tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41074499269515840592024-02-07T02:50:37.062-08:00Teaching and Living in the South East of EnglandEducate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-23266121593168837552016-07-14T03:07:00.003-07:002016-07-14T03:07:54.714-07:00Schools and the New Parent Power: This Time, the Fight is Personal By Susanna Rustin<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
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We had a public meeting of 130 people, a rally, a picnic and a stand-up comedy night, but the most important element of our campaign was getting three parent governors elected. There were three vacancies because the school hadn’t held any elections for ages,” says Natasha Steel.</div>
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Steel, who runs her own PR company, is one of a group of East Sussex parents who fought and won a battle to prevent their local school, Hove Park, from being turned into an academy. Now they have widened their sights, including setting up a group, Hands Off Our Schools Brighton & Hove, in response to government plans to force all schools to become academies.</div>
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There have been campaigns against academies since the policy of freeing schools from local authority control was launched by New Labour, and the Anti-Academies Alliance has been around for 10 years. But the government’s latest push, signalled by its schools white paper in March – combined with evidence of poor performance at some multi-academy trusts and publicity surrounding high salaries and financial irregularities – has led to a renewed surge of activism.</div>
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“I went on the Iraq war march and I’ve done the odd thing here and there but this is the most direct involvement I’ve had in any campaign in my life,” says Steel. “It’s your children, it’s your school, it’s really personal.”</div>
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“People are starting to realise they aren’t the only ones with spine-chilling stories of how children are being treated,” says Madeleine Holt, one of the organisers of another group, Rescue Our Schools, whose focus is social media. Holt, a former journalist who also runs the social enterprise Meet the Parents, believes campaigns against academisation and the removal of the requirement for parent governors, protests against behaviour policies and <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/sats" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Sats</a>, and parents challenging the bar on termtime holidays, are all part of the same phenomenon.</div>
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“It’s a broader movement. It’s an emotional thing: parents feel they’ve been shoved aside over the years,” she says. “It’s like a Venn diagram – we have slightly different views on some issues but there is a substantial core of shared ideas.”</div>
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“We’re not just anti-academies activists any more,” agrees Alasdair Smith, a teacher and parent in east London who was active in the Anti-Academies Alliance before setting up Parents Defending Education. “It’s about cuts, special educational needs and the curriculum.”</div>
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“You’re seeing an amalgamation of all sorts of issues,” says Steel. “Sats and the growth of testing, mental health issues, the narrowing of the curriculum.”</div>
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Steel has what she calls a “gut feeling” against academisation. Smith says he feels “vindicated” that early fears about a policy launched under Tony Blair have proved justified: “What we’re saying to every parent is: try to stop your school becoming an academy because they are unaccountable businesses.”</div>
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Other parents with less obviously political views have found themselves in conflict with a specific school or trust. Fiona Forrest contacted Rescue Our Schools because she felt a new regime of punishments, including Saturday detentions, at her daughter’s south-east London school had made it “like a workhouse”.</div>
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Nichole Roberts was among a group of parents to receive a solicitor’s letter demanding they rename a Facebook group on which they had criticised rules about dress and behaviour at Morley Academy in Leeds.</div>
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If all these parents have something in common, it is that they object to what they regard as the new and unaccountable power of schools, and the corresponding decline in their own influence. Diane Reay, professor of education at Cambridge University and a researcher in the area of family-school relationships, says the Conservative flagship policy of free schools was built on a “fallacy of parental involvement” – in the latest batch of 22 free schools approved by education secretary Nicky Morgan, just one is run by parents. She argues that “growing disquiet about schooling” may be due to growing awareness of anxiety and unhappiness (shown in statistics as well as anecdotes) in children.</div>
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David James, professor at Cardiff University and editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, thinks parents were slow to realise the implications of a policy that took schools out of local control. “It changes the whole dynamic,” he says. “It happened slowly but inexorably, and people partly didn’t realise because New Labour were as responsible as anyone else.”</div>
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But more recent moves to reshape governing bodies <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-government-drive-to-improve-standards-of-school-governance" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;" title="">along corporate lines</a> and reduce the number of parent governors, or remove them altogether, seem to have woken fears among parents that their voices may in future be ignored. “There is an assumption that if you’re an accountant or a lawyer you have a better sense of what is needed,” says Steel. “In my opinion the lollipop lady and playground assistant know more about the children in a school than anybody else, but they are to be excluded because they can’t manage data.”</div>
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Asked whether the weight given to parents’ opinions by Ofsted has changed, a spokesperson for the regulator highlighted Parent View, the online questionnaire launched in 2011, while a statement from the Department for Education said: “we want parents to be more involved in their child’s education, not less”, and that the “expectation that academies listen to the views and needs of parents” will be strengthened.</div>
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But despite evidence from the outgoing chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, and others that many multi-academy trusts are underperforming, and the reasonable inference that their governance model is not better than the local authority one, the government seems determined to press ahead with reforms that value skills over stakeholders.</div>
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“Academy trust boards will always be free to appoint parents as they see fit,” a spokesperson said. “We are clear, though, that governors should be appointed for their expertise.”</div>
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Whether this promise will survive the turmoil created by the EU referendum remains to be seen. But the direction of travel, towards a skills-based model of governance and away from local authorities, seems unlikely to be reversed. Campaigner and journalist Fiona Millar, who co-founded the Local Schools Network in 2010 to promote an alternative vision to academies and free schools, says: “Unless there is a change of government I think parents are going to be cut out.”</div>
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If the awkward fact for the government is the poor performance of many trusts, with mounting evidence of academy weakness wielded by activists as a weapon, the awkward fact for supporters of the previous model is that evidence about parental involvement in schools is mixed. Research shows that “parental involvement can increase inequality”, explains Reay, who ran a research project on this subject with James and Gill Crozier, because despite the good intentions of parents who believe they are committed to supporting local education for all, “there is a sense that as a good parent you need to promote your own children’s interests ... What we found is that parents often ended up campaigning for their children to be promoted to higher sets.”</div>
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James says if this shocks us, it is because we are in denial about the effect of schooling: “Education does many wonderful things but it does generate inequality as well, and acknowledging that is a really good starting point. Most policy discourse doesn’t. Education is seen as an entirely positive force instead of a process that is really quite dangerous if one isn’t quite sharp-eyed about the inequality that is being created.”</div>
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Millar says that with two-thirds of secondary schools now academies and half of those in multi-academy trusts, there is in any case no way back. Instead, she would like to see greater openness, emphasis on local partnerships, and governing bodies that combine skills and stakeholders.</div>
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For parents, it is not just a question of a school’s results or effectiveness. For some, the bonds between a school and its local area have an intrinsic and social value not easily measurable. “It’s time for parents not to be party political but parent political,” says Holt. “It’s about schools being rooted in communities and localism.”</div>
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She and others welcome the government’s partial retreat on academisation. Whether their belief in local schools in which parents have a stake as more than consumers can gain any wider purchase in the face of the government’s standards-driven programme is doubtful. But they are trying.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-72297697317720605482016-07-14T02:58:00.004-07:002016-07-14T02:58:47.116-07:00Got a 2:2? Don't Panic, Get Some Work Experience By Holly Callender<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
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I found out my 2:2 classification sitting in the common room of a Barcelona hostel last month. After furiously calculating and recalculating my module percentages, the shock turned to tears. I called my parents for reassurance then ate six chocolate digestives.</div>
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I’d taken my final year at university seriously. I moved back home with my parents, curbed social excursions and worked hard.</div>
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Soon I was subjected to an endless social media stream of 2:1 announcements decorated with celebratory emoticons.</div>
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Am I destined for the graduate scrapheap with my drinker’s degree? Short answer: not with work experience.</div>
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Sure, the economic crash permitted companies to be picky. A 2012 survey found 75% of top employers required a 2:1 classification from applicants. However, as the financial crisis evened out, so did employers’ expectations.</div>
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“Employers can’t afford to be as choosy as they were in the recession. This means that they are not as concerned with grades as they have been, simply because there is much more competition for talent,” says Charlie Ball, head of higher education at the jobs website Prospects.</div>
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During 2015, the Big Four accounting firms phased out their 2:1 screening procedure. “This is a direction which some predict is due to grow,” says Nigel Royle, a careers advisor at the University of the West of Scotland.</div>
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Work experience is proving to be as desirable as a higher classification. “A significant number of graduate jobs are going to graduates who have had work experience in the same company,” Royle points out. “Plus, smaller companies are more likely to value work experience over a 2:1 classification.”</div>
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Ball agrees. “An employer may consider you more favourably if you have some form of work experience and they know you to be a good worker; someone who will make a valuable contribution to their company.”</div>
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According to a High Fliers report on the Graduate Market in 2016, recruiters were expecting to fill a third of full-time graduate positions with those who had already completed work experience. Better news still, 90% of top graduate employers in the UK are offering paid work experience to students and recent graduates.</div>
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For the creative industries, where recruitment programmes are thin on the ground, work experience is still vital. Paul Fisher graduated from the University of the West of Scotland with a 2:2 in sports journalism. Three years later, he is employed as a senior reporter.</div>
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“The more you write and build up a portfolio, the more notice you get,” he says. “A degree is a degree, but experience is key to success. There were some people in my year at university who left without an honours because they had managed to get full-time work.”</div>
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Even part-time work taken up during studies can be beneficial. Cara Samson, worked as a sales assistant while studying for a joint degree in psychology and sociology. “My 2:2 hasn’t held me back at all, I’m a personal banker now,” she says. “I was employed by the bank after finishing my degree in 2012 and have since been promoted. My customer service experience the main reason I got the job, not my degree.”</div>
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So rather than a couple of numbers guiding my future career prospects, it’ll be work experience and determination. As the optimistic Fisher says: “If you can get your foot in the door somewhere, this gives you opportunities and the only way is up.”</div>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/05/got-a-22-dont-panic-get-some-work-experience">https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/05/got-a-22-dont-panic-get-some-work-experience</a></div>
Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-19304760202165361372016-07-13T10:15:00.001-07:002016-07-13T10:15:15.991-07:00Teacher’s Letter Praises Boy with Autism for Qualities not Tested in Sats By James Meikle<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
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The mother of a boy with autism has publicly shared a letter from a teacher praising her son for qualities that the teacher said school tests could not measure.</div>
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The inspirational letter from Ruth Clarkson to 11-year-old Ben Twist, who failed the Sats he took this year, listed all the talents and abilities that Clarkson told Ben “make you the special person you are”.</div>
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Ben’s mother, Gail, from St Helens, Merseyside, tweeted that she was in tears as she read the words: “These tests only measure a little bit of you.”</div>
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Clarkson, an assistant headteacher at Lansbury Bridge school and sports college, congratulated Ben on his “attitude and success” in completing the Sats.</div>
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“A very important piece of information I want you to understand is that these tests only measure a little bit of you and your abilities. They are important and you have done so well but Ben Twist is made up of many other skills and talents that we at Lansbury Bridge see and measure in other ways,” she wrote.</div>
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The examples listed included his artistic talents, ability to work in a team, growing independence and kindness.</div>
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Clarkson continued: “We are so pleased that all of these different talents and abilities make you the special person you are and these are all of the things we measure to reassure us that you are always making progress and continuing to develop as a lovely bright young man. Well done Ben, we are very proud of you.”</div>
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The post by his mother has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. She told the Liverpool Echo: “Ben worked so hard and sitting the tests was a massive achievement. We knew the results were coming but to get a letter like that – I got part-way through it and I burst into tears.”</div>
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Ben, who was diagnosed with autism at the age of five, switched last year from a mainstream school to Lansbury Bridge, whose pupils include children with autistic spectrum disorders, physical disabilities, medical difficulties and speech, language and communication difficulties.</div>
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Gail Twist said: “Ben was in a mainstream school all the way through and he had one-to-one support. It was a really good school but the gap between him and his peers just grew and grew. As they were maturing, he wasn’t maturing at the same rate.</div>
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“Lansbury Bridge school is a lovely environment where people really do have each individual’s best interests at heart. Ben is sensitive and he does worry about things, and I wish more schools did things like this.</div>
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“He is all of the things they wrote about him – he is an amazing person. I think their words will stay with him if we keep reminding him what they said about him. When I told him he said: ‘Wow, do they really think all those things about me?’ It’s just a beautiful thing to do.”</div>
Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-71144365193932193692016-07-13T10:03:00.003-07:002016-07-13T10:03:30.498-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day!<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Geography Teacher looking for a September 2016 start in Sevenoaks, Kent?</span><br />
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this geography teaching position in Sevenoaks, Kent, please apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-88552037827722999692016-07-13T10:02:00.003-07:002016-07-13T10:02:35.695-07:00Primary teaching Job of the Day !<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Primary Teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Chatham, Kent?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a primary teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 1 and 2. The position is a full-time contract starting September 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS1 and KS2.</div>
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This pleasant 2 form entry school has beautifully tree-lined grounds and is always over subscribed with 420 pupils currently.</div>
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The school is very close to local amenities making it a very appealing place to work. It also boasts magnificent play areas that are covered for under 5 year olds as well as having separate grounds for infants and juniors.</div>
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The school encourages respect both inside and outside of the classroom, success and responsibility.</div>
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To be considered for this primary teaching vacancy based in Chatham , Kent you will need to;<div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">pay to scale.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this primary teaching position in Chatham, Kent, Please apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-79922381552798985372016-07-07T07:07:00.002-07:002016-07-07T07:07:53.869-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Modern Foreign Languages Teacher, looking for a September 2016 start until October 2016 maternity cover?</span><br />
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Full-timeFrench/Spanish teaching job in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for an experienced MFL teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3, 4 and key stage 5. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3, KS4 and KS5.</div>
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This incredible academy is an all ability independent school set in 29 acres of land and has brand new facilities that include, but are not limited to, 7 science labs, a drama studio, outdoor learning spaces, and a multi-use games area.</div>
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The school is Ofsted 'outstanding' for student behaviour, academic progress, and leadership and management.</div>
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It takes pride in its success and sets high standards with clear expectations and good discipline approaches.</div>
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To be considered for this languages teaching vacancy based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent you will need to;</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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In return we offer:</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">pay to scale.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this modern foreign languages teaching position in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Please apply online today or call on 01732 373340. TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-73068220822026058992016-07-07T03:42:00.005-07:002016-07-07T03:42:52.725-07:00Primary School Jobs of the Day <span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Primary teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Crawley, Sussex?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a primary teacher who can teach successfully across KS2. The position is a full time contract starting September 2016. A successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS2.</div>
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Encouraging a love of learning, this school welcomes diversity and difference.</div>
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At the very core of its values, all the staff and pupils work to make a difference in the world by caring for one another and showing support.</div>
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The curriculum is creative, broad and relevant. It seeks to engage, challenge and inspire all learners and encourages a reflective learning community.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the schools academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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In return we offer:</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">A dedicated Key Contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this primary teaching position in Crawley, Sussex please apply online today or call on 01732 373340, TimePlan the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-56726435355271880422016-06-29T05:33:00.004-07:002016-06-29T05:33:40.591-07:00Primary Teaching Job of the Day<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Primary teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Crawley, Sussex?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a primary teacher who can teach successfully across KS2. The position is a full time contract starting September 2016. A successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS2.</div>
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Encouraging a love of learning, this school welcomes diversity and difference.</div>
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At the very core of its values, all the staff and pupils work to make a difference in the world by caring for one another and showing support.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the schools academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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In return we offer:</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">A dedicated Key Contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this primary teaching position in Crawley, Sussex please apply online today or call on 01732 373340, TimePlan the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-33413001863929206912016-06-13T10:34:00.002-07:002016-06-13T10:34:20.748-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Maths Teacher, looking for a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">September 2016 start in Maidstone,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Kent?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for aMaths teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3 and 4. The position is a full-time contract starting September 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3 and KS4.</div>
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A high achieving popular school in Maidstone,Kent with 1,000 students on roll including 150 in a rapidly expanding 6th form. It is involved in a unique federation with a nearby Grammar School. This school became a specialist Arts College in July 2007 and it also has the Artsmark Gold award, they hold many activities for students e.g. focus days, trips to foreign countries and the best young farmers club in Kent.</div>
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The school has excellent results at KS3, GCSE and A level and has been rated offsted outstanding in the last two reports.</div>
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To be considered for this Maths teaching vacancy based in Maidstone, Kent you will need to;</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this Maths teaching position in Maidstone Kent,Please apply online today or call Nicola Lacey on 01732 373340. TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-4567484209311478372016-06-13T10:33:00.002-07:002016-06-13T10:33:11.167-07:00Primary School Job of the Day<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Nursery teacher, looking for a January 2017 start in Belvedere, Bexley?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a nursery teacher who can teach successfully across the nursery age. The position is a full time contract starting January 2017. A successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at nursery age.</div>
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If you are a NQT this position has a possibility to begin September 2016.</div>
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This is a large Kent infant and nursery school whose strongest features are good care, guidance and support. Parents praise the school for helping their children enjoy their early education. The schools friendly and positive ethos and good relationships between staff and pupils contribute much to the pupil’s good behaviour.</div>
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To be considered for this nursery teaching vacancy based in Belvedere, Bexley you will need to;<div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the schools academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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In return we offer:</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">A dedicated Key Contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this nursery teaching position in Belvedere, Bexley please apply online today or call on 01732 373340, TimePlan the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-44074266743456066042016-05-13T03:56:00.002-07:002016-05-13T03:56:44.284-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day!!<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
Full time science teaching job in Lewisham, South East London. TimePlan Education in partnership with their client school are seeking to appoint a highly motivated teacher of science for immediate start. The roles would be suitable for experienced members of staff or newly qualified teachers (NQTs).</div>
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If you join as an NQT you will be part of an established and extensive NQT programme, benefiting from the support and expertise of departmental mentors including a lead teacher, a tailor-made whole school professional development programme and a support network of other NQTs across subject areas.</div>
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This is a rapidly improving 11-19 school, with 1,500 students on roll including 400 in the 6th form which has enjoyed four consecutive years of improved outcomes. Standards have been transformed across the school and this is an exciting opportunity for the right person to contribute significantly to a school improvement journey. The school moved in to its state of the art facilities in 2011. The school works closely with a number of other schools nationally through Challenge Partners and a huge range of training opportunities come through this partnership. The school is located in a green and leafy part of Lewisham close to the border with Bromley and has good transport links to Central London.</div>
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This science teaching vacancy in Lewisham, South East London requires an applicant who is able offer the following:</div>
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If you have a strong desire to help students of all abilities to achieve the best they can, whilst fulfilling your own potential and interested in applying for this science teaching position in South East London then we would be very pleased to hear from you please apply online today or call Paul Chuter on 01732 373340 at TimePlan, the number one teaching agency for science teaching jobs in South East London and Kent.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-49075112156049154432016-05-13T03:54:00.000-07:002016-05-13T03:54:30.068-07:00Primary School Job of the Day!!<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
Are you a Primary teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Northfleet?</div>
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a primary teacher who is qualified to teach KS2. The position is a full time contract starting September 2016. A successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS2.</div>
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This school is a 2 form entry- although some of the years have 3 forms- and it is continually growing. Whilst providing a calm and happy environment, this school works with parents and the community to nurture the students into being respectful and kind members of society. It is also imperative to all members of staff that the students enjoy learning and become life-long learners. The school pushes for the highest standards of care for their students and encourages them to be tolerant of every other person and their beliefs.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this primary teaching position in Northfleet please apply online today or call Ruth Culbreth on 01732 373340, TimePlan the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-83172210692183354882016-05-04T07:43:00.003-07:002016-05-04T07:43:49.363-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day!!<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you an English Teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Tonbridge, Kent?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for an English teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3 and 4. The position is a full-time contract starting September 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3 and KS4.</div>
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This single sex school in Tonbridge, Kent is a forward-looking school with a track record of innovation. In 2013 this school was judged to be 'good' by Ofsted saying that they are a 'caring and supportive school'. The school aims to create a positive, secure and happy learning environment where all students experience friendship, respect and success.</div>
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The school offers an inclusive and diverse curriculum, which provides both academic and applied learning opportunities, prepares students for higher education and employment. It has a flourishing mixed sixth form, with an strong record of success in students achieving entry to the university or college of their choice, including Oxford.</div>
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If you are interested in applying for this English teaching position in Tonbridge, Kent, Please apply online today or call on 01732 373340. TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-67488309030770561582016-05-04T07:42:00.000-07:002016-05-04T07:42:03.699-07:00Primary School Job of the Day!!<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a primary teacher who has taught successfully across Key Stage 1. The position is a full time contract starting September 2016. A successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at KS1.</div>
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The school are a larger than average Primary School Academy situated in the London Borough of Bexley. The School is two form entry and heavily oversubscribed. Ofsted last inspected the school in May 2013. They are extremely proud to say that Ofsted deemed the school to be "Good with outstanding features". Ofsted quoted the behaviour as 'Pupils' behaviour is outstanding in lessons and throughout the school. They love their school and they feel safe. Pupils show determination, good concentration skills and enjoy a challenge. Their behaviour is excellent in the classroom and around the school, in corridors and in the playground. They are polite, well-mannered and respectful.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-91195494238786240042016-04-01T03:47:00.000-07:002016-04-01T03:47:00.773-07:00Teachers' Leader Condemns Sexist Bullying of 'Swotty' Girls By Sally Weale<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
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Sexist bullying in schools is inhibiting girls from putting up their hands and speaking out in class because they fear appearing “swotty and clever”, according to a senior teachers’ leader.</div>
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Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said sexist bullying was still prevalent in the classroom, where girls often felt under pressure to “keep quiet and listen to the boys talking”.</div>
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Speaking before the ATL’s annual conference, which opens in Liverpool on Monday, Bousted described “the tightrope” girls walk between being attractive and achieving at school. She said there was “a conspiracy of near silence” among girls, who did not want to appear “brainy” for fear of being called names.</div>
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“There are lots and lots of pressures on girls – to be thin, to be attractive, to be compliant and to be quiet – and it’s as great now as it ever has been.</div>
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“If you are an adolescent girl, there are so many names you can be called in school – there are very few for boys.” As a result, girls found it hard to challenge gender stereotypes, making it more difficult for them to take on challenging subjects and believe they can be successful.</div>
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A former English teacher, Bousted said she once taped the lessons at her London comprehensive school assuming that the split between boys and girls contributing in class was fairly even. When she listened back to the recording, it became clear “the boys were talking and the girls were listening”.</div>
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“I think sexist bullying is a thing that just doesn’t get talked about,” said Bousted. “For girls, there’s a very, very fine line – if you are swotty and clever and answer too many questions, you are not attractive. There’s a big pressure in many schools for girls to keep quiet and listen to the boys talking.”</div>
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The issue of sexist bullying and harassment of students is due to be discussed at the ATL conference on Tuesday where members are expected to say they deplore such behaviour and will call for training for teachers to help prevent it.</div>
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In a pre-conference briefing to the media, Bousted said social media was fuelling the problem, with girls overwhelmingly the victims of sexting. A study last week by a fellow teachers’ union, the NASUWT, suggested sexting was widespread in schools – even primaries – with more than half of teachers who responded aware of pupils using social media to share sexual messages, pictures and videos.</div>
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Bousted said: “Schools are doing what they can. They are often the safest places for young people to be, but the fact is that schools are chock full of other young people who bring in all the social norms which are outside school.</div>
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“Adolescents today have more access to highly sexualised films and content, on social media, than ever before.” She said it would be curious if that did not make itself felt in schools. “It’s very difficult for teachers to police that. You can’t just confiscate everybody’s mobile phone.”</div>
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A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: “It’s stories like this – with no evidence to back them up – that are exactly why sexism still exists. We should be celebrating the achievements and talents of women and girls rather than focussing on outdated notions. Girls are outperforming boys academically and we know that good schools support all their pupils to feel empowered to be themselves in class.</div>
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“We are crystal clear that sexist bullying, like all other forms of bullying, must not be tolerated. Every school is required by law to have measures in place to prevent it. We have strengthened teachers’ powers to tackle bullying and have made clear that teachers can discipline and investigate cases of bullying outside school. In addition, we’re ensuring all children are better educated about the dangers of the internet, with children learning about internet safety as part of the new National Curriculum.”</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-83673230684740329652016-03-31T03:53:00.000-07:002016-03-31T03:53:40.971-07:00Primary School Job of the Day!<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Qualified Reception Teacher looking for an April 2016 start in Kent?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a reception teacher. The position is a full-time contract starting after Easter 2016. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students in their early years of school.</div>
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If you are interested in applying for this reception teaching position in Kent, please apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-85916597943101884462016-03-31T03:34:00.000-07:002016-03-31T03:34:13.213-07:00NUT chief calls on teachers to unite in opposition to Tory plans By Richard Adams<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">
Teachers should build a coalition of “horror and dismay” at the government’s education white paper and its plans to make every school in England an academy, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers told delegates.</div>
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In her speech to the NUT’s annual conference in Brighton, Christine Blower called the government’s plans unacceptable and likely to hurt the employment prospects of teachers.</div>
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“We know that total academisation represents the total abolition of national pay and conditions,” Blower said, arguing that issues such as holiday and maternity pay, as well as class sizes and school timetables justified the union’s decision to ballot for industrial action later this year.</div>
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Over the Easter weekend, delegates at the NUT conference strongly endorsed a strike ballot over the white paper, although the union will have to word it carefully to ensure that pay and conditions are central to avoid being vulnerable to legal challenge.</div>
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Blower said there was “an incredible level of public opposition” to the plans outlined by the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, and applauded the support from the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who became the first major party leader to address the NUT conference.</div>
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“We heard very clearly in Jeremy’s speech on Friday there will be fierce opposition from the Labour party. We are delighted to hear this,” she said, noting that Corbyn “has stood with us over the years in many campaigns which have been important to us”.</div>
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Blower – addressing her final annual conference before stepping down later this year – also called on the Department for Education (DfE) to cancel this year’s primary school tests and assessments because of delays and controversy over their setting.</div>
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“The cavalier attitude that pervades the DfE, which allowed teachers to be sent the key stage two writing guidance in February, just shows how far this secretary of state is from understanding the realities of primary education,” she said.</div>
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The DfE’s guidelines on the use of exclamation marks for its spelling and grammar tests were “piffle” and “tortuous nonsense”, according to Blower. “An excessive focus on exam results is turning our schools at all levels into exam factories. This is bad for pupils, bad for teachers and is clearly the antithesis of what NUT members believe to be a good education.”</div>
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Earlier the conference passed a motion calling for pay increases for teachers working in Greater London, to recognise the housing pressures and costs faced by its members in the capital.</div>
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An NUT survey of young teacher members in London showed that many are struggling to live and work in the city, with the average monthly cost of renting a one-bedroom flat now more than £1,000, while the average monthly take-home pay of a newly qualified teacher was just £1,600.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-85865222237706817592016-03-30T03:36:00.001-07:002016-03-30T03:36:28.429-07:00Secondary School Job of the Day!<div style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
Full time science teaching job in Lewisham, South East London. TimePlan Education in partnership with their client school are seeking to appoint a highly motivated teacher of science for immediate start. The roles would be suitable for experienced members of staff or newly qualified teachers (NQTs).</div>
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If you join as an NQT you will be part of an established and extensive NQT programme, benefiting from the support and expertise of departmental mentors including a lead teacher, a tailor-made whole school professional development programme and a support network of other NQTs across subject areas.</div>
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This is a rapidly improving 11-19 school, with 1,500 students on roll including 400 in the 6th form which has enjoyed four consecutive years of improved outcomes. Standards have been transformed across the school and this is an exciting opportunity for the right person to contribute significantly to a school improvement journey. The school moved in to its state of the art facilities in 2011. The school works closely with a number of other schools nationally through Challenge Partners and a huge range of training opportunities come through this partnership. The school is located in a green and leafy part of Lewisham close to the border with Bromley and has good transport links to Central London.</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">Supporting the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">You will be an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">You will possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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If you have a strong desire to help students of all abilities to achieve the best they can, whilst fulfilling your own potential and interested in applying for this science teaching position in South East London then we would be very pleased to hear from you please apply online today or call Paul Chuter on 01732 373340 at TimePlan, the number one teaching agency for science teaching jobs in South East London and Kent.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-71021657931454429612016-03-30T03:26:00.000-07:002016-03-30T03:26:10.733-07:00Academy sixth-form closure to end A-level provision in UK borough By Sally Weale<br />
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An academy in Knowsley, Merseyside, is under fire after it announced plans to close its sixth form, which will bring to an end A-level provision in the borough.</div>
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Halewood academy was the last school offering A-levels in the area but is now consulting on plans to close its sixth form to new students from September as a result of financial cutbacks and dwindling pupil numbers.</div>
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If agreed, the decision means that students in Knowsley, which is the worst-performing local authority at GCSE in England, will have to travel to neighbouring boroughs if they want to study A-levels.</div>
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Labour’s shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, condemned the move, saying it went to the heart of what is wrong with “the fragmented education system” the Tories are creating and flagged up concerns about government plans to convert all schools to academies in the next six years.</div>
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She said: “Local pupils, parents, Knowsley council and MPs want to ensure sixth-form provision for young people in the area yet no one is accountable for the decision this school is making.</div>
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“It beggars belief that this will leave Knowsley with no A-level provision, damaging aspiration and the choices of young people.”</div>
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The Halewood consultation follows a decision by two other A-level providers in the area, Knowsley Community college and All Saints Catholic High school, to stop offering A-level courses last September.</div>
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Only two other local authorities in England currently have no state-funded schools with sixth-form provision – the City of London and the Scilly Isles.</div>
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The decision at Halewood will once again raise concerns about the quality of education provision in Knowsley, which has a population of 146,000. Education in the borough has been criticised by the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, who highlighted the growing educational divide between north and south in a recent speech.</div>
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Official figures released in January showed that Knowsley was once again the worst-performing local authority last summer despite improved results: 37.5% of pupils received five passes at GCSE grade C or higher including English and maths, compared with 35.4% the previous year. An average 57.1% of pupils at state schools in England achieve the government benchmark of five good passes.</div>
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Local residents have expressed their anger to the Liverpool Echo, which broke the story, raising concerns about local accountability when it was unable to get answers about the closure from either the academy or the regional schools commissioner who looks after academies in the area.</div>
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Reader Colin Ascott told the Echo: “That is scary. So nobody can be held to account. These privately run academies can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything.”</div>
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MP for Garston and Halewood Maria Eagle, who is also shadow culture secretary, said the situation at Halewood academy raised wider concerns about the government’s “mismanagement” of schools in England.</div>
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“Councils such as Knowsley have had responsibility for schools taken away from them to be replaced by government-backed academies. This removes choice from local people over education in their area and has serious consequences for young people in terms of options and accessibility to further education.”</div>
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Halewood academy principal Gary Evans was unavailable for comment to the Guardian on Tuesday, but a statement on the school’s website said: “The governing body of Halewood academy has voted in favour of a proposal to remove the sixth-form provision from the school.</div>
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“The aim is for the school to be able to respond to what parents want locally while ensuring that the school makes most effective use of its resources. This will allow the school to provide a high quality provision for pupils aged 11-16 and sustain successful outcomes.”</div>
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A Department for Education spokesperson said the regional schools commissioner had been working closely with Halewood academy since it went into special measures and the school would be transferred to a new sponsor later this year.</div>
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“Halewood academy is currently consulting with its local community on closing its sixth-form intake,” the spokesperson said. “Following that consultation, should the school still wish to go ahead with that closure, it must make the case to the Education Funding Agency and the regional school commissioner that post-16 provision in the area would not be adversely affected by the closure before they are given permission to close it.”</div>
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A council report on A-level provision in Knowsley last December concluded that the number of pupils leaving Knowsley secondary schools with the necessary GCSE grades to be successful at A-level was too small to support viable A-level provision within Knowsley.</div>
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It said there were colleges outside of the borough and within easy travelling distance which offered high quality A-level provision and already attracted a large number of Knowsley learners.</div>
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“The amount of investment required to establish new A-level provision is unaffordable and unviable, particularly in the current financial environment and in view of the high quality existing competition which Knowsley residents are currently choosing to access.”</div>
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A spokesperson for Knowsley council said the academy had confirmed the sixth form will be kept open for year 12 pupils if they chose to finish their studies at Halewood, adding: “Halewood academy converted to an academy in September 2013. As an academy, it receives its funding direct from government and not from Knowsley council.</div>
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“Whilst we, as the local authority, do work with all our local academies to help them improve education standards, as an academy the school is ultimately accountable to the regional school commissioner, and not the local council.</div>
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“We will continue to work with the academy to ensure that individual pupils are supported to complete their studies. We will also work with the academy to make progress and hope that it will be possible to restore sixth-form provision at some future point.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/29/academy-shut-sixth-form-a-level-provision-uk-borough-knowsley">http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/29/academy-shut-sixth-form-a-level-provision-uk-borough-knowsley</a></div>
Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-678284194813434382016-03-30T03:11:00.001-07:002016-03-30T03:11:32.995-07:00Primary School Job of the Day<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Primary Teacher, looking for a September 2016 start in Lewisham?</span><br />
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If you are interested in applying for this Primary teaching position in Lewisham apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-55510587598382201382016-03-16T07:18:00.002-07:002016-03-16T07:18:47.509-07:00Budget 2016: George Osborne to Announce the End of the 3.30pm School Bell By Peter Dominiczak<h1 itemprop="headline name" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 2.4em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;">
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Mr Osborne will tell the Commons that more than £1.5 billion in additional funding will be spent on education over this Parliament.</div>
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“It is simply unacceptable that Britain continues to sit too low down the global league tables for education,” Mr Osborne will say. “So I’m going to get on with finishing the job we started five years ago, to drive up standards and set schools free from the shackles of local bureaucracy.</div>
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The announcement of the cuts, equivalent to 50p in every £100 the Government spends, will be a marked contrast to the Autumn Statement four months ago, during which Mr Osborne said he had an extra £27billion to spend because of better-than-expected forecasts.</div>
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Mr Osborne wants to “accelerate progress” towards the Conservative's manifesto pledge of raising the threshold for the 40p rate to £50,000 in 2020, it is understood.</div>
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Mr Osborne has already ruled out plans to scrap higher rate tax relief on pension contributions. However, he could announce further reductions in the lifetime allowance, the amount people can save into their pensions before incurring penal rates of tax.</div>
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He is facing a rebellion by more than 30 Conservative MPs who are appealing for his to freeze fuel duty instead of allowing it to rise by RPI inflation.</div>
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Cabinet ministers including Robert Halfon have this week urged him not to raise the duty amid concerns that the move would alienate motorists.</div>
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Mr Osborne is expected to announce a rise in insurance premiums that could see families pay £190 extra for motor, home contents, pet insurance and breakdown cover.</div>
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And on Tuesday, Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, hinted that Mr Osborne will also use the Budget to announce a further cut in beer duty as part of a Tory drive to save Britain’s pub industry.</div>
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Mr Osborne will also introduce a huge national infrastructure drive by announcing plans for the HS3 railway in the north of England, Crossrail 2 in the South East, and one of Europe’s longest tunnels beneath the Pennines.</div>
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Mr Osborne will make his education pledges the centre-piece of a Budget designed to “transform life chances” across Britain.</div>
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Under the academy plans, schools will either have to have converted by 2020 or have a plan in place to commit them to converting by 2022.</div>
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If any school does not have a plan in place, the Government will intervene and take over control of the organisation.</div>
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Academies have powers to use their independence to alter staff pay, the curriculum, admissions and the shape of the timetable.</div>
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In a move aimed at working parents who struggle to organise child care on a daily basis, Mr Osborne will announce new rules to allow schools to apply for extra funding to lengthen the school day.</div>
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The Treasury said that 25 per cent of secondary schools in England – around 800 institutions - will initially be able to extend their hours under the plans.</div>
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Sources said that the measure “is just the start” and that thousands more schools will eventually start lengthening their hours.</div>
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“The Budget I’ll deliver today will put the next generation first,” Mr Osborne will say. “And at its heart will be a bold plan to make sure that every child gets the best start in life.</div>
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“Now is the time us to make the bold decisions and the big investments that will help the next generation, and that is what my Budget today will do.”</div>
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Mr Osborne will also announce a £1.5million NHS programme to provide activity prosthetics for children so they can compete in sporting events and to fund new research.</div>
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Mr Osborne said he had found the money after a campaign to highlight the issue by Sarah Hope, whose daughter Pollyanna lost her right leg below the knee when a bus hit her on a pavement in south London in 2007 when she was two years old.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-12814318373823911622016-03-16T07:07:00.004-07:002016-03-16T07:07:44.621-07:00Primary School Job of the Day!<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Qualified Primary School Teacher looking for an April 2016 start in Bexley?</span><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
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<br />Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-52738371770357669002016-03-07T10:03:00.003-08:002016-03-07T10:03:33.268-08:00Primary Teacher Job of the Day <span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Are you a Qualified Primary School Teacher looking for an April 2016 start in Bexley?</span><br />
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for an exceptional Float teacher who has taught successfully across KS1 and KS2. The position is a full-time contract starting April 2016 and running until the summer term initially. The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and able to inspire students across the ability range at primary level.</div>
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<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">The school are a larger than average Primary School Academy situated in the London Borough of Bexley. The School is two form entry and heavily oversubscribed. Ofsted last inspected the school in May 2013. They are extremely proud to say that Ofsted deemed the school to be "Good with outstanding features". Ofsted quoted the behaviour as 'Pupils' behaviour is outstanding in lessons and throughout the school. They love their school and they feel safe. Pupils show determination, good concentration skills and enjoy a challenge. Their behaviour is excellent in the classroom and around the school, in corridors and in the playground. They are polite, well-mannered and respectful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">To be considered for this float teaching vacancy based in Bexley you will need to;</span><div style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<ul>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
<div style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
In return we offer:</div>
<div style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<ul>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">professional classroom support from our team of headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">pay to scale.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this float teaching position in Bexley, please apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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TimePlan are the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-2278238472812105912016-03-07T09:58:00.002-08:002016-03-07T09:58:17.962-08:00Should we Scrap Ofsted? The Pros, Cons and Alternatives By Melanie Ehren and John Macbeath<div>
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“Scrapping Ofsted would leave us with a fragmented system”</strong></h2>
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<strong>Dr Melanie Ehren, reader in educational accountability and improvement, <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">UCL Institute of Education</a></strong></div>
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Many teachers and headteachers feel that Ofsted does more harm than good: “overhauling Ofsted” and “abolishing the watchdog” have become popular catch phrases. A quick glance at some headlines over the years explains some of the concerns: inaccuracy and inconsistency of Ofsted gradings; and inspectors who are poorly qualified and disrespectful in their communication with schools, or have a formulaic view of teaching and leadership. Ofsted is seen as one of the (or perhaps the major) causes of stagnating improvement as the fear of “being Ofsted-ed” has produced a risk-averse school system. It is no wonder that many would argue to abolish <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/ofsted" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Ofsted</a> altogether: it has clearly become a poisoned brand.</div>
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Why then should we not scrap Ofsted? <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.schoolinspections.eu/impact" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Research across Europe</a> shows the many positive effects of school inspections, in this country and others. School inspections can unlock valuable knowledge about the performance of individual schools, <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.gov.uk/topic/schools-colleges-childrens-services/inspections#good-practice" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">pointing towards great practice</a> in high quality teaching and learning.</div>
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They can also highlight areas that need to be improved, both in individual schools and on a system-level. Recent Ofsted reports on <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2015/dec/01/north-south-divide-secondary-schools-ofsted-audio" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">geographical inequalities</a> within the country, or failing academy chains have done just that: they have highlighted where we need to do better and how our government needs to be smarter.</div>
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Scrapping Ofsted would leave us with a system that is fragmented in the information available about school quality, placing an even larger emphasis on external examinations and performance league tables. Other countries that have such test-based accountability, such as the US, have seen an over-reliance on data and tests, extensive teaching to test, narrow curricula focused on tested subjects and root-based learning.</div>
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School inspection, on the other hand, informs us about the quality of schools on a range of indicators so we can compare, track and contrast their performance over time. Alternative systems of quality assurance, such as school self-evaluation or peer review, would not provide that national and comparative overview.</div>
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It is therefore time to value the expertise and good of our Ofsted inspectors and make sure they work towards the benefit of our schools. Having said that, we also need to acknowledge that there is a problem; we need to get our inspection service right. A big step forward would be a more positive tone of voice from our watchdog when talking about the performance of our teachers, headteachers and school governors. The appointment of a new chief inspector in December will hopefully provide the momentum to change the narrative and ensure a more constructive inspection force.</div>
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<strong>John MacBeath, professor emeritus, faculty of education, the <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">University of Cambridge</a></strong></div>
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The litmus test: does Ofsted empower teachers to become better professionals or does it disempower? It’s been <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31921457" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">widely reported</a> that Ofsted is a major cause of stress among teachers. There’s a <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/jan/23/chief-inspector-schools-michael-wilshaw" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">telling quote from Michael Wilshaw</a>: “If anyone says to you that ‘staff morale is at an all-time low’ you will know you are doing something right.”</div>
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The reward for getting the top grade in an Ofsted inspection is that you won’t be inspected again for another few years. That says it all – it is clearly not an experience that schools look forward to, nor want again.</div>
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In a number of countries in which we’ve conducted research, such as New Zealand and Hong Kong, there’s a form of external review or quality assurance which works from a different premise. Rather than “we’re coming to inspect you and here are our criteria which you have to meet”, the review team will ask staff and pupils what they consider a good school to be, how they evaluate their own school, the criteria they use and their sources of evidence. If a school is considered to be struggling, it will be given extra support to improve, not labeled as “requires improvement”.</div>
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In the early 1980s in Scotland I was commissioned to help design an approach to self-evaluation. We met with teachers, parents, advisers and children aged five-18, and asked: what would make a good school for you? How would we know it was a good school? The consistency of answers from all groups provided a robust set of criteria.</div>
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As professionals, teachers have a pretty good idea of what makes a good classroom and what makes good learning. Unfortunately with Ofsted, teachers are too often disenfranchised because the things that are important to them aren’t included in the inspection criteria. Ofsted focuses primarily on maths and English, and what is most easily measurable. They marginalise other creative aspects of school life, such as art, drama, sport or a range of student-led initiatives.</div>
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To Ofsted’s credit, it has – over the decades – changed, and changed again. Often these changes are ones many of us have long advocated, such as differential reviews in which some schools are given greater support than others.</div>
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Although I’m critical of Ofsted, the nub of the problem lies with the nature of what Ofsted has to inspect. Michael Gove’s curriculum reform, for example, ignored the advice from his own experts – he knew from his own schooldays what a curriculum should look like and how it should be tested.</div>
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While there are many outstanding Ofsted inspectors, they are hamstrung in terms of what and how they have to inspect, living with the legacy of a process and protocols which are widely seen by teachers as neither fair nor effective.</div>
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Educate South Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09720479334822308487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4107449926951584059.post-81463147007473183582016-03-04T06:23:00.001-08:002016-03-04T06:23:31.546-08:00Secondary School Teacher of the Day<div style="color: #818181; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
Are you a Geography Teacher, looking for a January 2016 start in West Sussex?</div>
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TimePlan Education, working in partnership with their client school, is looking for a geography teacher who has taught successfully across key stage 3 and 4. The position is a full time contract starting January 2016.The successful candidate must be committed to achieving high standards and be able to inspire students across the ability range at KS3 and KS4.</div>
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This is a large comprehensive school in West Sussex for boys and girls, aged 11-18 with 1911 pupils on roll.This school boasts excellent facilities, having moved into a state of the art new building in 2012.</div>
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As a Christian designated academy they aim to provide a rich, diverse culture enabling young people from all faiths and none, to flourish and live life to the full, choosing their own positive, personal, social, moral and spiritual values. Every individual at the school is valued and the principal and senior staff are focused on ensuring consistently high standards</div>
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The school is situated in a seaside resort with a pleasurable harbour town. The town's attractions include award-winning beaches and architecture, the beautiful River Arun, superb parks with boating lakes and a packed programme of activities and cultural events all year round.</div>
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To be considered for this geography teaching vacancy based in West Sussex you will need to:<div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">show you are an imaginative and forward thinking classroom practitioner.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">have the willingness to form part of a successful and enthusiastic team.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">support the school ethos at all times during your working days.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">possess excellent teaching skills and an ability to lead classes with pace and sufficient challenge.</li>
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It is essential that you understand the school's academic standing and have a sincere commitment to sharing long-term aims.</div>
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In return we offer:</div>
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<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">professional classroom support from our team of Headteacher consultants throughout the length of your contract.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">a dedicated key contact at the TimePlan South East office.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">TimePlan South East teacher socials where you can meet teachers who are teaching at schools in your placement area.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">opportunities to aid your professional development.</li>
<li style="min-height: 1.2em;">pay to scale.</li>
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If you are interested in applying for this geography teaching position in West Sussex please apply online today or call on 01732 373340.</div>
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TimePlan is the number one teaching agency for jobs in the south east.</div>
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