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A message to year 5 parents who are preparing for the 11+ exam in lockdown

Our message to you is: Don’t stop! If your child is sitting the 11+ exam this autumn, they need your help now! July is the earliest that year 5 children will return to school, with a chance they…
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Our Founder, Dr Stephen Curran’s quotes in the Telegraph – Will homeschooling spell disaster for a generation?

As schools stay shut, Judith Woods talks to parents struggling to cope and experts who fear long-term consequences By Judith Woods 25th April 2020 Homeschooling is a challenge for many parents. But…
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How are you going to support your children’s education during the school closures?

Follow our advice for a happy home during the school closures. You can do this! This is probably going to be the most complicated time for most of us to juggle family life. Not only will your…
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Baseline testing plans to be scrapped

I am pleased to hear the Department for Education has announced that it will be scrapping its plan to introduce baseline testing of four- and five-year-old schoolchildren. Assessing children’s…
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Removing the ‘un’ from ‘unfair’ in the allocation of grammar school places – giving poorer children a brighter future

In February last year Graeme Paton, the Education Editor at The Telegraph, posted an article on the high number of applications per grammar school…
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Kent Primary in Academy status row

Governors of Twydall Primary (Gillingham) voted on Friday on whether to convert the school to an academy run by the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) – against the vast majority of parents…
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Are your children prepared for the potential ‘war on illiteracy and innumeracy’?

You may have read the Sunday Times article this weekend (a front page commentary written by Tim Shipman and Sian Griffiths), about the ‘war on innumeracy’ that could take place over the…
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