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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Delighted to share the new Student Leadership for IMPACT webpages. @ssatuk.co.uk has a rich history of supporting schools in enhancing student leadership. We have now updated that offer in light of recent research. Join us for a free briefing in September. share.google/724j2KAc0CAG...

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SSAT | Student Leadership for IMPACT

Our Student Leadership team provide a huge range of resources and activities including school council training and the Student Leadership Accreditation.

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SSAT | Student Leadership for IMPACT

Our Student Leadership team provide a huge range of resources and activities including school council training and the Student Leadership Accreditation.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If you're an aspiring, new or experienced headteacher, our Head Cases programme offers a case-based approach to exploring the complexity of the role. It's not too late to sign up for cohort 2 of this innovative and involved approach to headship CPDL. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I like 'James' but didn't get the sense of amazement that I'd heard from others and hoped for. NW was brilliant. Loved every minute of it. Melting Point was a truly fascinating history, told entirely through sources and with no authorial voice. Quite brilliant, especially in the opening sections.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Books 21-30 of my 100 for 2025 challenge/resolution. Pick of the bunch was Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. Quite simply, I've never read a novella like it. Deeply moving, disturbing, confusing, and powerful. I'm still trying hard to process it and suspect that I will be for a long while.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I've been providing reflective supervision to school leaders for over a year now. Neither counselling nor therapy, case-based supervision has given them a space to share, reflect on, and rethink how they tackle the weighty challenges they face. It helps. Each of them has renewed for a second year.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hi Beth. Thanks for the kind mention. The follow up chat about the limitations of NPQH is very familiar. It came up in our Rethinking Headship survey repeatedly last year. Which was why I developed the Head Cases offer, now recruiting for a second cohort. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Caroline Spalding @mrsspalding.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This looks excellent #EduSky

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Cohort 2 of Head Cases is open for delegates who are aspiring or serving headteachers from any setting. We will be using case studies and methods across five sessions to think deeply about complex challenges facing HTs, from complaints to HR, finance to exclusions. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/leadersh...

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In a recent blogpost, I asked what is happening with behaviour in Ofsted reports. Based on every need to improve comment in every inspection report since September 2023, this post has some uncomfortable answers. Not much and increasingly less would be the summary. www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/attenti...

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Attention needed: What is happening with behaviour in inspection reports? - SSAT

This morning, I asked an AI tool ‘what are the recent trends in pupil behaviour in English schools?’. The response that came back said this:

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And, of course, so good to connect with you here. I've been a bit social media reluctant in recent months but you're a reminder of why it can be the best place. Hoping that you're very well.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I very much hope that you do too. So far, the blend of experience and inexperience has been beneficial. That's in line with the evidence where it has been trialled for school leaders and from other domains. In short, it would be great to have you involved.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thank you, Caroline. It has been fascinating seeing this through (so far) with cohort 1. So much resonance with each case, meaning colleagues are each bringing insights, some of which are very different. And yet, each session has concluded with some commonality that holds the experiences together.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Conclusions are aimed at policymakers but are worth school leader attention too, particularly improving feelings of belonging. This came up with PISA and TIMSS responses too. Our work on attendance might be able to help schools wrestling with absence. www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/school-i...

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Attendance - SSAT

Deliver cost-effective training to staff in your networks and generate additional income for your school with SSAT's franchise models.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Most striking is the assertion, based on decompositional analysis, that the absence of PP students in Y11 accounts for the entire increase in the gap in their outcomes. For students in Y6, the picture is more complex but absence still accounts for almost half of the increase in the gap.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

As well as the DfE report on attendance (see earlier posts) March also saw this report from the Education Policy Institute. epi.org.uk/publications... Focusing primarily on the disadvantage gap between 2019 and 2023, it speaks volumes about the impact of attendance and outcomes.

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Breaking down the gap - Education Policy Institute

The latest report by EPI investigates the drivers of the disadvantage gap and calls on the government to address the underlying causes of school absences, as it identifies higher levels of absence to ...

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SSAT @ssatuk.co.uk · 21/01/2025

SSAT has tracked every “need to improve” bullet point made in every Ofsted inspection conducted in schools and colleges since September. The results are fascinating. Find out more: ow.ly/76GM50UfBTq #EduSky @kevbartle.bsky.social #education

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SSAT @ssatuk.co.uk · 23/01/2025

Do you want to delve a little deeper into the five ‘best bets’ for improving attendance and punctuality? Find out more about our webinars: www.ssatuk.co.uk/cpd/school-i... #EduSky #attendance @kevbartle.bsky.social

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Attendance: What works - SSAT

Deliver cost-effective training to staff in your networks and generate additional income for your school with SSAT's franchise models.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

Why join the Head Cases programme? SSAT’s innovative Head Cases programme offers a ‘signature pedagogy’ (Shulman, 2005) to help you develop wisdom of

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

For schools improving their odds of success - more children at expected for RWM or at 5+ English and Maths, getting more students into 95-100% attendance band is key. This is because the proportion of students in these top two bands is so large. For students, any upward improvement is important.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

At KS2, reaching a higher next attendance band increases the chance of success (expected RWM) by 30% and that's fairly consistent. At KS4, gains across all bands are smaller, but moving from 90-95% to 95-100% attendance bands almost doubles a student's odds of success (grade 5 English and Maths).

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In case you missed it (you probably didn't) the DfE report about the impact of absence on 2023 outcomes at KS2 and KS4 is fascinating but not surprising. Improving from any lower 5% attendance band to the next one increases a student's odds of success notably. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Link between attendance and attainment

Report showing that school attendance is associated with higher average academic performance in an assessment year across all pupils from all backgrounds.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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Attention needed: What is happening with behaviour in inspection reports? - SSAT

This morning, I asked an AI tool ‘what are the recent trends in pupil behaviour in English schools?’. The response that came back said this:

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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Head Cases: Exploring Complex Headteacher Challenges - SSAT

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Book 8 of my 100 for 2025 pledge. Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan (2023) Harrowing at times, with clear identification of the failings of the state in tackling poverty (without being preachy). Education is key but, sadly, so too are funded life-changing programmes that are now largely gone.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Fittingly, book 7 of 100 for 2025. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Betting Hughes - 2024 A revelation given my rather limited knowledge of ancient history. Beautifully put together as more than simply a history.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Book 6 of my 100 for 2025 resolution. James Barr - A Line in the Sand - 2011 An episode from modern history that I knew very little about. And, as the author's final line concludes, "a tale from which neither country emerges with much credit". But fascinating nonetheless.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Book 5 of 100 A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles - 2016 What a delightful gem. Made me laugh and weep in equal measure.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

4th of a planned 100 books for 2025, and the 1st of 20 in French. Albert Camus - L'Etranger - 1942 My first novel read in French.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

My umpteenth cake bake of the festive season (I should probably cut back on these in the new year). And a new recipe, a very classic ginger cake. With fresh ginger, golden syrup and treacle. Mmmmmm. Maybe one more slice, methinks.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Daisy Christodoulou - I can't stop thinking about VAR - 2024 Book 3 of my 100 target for 2025 completed. The challenges of complexity in sport, and especially football, laid bare. And then some intriguing suggestions about how/whether we might attempt to tackle (pun intended) these.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New Year's Resolution #1 should always involve taking care of oneself in some way. It's that old chestnut about donning one's own oxygen mask first. If you're a school leader fighting the very good fight and worried that you might not be winning it, seek support. Supervision can help a lot.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Orbital - Samantha Harvey - 2024 Booker Prize Winner. A very powerful read at the ending of one man-made time marker and the beginning of another. Intelligently imagined and beautifully constructed in equal measure. Although brief, it is as full as a day with 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Definitely!!! Are you coming to Stockholm?

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Good luck with that, Sam. Happy New Year to you and yours.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Reveillon meal, preceded by a 'gin fizz'. Bonne année à tous.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

But, that sense of disconnect is what is staying with me. I keep finding myself wondering about certain characters whose are feels unresolved. And now I'm wondering whether that is the whole point of it. In other words, maybe stick with the listening. Even reading it over two days, I felt the same.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I think you're getting at why this wasn't my favourite of his. Maybe it's because he went back to an early unpublished novel and wrote it over many years, it doesn't feel as tight as previous ones, especially KC (which was amazing).

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Enjoy. It has been in my thoughts a lot since I finished reading it yesterday. Always a good sign.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Murakami - The City and its Uncertain Walls - 2024. If you're a Murakami fan, and I am, you'll enjoy this. Can't say that I loved it as well as some of his others, but still snaffled it up in a little over two days.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Chapeau. Only ever done a 9 once. Nosebleed territory.

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Omigosh. I did it. After years of taking this quiz, I finally broke into double figures (just) with 10 out of 15. Elated. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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What links Blade Runner (35) and Gladiator (24)? The Saturday quiz

From brain rot and brat to “thumping a fellow in Wales”, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New post on every published Ofsted report from inspections in 24-25 so far. Beyond the Big Listen, what has been changing in 'need to improve' comments and what impact has the (kind of) removal of overall judgments had? Some interesting early insights. www.ssatuk.co.uk/blog/beyond-...

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Beyond the Big Listen: What is happening with inspections (so far) in 2024/2025? - SSAT

I have been tracking every inspection carried out in England since the start of the 2023/24 academic year. The focus has been on what ‘need to improve’ comments have been made in inspection reports. T...

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Over halfway through my 'in order' reading of all of the George Smiley novels. Each one different (in a good way), but this is an incredibly good read. Two-thirds of the way through and loving it.

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East100 @leadeast100.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We’re looking for our next cohort of east100. Leaders from the east of England ready to take the step into headship. Committed to eradicating the disadvantage gap. And excited about doing it as a team. Read more about it and apply here 👇🏽 www.reachfoundation.uk/insights/joi...

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Joining the x100 — The Reach Foundation

Do you aspire to lead a school within the next five years?  Do you want to lead a school in your community where all children thrive—especially those underserved by our current systems...

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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Beyond the Big Listen: What is happening with inspections (so far) in 2024/2025? - SSAT

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Keven Bartle @kevbartle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Coming very soon, a new blogpost about the first 1600 'need to improve' comments on inspection reports in 2024-25. Writing and adaptations are the big movers. Assessment and attendance continue to strengthen. More insights coming in a great value January webinar. www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/readin...

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Readiness for Inspection: Lessons from 2023-24 - SSAT

SSAT has tracked every “need to improve” bullet point made in every Ofsted inspection conducted in schools and colleges since September. The results are fascinating. They indicate what leaders in diff...

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