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Ofsted outcomes from 46 secondary schools

3 observations about schools with successes to celebrate

Feb 8 • Niall Alcock

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Ofsted sentiment, shared challenges, evidence

Universal truths about teaching and opportunities to lean into them

Feb 1 • Niall Alcock

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January 2026

Ofsted: 10 reflections from our inspection

This is a guest post by Dan Opoku, Principal, Lift Greenwood.

Jan 25 • Niall Alcock

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December 2025

6 most useful resources of 2025

A review of what you found most intriguing and useful this year

Dec 14, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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Time to review your teaching?

4 tools and 5 strategies to consider.

Dec 7, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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November 2025

Disadvantage support

Sources of support successful schools lean on to improve outcomes.

Nov 23, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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Year on year disadvantaged attainment: what did we notice about 102 schools who keep getting better each year?

8 observations about schools on an upward trajectory to multiply your impact with your disadvantaged students. And a directory of organisations schools…

Nov 16, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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Schools with sustained improvement in attainment 8 for disadvantaged students in 2025

Discover the top 25 (of 102) and access a dataset of every school in the country.

Nov 9, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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October 2025

Pupil premium menu

Research about, and resources for, three key approaches to tackling disadvantage

Oct 19, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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Pupil premium, inclusion, teaching tools and monitoring

12 questions you've been asking each other

Oct 12, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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Line management meetings

Plus: 11 questions about improvement systems, training, committees, rubrics and Ofsted.

Oct 5, 2025 • Niall Alcock

September 2025

Managing talent

How to do it through four dimensions

Sep 28, 2025 • Niall Alcock

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