What a huge honour it was as editor of @tesmagazine.bsky.social to host the annual Tes Summer Drinks reception in Westminster last night. Very grateful to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social for speaking and then staying for the duration to speak with school leaders. Huge thanks to everyone who came!

Edinburgh Marathon ✅ Great course, but last 6 miles into gale-force winds were ‘challenging’. Made it round in 2:54.

An #Ofsted survey showing parents' support for its proposed inspection report cards ‘misses the point’ that the gradings could prove unreliable, @naht.org.uk leader warns

Warning: Michael's thread is not a parody. This is where we are heading. Really puts my earlier posts about a total lack of consideration for reliability and validity into perspective.

Already amusing myself with the "guess which of the descriptors is meant to be better" game for the new Ofsted toolkits.

Single-word/phrase judgements should be scrapped immediately whilst we work towards a fundamentally different approach to school inspection. We recognise reform will take time and can't be rushed, but we can't leave things as they are in the meantime. www.tes.com/magazine/new...