HandsOffRowan @OffRowan

Campaign against academisation of Rowan Special School, Sheffield - not good for pupils, parents or staff. Now fighting on behalf of other threatened schools. Sheffield, England Joined May 2018

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NEU_LEW @neu_lew

2 years ago

Teachers really don’t want to have to strike in July, but this timeline shows that they have been given no choice. @GillianKeegan needs to do her job and negotiate so that we can save the education system in this country. Please share! @NEUnion #DoYourJobGill #PayUp

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Hamdon Education @HamdonEducation

2 years ago

@antiacademies @MarkBoylanEd

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Inside Croydon @InsideCroydon

2 years ago

Family of school caretaker says she was bullied by academy #Croydon ⁦@antiacademies⁩ ⁦@warwickmansell⁩ ⁦@baylis_rachael⁩ ⁦@schooltruth⁩ insidecroydon.com/2023/06/02/fam…

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John Roberts @JohnGRoberts

2 years ago

"We urge you to provide clear info on what selection criteria is being applied, for which potential sponsors, and how judgement will be reached." In a letter to DfE King Edward VII School parents effectively asking questions for an entire system here. tes.com/magazine/news/…

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St Ivo Parents Forum @ivoparentsforum

2 years ago

Why are @astreaacademies making staff redundant, for example the medical officer at @StIvoAcademy who had a huge role in pupil care, whilst creating and funding all these new senior posts with huge salaries. #Education #EdChat #SchoolNurse

Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

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St Ivo Parents Forum @ivoparentsforum

2 years ago

St Ivo Academy is the only secondary school in St Ives. Parents should want to send their children there, and their children should want to go. However, due @astreaacademies's "new form time, SLANT, morning address and new behaviour policy." and more... they currently don't.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

I also asked Astrea for the evidence base behind particular teaching techniques in Teach Like a Champion, which this trust emphasises. There was no response.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

Astrea told me in response that: “Everything we do at Astrea is focused on our goal of a brilliant education for every child, and a central tenet of that is having an excellent, knowledge-rich curriculum that teaches the best that has been thought and said.”

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

Content of the curriculum director’s work will also be contentious, eg in emphasising teaching “booklets” to be used in lessons, which staff sources said are overly “scripted”, but which some on here have defended as routine.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

This piece includes a brief comparison with LA spending on administration/oversight. Lancashire, England’s largest LA with nearly ten times as many pupils as Astrea, had only one official paid £100k+ last year.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

As I reported in March, St Ivo appears to have at least four layers of management above the level of the school, with a CEO, a secondary director of education, a regional director (secondary) for the trust, and a “trust executive principal”. So this would appear to be another.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

Earlier this week, the Cambridge News reported NEU concerns at Astrea's St Ivo Academy, in Cambridgeshire, about cuts to creative subjects, the union saying such change had been implemented without consultation. cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge… NASUWT also has concerns re centralisation.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

The Sheffield-based trust, which has 26 schools including nine secondaries, is seeking a new director of curriculum and assessment (secondary), on £88-£102k. But sources close to its schools are concerned about tight budgets on the ground.

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell

2 years ago

New: Traditionalist academy trust with multiple layers of management seeks new curriculum director on up to £100k educationuncovered.co.uk/news/164486/tr… An update on the multiple controversies facing Astrea Academy Trust.

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St Ivo Parents Forum @ivoparentsforum

2 years ago

"No nurse on site. How does it work? Is there a first aider? Do they have to leave their class? How long for that staff member to get to the sick/injured child? And MORE pressure is put on already stretched teachers. How much more can @astreaacademies squeeze out of them too?"

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Talk for Teaching.😀 @PaulGarvey4

2 years ago

Time Ofsted took a proper interest in this and treated Zero Tolerance as a safeguarding issue - which they are hinting at but are clearly scared to follow though.

St Ivo Parents Forum @ivoparentsforum

2 years ago

Time Ofsted took a proper interest in this and treated Zero Tolerance as a safeguarding issue - which they are hinting at but are clearly scared to follow though.