BlueSky

BlueSky Education  ASCL Premier Partner for Appraisal, Professional Learning, Quality Assurance and Strategic Development.   Seamlessly link appraisal, professional development and quality assurance with school or trust priorities. Simplify processes and enhance p...

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Key Strategic Skills for New and Established Headteachers

Headteachers often inform us they have had limited training on the key management skills to help them think, plan and act strategically.   This bespoke package intends to fill that gap through evaluation of your current processes, discussing and working on improvements wit...

/professional-development/Tailor-made/Key-Strategic-Skills-for-New-and-Established-Headt 09/08/2019 15:22:21

Guidance

150 years of school attendance Following the Education Act (1870), the Elementary Education Act 1876 (Sandon's Act) (1876) compelled parents, for the first time, to send their children to school from the ages of five to ten. As time has passed and the school leaving age has...

/Leader/Issues/2024-Spring-term/150-years-of-school-attendance 26/02/2024 14:39:04

School Cuts coalition to hold parliamentary briefing for MPs on school funding

Today, Monday 10 March, the School Cuts coalition are holding a parliamentary briefing for MPs on the financial crisis currently facing schools across the nation.

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/School-Cuts-coalition-to-hold-parliamentary-briefi 10/03/2025 00:00:00

Teacher and school leader pay – joint education union response to Secretary of State

Responding to the Secretary of State’s consultation on the STRB report, ASCL, NAHT, NEU and Community have set out their united view on the need for the Government to provide the additional investment needed to fully fund September’s 4% teacher and school leader pay increas...

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/Teacher-and-school-leader-pay-–-joint-education-un 09/07/2025 00:00:00

Workshop | RISE-ing to the challenge of regional school improvement: what can we learn from powerful

/Microsites/Annual-Conference/Programme-(1)/Friday-14-March/Workshop-RISE-ing-to-the-challenge-of-regional-sch 14/01/2025 14:30:15

A national framework for primary and secondary school leadership: why this is good for staff, childr

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November 2024

29 November 2024 (including school funding allocations, breakfast club early adopters, condition of funding changes for 16-19 students, Ofsted and report cards, teacher supply, early years foundation stage profile results 2023/24, secondary performance data in England 2024...

/News/Newsletters/Weekly-newsletters/November-2024 08/01/2025 11:22:22

ASCL comment on Education Select Committee’s report on school absence crisis

Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, responds to a report from the Education Select Committee, which states that better mental health and SEND support is required to tackle the school absence crisis.

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-comment-on-Education-Select-Committee’s-r-(1) 27/09/2023 00:00:00

ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s plans for new school-based nurseries

Pepe Di’Iasio, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, comments on Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s speech to the Labour Party Conference, where she announced that new school-based nurseries will start opening next year.

/News/Our-news-and-press-releases/ASCL-comment-on-Education-Secretary’s-plans-for-ne 25/09/2024 00:00:00