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Measuring progress fairly: thoughts on the coasting schools measures

November 3, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

The 2016 progress measures for the new ‘coasting schools’ category were finally revealed in October in the DfE’s updated Primary Accountability publication. The thresholds are -2.5 for reading and mathematics and -3.5 for writing, and schools must be above in all three subjects. The vast majority of schools will already know that they can’t be a coasting […]

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SEND: Steps to change

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015Oxford Primary

Although we are only at the start of the SEND reform journey, I feel like I have been walking the path for many years. During my time as CEO of nasen I worked closely with the Department for Education (DfE) from 2011 when they published the Green Paper: Support and Aspiration . Four years on and we have left […]

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