Delighted to share the new Student Leadership for IMPACT webpages. @ssatuk.co.uk has a rich history of supporting schools in enhancing student leadership. We have now updated that offer in light of recent research. Join us for a free briefing in September. share.google/724j2KAc0CAG...

SSAT | Student Leadership for IMPACT

Our Student Leadership team provide a huge range of resources and activities including school council training and the Student Leadership Accreditation.

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Delighted to share the new Student Leadership for IMPACT webpages. @ssatuk.co.uk has a rich history of supporting schools in enhancing student leadership. We have now updated that offer in light of recent research. Join us for a free briefing in September. share.google/724j2KAc0CAG...

SSAT | Student Leadership for IMPACT

Our Student Leadership team provide a huge range of resources and activities including school council training and the Student Leadership Accreditation.

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If you're an aspiring, new or experienced headteacher, our Head Cases programme offers a case-based approach to exploring the complexity of the role. It's not too late to sign up for cohort 2 of this innovative and involved approach to headship CPDL. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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If you're an aspiring, new or experienced headteacher, our Head Cases programme offers a case-based approach to exploring the complexity of the role. It's not too late to sign up for cohort 2 of this innovative and involved approach to headship CPDL. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Books 21-30 of my 100 for 2025 challenge/resolution. Pick of the bunch was Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. Quite simply, I've never read a novella like it. Deeply moving, disturbing, confusing, and powerful. I'm still trying hard to process it and suspect that I will be for a long while.

I've been providing reflective supervision to school leaders for over a year now. Neither counselling nor therapy, case-based supervision has given them a space to share, reflect on, and rethink how they tackle the weighty challenges they face. It helps. Each of them has renewed for a second year.

Hi Beth. Thanks for the kind mention. The follow up chat about the limitations of NPQH is very familiar. It came up in our Rethinking Headship survey repeatedly last year. Which was why I developed the Head Cases offer, now recruiting for a second cohort. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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This looks excellent #EduSky

Keven Bartle@kevbartle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi Beth. Thanks for the kind mention. The follow up chat about the limitations of NPQH is very familiar. It came up in our Rethinking Headship survey repeatedly last year. Which was why I developed the Head Cases offer, now recruiting for a second cohort. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

I've been providing reflective supervision to school leaders for over a year now. Neither counselling nor therapy, case-based supervision has given them a space to share, reflect on, and rethink how they tackle the weighty challenges they face. It helps. Each of them has renewed for a second year.

Cohort 2 of Head Cases is open for delegates who are aspiring or serving headteachers from any setting. We will be using case studies and methods across five sessions to think deeply about complex challenges facing HTs, from complaints to HR, finance to exclusions. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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In a recent blogpost, I asked what is happening with behaviour in Ofsted reports. Based on every need to improve comment in every inspection report since September 2023, this post has some uncomfortable answers. Not much and increasingly less would be the summary. www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/attenti...

Attention needed: What is happening with behaviour in inspection reports? - SSAT

This morning, I asked an AI tool ‘what are the recent trends in pupil behaviour in English schools?’. The response that came back said this:

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As well as the DfE report on attendance (see earlier posts) March also saw this report from the Education Policy Institute. epi.org.uk/publications... Focusing primarily on the disadvantage gap between 2019 and 2023, it speaks volumes about the impact of attendance and outcomes.

Breaking down the gap - Education Policy Institute

The latest report by EPI investigates the drivers of the disadvantage gap and calls on the government to address the underlying causes of school absences, as it identifies higher levels of absence to ...

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SSAT has tracked every “need to improve” bullet point made in every Ofsted inspection conducted in schools and colleges since September. The results are fascinating. Find out more: ow.ly/76GM50UfBTq #EduSky @kevbartle.bsky.social #education

Do you want to delve a little deeper into the five ‘best bets’ for improving attendance and punctuality? Find out more about our webinars: www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/school-i... #EduSky #attendance @kevbartle.bsky.social

Attendance: What works - SSAT

Deliver cost-effective training to staff in your networks and generate additional income for your school with SSAT's franchise models.

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In case you missed it (you probably didn't) the DfE report about the impact of absence on 2023 outcomes at KS2 and KS4 is fascinating but not surprising. Improving from any lower 5% attendance band to the next one increases a student's odds of success notably. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Link between attendance and attainment

Report showing that school attendance is associated with higher average academic performance in an assessment year across all pupils from all backgrounds.

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In a recent blogpost, I asked what is happening with behaviour in Ofsted reports. Based on every need to improve comment in every inspection report since September 2023, this post has some uncomfortable answers. Not much and increasingly less would be the summary. www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/attenti...

Attention needed: What is happening with behaviour in inspection reports? - SSAT

This morning, I asked an AI tool ‘what are the recent trends in pupil behaviour in English schools?’. The response that came back said this:

ssatuk.co.uk

Cohort 2 of Head Cases is open for delegates who are aspiring or serving headteachers from any setting. We will be using case studies and methods across five sessions to think deeply about complex challenges facing HTs, from complaints to HR, finance to exclusions. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

ssatuk.co.uk

Book 8 of my 100 for 2025 pledge. Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan (2023) Harrowing at times, with clear identification of the failings of the state in tackling poverty (without being preachy). Education is key but, sadly, so too are funded life-changing programmes that are now largely gone.

Fittingly, book 7 of 100 for 2025. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Betting Hughes - 2024 A revelation given my rather limited knowledge of ancient history. Beautifully put together as more than simply a history.

Book 6 of my 100 for 2025 resolution. James Barr - A Line in the Sand - 2011 An episode from modern history that I knew very little about. And, as the author's final line concludes, "a tale from which neither country emerges with much credit". But fascinating nonetheless.

Book 5 of 100 A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles - 2016 What a delightful gem. Made me laugh and weep in equal measure.

4th of a planned 100 books for 2025, and the 1st of 20 in French. Albert Camus - L'Etranger - 1942 My first novel read in French.

My umpteenth cake bake of the festive season (I should probably cut back on these in the new year). And a new recipe, a very classic ginger cake. With fresh ginger, golden syrup and treacle. Mmmmmm. Maybe one more slice, methinks.

Daisy Christodoulou - I can't stop thinking about VAR - 2024 Book 3 of my 100 target for 2025 completed. The challenges of complexity in sport, and especially football, laid bare. And then some intriguing suggestions about how/whether we might attempt to tackle (pun intended) these.

New Year's Resolution #1 should always involve taking care of oneself in some way. It's that old chestnut about donning one's own oxygen mask first. If you're a school leader fighting the very good fight and worried that you might not be winning it, seek support. Supervision can help a lot.

Keven Bartle@kevbartle.bsky.social · 2y ago

The nicest thing on my website, which is full of nice things. This is why I started providing reflective supervision. I'm currently working with over 50 people, individually or in groups, in-person or online. Get in touch if you'd like to know more. www.mind-your-head.net

Orbital - Samantha Harvey - 2024 Booker Prize Winner. A very powerful read at the ending of one man-made time marker and the beginning of another. Intelligently imagined and beautifully constructed in equal measure. Although brief, it is as full as a day with 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets.

Reveillon meal, preceded by a 'gin fizz'. Bonne année à tous.

Murakami - The City and its Uncertain Walls - 2024. If you're a Murakami fan, and I am, you'll enjoy this. Can't say that I loved it as well as some of his others, but still snaffled it up in a little over two days.

Omigosh. I did it. After years of taking this quiz, I finally broke into double figures (just) with 10 out of 15. Elated. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What links Blade Runner (35) and Gladiator (24)? The Saturday quiz

From brain rot and brat to “thumping a fellow in Wales”, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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New post on every published Ofsted report from inspections in 24-25 so far. Beyond the Big Listen, what has been changing in 'need to improve' comments and what impact has the (kind of) removal of overall judgments had? Some interesting early insights. www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/beyond-...

Beyond the Big Listen: What is happening with inspections (so far) in 2024/2025? - SSAT

I have been tracking every inspection carried out in England since the start of the 2023/24 academic year. The focus has been on what ‘need to improve’ comments have been made in inspection reports. T...

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