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Adi Bloom
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Exclusive: Permanent exclusions ‘skyrocket’ by as much as 300% in a year
Academic and financial pressures on schools blamed for the soaring exclusion rates uncovered by Tes investigation.
8 September 2017
Exclusive: Ofsted sets up helpline to ensure inspectors understand new GCSEs
Teaching unions welcome the move announced by chief inspector Amanda Spielman
8 September 2017
Exclusions ‘skyrocket’ by as much as 300%
Academic and financial pressures blamed for huge rise in students being removed
8 September 2017
Spielman: ‘Cutting teacher workload is my top priority and Ofsted is part of the problem’
Chief inspector also warns that some primaries are putting pupils under unnecessary pressure over key stage 2 Sats
6 September 2017
Long read: The million-dollar teacher gives London pupils a taste of open waters
Learning should not only happen in the silo of the school, says the winner of the $1m Global Teacher Prize, as she gives British pupils a kayaking lesson
6 September 2017
Pupils’ ‘ear for writing’ as important as grammar, says expert
Academic who analysed great poets and novelists concludes that good writing is about noticing and appreciating language, as well as understanding the rules
6 September 2017