Pay this head teacher £1m

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http://www.mossbourne.hackney.sch.uk/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/05/mossbourne-academy-wilby-profile

This school is located in Hackney, one of the poorest boroughs of London. The academy was created as a replacement for a failing school. The school gets students from its catchment area full of people in poverty.

The school's GCSE performance was in the top 1% in the country this year and brilliant last year.

The current year 13 group was the first year to start at the school. It will be sending a significant number of students to top universities.

This is simply a result of being a well managed school. This school in a single year will probably bring more people up the social ladder than all other secondary schools in Hackney combined.
 
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he's done very well with it but surely

The school selects students from its catchment area full of people in poverty.
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Is part of the reason, they're not forced to admit all the dregs that end up in public school
 
GeX said:
he's done very well with it but surely



Is part of the reason, they're not forced to admit all the dregs that end up in public school
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No selection in the selective school sense.

Selection criteria are like standard comprehensives. Siblings, distance from school etc.

RDM said:
Or possibly because it is one of the few schools that allows selection? Fail the admission test and you don't get in...
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Nope. Not like that.
 
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Year 12s going to university?

My school went up to 5th year, then lower 6th and upper 6th. University came after that.
 
Clown said:
Year 12s going to university?

My school went up to 5th year, then lower 6th and upper 6th. University came after that.
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Yep, sorry. I guess the cohort has started year 13 now with their AS-level results.

My bad.
 
Want to look at the teachers and the support staff in that school. They are the people that ACTUALLY work with those difficult children and make a difference. They are the ones at the front line and doing the job of turning things around.

A headteacher earning £1M a year? A ******* joke is what it is.

There is more to a school than it's headteacher.
 
2StepSteve said:
Want to look at the teachers and the support staff in that school. They are the people that ACTUALLY work with those difficult children and make a difference. They are the ones at the front line and doing the job of turning things around.

A headteacher earning £1M a year? A ******* joke is what it is.

There is more to a school than it's headteacher.
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If he manages and motivates the staff to do their jobs well, then fair play.

PS Apostrophe mistake in school related thread = irony
 
There was a fantastic documentary that featured this school recently, was very interesting.

It shows what can be done in education given the budget and willpower to make a change.
 
[TW]Fox;18278038 said:
He doesnt earn £1m. The only joke in this thread is your post.
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A more of a joke is that you haven't decided on a Sandy Bridge motherboard yet :p.

But yes I failed to read the post properly.. I go to bed :(
 
The idea that this startup which replaced a failing school could attract anything other than the usual batch of inner-city London teachers (I'm not afraid to say most aren't above average) has to be taken into account. It just shows you don't need star graduate teachers or even those teaching at top schools to make a real difference.

The problem with inner-city schools is that good teachers tend to leave after a while. Then you are left with average or below average teachers (yes half of all teachers have to be below the median). So it is amazing what this school has done.
 
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Clown said:
Year 12s going to university?

My school went up to 5th year, then lower 6th and upper 6th. University came after that.
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I went to Uni after what would be English 12th year.

These academics confuse me, as we don't have them up here. There seems to be only 200 places (based on the application pdf on the website). Surely this school had many more places prior to this? What are the fundamental differences between an 'academy' and a secondary school?
 
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GeX said:
he's done very well with it but surely

Is part of the reason, they're not forced to admit all the dregs that end up in public school
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Well that statement assumes that private schools are immediately better than public schools, wheras the only reason for the better results is not better teachers or facilities, it's that the parents are more pushy.
 
Ahleckz said:
I went Uni after what would be English 12th year.

These academics confuse me, as we don't have them up here. There seems to be only 200 places (based on the application pdf on the website). Surely this school had many more places prior to this?
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Sixth Forms attached to secondary schools don't tend to be much larger than the secondary school years which tend to be between 180-200 a year for state schools (in England). I know in some other parts of the country you can have massive years.

What are the fundamental differences between an 'academy' and a secondary school?
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I don't really think there's much other than academies having more freedom in certain areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_(English_school)
 
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Reading through that article makes me think, faith school without the faith.

That's genius.

This country needs more men like him.
 
daz said:
It shows what can be done in education given the budget and willpower to make a change.
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Therein lies the problem, budgets are being cut and willpower is in short supply in this country.:( The majority only care about themselves.
 
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