[PDF] Top 20 Speech: Nick Gibb: the role of academy directors in school improvement

... in school; and a stretching knowledge-led curriculum I agree with Academy Ambassadors that high-calibre professionals are well positioned to support CEOs and executive principals as their academy ... See full document

... Solomon Academy sits in one of the most disadvantaged boroughs of London for child poverty - 44% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals - just over 3 times the national ...High School in ... See full document

... Trinity Academy, which achieved outstanding results this ...free school serves a disadvantaged community in Bradford, and is one of a number of high performing free schools and academies that demonstrate ... See full document

... We have committed to working with Ofsted to introduce ‘improvement periods’, allowing teachers and headteachers 30 months to turn around underperforming schools. This follows our changes to the Ofsted framework ... See full document

... self-improving school system is now taking ...Trinity Academy, which registered a Progress 8 score of ...This school demonstrates unquestionably that all children – wherever they live in the country ... See full document

... Trinity Academy – a free school based in Bradford – achieved extraordinary results with its first set of GCSEs, placing it in the 10 top schools in England for the progress achieved by its ...free ... See full document

... “ school, Chris Martin wrote the following: Since January, with the improvement in behaviour, our conversations with staff have turned back to what is being ... See full document

... Trinity Academy – a free school based in Bradford – achieved extraordinary results in 2017 with its first set of GCSEs, placing it amongst the top schools in England for the progress achieved by its ...This ... See full document

... Work is underway to ensure that the Key Stage 2 reading assessment draws from the wider curriculum to help ensure that all children are being taught a broad and balanced, knowledge-rich curriculum that builds their wider ... See full document

... The success of this policy has been confirmed by international results. The PIRLS international study of 9- year-olds’ reading ability in 50 countries around the world showed that England has risen from joint 10th place ... See full document

... Textbooks provide the detailed knowledge implicit in the national curriculum programmes of study, which are succinct and broad descriptions of the content that needs to be taught. This is “the final foot” described in ... See full document

... Prior to 2010, this was not a widely held view within the education establishment in England. It was widely believed that the curriculum should focus on generic skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. But ... See full document

... Teaching is a deceptively complex art. Every adult in the country has been to school and consequently, everyone has a view of what good teaching looks like. Everyone has a favourite teacher from school. No ... See full document

... and school choirs and began piano lessons at the age of 5; alas, ceasing piano lessons at the age of ...in school assemblies we were played a piece of classical music; we never knew the names of the pieces ... See full document

... I vividly recall meeting a 9-year-old girl in a school I visited shortly before the 2010 general election. This girl had never been taught to decode. Instead, she had been given books accompanied by descriptive ... See full document

... to school funding provide teachers and headteachers with the resources they need to continue to drive up standards in schools, and they allow parents to choose the best school for their child safe in the ... See full document

... It is an honour to open the International Summit on the Teaching Profession. This conference provides an excellent opportunity for politicians, unions and teacher representatives from the nations of the UK and countries ... See full document

... Reading comprehension scores were still significantly above the expected standard for chronological age by the end of primary school. Extraordinarily – despite all of the evidence in favour of phonics – we faced ... See full document

... It is for this last reason that Douglas Carnine’s swipe at education experts is so pertinent. Poor teaching methods harm all pupils, but a growing body of research suggests that it harms disadvantaged pupils most of all. ... See full document

... primary school profiled in the report had implemented many aspects of Shanghai teaching, such as: additional lessons for pupils needing more support; 35 minute lessons, with the first focused on developing ... See full document