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Cathie Paine
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5 MAT growth lessons we learned so you don’t have to
From appointing the right heads to improving central teams’ alignment on school improvement, these are some key growth lessons, says the CEO of 60-school REAch2
Strategy
28 June 2024
5 MAT growth lessons we learned so you don’t have to
Why our pupils don’t worry about Sats
Surveys after Sats each year show our approach for Year 6 pupils is working, says Cathie Paine
Primary
12 July 2023
Why our pupils don’t worry about SATs
How we’re tackling the reading gap
With new research revealing that the number of ‘very low’ attainers in Year 2 reading has tripled post-Covid, academy trust chief Cathie Paine says the situation would be worse without teachers’ ‘colossal’ catch-up efforts
Primary
24 November 2022
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Why attendance is key to turning around KS1 results decline
The CEO of the largest primary-only MAT reflects on recent key stage 1 and phonics results – and discusses what needs to be done to address the challenges they have revealed
Primary
10 October 2022
Why attendance is key to turning around KS1 results decline
We should not ‘over-focus’ on the importance of Sats
MAT CEO says although the Sats results ‘hold up a mirror’, we should remember that they ‘only tell us so much’
Primary
6 July 2022
We should not ‘over-focus’ on the importance of Sats