Well what a Summer it was.

The first Coalition Government since 1945.

4005 Schools with KS2 cohorts boycott the SAT tests. These tests disfigure and distort Year 6 for our children, lead to school leaders being placed under intolerable and inappropriate pressure by inspection teams, and provide ineffective information for parents, secondary schools and national trends. There must be a better way. We hope the new Government will listen to reason on this.

The Government did move quickly on legislation to provide greater autonomy for schools -starting with those judged as outstanding by OFSTED. These were termed converter Academies and would be state-funded independent schools run by Trusts and leave local authority or similar control. They would receive their share of the local authority retained funding. This received the support of the NAHT providing such schools were socially inclusive.

Goddard Park began it's journey to a new freedom providing it remained in the family of schools, and retained and developed it's partnerships. This was the start of an extremely busy summer.