This year’s England School Meals Report, created in collaboration with BlueRunner, ParentPay and LACA, is now available and has the following main conclusions: School meal uptake is high across England, with 84% of pupils having a school meal at least once a week and 59% having school meals every day. The top three factors that … Continue reading England School Meals Report
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Improvement through empowerment
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a new report "Improvement through empowerment: Helping our teachers and schools be the best they can be". On their website they state: We need to shift the drivers of better schooling from high stakes top-down accountability to a system which empowers schools and teachers to innovate and … Continue reading Improvement through empowerment
Is “traditional” schooling best?
An article in Schools Week (Has Nick Gibb won the education battle?, 10 Novemeber 2023) discusses the long debated issue of whether "traditional" style schooling is best. It highlights some recent data that seems to support this, with exemplar "traditional" schools like Michaela Community School in west London and Mercia School in Sheffield scoring very … Continue reading Is “traditional” schooling best?
Briefing on school attendance in England
The Children’s Commissioner talked to hundreds of children who are regularly absent from school. Children aren’t absent from school because they don’t want to learn. They are desperate to learn yet everyday thousands of children find themselves without the support that they need to engage in education. Last year, over 1 in 5 children were … Continue reading Briefing on school attendance in England
Parental Engagement Report 2023
The new Edurio Parental Engagement Report has just been published. It looks into the feedback from 38,000 parents and carers from 266 schools across 30 trusts in the 2022/2023 school year. Additionally, by reviewing the feedback of 86,000 parents from the past 4 years, the report uncovers how they really feel about efforts to engage … Continue reading Parental Engagement Report 2023
Online Safety Act 2023
The Bill to make provision for and in connection with the regulation by OFCOM of certain internet services; for and in connection with communications offences; and for connected purposes has become law (as of 26 October 2023). The government feels that UK children and adults to be safer online as a result of this Act. … Continue reading Online Safety Act 2023
A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
The Education Endowment Foundation has published a practice review on supporting the recruitment and retention of teachers in schools with high proportions of disadvantaged pupils: understanding current practice around managing teacher workload. The report is by Principal investigator Kerry Martin and Co-investigators: Caroline Sharp, Rachel Classick and Henry Faulkner-Ellis. You can download it from their … Continue reading A review of current practice focusing on the strategies used to manage teacher workload in English schools
Is new government funding enough for schools?
New analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that although there is substantial extra funding for schools budgeted for the next few years, it is not enough to close the gap in the true costs experienced by schools. Luke Sibieta, Research Fellow at the IFS, published an article showing that Schools funding in … Continue reading Is new government funding enough for schools?