Steven Hunt

While I was in Bristol, to watch my daughter complete her first Bristol Half-Marathon, We went for a walk across the Downs towards the great muddy estuary that is the River Avon. To Sea Mills, in fact. A place with little distinction, except for the railway line that goes through there and onwards to Avonmouth and Severn Beach. behind us lay Brunel's great Suspension Bridge, and ahead the towering M5 Motorway as it belted across the Avon Gorge. At Sea Mills it was all privet

There was good news from the Classical Association on Tuesday that OCR would hold off the withdrawal of AS Latin and AS Classical Greek exams until final entries in 2028. That gives teachers more time to work out what to do and the community to figure out if there are any alternatives they want to pursue developing. Who knows, in the meantime, the present Secretary of State might reveal their thinking about examinations and surprise us all with a return to modular exams again

How many times have we heard that 'evidence-based teaching' is the new thing - as if we had never had it before? It's not new. Back in 2007, the same debates were being held. In his book 'The Art and Science of Teaching' Robert Marzano argued that while evidence-based strategies inform instruction, their execution requires the teacher's judgment, intuition and adaptation. Who would've thought? It's the TEACHER that really matters. Here's a rough summary - we know that all abo