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SCHOOLS NorthEast would like to hear from head teachers and school leaders in our region: how are you faring with teaching staff recruitment? Which areas present the biggest challenges?

Please take a few minutes to fill in this survey and provide more insight into the recruitment situation in North East schools.

A shake-up of primary school testing was announced by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan today, with formal SAT exams for seven-year-olds set to make a comeback at Key Stage 1.

Last month, SCHOOLS NorthEast made a call for evidence to secondary schools, as we investigated Head Teachers’ concerns around exam boards. The response was fantastic and your stories were the subject of an evidence document which SCHOOLS NorthEast submitted to the Education Select Committee.

A full transcript of Sir Michael Wilshaw's keynote speech at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit 2015 is available here.

SCHOOLS NorthEast has announced plans to launch the North East Schools-led  Commission on Mental Health.

The initiative, to be launched next term, will bring together school leaders and experts in a range of statutory and support bodies to provide solutions to the growing problem of mental health issues affecting schoolchildren across the North East.

Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen,
It gives me enormous pleasure to be here today, addressing you at my first SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit - the 8th Summit in the organisation’s history.

This is a truly unique organisation that reaches to all four corners of the North East and engages across all sectors and school types. From Berwick to Saltburn, both primary and secondary and across state-maintained, acadamies, independents, UTCs and free schools, our driving purpose of being schools-led and for all schools, is one that endures.

SCHOOLS NorthEast issued a Call for Evidence to all serving head teachers of secondary schools in the region in response to concerns at volatility in exam assessment in summer 2015 and a significant degradation in trust for the process and the organisations responsible for delivering it.

The Education Select Committee will be looking at submitted evidence and speaking to Ofqual Chief Regulator Glenys Stacey and Chair of Ofqual Amanda Spielman in a session on the work of Ofqual taking place Wednesday 14 October 2015.

Dr Bernard Trafford, Headmaster of the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle, opened his ReTHINK Conference speech yesterday by calling for more support for schools to tackle pupils’ mental health issues, which he argues are now heightened by modern age.

“Improving our pupils’ mental health is beyond what we do in schools, but we can tackle the issue. Thanks to digital technology it now follows them home too, so parents need to step in and help.”

Education leaders in the North East today called on Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to get behind plans for a schools-led improvement initiative to drive up standards in the region.

The call came in the wake of comments today by the Secretary of State to the Education Select Committee that she believes addressing geographical disparities in education is the top priority for her tenure.

SCHOOLS NorthEast, the first and only UK regional network of schools, proudly announces the appointment of its new Director Mike Parker.

Mike joins the organisation at a very exciting time, following a period of constant development and success that has seen SCHOOLS NorthEast strengthen its regional and national reach. He currently lives in Durham and has worked in the town for a number of years.

The third annual School Business Management conference took place last Thursday (18 June) at St James's Park and saw 300 delegates from across the North East come together under one roof to discuss the SBM profession and how to be brilliant at it. And based on the feedback we have had to this point, the attendees thought the conference was also brilliant.