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Peter Atherton @DataEducator

Trust Data Manager. Love Data. Love Education. Views are my own and any data produced does not represent the opinion of my employer.

Joined July 2013
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Highlight of my weekend was shaking hands with @chrismalkinphys and having a brief conversation about the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge. #legend
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Burnley now favourites to make this signing: canaries.co.uk/player/billy-…

Billy Gee

Billy Gee joined Norwich City in August 2024, making the move from Premier League side Chelsea.

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Steve Kay@SteveKayFRSA
Apr 27
I saw @lemnsissay speak this week at The Next Decade Conference hosted by @WellspringAT - A superb, inclusion focused event. This week’s Notes from the Train reflects on the people who remember your name and getting the basics brilliant. open.substack.com/pub/stevek…
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The Next Decade@TheNextDecadeUK
Apr 23
Sneak peek! 👀 See you soon, Leeds. We are looking forward to welcoming 1000 education professionals from across the nation tomorrow morning… Let’s do this! 📍✨ #TheNextDecade #EducationConference #Leeds
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Tes magazine@tes
Mar 24
Suspensions and exclusions have fallen overall year-on-year, but primary schools have seen an increase, according to @FFTEduDatalab analysis tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Suspensions rise in primary but fall in secondary

Year 4 saw the biggest increase in exclusions and suspensions last term, data submitted by more than 9,000 schools indicates

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If the only way to get academic success is to lose tens of students from your cohort, it’s not success.
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Gavin Knight@knight_gav98411
10 Dec 2025
Replying to @warwickmansell
Has #Ofsted made any official response to these devastating findings? How could it give these terrifying abusive culture an “Outstanding” report Sir Martin Oliver? @tombennett71 @bphillipsonMP is there no regard for child safeguarding at Ofsted?
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DfE attendance targets for every school: gov.uk/government/news/educa…

Education Secretary sets roadmap to improve attendance levels

Every school to be set an individual minimum target to improve attendance and set up every child to achieve and thrive.

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Progress 8 has always favoured London by design. DfE’s own analysis shows that only 21 schools that have the most disadvantaged, white British cohorts returned a positive progress 8 score. You can’t punish schools for simply serving different communities.
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21 out of well over 1000 schools by the way that have cohorts of 20% disadvantaged white British: explore-education-statistics…

Release home - School counts by average Progress 8 scores for disadvantaged White British pupils

School counts by average Progress 8 for disadvantaged White British pupils, for schools with 20% disadvantaged White British pupils at the end of KS4 in 2023/24

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Steve Chalke@SteveChalke
28 Oct 2025
You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”
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Off to Data Decoded in Manchester today. Hope to learn about some useful things.
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Warwick Mansell@warwickmansell
17 Oct 2025
New (open access) piece: "Ofsted doesn’t seem to get the picture on competition versus inclusion in England’s schools system" Readable here: educationuncovered.co.uk/ana… and here: warwickmansell.substack.com/… Think piece on Sir Martyn Oliver's statements this week to MPs.
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Vic Goddard@vicgoddard
19 Sep 2025
The latest ofsted model will simply perpetuate, or possibly worsen, what is already happening. It is a dead parrot simple as that. The selection by compliance schs will continue to be rewarded. The inclusive ones will live in fear of the next insp. People will be damaged again
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Schools Week@SchoolsWeek
19 Sep 2025
Investigation: Councils have accused schools of refusing so many challenging pupils it 'amounts to selection', capping cohorts to prevent in-year transfers of vulnerable pupils and wrongly turning away youngsters in care schoolsweek.co.uk/shut-out-h…

Shut out: How schools are turning away vulnerable pupils

Schools accused of refusing so many pupils it 'amounts to selection', capping cohorts to prevent in-year transfers and wrongly turning away youngsters in care

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Schools Week@SchoolsWeek
12 Sep 2025
Exclusive: Ofsted is refusing to publish consultation data showing how many people opposed its new report card inspections, despite pledging transparency over the high-profile reforms buff.ly/iRdDvKh

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Frank Norris@FrankWNorris
21 Aug 2025
An expert in the field just told me, 'Of the 190,000 informed today of grade 3 in English Language, about 37,000 should have been awarded grade 4, and a handful, grade 5. Those 37,000 were not awarded Grade 4 because Ofqual failed to deliver a reliable grade.'
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Apparently SISRA has issues this morning in case you are wondering why you can’t access.
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Good luck to everyone downloading and analysing KS4 results
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