Is that year 3 meaning High School/secondary years? Third Year saw no more mixed ability except in the likes of PE that were still done with at least half the year. We were streamed in Scotland. Into ‘Credit’ ‘general’ and ‘foundation’ classes for most subjects (needed a credit exam pass to progress to Higher). You always had to do two exams, unless a Total Foondie, but if you were in the general/foundation class god help you.
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I think that might be Year 3 as in primary school, on reflection.Comment
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As with all this stuff, which I will keep coming back to, there is no evidence to back up this decision.Comment
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Nick Gibb (Robbie's brother) makes a complete arse of himself again. After 7 years, "education academics" are still thwarting the government's brilliance.
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news...come-a-teacher
It's their national curriculum! Anybody doing a silly ideological curriculum is by definition in an academy or free school.The minister also described teacher workload as a “severe problem”, and said it was “invariably” driven by ideology from education academics.
As examples of such ideas, he cited “dialogic marking, a skills-based curriculum, a data-driven and vastly over-complicated assessment system and an ideological hostility to textbooks”.
Somewhere in a school common room:
"I'm busy today! Still got to prepare that lesson for Year 11 tmrw too. Any ideas?"
"Yeah, there's a really good lesson in this textbook here. Takes 5 minutes to read through, then basically stick it in front of the kids. The lesson'll run itself".
"Sorry, I was told not to use textbooks in teacher training college. I'll have to sit up all night and make up my own lesson"
And of course, if you buy a load of textbooks, you're likely to find this lot have changed the syllabus in a year's time.Comment
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I wold love that disingenuous shit to show me his workings. Education academics are the ones that would be driving the sort of evidence-based policy that Gibb and the last 3 decades of governments of all stripes have ignored for your their ideology. Blair's administrations' education policies were purely ideology driven. Gove made everything up on a beer mat based on what happened when he went to school and the coalition allowed Toby fucking Young start a school. Yes, it's not a good time to be a teacher but that is because of a generation of education being used as a political football.Comment
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It's got fuck all to do with teacher training ideology. It's fuckwits like Gove and every cunt who ever thought that the only people who should never be consulted on education policy are education professionals*. And every cunt who ever voted for them. Fucking fuckers.Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
And I hate what I have to do to 6 year-olds these days. I used to measure my teaching by the Would I want my own kids/grandkids in my class? metric. I can't do that any more because the answer is always, I wouldn't want them in any a UK school. I've finally started to have sympathy for homeschoolers.**
And what Bored said, too.
*And that includes Ed Fucking Balls and David Fucking Blunkett, who were as bad as any Tory in this regard.
**No not really, fucking hippies.Comment
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Somebody on another board who worked in the DfE under Estelle Morris would take exception to the bit about the Blair government. Actually, I know he really doesn't like Andrew Adonis, so he probably wouldn't. He and I were thinking about showing up to Adonis' book launch.
Talking of Adonis, you might enjoy the repeated kickings he's got on Twitter from lawyers and university staff.
But yeah, Gibb, is atrocious. He and Lord Nash are the real powers in the department, with somebody else up there fronting it. He set some absurd targets years ago for academizing, I recall. Maybe academics have been blocking it, or something.Comment
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Gibb is a great one for the autonomy of academies. Why non-academies can't have the same freedoms, he never says.Comment
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This was another good one from Gibb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37451974
Academy sponsors ought to create selective schools within their chains. That'll go down well with parents. Come here and be shunted off into a de facto secondary modern (likely miles away) in a couple of years time. This is the sort of rubbish Nick Timothy comes up with.Comment
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Estelle Morris gets a pass in my book. Firstly because she was an actual teacher. Secondly, as she was only Education Minister for 10 minutes. Thirdly, I get the feeling that she had high aspirations for education and either was persuaded out of them or realised she would never achieve them.Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
The rest of the Blair governments can get fucked in this respect.Comment
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He dealt with David Miliband a lot, and was quite impressed. He didn't like Charles Clarke.Comment
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I did not remember or, possibly, even know that Milliband was at Education. Make of that what you will. I am not going to disabuse your friend of his view of Clarke.Comment
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Miliband was a minister of state only. He was obviously earmarked for rapid promotion, but was apparently very good at mastering the detail and understanding briefings. My online pal was impressed, and he doesn't like that wing of the party at all. Not that being bright and conscientious stops you making bad decisions, of course.Comment
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This'll blow a few minds in the Tory party.
PISA- who produced the league tables that Labour sent us "plummeting down" until the head statistician intervened- PISA, no nonsense PISA, are looking at bringing in creativity tests.
They already do problem solving, or something similar, I forget exactly, where the UK did well. Until the government pulled us out.
I reckon Nick Gibb and Lord Nash will make sure we're pulled out of anything about creativity too.Comment
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Credit to OP. From the TES. This might not be unexpected.
Sara Ford, ASCL’s pay and conditions specialist, said the union had seen a rise in complaints from members who have discovered unpleasant surprises in their contracts.
One of the biggest issues affecting members is “mobility clauses”.
“Quite often they’re vague,” Ms Ford said. “They say that this will be your usual place of work, but the employer reserves the right to change that to somewhere else that they deem reasonable.
“But what you deem reasonable and what they deem reasonable may not be the same thing.”
Ms Ford said ASCL had been contacted by members who have been unexpectedly asked to relocate more than 100 miles away by their employer.Comment
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https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...urious-parents
Wakefield City Academies Trust now stands accused of “asset stripping” after it transferred millions of pounds of the schools’ savings to its own accounts before collapsing.Comment
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This is unebelievable.
Academization is struggling. The government sets up a fund for academy trusts. Trusts don't have to have any track record to apply.
And these new academies are going to be targeted at areas that are already high performing. Pure corruption.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/53m-mat-gr...proven-record/Comment
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Christ, they've really resisted doing that elsewhere.
Might be sui generis for the Isle of Wight, I suppose. Though Gove would have a go sticking kids on a ferry and three buses if that's where the nearest suitable academy was. Maybe budgets are too tight for that sort of stuff now.Comment
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Credit to OP.
Minutes from a board meeting at Lord Nash's Future Academies chain. Unbelievably, the minister at the DfE with oversight of this academy chain was... Lord Nash.
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There's more redacted than that fucking Westminster spreadsheetComment
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Isn't it?
Another masterpiece of DfE openness.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-still-...tion-response/
The Department for Education is still refusing to publish the response to its consultation on grammar schools, even though submissions closed almost a year ago and the document has not changed since June, Schools Week can exclusively reveal.Comment
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Credit to OP.
Amid all the Brexit stuff, Nick Gibb is talking big about the UK improving its Reading score in the PIRLS assessment and bigging up phonics. As this bloke points out, he's on thin ice.
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England's PIRLS scores improved by 13 points between 2006 and 2011 and 7 points between 2011 and 2016. To draw the conclusion that the Conservatives' curriculum reforms are behind the latest improvement is bonkers.Comment
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Our daughter suddenly roared out "phonics is boring" on the walk to school this morning. She loves reading, mind (and does sometimes talk in phonics-terms, so I guess something's gone in)Comment
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