MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

to produce the highest possible quality knowledge organisers and continued work on memorisation and retrieval practice will be invaluable tools in our provision this year and beyond.

We are in the embryonic stage of a new inspection framework this year and there are certainly diverse views regarding HMCI’s new foci and emphases. I believe the re-visioning of our provision and attendant identification of the key knowledge, skills and experiences intrinsic to our subject schemata has led, and continues to lead, to enriching and challenging discussion of the purpose of education and articulation of the essence of BET.

We believe in the highest expectations of ourselves and our students. We believe that students should enjoy coming to school, have respect for each other and engagement in the world around us, our young people must have enriching experiences and achieve the requisite knowledge and skills to have positive choices before them. And, finally, not only do they need to achieve academically and experientially, our young people need to have the self-confidence, fortitude and resilience to change the game, to make a difference.

Lofty ideals perhaps but as last year has demonstrated in spades together we are achieving great things and making a palpable and positive difference to thousands of children.

With best wishes for the exciting, exhilarating and almost certainly exhausting year which lies ahead.