Sue Hayman and the Times & Star supporting the Voom Bid

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Much has been written about the poor quality of ‘research reviews’ published by Ofsted recently, however the Mathematics research review published in May 2021 broke so many rules in the standards usually applied to reviewing research that, rather than having been written by authors with experience in research, it appears to have been created by experts skilled…

Storm Clouds passing St. Bees (photo unaccredited from the internet – if this photo belongs to you please contact me as I would like to give credit for it). Wow – things have so busy I didn’t even have time to write about the launch of my business. It’s been wonderful meeting so many inspiring…

For those who didn’t receive it, here’s a copy of my sign off message from the Virgin Voom competition. If you missed the Border TV clip it’s here and if you missed the Mike Zeller interview it’s here at 0:50. I feel the weight of the pain that children and teachers experience with the new…

Following the writing of my first report on the 2014 Primary National Curriculum in December I have been corresponding with the key people involved in its development. As a results of their comments I have written a second report which calls for the immediate suspension of the implementation of the 2014 Primary National Curriculum for Mathematics. This new…

What should done during a 5-year parliamentary term to improve primary maths SATs? This document is not formal set of proposal.  It is a ‘work in progress’ which captures some apparently sensible suggestions, so that discussions and comments can start from what’s already been suggested rather than from scratch.  I expect that there will be further versions…