If you're not aware of the levels of punishment now flooding our secondary schools (since academisation), read this. It is scaring a generation of children. 472 kids have had to leave this school in three years - but it's not just this school.

www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Today we awarded Professor @davidolusoga.bsky.social OBE an honorary degree for his outstanding work as a social historian.

As someone who grew up in Tyneside we asked David what he misses most about living here, as well as his words of advice for the graduating class of 2025.

#WeAreNCL #NCLGrad

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

💬 'Over the many years I’ve worked in mental health, I can’t remember a single discussion about the one factor schools can affect: language'

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.

Please keep signing & sharing.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In our experience when #EarlyYears practitioners say there is a problem, there is a problem.
If this is a true reflection then, my goodness do we have a problem.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

RIP Jimmy Carter. Here he is in 1977, receiving the freedom of the City of Newcastle - complete with cheering crowds and a spirited attempt by Carter at "Howay the Lads".

"Mr President, Sir, you are a Georgian. You have now become a Geordie".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Y1...

I can't remember the last time I saw something so beautiful. Astonishing. Heart breaking. Politically affirming.

Another excellent evaluation of the Sure Start programme, this time on its effects on youth offending. Once again it shows that investment in early years, preventative services improves life chances, reduces the costs of social failure and delivers major benefits.

I did a thing! And that thing was writing an 8-week course for the Open University on Open Research 😄

Written to be accessible to all levels and disciplines, and free for anyone to take.

www.open.edu/openlearncre...

Phonological awareness is hugely important for speech, vocabulary, reading and spelling. All children should have robust syllable and phoneme level skills before they start phonics learning. Free assessment, intervention, stimulus pictures here research.ncl.ac.uk/phonological...

Morning ✨
Would like to start a conversation...
If you could choose 3 development areas for education over the next 5 years, what would they be?
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