Teaching is a professional job. Teachers must be professional at all times and leave their politics outside the school gate. What they must never do is seek to influence their pupils in a partisan way. It is a fundamental expectation of the profession to present all subject matter in a balanced manner. It should not…
There was a huge collective intake of breath in the teaching profession when news broke that a Grammar school student had hacked into a computer system and leaked exams and marking schemes. Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire said it had immediately launched an investigation into the incident after staff became aware of the hack. According…
A new study has declared the way school pupils learn to read is ‘uninformed and failing children’, and there have been calls on the government to drop its phonics focus. I disagree. The UCL’s Institute of Education says that phonics learning isn’t ‘underpinned by the latest evidence’ – but it is underpinned by the experience…
With disrupted schooling due to Covid many parents are keen to ensure their children haven’t fallen too far behind… Basic reading and numeracy are the two most important things that children should be competent in, especially before they go up to secondary school. Here are a few tips that will enable parents to help their…
There are fears that the government will impose another strict lockdown due to the new variant of Covid. It must resist. The education of our children has been severely affected during the pandemic and they need to be in school to catch up. A balance must be struck between the risks of Covid and the…