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Ensuring that children progress in school

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Behaviour, Damian Hinds, Exams and qualifications, Free School Meals, Funding, Further education, Key Stage Two Tests, Mental Health, Primary Schools, School spending, School tests, School Workforce, Teacher workload, teachers, Technical education
Teacher and class

In response to calls for SATs to be discontinued, the Education Secretary Damian Hinds wrote an op-ed for the Sunday Telegraph on 21 April, setting out the importance of primary school assessments to ensure that children are developing and progressing in education.

EPI report on removed pupils

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Exclusions, school exclusions
the hands of children on playground apparatus

No headteacher goes into the job to remove a pupil from school - and no headteacher takes the decision to do so lightly. Schools will typically have gone through a number of sanctions before exclusion is considered, taking into account the welfare of other pupils in the classroom.
It is against the law to remove pupils on the basis of academic results – any school that does it is breaking the law.

The importance of assessment in supporting children to succeed

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Exams and qualifications, Key Stage Two Tests, Mental Health, Sex and Relationship Education
child filling in work pages

The Key Stage 2 tests help to ensure primary schools are teaching children the fundamentals of reading, writing and maths, and help reassure parents that schools are laying the foundations for their children to succeed at secondary school and beyond.

Identifying and intervening in unregistered school settings

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: alternative providers, Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Ofsted reports, School safety
the hands of children on playground apparatus

Today’s data shows why our new register of children not in school is so important. Illegal schools are unregulated and present a danger to both the quality of education and the welfare of those children who attend them – a register will vastly improve councils’ capacity to identify those children and intervene.

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