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January 12, 2017 at 12:49AM An academy trust that was rapped by the government over financial mismanagement relating to its former private company sponsor faces having the funding scrapped for one of its schools after an “inadequate” Ofsted inspection. The Education Fellowship Trust has been issued with a termination warning notice relating to Wrenn School in Wellingborough, […]

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January 11, 2017 at 10:09PM A teacher taped a child’s hands and ankles to his desk and chair to stop him fidgeting, a misconduct hearing has been told. Primary school teacher Matthew Brown, 38, is also accused of sticky-taping one girl’s hand to a rugby ball, although he claims this was an accident. Brown was

January 11, 2017 at 07:35PM In my last post I outlined my concerns with the idea of ‘thinking hard’ being a good proxy for learning. Briefly, thinking hard about a problem appears to be an inefficient way to alter long-term memory structures. This means that it’s perfectly possible to struggle with a difficult exercise, successfully complete it,

January 11, 2017 at 06:48PM The east of England has the highest proportion of coasting primary schools, while London and the north east have the lowest, new government figures have revealed today. Updated key stage 2 data released this morning shows that 6 per cent of primary schools in the eastern region are defined as