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2018 ASP summary template for primary schools

2018 version of ASP summary template free to download here. Some tweaks on last year’s template – now takes account of time series and 3 year average. Feel free to modify, copy and share. Just credit the source and please download it first before attempting to complete it (it will open in Word online. To […]

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Making expected progress?

’Expected progress’ was a DfE accountability measure until 2015. Inspectors must not use this term when referring to progress for 2016 or current pupils. Ofsted Inspection Update, March 2017. It’s an odd phrase, expected progress, as it seems to have two meanings. First, there is the expectation of the teacher, which is based on an in-depth […]

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Trust

Here’s a thing. In conversations with senior leaders both online and in the real world, I often get asked about restricting access to data for teaching staff or even locking down tracking systems entirely. This seems to take two broad themes: 1) Limiting a teacher’s access to data that relates only to those pupils for […]

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