Trust Data Manager. Love Data. Love Education. Views are my own and any data produced does not represent the opinion of my employer.

Joined July 2013
I think it’s time to enjoy retirement. Schools who are more welcoming to children with SEN are more likely to be downgraded for inclusion. That is wrong. Simple. I’ve seen schools who actively discourage pupils with SEN get a strong grade for inclusion. Requires Improvement.
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For a sector that’s all about giving opportunities… Why do we only give borderline grade 4 students one opportunity to pass the GCSE?
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Highlight of my weekend was shaking hands with @chrismalkinphys and having a brief conversation about the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge. #legend
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Burnley now favourites to make this signing: canaries.co.uk/player/billy-…
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Peter Atherton retweeted
I saw @lemnsissay speak this week at The Next Decade Conference hosted by @WellspringAT - A superb, inclusion focused event. This week’s Notes from the Train reflects on the people who remember your name and getting the basics brilliant. open.substack.com/pub/stevek…
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Peter Atherton retweeted
Sneak peek! 👀 See you soon, Leeds. We are looking forward to welcoming 1000 education professionals from across the nation tomorrow morning… Let’s do this! 📍✨ #TheNextDecade #EducationConference #Leeds
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If the only way to get academic success is to lose tens of students from your cohort, it’s not success.
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Replying to @warwickmansell
Has #Ofsted made any official response to these devastating findings? How could it give these terrifying abusive culture an “Outstanding” report Sir Martin Oliver? @tombennett71 @bphillipsonMP is there no regard for child safeguarding at Ofsted?
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Progress 8 has always favoured London by design. DfE’s own analysis shows that only 21 schools that have the most disadvantaged, white British cohorts returned a positive progress 8 score. You can’t punish schools for simply serving different communities.
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Peter Atherton retweeted
You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”
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Off to Data Decoded in Manchester today. Hope to learn about some useful things.
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New (open access) piece: "Ofsted doesn’t seem to get the picture on competition versus inclusion in England’s schools system" Readable here: educationuncovered.co.uk/ana… and here: warwickmansell.substack.com/… Think piece on Sir Martyn Oliver's statements this week to MPs.
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Peter Atherton retweeted
The latest ofsted model will simply perpetuate, or possibly worsen, what is already happening. It is a dead parrot simple as that. The selection by compliance schs will continue to be rewarded. The inclusive ones will live in fear of the next insp. People will be damaged again
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Peter Atherton retweeted
Investigation: Councils have accused schools of refusing so many challenging pupils it 'amounts to selection', capping cohorts to prevent in-year transfers of vulnerable pupils and wrongly turning away youngsters in care schoolsweek.co.uk/shut-out-h…
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