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Oct
Grit & Rock
By Masha Gordon, Founder of GRIT & ROCK. Masha will be speaking at the SCHOOLS NorthEast Summit on Thursday 13 October. I remember age 11 standing in front of a gym horse in
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Oct
BBC Micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition: “Race For The Line”
The world’s largest STEM Initiative engaging over 100,000 students each year Working closely with Microsoft Education and the British Army, the Race for the Line Rocket
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Oct
North East Y1 pupils see above national average results in phonics screening check
The required standard of phonic decoding was met by 82% of Year 1 pupils in the North East, higher than England as a whole (81%) and second only to London (83%) when regions are
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Oct
Exclusions in Middlesbrough rise by more than 300% since 2013
The BBC reports that there were 5,800 permanent exclusions from English state schools in 2014-15, a rise of 1,170 compared to three years ago. 310 of these exclusions were in the
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Oct
Modern foreign languages course launch
Thursday 29th September saw dozens of teachers gather together to launch an exciting new languages programme in the region. Delivered in partnership with renowned language
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Oct
New £60m 'opportunity areas' introduced by Education Secretary
Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening announced the creation of new ‘opportunity areas’ across the country which will receive £60m towards school
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