The Education Brief: Wednesday 26 November 2025 - Top stories include:

• A school in Camden offers parents ‘attendance awareness courses’ instead of issuing fines, and three-quarters of participating families have seen attendance rise.

• Ofsted will resume routine inspections in state schools from 1 December.

• Male secondary headteachers earn £5,000 more a year than their female counterparts on average.

• Teachers get a far poorer maternity deal than many other public sector workers.

• Many councils are unable to say how many home-educated children are subject to child protection enquiries, raising safeguarding issues.

HEP Updates:

• Book sessions on the https://hepbookinghub.co.uk/ 

• https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hep-inclusion-send-conference-2026-neurodiversity-in-the-classroom-tickets-1758147629889

• https://haringeyeducationpartnership.co.uk/responding-to-a-cry-for-help-additional-resource-bases-in-schools/

• https://haringeyeducationpartnership.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Using-Multimedia-in-the-Classroom-Teacher-Flyer.pdf

Watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyYhKHOxFvk

Listening - https://educationrickshaw.com/2025/11/10/s5e08-doug-lemov-on-what-to-do-and-active-observation-techniques/

Reading - https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/is-a-noisy-classroom-a-thinking-classroom

AI Tool - https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/oxed/secondary/Teaching_the_AI_Native_Generation.pdf

⁠Music by Slo Pony⁠