Ofsted: 8 concerns over English teaching Reform: OCR review set to call for curriculum and exams overhaul GCSEs: Curriculum “overloads” students, warn lords Assessment of poetry should also be rethought to encourage wider reading and “authentic personal response” rather than “overuse of techni...
How can boys' writing be improved and can their oral abilities and enthusiasm for dialogue be harnessed to effect such an improvement? Underachievement in boys' literacy has been the subject of over a decade of research and reports, with the mainstream media fuelling the proposition that girls ...
Ofsted's subject inspections indicate that most schools surveyed are judged to make good provision for English. However, teachers frequently ask us what makes a school outstanding in English. We have now tried to answer that question by publishing 'Excellence in English' (1), a report which inc...
students come to see the subject of English as its own universe rather than a series of atomised tasks and texts. Key Stage 3, therefore, should be used to induct students into this strange and beautiful world, laying the all-important foundations for...
experienced women and their children in circumstances of DVA. It is also strongly orientated towards a discourse of survivorship, allowing for the emergence of a personal narrative and subject-position which counters the construction of those who experience DVA as always-already ‘helpless’ or ‘...
It will consider the metaphors inherent in Ofsted's Deep Dive methodology, the work of Fordham, Counsell and the Early Career Framework and Core Content framework materials. The paper will conclude with some thoughts about RE as a subject discourse, suggesting that RE continues to have an...