Category: Media Coverage

Professor Rachel Lofthouse, Professor of Teacher Education in the Carnegie School of Education, explains the concept of ‘pedagogy of professional decline’, what inspired her to coin the phrase and why it is important to the current teaching landscape. She references Warwick Mansell’s latest exposé on Astrea’s teching practices, though does not reference them by name. Read…

Warwick Mansell is a well-known freelance education journalist and writer/editor for the website Education Uncovered. Astrea Academy Trust was featured in another of his articles this week. The article is published here, but does require a subscription: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/165556/teachers-at-astrea-secondary-academy-told-to-remove-all-items-from-the-front-of-their-classrooms-and-to-have-all-year-groups-reading-with-a-ruler.thtml

BBC News have published an article about the teacher strikes, and action short of a strike, that is planned to happen specifically at St Ivo Academy. Read the article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66734164

Cambridge News have published an article about the teacher strikes, and action short of a strike, that is planned to happen specifically at St Ivo Academy. Read the article here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/teachers-set-strike-cambridgeshire-school-27653486

Today St Ivo Parents Forum was featured in another article on the Hunts Post. Read the article here: https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/23693900.astrea-academy-trust-st-ivo-academy-teacher-strikes/

Warwick Mansell is a well-known freelance education journalist and writer/editor for the website Education Uncovered. Astrea Academy Trust was featured in another of his articles this week. The article is published here, but does require a subscription: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/165216/strip-classroom-walls-of-decorationswith-the-exception-of-trustbranded-posters-says-academy-chain.thtml

Today BBC Newsround covered the toilet issues that many schools around the country, including ours, are facing. It’s available to watch on iPlayer here: https://bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001npv4

This morning, St Ivo Parents Forum was interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. It will be available for a limited time (29 days) for you to listen to it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fw0dwy

Today the the impact of toilet policies at St Ivo have been featured in an article on Cambridge News. Read the article here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/cambs-students-not-drinking-avoid-27221003