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‘School reports are out of control - 1,000-word missives of meaningless information’
TES columnist Michael Tidd explains why the days of the modern school report should be over
13 June 2016
‘The nonsense of the interim writing assessment process will end like this...’
TES primary columnist Michael Tidd has had a vision of the report that will lay out the horror of the interim measures
6 June 2016
‘Instead of discussing great teaching and learning, we’re looking for loopholes to hoodwink the moderators’
The current style of external moderation forces teachers to ‘paper over the cracks’ rather than focus on developing their practice, says a deputy headteacher
23 May 2016
‘Why do teachers use classroom techniques they don’t believe in just because they are ordered to?’
Instead of going through the motions, staff must stand up for what they believe in, says a deputy headteacher
16 May 2016
Let us take a moment to remember Sats tests of old: earthships, miptors and Evelyn Glennie
The deputy headteacher of a Nottinghamshire primary school laments the loss of old favourites from previous key stage 2 assessments
9 May 2016
Testing 11-year-olds: the never-ending battle to get Sats started
As KS2 Sats week approaches, deputy head Michael Tidd offers secondary colleagues a glimpse into the struggle to simply get students ready to start the papers, let alone complete them
3 May 2016
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