In Autumn 2021 I visited St Mary’s College (Hull) to understand how they planned a journey towards really great teaching - in essence, I...

Personally I don’t think Ofsted should be back to full inspections at the moment - we are in the process of recovering from the greatest...

A review of ‘Thrive: The purpose of schools in a changing world’ by Valerie Hannon and Amelia Peterson (2021 Cambridge University Press)...

What follows is my best explanation of how we go about things at Thrive. The best bit for staff readers is probably the section on...

In April the incoming Children's Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, set out to listen to England's children, on a huge scale. More than...

Two short answers and one longer one. The first short answer is that it was becoming increasingly irritating hearing other MAT leaders,...