How to prepare for a school inspection: get your paperwork ready, don’t try to ‘oversell’ things, don’t be afraid to tell inspectors ‘I’ll get back to you’ – teacher Alan Gillespie ✍️ shares the lessons he learned during a recent inspection in Scotland
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After a report this week revealed that students are missing out on meaningful work experience, a school principal outlines why it is so important – and how her school offers it to cohorts
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Really interesting article on scaling up a MAT. Thank you Steve Taylor for sharing your thoughts ⤵️

With schools struggling with stretched budgets, Department for Education could spend up to £9.2m on cost-cutting advisers to help them find savings
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‘This shouldn’t be something that we only teach before mock GCSE exams': assistant head Lisa_Lockley shares a strategy for developing students' skills in deconstructing questions
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Is a school cluster model the key to successfully managing MAT expansion? Tes explores
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Is your school running key stage 1 Sats tests this year? A survey reveals that most settings will be – as some find it a ‘reliable internal assessment and benchmarking tool’, as REAch2 Academy Trust’s national education director explains
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After experiencing a school inspection recently, teacher Alan Gillespie ✍️ shares his list of do’s and don’ts for anyone preparing for an inspector to call...

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Really interesting piece here for any multi-academy trusts considering growth plans and how to keep collaboration and close ways of working during times of expansion - huge thanks to Steve Taylor for sharing so much about his trust's growth journey.

KS1 Sats: The DfE may have now made the Year 2 tests optional, but excl polling by Teacher Tapp for Tes shows that over half of schools will still run them.

We spoke to those on both sides of the debate ahead of the delivery of govt papers next week:

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Up to £9m is being spent on the next tranche of cost-cutting advisors for schools - up from £6.7m.

But academy trusts “will take some convincing that this is the best way of helping them”, Leora Cruddas CBE warns.

Story by Jasmine Norden
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After his school was inspected recently, teacher Alan Gillespie ✍️ shares his list of do’s and don’ts for anyone preparing for an Education Scotland inspection
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‘A chance for pupils to escape and have an immersive experience’: Christina Quaine explores the research supporting the use of book corners to boost literacy
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.Department for Education is offering a contract worth up to £9.2m to supply schools with cost-cutting school resource management advisers
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Schools could lose £1 billion in per-pupil funding by 2030 due to falling population numbers, Education Policy Institute research suggests
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Most teachers are opting to run KS1 Sats this year to help benchmark pupils despite the government making the tests optional in 2023, a Teacher Tapp survey for Tes reveals
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Do your GCSE students fully understand what exam questions are asking them? Assistant head Lisa_Lockley shares the 4Cs approach to deconstructing exam questions
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‘Schools must not be left to manage the huge financial risk that this change in the national picture presents,’ says ASCL’s Pepe Di’Iasio of Education Policy Institute research suggesting schools face a £1bn funding hit from falling pupil rolls
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