#TheLeaderPodcast

Schools #concrete crisis & start of term

Alert for crumbling 1950s-90s classrooms & post-Covid learning impact

Warning 100+ schools risk collapse

Comment & policy analysis with ASCL’s Julie McCulloch & @TheCFEY’s Billy Huband-Thompson

🎧pod.fo/e/1e996b

Oh my

The RAAC story is only the start with so many school buildings now beyond their intended lifespan.

There has been a wilful lack of spending on public sector capital in the full knowledge that we would get to this point. It is enraging.

“When they were elected in 2010, the Conservatives slashed the funding to New Labour’s Building Schools for the Future programme. This week, the consequences of this shortsighted and ideological approach is laid bare”: scathing ⁦The Guardian⁩ editorial: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Fascinating and extremely helpful thread on ways to address attendance concerns in schools, looked at through the lens of disaster recovery. Some actions here need to be taken at a government/systemic level; others could be done by individual schools.

*GOVERNORS & TRUSTEES*
Make sense of this year's #examresults in our special briefing for governors and trustees and #ASCLmembers with Julie McCulloch and Tom Middlehurst - full details and online booking here:
ascl.org.uk/ResultsWebinar

#alevels #gcseresults #VTQ

'The fact officials are rushing around days before the beginning of the new term making calls to schools about contingency plans in case buildings collapse is symptomatic of the government’s neglect of the school estate' says Julie McCulloch in The Guardian
theguardian.com/education/2023…

'The next government must seize the opportunity to see education as an investment, and all those who work in it as key partners in the path to a better, happier, more equal and more prosperous future.'

#ASCLManifesto for the 2024 General Election: ascl.org.uk/manifesto

How have we ended up with an examination system which tells a third of students they have failed their education aged 16 – even when they haven’t? Excellent question - and blog - from ASCL Curriculum & Assessment Specialist Tom Middlehurst 👇

'Now is the time to give all young people the dignity of being able to say 'here's what I CAN do in the basics of English & Maths'': my conversation about the 'Forgotten Third' this morning with JayneSeckerSky