The number of councils holding back funding to support schools with falling rolls is set to more than treble – plus three other trends you need to know

Primary schools are experiencing difficulties with the new online system for submitting attendance registers at the end of key stage 2 Sats, Tes can reveal

Hastings and Scarborough are the first areas included in the government’s Mission Coastal initiative, DfE confirms

@neunion.bsky.social warns it will launch a formal strike ballot unless the government makes a fully-funded, above-inflation pay offer – but the education secretary has called the ballot threat ‘massively premature’

Rather than the usual enforcement sanctions, this school came up with a new approach to reverse poor primary attendance based on trust-wide enrichment programmes. Its principal explains what they did, and its impact

A relentless focus on phone bans in school risks distracting us from another important factor: settings cannot fix the digital lives that pupils return to at home, writes Luke Ramsden

Exclusive: New teachers are learning significantly more from the updated Early Career Framework than in previous years, polling suggests

As headship aspiration reaches a record low, Tes explores what’s deterring people from taking the top job

ICYMI: Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted inspects them, with sector leaders warning this is a ‘recipe for heightening stress’

You feel guilty having a sick day, you feel guilty if you can’t help a student at lunchtime, you feel guilty about how you’ve taught a lesson – can you overcome it? Gavin Simpson explains how to handle ‘guilt’ as a teacher

New EEF research appears to give a strong vote of confidence to setting over mixed-ability grouping, but the authors of the study warn schools against taking any rash decisions

Heads and senior leaders are around twice as likely as teachers to find Ofsted inspections under the new framework 'much more stressful' than previous versions

From additional settling-in days to preparing booklets, Sendco Gemma Corby offers advice on supporting students with SEND to transition from primary to secondary school

Sendcos need better pay, more strategic input and monthly supervision sessions to prevent ‘burnout’, according to leaders

The Department for Education is planning to set up new regional partnerships of sector leaders to oversee the priorities of its flagship school improvement programme

Specialist provision packages are set to underpin the support pupils with the most complex SEND receive in a reformed system but leaders are concerned that children could fall through the gaps and highlight widespread problems with the categories the DfE has suggested. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Leadership drop-ins into teacher classrooms are an authentic way to get insight into learning in your school, says Gregory Macur, who offers tips to ensure they are impactful

Is it just teachers who feel guilty when they have to take time off sick? One long-serving educator reflects on the anxiety he felt at taking time off school to have an operation, and the lessons other teachers can learn from his situation

Leaders have raised serious concerns about government plans to create specialist provision packages, which they fear ‘risks fitting children to provision rather than provision to children’

What should happen to improve education after today’s Scottish Parliament election? Aspiring headteachers have shared their views

Ofsted will not be making any major changes to toolkits in its upcoming update, despite criticism of the watchdog’s new inspection framework

Some say that interventions to improve wellbeing and academic growth are incompatible, says Sendco Cerian Parker-Yeates, but the PAS approach proves that you can boost both at the same time

Some 22 per cent of trainee teachers do not immediately enter the profession following qualification, research reveals, highlighting ‘shock’ of administrative tasks and workload as reasons

'Heads more likely than teachers to find new Ofsted inspections stressful' - @cerysturner.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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Distributed leadership works by making success everyone’s collective responsibility, says Antony Luby, who points to examples in Rotterdam and Renfrewshire

Special educational needs are too often a creation of the school system, because education fails to adapt well enough to genetic diversity, argues this leading psychology professor, who warns that SEND reforms have not gone far enough

Exclusive: Weak governance in MATs is a ‘systemic risk’ to the government’s ambition for all schools to be in a trust, warns National Governance Association report

Two-thirds of school leaders say budget cuts are affecting pupil outcomes, according to research shared exclusively with Tes, highlighting the ‘trade-offs’ schools are having to make because of funding constraints

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This election is a big moment for education in Wales because a quarter of a century of ‘progressive’ policy innovation has not paid dividends, writes policy expert Gareth Evans

Developing projects with artists and creative practitioners from outside of your school can give students more opportunities to develop vital soft skills, explains international educator Alex Soulsby

➡️ Why mixed-ability teaching is down, but not out New EEF research appears to give a strong vote of confidence to setting over mixed-ability grouping, but the authors of the study warn schools against taking any rash decisions www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Why do fewer teachers than ever want to be heads? Important piece by @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Is setting better than mixed attainment? Despite new evidence supporting setting in secondary maths, the researchers behind a recent EEF study warn schools not to make any hasty changes to how they group students.

‘Ridiculous’ timeline for schools to introduce enrichment benchmarks - @cerysturner.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Why are so many boys underperforming in school? A new commission has been set up to find the answer to this question – and solutions, writes @peterhyman.bsky.social

Exclusive: A third of senior leaders think the new-style Ofsted inspections are ‘much more stressful’ than previous versions, @teachertapp.bsky.social polling for Tes reveals

New @theeef.bsky.social research shows that setting in maths benefits high attainers and doesn’t harm low attainers – so should schools with mixed-ability classes tear up their timetables? @helen-amass.bsky.social asks the authors of the report

Interest in becoming a headteacher has plummeted, with many only staying in the top job for three years. So, what exactly is deterring people from the role? @cerysturner.bsky.social investigates

At Collège du Léman in Geneva, secondary students choose from five different curricula. But what are the benefits of this offering – and how is it done? The school’s director explains all

Lucy Heller will step down as chief executive of @arkschools.bsky.social this summer after 22 years at the top of the academy trust

ICYMI: On Saturday school leaders in England have unanimously backed calls for an indicative ballot on industrial action, warning that any multi-year pay deal worth less than inflation would be ‘unacceptable’ www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social @jabedahmed.bsky.social

Compassion, kindness and looking out for people have ‘always been a big aspect' of leadership for COBIS CEO Colin Bell, as he tells @dan-worth.bsky.social for the latest in our How I Lead series

Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted will inspect them, with sector leaders warning this timeline is ‘ridiculous’

With the Scottish election looming, what are the main parties promising on schools and education? @henryhepburn.bsky.social digs into their manifestos

How effective is a zero-tolerance approach to vaping in schools? The chief education officer of GEMS Education reflects on the impact of its policy a year after implementation

The government’s focus on inclusion and oracy means that support for speech and language challenges will be a key focus for schools – and this free database on evidence-informed interventions can help, writes @damsoned.bsky.social

Tes investigates how falling pupil rolls are already having a significant impact on schools, including funding, staffing and classes

Professor Jessie Ricketts sets out the importance of secondary schools making reading a strategic priority, as she offers three freely available initiatives to help students