. The fact is, and there is no way … Read more
I’ve got a very open mind about the changes at the DFE but it was good (of course it wasn’t!) to see the PR & media machines were at work already when I saw all over my Twitter timeline that the DFE confirmed today there would be “no … year 7 resits in the 2016/17 … Read more
I’m going to be true to my word and this post isn’t going to be about BREXIT. … ummm … oh … ummmm … (imagine me swaying from foot to foot as I try to think of a way to sweeten this)… well … ummm … it “sort of” is … but also “sort of” … Read more
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