Outstanding in every category.
An excellent testament to the work and and efforts of
- The teachers, assistant teachers and all the support staff
- The pupils
- The governors
- The Head Mistress & her team
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AsleepInYorkshire wrote:I can't tell you how proud I am of my daughter and her school.
Outstanding in every category.
An excellent testament to the work and and efforts ofAiY
- The teachers, assistant teachers and all the support staff
- The pupils
- The governors
- The Head Mistress & her team
doug2500 wrote:I think this might be the biggest problem in the UK these days, it underpins all the other problems to some extent - social issues (sometimes intertwined with racial issues) social mobility, the future of the economy, the quality of our politicians, employment stresses....the list goes on.
Full respect to your daughter's school but every child should have a school like this if we want this country to be a success.
doug2500 wrote:Full respect to your daughter's school but every child should have a school like this if we want this country to be a success.
tsr2 wrote:doug2500 wrote:Full respect to your daughter's school but every child should have a school like this if we want this country to be a success.
I'm struggling to articulate my negative reaction to this. It seems to read as "all schools need to be the same", which I hope you didn't mean.
My children are doing very well in an "outstanding" academic school, but I want schools that offer opportunities for less academic children to find their own strengths and schools that can accommodate children with health issues that make it hard for them to handle a rigid timetable where missing a couple of weeks or a term means that it's hard to catch up.
The system seems fixated on academic results and designed to enforce conformity rather than responsiveness to the specific needs of the pupils.
tsr2 wrote:doug2500 wrote: My children are doing very well in an "outstanding" academic school, but I want schools that offer opportunities for less academic children to find their own strengths and schools that can accommodate children with health issues that make it hard for them to handle a rigid timetable where missing a couple of weeks or a term means that it's hard to catch up.
The system seems fixated on academic results and designed to enforce conformity rather than responsiveness to the specific needs of the pupils.
tsr2 wrote:doug2500 wrote:Full respect to your daughter's school but every child should have a school like this if we want this country to be a success.
I'm struggling to articulate my negative reaction to this. It seems to read as "all schools need to be the same", which I hope you didn't mean.
My children are doing very well in an "outstanding" academic school, but I want schools that offer opportunities for less academic children to find their own strengths and schools that can accommodate children with health issues that make it hard for them to handle a rigid timetable where missing a couple of weeks or a term means that it's hard to catch up.
The system seems fixated on academic results and designed to enforce conformity rather than responsiveness to the specific needs of the pupils.
tsr2 wrote:The system seems fixated on academic results and designed to enforce conformity rather than responsiveness to the specific needs of the pupils.
dealtn wrote:tsr2 wrote:The system seems fixated on academic results and designed to enforce conformity rather than responsiveness to the specific needs of the pupils.
Really? An Ofsted report considers a lot more than academic performance, and a school fixated on that alone can't achieve an outstanding result.
What system are you referring to?
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they refer to these schools as academies and they offer a range of options which "theoretically" dovetail into courses suited for the workplace.
AiY
If a school funded by the local authority is judged as ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted then it must become an academy.
Charlottesquare wrote:I have long held the view that, certainly in urban areas, schools should be grouped in clusters, with children say 14+ being able to spend certain days at other premises in the cluster taking more vocational courses , trades, gardening, textiles, etc. So more traditional curriculum say Mon-Wed, more vocational courses available Thurs-Fri , no stigma re which school, an ability to all mix and match pathways etc.
AF62 wrote:Charlottesquare wrote:I have long held the view that, certainly in urban areas, schools should be grouped in clusters, with children say 14+ being able to spend certain days at other premises in the cluster taking more vocational courses , trades, gardening, textiles, etc. So more traditional curriculum say Mon-Wed, more vocational courses available Thurs-Fri , no stigma re which school, an ability to all mix and match pathways etc.
A few years back my town had two secondary schools a few miles apart.
One was focussed on academic achievement and attracted pupils who would benefit from that environment (or children of parents who thought they would), and the school received very good Ofsted reports.
The other school attracted the children of parents who didn’t care or didn’t have the knowledge or influence to get their children into the other school. This school focused on more vocational courses and received very poor Ofsted reports.
The local authority tried many things to improve the second, vocational, school, but nothing worked.
In the end their solution was to merge the two schools (although they have subsequently been offloaded to become a single academy).
The merger created a single school with an average Ofsted report, which solved the council’s problem, although ironically each campus still carried on as before with the academic pupils attending the academic campus and the vocational pupils attending the vocational campus, with little or no mingling of the two.
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