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🗓️ 2 September 2024
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One or two-word Ofsted inspection grades for England's schools are being scrapped immediately. Early next year, school improvement teams will be set up in every area, and the Government says it will continue to intervene in struggling schools. By September 2025, parents will be able to view a new "report card" describing what inspectors have found at a school. BBC Correspondent Ellie Price joins Nuala McGovern to discuss the changes, as does Sir Michael Wilshaw, former Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills, and Emma, a parent campaigner from Sheffield.
A new film about to hit our cinema screens looks at three estranged sisters, in very different stages of life who move back in together during their dying father’s final days. His Three Daughters stars Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne and it covers several themes that might really resonate with many women. It hits selected UK cinemas on Friday 6 September and Netflix on 20 September. Emmy-nominated Carrie Coon, known for her work in The Gilded Age and the new Ghostbusters reboot, and Elizabeth Olsen, Emmy-nominated Marvel Universe Star who played Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlett Witch as well as real-life figure, Candy Montgomery in the miniseries Love & Death, both join Nuala live in the studio to discuss it.
As schools go back across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, children aren’t the only ones who might feel the pressure of making friends at school. Alliances and friendships between parents at the school gates will also be forged, broken, renewed or even ignored. So if you’re a mum dropping off or picking up the kids today, how do you feel about hanging out with other mum friends? Do you struggle to make those relationships? Or do you thrive on them? And does having mum friends impact how your own children make friends and socialise? The writers Rhiannon Picton-James and Jayne Cherrington-Cook join Nuala to discuss.
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0:42.0 | Well, an announcement this morning by the government |
0:43.8 | that one or two word ofstead inspection grades |
0:47.3 | for England schools, which were, the words were outstanding, |
0:50.6 | good, requires improvement or inadequate, they are going to be scrapped immediately. |
0:55.1 | And the government said the change follows the suicide of head teacher Ruth Perry in |
0:58.8 | 2023 and was needed to reduce the high stakes for schools and give parents a better picture. |
1:04.8 | We're going to hear reaction to and details of that change. |
1:08.6 | Also, I watched a very moving film over the weekend called his three daughters. It's about the |
1:14.8 | family dynamics as a parent is dying. Those daughters are represented by |
1:19.7 | acting powerhouses. We have two of them joining me in studio today, Elizabeth Olsen and |
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