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Carolyn is right about the independent schools issue. It is really concerning. Also, there are a number of very small Independent schools with a religious foundation that might be in danger of closing. Then where will the young people end up? More home education? Or disappearing out of sight which is a major safeguarding concern.

Also great that EALC is built on the work in Feltham where the first through school was created. This is great best practice for their neighbours Hounslow, can incorporate this in their Place work at Business in the Community. This is a wonderful convening partnership, which is where the magic happens!

It’s great working on the Act Early model as part of the Education Alliance for Life Chances, in Keighley. It’s wonderful that Lady Lynne Morrison provided some amazing funding to ensure Kathryn was able to complete a bid to become extend our work.

Great interview and guest!

Thank you for hosting me chaps :)

Great conversation, really looking forward to hearing you talk with Michael W

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It's really an excellent episode

I am a bit behind on the videos so hopefully this could be on the way, but please frank and stan a book would be fantastic

Please can you pass on my best wishes to Mr Pugh. He taught me music a very long time ago (1980) when I was a pupil at Mold Alun high school. Thanks ☺️

Ofsted are saying they are losing HMI because they can earn significantly more in a MAT as School Improvement Officer or Director etc. They are very often only working with a handful of schools. There is lot of unnecessary duplication in the system. Human Resources leaders being paid high salaries for working with just 10 schools. Expensive private legal firms being paid a fortune to do casework, not to mention things like the purchase of Teslas etc.

Sorry to hear about your loss Frank. This was a good episode. I need to make contact with Sarah about oracy. We are having a drive on this at the moment.

Really enjoyed listening to this! Couldn't agree more about happy culture in schools. Coincidence, I'm currently reading the ultra processed food book, scary! Will look forward to tuning in again! 😊

A really good idea to implement sabbaticals. I'm sure it would help to keep a reducing workforce interested and motivated

Thankyou for this podcast gents. Eric, I enjoyed your poem Affirmations. Regardless of our age we all benefit from praise and positive acknowledgement. I too remember my favourite primary school teacher. She introduced me to poetry through the book ' Please Mrs. Butler, I loved it!! The lack of minister for disability sadly doesn't surprise me. I personally feel many pupils with SEND are being failed. The increase of suspensions/exclusions is concerning. It's particularly high in relation to pupils with SEND. My daughters school are dishing out 2 day exclusions willy nilly. I have a feeling The Head is one of those actors that slip through!! How I wish my children had Headteachers of your calibre.

Read Sameena´s book. It is really illuminating and everything in it is research based.

Absolutely spot on Meena. Was great to chat with you properly in Salford recently. The local and regional skills needs are not being met by the curriculum and the accountability system is not working locally at all.

Great chat, wished it was longer! Inspirational

Lovely to see Aelwyn! He was at Ofsted when I was and I also met him when he was inspecting schools that I was working with as an LA advisor. He is a brilliant and intelligent inspector as well as a fellow musician.

Great guest, thought provoking chat about AI and the value of verbal feedback.Thank you.

Fascinating discussion about AI. totally agree with Frank and stan’s comments on attendance, what is really galling is the current government do not see their part in the attendance issue, the pressures on the frontline in Ed, obsession with testing, dictating the curriculum, they have made schools a place young people don’t want to be, dispute schools best efforts

Great edition!

Very pleased to hear the proportionate stance on hugging children - I saw the same tweet as Stan and commented on it. Our Guidance for Safer Working Practice is clear that rejecting a child who needs comfort or safe touch would be emotionally harmful; there are safe ways to touch children and it is important that staff have a framework / guiding principles www.saferrecruitmentconsortium.org/_files/ugd/f576a8_0d079cbe69ea458e9e99fe462e447084.pdf >> Carolyn

Thank you so much for sharing, fantastic conversation

So lovely watching these and Stan pleased to have made 6 episodes and now nearer 200

Another great chat reflecting on the big themes in education with fascinating insights! Thank you!

we have the same name, same first and last name thats weird

This is a great edition - congratulations to Stan & family x

Thanks for considering my question about Chat GPT. Personally, I’m still weighing it all up but I’ve no doubt that it’s a game changer with enormous potential for learning and widespread future consequences for our colleagues and our young people.

We are embracing Chat GPT - we're using it to generate phonics decodable books for adult readers, so they can have instant access to texts at their early reading level about topics on the news that day, or about their favourite interests, etc.

One of the best Frank and Stan - more like this???

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Great stuff

A fabulous discussion. Thank you. Taking on ANY school is playing Russian Roulette with your career. 😏

Played cricket against Nick back in our youth and he bowled a "heavy rock". Great to see that he is doing well and designing schools for the future.

Enjoyed watching...all the way through: light- hearted without being trivial; -personable presenters; interesting range of topics although I did feel that one or two could have been developed further. A minor quibble though-; very enjoyable overall...well done to all involved

Great conversation. Thank you Frank and Stan and Sir David. Love your observations on the Oak Academy. It would be good to have further discussion on Ofsted and the curriculum.

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Wow this is a blast from the past, Mr Norris and Miss Denby (sorry if feels too weird to call you by first names even after 30 odd years). I think I was probably in Miss Denby's first year when she joined Millbank Junior bank in the late 80's. Both great teachers and have a lot of respect for them even after all this time. Good to see you're doing well for yourselves.

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Great video 👍

The impact of covid and poverty - how children are coping with life - some major areas of focus for inspectors as opposed to 'knowledge' and inspectors supporting the political pretence that covid is over...abso-bloody-lutely!!!

Bring back the test card…

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good video frank ol chap

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A great chat. It touched on so many vital aspects of education, school policy, inspection as well as the link between local authorities and their schools and other establishments. Knowing Laura too, the links were well made between local politics, school governance. It is clear that the daily link with children is vital, from a safeguarding perspective. School leadership is so much more than the aspects that Ofsted deem important and report.

Thank you so much for this. It’s so refreshing to hear that those inside Ofsted are somewhat concerned about the accuracy of judgements and the impact of the process on schools and ITT providers. It would be great to hear your views on the way Ofsted handles complaints as that concerns many school leaders.