A five minute snippet of an ultra focussed group of 4-5 year olds learning how to decode (SSP instruction) is a *tiny* part of what an EYFS teacher must do and do very well

I may be home now but I’ve bought a bit of skiathos with me. #DomesticGoddess

Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jonathan Gullis took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when the company axed hundreds of jobs in his constituency just two weeks later.

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Ofsted's Big Listen closes today. If you have completed it and have confidence, it asked the right questions, and Ofsted will act on what they have been told, then stop reading. If not, you should complete thealternativebiglisten.co.uk by 12 June. Transparent, independent and open.

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Aspiration shouldn’t depend on whether parents can pay for it.

The job of government isn’t to protect independent schools it’s to make every school aspirational and to give every child the chance to achieve.
The election should be about the 93% who don’t attend private schools

The Telegraph Actually no. Safer under Labour than the Tories. Don't you remember the Truss fiasco?

The Telegraph My pension pot fell 20% in a week after Truss’s “fiscal event” so I don’t think pensions is a Tory election winner.

'Young children who receive insufficient & fragmented adult attention do not learn to trust other people and develop high anxiety.'
This observation frm Pam Jarvis is a crucial consideratn for our early years sector. I hope we will face it at Tigers Group #CloseCommunity event.

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Hi to all my early years twitter colleagues. Please can you fill this in as it is part of my MA. If you are not the right person,please can you pass this on to colleagues that are. It is completely anonymous unless u choose not to be in q 10. Thank u 🙏🏽

BREAKING: Iain Dale tells LBC he has now abandoned his bid to become the Conservative candidate for Tunbridge Wells, after this clip of him telling listeners he 'never liked the place’ and ‘would happily live somewhere else’ was revealed
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But thealternativebiglisten.co.uk is open until 12 June and it asks directly some questions the official survey doesn't.

Tory Britain: nothing to see here, folks.
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“There’s a woman with a bored face - block her quick” #janeygodleyvoiceover

Anyone that's ever been to Festival of Education 🇬🇧 at Wellington College will see first hand that it's simply not fair that some kids have school grounds and facilities better than many universities. And that's their norm.

The least we can do is charge private school BUSINESSES VAT.

Mike Gardner Piers Morgan Who to believe. Dishonest boy from a private school or the IFS.

The removal of graded Ofsted judgements is ‘the single biggest reform that would alleviate anxiety in the system and begin to rebuild trust’, says ASCL’s general secretary
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'Single-word judgements don’t work well for staff, parents or children...they cause sky-high stress and anxiety, damaging staff wellbeing and morale, and driving people out of the profession,' says ASCL General Secretary Pepe Di’Iasio

#Ofsted

A glaring omission, which many of us tried to work around in our submissions. Pepe Di’Iasio is quite right on this.