Seven Myths About Exams
I don’t know about you, but I have had enough of the hoo-ha about exam results day. When I got my O-level results and one token CSE – for this is how old I am - no one batted an…
Any teachers out there who have left the job due to stress or bullying?
A national TV news programme would like to speak tomorrow to a teacher who’s quit the profession or taken time off due to stress/bullying. They are also on the look out for any footage of bad behaviour in class. If…
What makes a good teacher?
How devastating it was to read the comments written by followers of Rescue Our Schools on an article about age being no barrier to good teaching. Teachers in their fifties vulnerable to redundancy, teachers in their fifties working on zero…
We support the only school in the UK saying no to SATS
Watch this brilliant film from one of our partners, More than a Score, about how headteacher, governors and parents of Little London School in Leeds decided not to put their year 6 children through SATS. https://www.facebook.com/morethanascore/videos/1790013474628305/
RoS at the Young Teachers Conference for the NUT South East Region
We were delighted to be invited to speak at the NUT Young Teachers Conference in Brighton, alongside esteemed academic Howard Stevenson and the Portsmouth MP, Stephen Morgan on March 10th. It was so uplifting to hear so many young teachers’…
Do you have anything to say about young people’s mental health?
Government is writing policy on this right now. Mental health affects a growing number of young people in education from reception to university. If you want your opinion to count then we will present your comments, anonymously, in our response…
Your comments needed on young people’s mental health provision
If you do anything this weekend, please spend a few minutes reading our statement on the govenment's green paper: Transforming children and young people's mental health provision. Let us know what you think by Monday 26th February. We can collect…
RoS at Headteachers’ Roundtable
Rescue our Schools was at the Headteachers’ Roundtable conference yesterday, to learn from headteacher Caroline Barlow about how the Worthless campaign got school funding up there as a political issue.
Mental Health Question Time
RoS attended the ‘Mental Health Question Time’ event organised by the National Elf Service and hosted at UCL last night, 21st February 2018. You can watch the footage here. Panellists and their comments included: Dr Dominique Thompson (GP and student…
Ofsted’s report: Bold Beginnings
RoS' Emma Bishton is asking for your thoughts on the Ofsted report, Bold Beginnings. Bold Beginnings was intended to inform what happens in schools, what happens in inspections, and future government education policy about early years. The report, based on a…