miss_hobson

National Lead for Primary Strategy and Innovation for OCL

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

New PISA data out- and a huge success story. England is now a top-10 education system in the world. Outside of Asia, one of the highest.

New PISA 2025 results:

Science: 8th in the world, up from 13th
Reading: 9th, up from 13th
Maths: 10th, up from 11th.
While much of the OECD has gone backwards, England has has held its ground while most of the world has gone backwards. Huge achievement by school staff.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

I genuinely don't know how we solve the "education track record problem"

People with ZERO experience teaching or leading in successful schools, but being payed 000's and invited to panels, roundtables, DfE etc..

[Oasis Academies @OasisAcademies]

Brilliant session from Emily Hobson, our National Lead for Primary Strategy & Innovation, at @EducationFest yesterday, sharing Oasis’s digital strategy journey. From #EdTech to #PedTech: a pedagogy-first approach transforming teaching & learning 👏👩‍💻

[Joshua Perry @bringmoredata]

To put it another way, which would you rather: Eton lets 87 poorer kids get a discount on a £50k+ p.a. education, or the govt gets £14m to spend on public services? I’m ok with it if you think Eton bursaries are better (I don’t), but at least acknowledge that’s the choice.

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

Celebrating @geographyassoc6 Gold Award for @OasisAcademies @oasisbankleaze with their brilliant Principal Amelia Nelson in @britishlibrary! So lucky that she is our National Curriculum Lead for Thematic & National Lead for Geog so all our academies benefit from her expertise!

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@bringmoredata Looking forward to it!

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

📈 The proportion of trainee teachers who don’t go on to achieve qualified teacher status has doubled since 2019, new data shows

https://t.co/eao0nvep59

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

This! Exactly this!

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

The last question to the panel was "what would you like the new government to do on curriculum and assessment?"

My answer:

If we are talking about curriculum and assessment, the biggest thing for me is a reduction. There's too much content across the board, and we need to strip back. We also need to stop assessment backwash, where exam mark schemes become a part of the curriculum and determine what students do and don't learn.

But that's if we're talking curriculum and assessment. If we're talking education in general - if @bphillipsonMP picked up the phone to me and said "what's the biggest thing in education" I would say something else:

Broadly, the education system itself in this country is working. Training is getting better, standards are improving, professionalism and professional knowledge is increasing and slowly, slowly, outcomes across the board are heading in the right direction. Curriculum and assessment need some changes, fixes, and tweaks, but in a broad sense they work.

What isn't working is everything else: we can't access CAMHS and we don't get hold of social workers. We have a two child limit and a benefits cap that keeps children hungry and in poverty. We have income cliff-edges that mean children whose parents can't afford meals are also not eligible for free school meals. We don't have Sure Start, we don't have youth centres. The SEND infrastructure is byzantine, underfunded and on the verge of collapse. The very fabric of the social security net is tattered and frayed, and vulnerable young children are falling through the gaps. Parents have lost faith in the system, and are losing their trust in schools and teachers.

Despite this, schools are heroically battling the odds to provide students with a high-quality, robust and meaningful education. But when everything outside our gates is in such disrepair there's a limit to what we can do.

So yes, there are things within education that need fixing. But the main thing - the biggest thing - is everything else. The best thing you can do for us is to fix that.

[Oasis Academies @OasisAcademies]

🎉 We are delighted to share that we have been recognised by the MAT Excellence Awards for the 'Community Trust of the Year' award! 🌟 A huge thank you to our incredible staff, students, and communities for making this possible. Here's to continued success! #MATExcellenceAwards

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

So proud to be part of @OasisAcademies 😍😍😍

[Abbe Barneby @abbebarneby]

What a team! Awards for Inclusivity and for our community work! This means so much to us, as it shows that we are living out our vision and ethos #oasisuk #oasisacademies #MATExcellenceawards

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@InsightHQ Very happy to if needed!

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@AdamBryant_1 @GWRHelp They didn’t answer for the first hour! Someone eventually answered it as a train came in – which was the first indication we had that the line had been reopened!

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@GWRHelp What AWFUL customer care

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@GWRHelp Thank you @GWRHelp for instructing a train of people off at Morton on Marsh at 4:30pm in a station with closed waiting rooms, closed toilets, false promise of a bus within 1hr then no comms. Two hours later a train has now come in going to Worcester so we assume the line is open?

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

Brilliant to welcome our Showbie colleagues today @OasisWarndon to see Horizons in action! Exciting to collaborate on future T&L enhancements in the Showbie suite of products @Showbie @OasisAcademies #edtech #ipad

[Andrew Morrish @AndrewDMorrish]

‘Inspectors have a deep understanding of the work schools do and the demands on leaders because they have done that work themselves.’

No they haven’t. They have not all been a headteacher.

They have not felt the weight of responsibility. They have not led challenging schools.

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

@bringmoredata 😂 It was accidental Josh! Only realised once I posted!

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

Loving the Solihull DISCO today! Refreshing and up to date focus on assessment in education!
#education #assessment @OasisAcademies @jpembroke @bringmoredata
https://t.co/agBLoKGjWl

[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

Brilliant set of reading!

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

Ok edu-nerds: here is the MEGA-THREAD you have been waiting for...blogs from times gone past that you probably haven't read, but probably should. Buckle up. Rules go in the second tweet, blogs start in the third tweet.

Read, and share.

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[miss_hobson @miss_hobson]

Wow! Brilliant strategy as ever by a politician! No humility or awareness of education or schools but will end up impacting policy! Gove the second #incompetent #sticktopolitics

[Tes magazine @tes]

The members of the expert group that will advise prime minister @RishiSunak on his maths-to-18 plan have been named – and they do not include any leaders representing primary or secondary schools
https://t.co/HLXoiDHGqM