Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

This really made me laugh today to see that a couple of my tweets from the SSAT National Conference about Michael Gove’s talk ended up in the Times Educational Supplement this week… Check it out here:  http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6149504  

So with the announcement yesterday about the changes to the curriculum – many teachers have really strong views on the impact that this will have on our schools but more importantly on our students and their future. This is what has been said: “The new government believes the current national curriculum is over-prescriptive, includes material [...]

Have you heard the news yet? It is the first really important Ofsted update under the new coalition government. Basically Gove has announced that he is slimming down Ofsted in regards to the SEF and throwing out those “peripheral issues” as he calls them which is understood to include pupils’ well-being and schools’ contribution to [...]