A few of my favourite things

There isn’t a kitten or mitten in sight as Sophie MacNeill suggests some videos for exploring issues surrounding gender and mindsets

Stepping out of the bubble

Sophie MacNeill explores whether we need to be doing more to spread our key messages beyond the education bubble.

Small cohorts and decimal places: making sense of the data

Ben Fuller, Lead Assessment Adviser, explores some interesting scenarios where different data tools appear to be giving different messages about a...

Significance, confidence and parallel universes

Ben Fuller, Lead Assessment Adviser, explains the concept of "statistical significance", as used in school progress data, by considering alternative...

10 key updates for 2018 KS2 writing assessment

Clare Hodgson, HfL Assessment Adviser & Lead Moderator for KS2 Assessment, signposts and summarises the key changes for KS2 writing assessment in 2018...

A very particular weakness

Sophie MacNeill explores the STA guidance on what constitutes a 'particular weakness' in a child's writing

Declaration of Independence

Sophie MacNeill discusses key strategies for building independence in writing.

The search for the holy grail… progress

What does progress in books look like? Sophie MacNeill outlines some of the key ideas from our recent 'progress clusters'.

An end to ITAF - ication

It’s hard not to feel mad really. Not mad about the changes to the ITAFs. Mad that we were handed them in the first place.

Have we really had enough of experts?

Remember when the former Education Secretary, Michael Gove, declared that we had “had enough of experts”?