Mike Serridge

A national record! ⚡️ Keely Hodgkinson clocks 1:56.33 in the women’s 800m heats to set a new indoor national record and move third on the world all-time list 🔥

On this day in 1983 we released the single 'The Cutter'. 🐰

We've just published FAQs from schools about the renewed education inspection framework, including: When will my school be inspected? What is the role of the nominee? What happens on the planning call? Read the blog post now ⬇️ educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/11/sch…

Three wins on the spin 👊 #3up | #YourTownYourClub

📢 The role of data on inspections We've released the Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) for schools and Further Education and Skills Inspection Tool (FESIT) for FE providers. Our new blog explains the changes and how we use data on inspection: educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/07/the…

I spoke too soon - Progress 8 is NOT staying the same! Govt have overruled CAR and proposed changing it to incentivise arts subjects. Big change!! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/690a8e53…

Breaking: The government is proposing sweeping reforms to progress 8, the main league table measure for secondary schools, in a bid to boost arts take-up – and will ditch the EBacc from this academic year schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-ignores-fr…

How can we close the attainment gap for disadvantaged boys? An initiative at @UnitedLearning has succeeded in improving behaviour, attendance and engagement among boys on free school meals, finds @ellencph tes.com/magazine/teach…

Two minutes after coming on! Floyd plays a great ball through and Emily places it past the keeper to make it 4 Badshot 1 - 4 Sholing

John Peel’s Festive 50 1979

Absolutely unreal. 🤯 The moment Armand Duplantis broke the world record for the 14th time...

Today, we are launching the @Ofstednews report card and renewed education inspection framework. It’s a big day for us, as well as for children, parents and education professionals. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️

NEW POST: Calculating a Key Stage 4 progress measure using CAT4 in place of Key Stage 2 There will be no official Progress 8 measures this year due to the cancellation of KS2 tests in 2020. We've produced an alternative using CAT4 scores as a baseline. vist.ly/44q44

Day 1 at the @Diamond_League final in Zurich - great city, great friends and some promising performances in the stadium which bodes well a couple weeks ahead of the World Championships - @WATokyo25 - in Tokyo - the first in our new strategy to end each season with a World Championship.

The Back Of Love, Whitehaven 2006. Not a phone in sight—just hands in the air and beer bottles flying. The good old days 🍻✨

I am incredibly proud that Rob’s final documentary – There’s Only One Rob Burrow - has made the shortlist for the National Television Awards. As Rob always said - In a world full of adversity we must dare to dream.  Please vote for Rob nationaltvaward.com

Victory in the penultimate preseason game! Thank you to @FarnboroughFCW for the game and best of luck for the rest of the season 🤝 #UpTheBoatwomen 🚢 #PrideOfEastSouthampton🔴⚪️

41 years ago this week - hard work and great coaching paying off for a moment I will never forget.

By School Type • Persistent absence: – Primary: 13.5% – Secondary: 24.3% – Special schools: 35.8%

SEND Context • Persistent absence: – EHCP: 33.3% – SEN support: 26.3% – No SEN: 14.7% • Severe absence: – EHCP: 6.9% – SEN support: 3.7% – No SEN: 0.97%