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EEF kicks off trial to see if ChatGPT can cut teachers’ working hours but heads’ leaders question focus on just one generative AI tool

This teacher shares the fun way she got staff at her school exercising every day in January and the positive impact this has had on their physical and mental health

‘Caversham Covenant’ partnership launches today in Southampton as routine Ofsted inspections return

The number of staff days lost due to mental ill health in schools and nurseries in Scotland has increased by more than 50 per cent

Ofsted is also launching a policy to pause school inspections if it is thought that a headteacher needs additional support

91¶¶Òõ’ education news round-up this week includes a list of tasks teachers should not have to perform and the withdrawal of the performance-related pay requirement

Target dates are needed on key government promises around temporary teacher contracts, non-contact time, education reform and free breakfasts, says Labour

Watchdog should put graded inspections on hold until it implements reforms and should also drop single-word judgements, an NAHT survey finds

Comments demonstrate ‘upside-down thinking’ and show Ofsted is ‘out of touch’ with the profession, biggest teaching union claims

List aimed at cutting teacher workload includes ‘investigating a pupil’s absence’ and ‘producing and collating analyses of attendance figures’

The DfE’s Workload Reduction Taskforce has recommended a list of tasks teachers should not have to do – but it is very similar to a list created 10 years ago

The Department for Education is expected to publish the initial recommendations from its workload reduction ‘task force’ today