Bringing Reading Schools Closer Together
The government has now announced that mainstream schools will all receive £80 per pupil paid in three instalments through the 2020-21 academic year.
Given their role in ensuring schools spend funding appropriately and in holding schools to account … Read more →
Contrary to a shameful editorial heading in yesterday’s Reading Chronicle, there were NOT “Thousands of Reading students excluded for violence”. Read more →
As secondary pupil numbers continue to rise in Reading, there is a clear need for more capacity from 2021 onwards. Most existing secondaries have already … Read more →
Reading had one of the best records in England for students in a stable form of work or education last year within 12 months of leaving school, new figures reveal … Read more →
The report from the latest Ofsted inspection, published on 29th October, shows that Reading’s Children Social Care Services is now judged as ‘Requires Improvement to be Good’ in all areas … Read more →
Battle Primary Academy has had notable success recently, with its Ofsted judgement rising to ‘Good’ for the first time since joining NET Academies Trust in 2013. Read more →
The ninth monitoring visit since children’s services was judged inadequate in June 2016, was published on Friday 19th July. Read more →
Against a national picture of first choice offers falling for both school phases, Reading bucked the trend for primaries, with a rise from 85.5% to 88.0% of families receiving their preferred school. However this is not surprising, given the excess of primary places across the borough rising from 78 in 2018 to 302 in 2019. Several schools are reporting concerns… Read more →
Approval has been given for the Maiden Erlegh Trust to open a new secondary free school (for Years 7-11) named ‘River Academy’, which will be located in North Reading. A site has yet to be agreed. The successful bid was one of 22 approved last week, out of 124 received. Applications for secondary school places for September 2019 initially exceeded… Read more →
Jess Staufenberg from SchoolsWeek looks inside the only UTC in the country rated Ofsted Outstanding. Read her report here. Read more →