In the Gosport and Fareham Multi-Academy Trust (GFM) we have recently welcomed a four-legged friend to help support our students – in the form of Scout, my chocolate Labrador. Each year group at Bay House School and Sixth Form has received an assembly from Scout (named after the protagonist of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a
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It is vital that alongside the National Curriculum subjects, our children receive a broad variety of experiences and opportunities in order to flourish. Recently, the Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Damian Hinds published the ‘Activity Passport’; inspired by the National Trust’s Book: 50 Things to do Before you are 11 ¾. This
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Cathy O’Neil’s book called Weapons of Math Destruction makes you think about how things can be potentially destroyed through using data in an unthinking way. In education we are expected to have more and more data about the children we teach. Schools are provided with big data informing them how their pupils compare with other
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