Archive for July 2015

In the mid to late 1990’s, I moved schools twice – meaning that within four years I taught in three different schools and the three schools that I taught in were inspected four times over that period.  By the way they were all very good schools and the inspections were not due to any negative…

Questions are being asked recently if the government is right in stating that “headteachers should not be informed before OFSTED inspectors visit a school.” It was the case that schools were informed many months in advance before an inspection was due so that they had plenty of time to prepare for an inspection.  The government…

When I was growing up, one of the phrases that my teachers used and that I have also heard from my own parents is “paddle your own canoe” It’s up to you fellow. In two months’ time – at the end of August – newspapers and television pictures will be full of jubilating teenagers –…