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In this three-part series, Matt Bromley considers practical approaches for supporting ‘high-attaining’ students. This is part three. Catch up with parts one and two. The first article in this series offered five practical strategies for challenging high-attaining learners as well as five more for motivating them and avoiding apathy. And in part two I offered… Read more

In this three-part series, Matt Bromley considers practical approaches for supporting ‘high-attaining’ students. This is part two. Catch up with part one here. In part one of this three-part series, I argued that it is easy to overlook high-attainers because they’re often compliant; they are less likely to be truculent and thus are unlikely to raise… Read more

In the fourth of six articles originally published in SecEd Magazine, Matt Bromley analyses Ofsted’s new evaluation areas. In this article, he explores attendance and behaviour… Ofsted’s new inspection framework has been unveiled and will be introduced from November. I wrote previously dissecting key aspects of the framework and setting out some initial actions that… Read more

In the third of six articles originally published in SecEd Magazine, Matt Bromley analyses Ofsted’s new evaluation areas. In this article, he explores achievement… Ofsted’s new inspection framework has been unveiled and will be introduced from 10 November. I have written previously about the key aspects of the framework and I have set out some… Read more

In this three-part series, Matt Bromley considers practical approaches for supporting ‘high-attaining’ students. In part one, he offers five strategies for deliberate challenge and five for staving off apathy in the classroom… What do you call the highest attaining learners in your class? Don’t wait for the punchline, it’s a genuine question. Because words matter;… Read more

In the second of six articles originally published in SecEd Magazine, Matt Bromley analyses Ofsted’s new evaluation areas. In this article, he explores curriculum and teaching… Ofsted’s new inspection framework has been unveiled and will be introduced from November. In this series, I am exploring the six core evaluation areas that schools are to be judged… Read more

In the first of six articles originally published in SecEd Magazine, Matt Bromley analyses Ofsted’s new evaluation areas, starting with inclusion… Here’s a caveat before I begin: do not interpret my advice as constituting a checklist; rather, it is a sense-check, a way of helping you start a conversation with colleagues about your daily practice… Read more

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 14 October 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that the St George’s flag is not an emblem of racism and fear, but an ensign of inclusivity and hope… There’s a story we sometimes tell ourselves: that Britain is an island fortress, a… Read more

Winston Churchill is purported to have said that “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried”. The same might be said of Ofsted – the Office for Standards in Education, a government quango that inspects state-funded schools in England.  Ofsted divide opinion. Either they’re a force… Read more

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 30 September 2025 in which Matt Bromley argues that the government’s plan to reserve civil service internships for working class people is an essential corrective… The government’s plan to reserve internships exclusively for students from working-class backgrounds is not some narrow form… Read more

What’s on the horizon in 2025/26? As the summer sun begins to fade and we prepare to open our school gates again, the 2025/26 academic year comes into view – not just as a date in the diary, but as a critical juncture for education.  This coming year, we will have to navigate a shifting… Read more

What’s on the horizon in 2025/26? As the summer sun begins to fade and we prepare to open our school gates again, the 2025/26 academic year comes into view – not just as a date in the diary, but as a critical juncture for education.  This coming year, we will have to navigate a shifting… Read more