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1944 Education Act
Otherwise known as the Butler Act 1944, was established by R.A.Butler the education minister. The act focused in three stages of education, Primary, Secondary and further education. This resulted in compulsory education to all children up to the age of 15 (16 as soon as possible) Entrance was based on the 11+ exam -
Crowther Report 1959
Geoffrey Crowther (chairman for the Central Advisory Council) investigated and concluded a report on education of pupils between the age of 15-18. The report outlined that the school leaving age should be 16 and highlighted the period of completion to be between 1966 and 1968 -
Newsom Report 1963
The report titled "Half our Future" was created by John Newsom. Newsom's report looked at the education of average and below average students. It found that many schools were 'failing' pupils between 13-16 -
1965 Circular 10/65
The plan by the labour government to end selection at 11+. As a result to end the divide of grammar/comprehensive schools -
1967 The Plowden Report
Titled' Children and their Primary Schools' was written by Bridget, Lady Plowden, took 3 years to collate after being requested to be completed by Sir Edward Boyle in 1963. The report looked at the transition between primary and secondary education and looked at items such as teacher recruitment and class sizes -
1970 Circular 10/70
The circular of 1965 was removed by new Education Minister Margaret Thatcher and allowed each authority to decide itself -
Milk gone off?
Margaret Thatcher stopped free milk and got given the nickname "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher" -
School leaving age
School age increased to 16 (4 years later than planned in the Crowther report of 1959) -
1975 Sex Discrimination act
The SDA established by the Equal Opportunities Commission, promoted the equality of both sexes -
1976 Callaghan's Speech
James Callaghan the current labour prime minister made a speech at Ruskin College, Oxford his was noted as the "Great Debate" about public education. He talked about schools not teaching the pupils the basic skills they needed to be taken in to the workplace -
1976 Race Relations Act
Made by the government to focus on the discrimination of colour, nationality -
1978 Warnock Report
The Warnock report focused on the education of handicapped children and young people. As a result of this report the Education (Special Education) act 1981 was created -
1981 Education (Special Education) Act
After Mary Warnock's report in 1978, The Education (Special Education) Act was created, with the mindset of replacing concepts and putting right some of the educational needs to children with 'special educational needs'. The report looked at defining the correct terminology of 'handicapped' student to 'Special educational need'. The report also stated that it was down the LEA (local education authority) to identify and assess the needs. -
1984 Im here!!!!
Craig Bernard Moss was born on Monday 4th June 1984, at Wordsley Hospital weighing 7lb 11oz -
1986 National Councils; for Vocational Qualifications
The introductions of NVQ (National Vocational Qualifications) are combine qualifications for industrial and commercial training. -
1986 Testing Testing 1, 2
The testing of 16+ exams combining 'O'Levels and CSE -
1988 GCSE
After the testing of 16+ Exams 'O' Levels and CSE were replaced by GCSE's .
GCSE's brought in different methods of assessing learning for example course work not just exams -
1988 Education Reform Act
The Education Reform Act of 1988 was mostly regarded as the most important education legislation since Butler's initial Education act in 1944. Key points the introduction of a National Curriculum (NC), which stated core subject were taught from the age of 5 to 16. Core Subject were Maths, English and Science SAT's testing were introduced at the age of 5, 7 and 11 in the core subjects League tables were produced. -
1988 Nursery
I started nursery this year, This is where the trouble began!! -
1989 The Children Act
Some of the principles of the act state that:
Promote the safe guide and welfare of children within the area Assess a child’s needs and upbringing
Take action if needed -
1989 Step 1 Primary
I started the Dingle Primary School - As pictured in its present state -
1992 Ofsted
Ofsetd (Office for Standard in Education) is headed by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, was created in this year Ofsted usually work through the process of inspections through the schools -
1994 Code of Practice for Special Eduactional Needs
This looked for clarity of what defines 'Special Needs' and found the need for a special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) -
1995 Disability Discrimination Act
The Disability Discrimination Act was brought in to combat the unlawful act of discriminating of disabilities in employment education or transport -
1995 Step 2 Seconday - The Crestwood School
I Started the Crestwood Secondary School in Kingswinford this year
Can you pick me out? -
1997 The Education Act
The Education act of 1997 Consisted of Key Stage 1 class sizes being reduced to a maximum of 30 and the loss of the Assisted Places Scheme -
1998 School Standards and Framework Act
Introduced by David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Skills the School Standards and Framework Act set new categories of school: Community
Foundation
Voluntary aided
Voluntary Controlled Local partnerships were also set up to try to rise standard in disadvantge areas -
2000 Race Relations Amendment Act
Now the responsibility of the LEA to promote racial equality -
2000 Step 3 Further Education - Stourbridge College
My time at Stourbridge College And me and my first car C reg VW Polo in Crème - they don’t make them like that anymore -
2001 The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act
The act in 2001 was an extension of the 1995 act, where it states that special need students should be given the same main stream education as other people -
2003 ECM White Paper
A combination of 3 government papers which was one of the biggest changes in relations to children and children’s safety -
2003 Raising Standards and Tackling Workload: a National Agreement
The agreement removed admin tasks from teachers Also agreed o giver PPA (Planning, Preparation and assessment) Reformed staff roles or teachers and teaching assistants -
2003 The Lambing Report
William Herbert Laming, Baron Laming, who is a social worker wrote a report in 2003 after chairing the public enquiry of the death of Victoria Climbié, although he wrote several report this one lead to the Every Child Matters program -
2003 Step 4 University - Wolverhampton
Started my Computer Studies degree -
2004 The Children Act - Every Child Matters
Taken from the Laming Report and the ECM white papers the children act is an amendment of the act of 1989 the new act states its main aims, are for every child, whatever their background or circumstances
to have the support they need to
Be healthy Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution Achieve economic well-being -
2005 The Education Act
The Education act was split into several parts Funding for schools came directly from the government New schools can be funded by promoters TTA now changed to the Training and Development Agency Also School reports now made public -
The Secondary National Strategy
Replaced the Key Stage 3 strategy and promoted small one to one tuition groups use of ICT in the classroom and home -
Graduation
My Graduation after finishing my Degree I just love that outfit!! -
2007 School leaving Age incrased by 2015
A goverment bill realsed today states that shcool leaving age will be increased to 17 by 2013
18 by 2015 -
2008 KS3 National Curriculum
Created to enable schools to rise standards by encouraging sucessful leraners and responsible citzens -
2008 14 -19 diplomas
Dipolmas for 14-19 introduced -
PGCE Begins
Started My PGCE at the Walsall campus of the University of Wolverhampton
