Heads in England are questioning the fairness of combining attendance and behaviour evaluation areas into a single inspection judgement - @cerysturner.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Ofsted has been warned that combining attendance and behaviour evaluation areas into a single judgement risks “punishing” schools in difficult contexts and masking schools’ successes. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Citizenship is being made statutory in English primary schools - but what does this mean in practice and are teachers and school leaders ready for it? Great piece by @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Is the primary sector ready for compulsory citizenship education? @cerysturner.bsky.social has found the ask for primary schools is potentially enormous, and the skills required to teach it extensive. So what is being proposed and how might schools have to adapt? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Almost eight in 10 councils have warned they will become insolvent if mounting special educational needs spending deficits are brought back on to their books. A big challenge lies ahead for the government in attempting to resolve this. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Citizenship is being made statutory in English primary schools - but what does this mean in practice and are teachers and school leaders ready for it? Great piece by @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Languages have an ‘excellent foundation’ to build on in Scottish schools compared with the rest of the UK, report suggests

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‘Digital literacy alone does not prepare learners for an AI-rich world’: international school leader Shoaib Raza says pupils today need to be taught when to use technology

Reading for pleasure is back under scrutiny, with MPs told it needs a stronger place in the curriculum. Evidence presented to the Education Select Committee highlighted links between reading for enjoyment, attainment and wider wellbeing. @tesmagazine.bsky.social:

The House of Lords has voted for a statutory ban on phones in schools in a significant defeat for the government

Exclusive: 28% of parents avoid reading with or to their children because they worry about their own reading ability, survey reveals

Exclusive: School leaders call for targeted action for white working-class girls, as analysis shows fewer pass English and Maths compared to pre-Covid. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Should the national year of reading be equally focused on parents as it is on children? 📚Findings from @parentkind.bsky.social & shared with Tes, show that more than a quarter of parents have avoided reading with their children because of their own reading ability: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Exclusive: Dame Joan McVittie appointed to lead a review into a multi-academy trust after a decision to postpone a school visit by a Jewish MP amid pupil safety concerns due to possible protests

Exclusive: DfE appoints nine Regional Attendance and Behaviour Advisers & confirms remaining 36 lead hub schools - bringing total to 93. Speaking exclusively to @tesmagazine.bsky.social, DfE ambassador Jayne Lowe discusses their role & SEND schools' future in hubs.

Why is it that those who know the least sound the most confident? The Dunning-Kruger Effect explains a lot about what teachers hear in classrooms – and it is valuable for CPD, explains principal Ildar Iliazov

Revealed: the social media apps driving the most pastoral issues for teachers. Government may want to take this on board in its under-16s social media ban consultation 👇 www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Ofsted admits to using ‘some generic wording' after duplication was spotted in 12 of the new school inspection report cards

🚨NEW: Ofsted finds "no evidence" to back concerns of political bias at a Bristol school that postponed a visit from a Jewish MP. There were concerns that Bristol Brunel Academy postponed the visit by Labour MP Damien Egan after political pressure: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

It will take 20 years for one in 10 exam students to answer a question about a text by an author of colour in their English literature GCSE at the current pace of change, a report has warned. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

NEW: The govt will test an AI tutoring programme specifically to support disadvantaged students. Tes first reported back in October that the govt was exploring AI tutoring ⬇️ www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Schools risk being marked down by Ofsted if they don't comply with the govt's latest phone restrictions. Not following the non-statutory guidance suggests schools may not be taking "effective action to secure pupils’ positive behaviour and wellbeing", Ofsted said. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Great piece by @ktorm-social1.bsky.social showing Covid ripple effects after Sats were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 - meaning England is now in a two-year spell without the crucial Progress 8 measure of how far students have come since then. www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

How is the absence of Progress 8 affecting schools? @ktorm-social1.bsky.social investigates whether the predictions that schools in poorer areas would suffer have turned out to be true

Familiar with Ruth from Inverclyde. Never had a cross word with her, she listens, ponders, counters or adopts/adapts depending on the evidence and resources available. Probably the most impressive senior leader I have encountered. I wish her all the best.

New Scottish chief inspector of education announced www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Are perimenopausal teachers getting enough support in schools? @helen-amass.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/ana... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

New Scottish chief inspector of education announced www.tes.com/magazine/new...

“Mobile phones have no place in our schools” but AI learning tools are “different”, the education secretary tells BETT London. Phillipson also committed an extra £23m for new edtech tools. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Trinity chief executive Michael Gosling said the trust had “worked too hard to create a collaborative, healthy culture” and that “allowing a toxic culture to infect that simply drags all down to a lower level”. Ouch.

The govt's mobile phones in school guidance remains *broadly* the same. - 'Never seen' models are no longer an option - More onus on filtering systems, perhaps pre-empting further social media regulations

👇🏽 Isn't going down well with teachers. Suggestion to either move (not always poss for those with families) AND change to secondary where there are also many looking for jobs isn't helpful. Lack of jobs isn't the only problem, we need more teachers in primary to help with ⬆️ ASN & large class sizes.

Great piece by @jabedahmed.bsky.social looking at where teacher pay in England falls furthest short of living costs www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Scotland’s education secretary ‘urgently’ wants to find ‘creative ways’ to encourage primary teachers to retrain for the secondary sector www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Don’t deny special schools new libraries, government told - @ktorm-social1.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new...

ICYMI: @eisunion.bsky.social members to be reballoted on strike action in Scotland www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The @eisunion.bsky.social has released the result of its workload ballot: www.eis.org.uk/latest-news/...

Leaders urge the government to confirm that special schools will not be excluded from its plan to ensure that every primary has a library within the next four years

"Each student is worth £5,500 a year...any marketing budget that’s less than that — but brings in one extra pupil — can be justified.” Super interesting development & raises some of the issues with per-pupil funding that @jabedahmed.bsky.social looked at here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The wording of Sir Martyn's comments here - 'a professional and moral duty to stand against discrimination' - are concerning considering this is a live inspection and the school has been clear safety was the reason for the postponement. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Teachers increasingly supportive of social media restrictions for under-18s, reports @cerysturner.bsky.social after exclusive polling for @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new... @teachertapp.bsky.social

Really interesting to read the concerns of the chief regulator of exams in England about use of AI in coursework - @ktorm-social1.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social

📲 Excl: Teachers are overwhelmingly supportive of social media restrictions for under 18s 70% now strongly agree, up from 62% in 2024 and 49% in 2021. Primary teachers are also more supportive. Whether the govt goes ahead with a full ban, or introduces restrictions, it appears teachers will back.

Excl with @johngroberts.bsky.social Multi-academy trust inspections could start as soon as next year as Bridget Phillipson raises concerns about a “variation” in school trust quality. Ofsted is set to pilot and test new approaches before the launch in 2027-28: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Exclusive: The government is pushing ahead with plans to introduce multi-academy trust inspections, which could start in the 2027-28 academic year

Lots of education leaders from across the UK feature in the New Year Honours list - read more here www.tes.com/magazine/new... @tesmagazine.bsky.social @cerysturner.bsky.social

This took a long , long time to put together and it was great to see the (largely) sensible debate it prompted over the month after it was published a few months back. The scientific debate is still where it was, but the cultural debate has certainly become even more polarised.

Excl: Ofsted tells inspectors to use Word documents to record inspection evidence as its electronic system continues to malfunction. It's part of a long-running saga of failings in its digital evidence gathering, which sees live data crash and freeze mid-inspection: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

🔍 Exclusive: Ofsted inspectors will record evidence on Word documents as the watchdog's electronic evidence gathering system continues to malfunction