Matt Carnaby
@mrcarnaby.bsky.social
Leading on curriculum and assessment. Trustee at the English Association. Views are my own. Blog: https://carnabymr.home.blog/
Looking forward to ResearchEd with @attinstitute.bsky.social today. Thanks for hosting!! Find me in F14 at 12.15 exploring implementation and interpretative burden through the lens of the CAR and the incoming NC (and lots more!) What can we do as a sector to sense make together?
Frankly, it’s amazing that schools work at all. Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care. A short thread about why schools are miracles:
1. "Yeah, Ben AI might well be awful but it's coming and we can't stop it so we have to find ways it works for us." No. Actually we don't. We could quite easily say AI is an age inappropriate and developmentally dangerous technology and schools should lock it out.
Exceptionally pleased to welcome @arithmaticks.bsky.social to the Astrea Team on our shared mission to disrupt disadvantage. Welcome!!!
Kathryn Clark@arithmaticks.bsky.social · last yr.Over the past year, I’ve felt the pull back to schools. I’ve missed the buzz of the classroom & working side-by-side with teachers to refine their practice. I’ll be doing all of this with the brilliant @mrcarnaby.bsky.social & the Astrea Central Team to raise standards where it matters most.
Such a brilliant night with Lemn Sissay in Norwich last night. Witty, clever and funny. The poetry was good too!
Great opportunity here for a member of #TeamRE at Astrea Academies with @mrcarnaby.bsky.social. Having worked with Matt, he values RE and helped me find my confidence as a subject lead. If I wasn't so happy here in Norfolk, I would be tempted!
Matt Carnaby@mrcarnaby.bsky.social · 2y ago🌟🌟🌟 We're recruiting a National Lead for RE!! ✅Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum? ✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage? ✅ Lead a vibrant history subject community? ✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries? www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
👀 👀 👀 A vanishingly rare opportunity to be a National Lead for T&L! ✅ Shared approaches informed by TLAC & Cog. sci? ✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage? ✅ Support a vibrant community of leaders? ✅ Lead on the implementation of T&L across 9 schools? www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
National Lead for Teaching & Learning, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
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👀👀👀 Massive role! We are recruiting a new National Lead for History! ✅ Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum? ✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage? ✅ Lead a vibrant history subject community? ✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries? www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
National Lead for History, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
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🌟🌟🌟 We're recruiting a National Lead for RE!! ✅Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum? ✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage? ✅ Lead a vibrant history subject community? ✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries? www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
National Lead for RE, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
tes.com
🔥🔥🔥 We're recruiting for a National Lead for MFL! ✅Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum? ✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage? ✅ Lead a vibrant languages subject community? ✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries?
Really enjoyed this by @thewayofkueh.bsky.social. Well worth a read!
Dr Richard Kueh@thewayofkueh.bsky.social · 2y ago🤓Get your geek on!!! ⁉️What does Yeats’ poetry have to do with England’s curriculum and assessment review?? 🤯Maybe everything! 👩🏫Inspired by those English teachers who have helped me to think about education through different eyes www.reonline.org.uk/2025/01/31/t...
A dimension often missed in the discussion around whether children should enjoy lessons is that there are 30 in a class. Not everything appeals to everyone. A lot of top-level education discussions see schooling as individual, but it’s not: it’s collective.
Excellent blog by J A Maxwell on a whole-school approach to flashcard use. A focused approach to a small number of teaching (& study) strategies is likely to be implemented & sustained better because it allows a focus on quality & adaptation. niprincipal.blogspot.com/p/this-much-...
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🫵New data on allegations against teachers🫵 @edaptuk.bsky.social recently carried out some research with our friends @teachertapp.bsky.social to find out what is really going on in schools and whether the problem is as serious as our casework data suggests...a🧵1/8 #ukedchat
Anybody else an Einaudi fan? There’s probably a fine line between enjoyment and obsession.
Christopher Such is one of my heroes. He is extraordinarily generous with his time and expertise and always thinks and communicates with extraordinary clarity. If you have questions or worries about the teaching of reading - he's the man to ask. Also, buy his excellent books.
Christopher Such@suchmo83.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading. Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason. Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
I think we need to move every conversation about what is best for adults quickly onto what is best for kids. Without trying to twist the conclusions of that to what we already think.
Help me find a new Vice Principal! Our current pastoral VP is off to be a headteacher. It’s a big role in a big school. You’d be line managing Assistant Principals and have significant responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school. DM me: I’d be very happy to talk to discuss details.
Can’t say that I’m particularly surprised by this. However, of all the economic issues facing schools, is the massive investment in IT infrastructure to make this our childrens’ normal way of working before GCSE as critical as managing fragile estates?
Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2y agoThe ‘enormous’ investment required to digitise exams wouldn’t make economic sense without wider work to digitise education, says Ofqual chief Sir Ian Bauckham https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/digital-exams-not-economic-without-changes-says-ofqual-chief-ian-bauckham
Powerful read, this. Thank you @diannemurphy.bsky.social. @funkypedagogy.bsky.social have you seen this? We were talking about that 20% of children unable to read at transition! @englishassociation.bsky.social
Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪@diannemurphy.bsky.social · 2y agoThe longer we wait to intervene effectively, the harder it gets. Read more in our blog ‘There is Hope’ wp.me/p4hKgx-kU (4 min read).
Great day at CLPE today at the Renaissance Assessment Forum. Really interesting insights from @teachertapp.bsky.social & @missmc.bsky.social too!
Does anybody use, or know of anybody that uses, Lexonik or Lexia well in the secondary phase? I’m on a fact finding mission!
A lot of discussion lately about the reasons for the decline of Eng Lit A-level. Are the Gove curriculum & exam reforms to blame? I don't think so, because the decline of Eng Lit / the humanities more broadly is a global trend. More here.
The fall of Eng Lit
What is the cause, is it a problem - and if so, what can we do about it?
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Time for my own introduction then. I’m Associate Principal for a school in Barnsley. The school is part of Astrea Academy Trust, which has 4 secondaries in South Yorkshire and 4 in Cambridgeshire. Our South Yorkshire schools serve social-economically challenged contexts.
‘It is the interplay between curriculum and pedagogy which makes the magic happen.’ I’m not sure I understand the potential benefits of separating judgements on curriculum and teaching.
An Unwelcome Divide: Curriculum and Teaching
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when it would have been highly unusual in most English schools for a lesson observer to pay much attention at all to the content being taught. It was very r…
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Thanks, Amir! Really appreciate it. Couldn’t be more pleased to be able to work with you on its development and see it in the school you’re leading.
Amir Arezoo@amirarezoo.bsky.social · 2y agoA not-at-all biased recommendation for this. Matt’s work is central to how we raise the bar for our young people.
Fascinating blog on reading fluency development. ⬇️
FFT Education Datalab@fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW: Measuring reading fluency during primary education We present some early findings from the Reading Assessment Programme, a simple tool to measure reading fluency in primary schools. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/11/meas...
“It is manifestly clear that the PSC has fulfilled its original purpose of assessing pupils’ decoding skills and identifying children in need of extra support.” @kathyrastle.bsky.social www.rastlelab.com/post/has-the...
Has the Phonics Screen Improved Children's Reading?
Last week, a report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) investigating the impact of England’s phonics screening check (PSC) was released. The report interrogated a number of data sources but fail...
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