Teach Secondary 13.5

DO SAY “This a Maybach Benz, this ain’t no Uber” BAND4BAND It’s got a curt duration of 2minutes and 20 seconds, is credited to British rapper Central Cee (pictured) featuringAmerican rapper Lil Baby, contains lyrics that will be largely indecipherable to anyone over the age of 22 and and you’ll probably hear it blaring out of at least one smartphone wielded by a surly teenager before the summer’s out. It might not have crossed your own cultural radar, but know this – the track ‘Band4Band’ is popular. Howpopular? 110,327,357 streams on Spotify since its release onMay 23rd 2024 popular.The video – replete with those classic aspirational hip-hop visual signifiers of private jets, luxury sports cars and expensive jewellery – has racked up 42,822,432 YouTube views within the same timeframe, and you can expect both numbers to climb significantly higher by autumn. So...what does it sound like?Well, it features a sinister, three-note ascending synth stringmotif atop a UK drill beat, above which two gents proceed to tell us how stupendously rich they both are.As the punchy chorus puts it, ‘We can go band for band’ / ‘F--- that,we can goM forM’ . For anyone not conversant in ‘young’, that roughly translates as ‘ We can compare our denominations of currency in the thousands’ / ‘Tush and fie, I saywe compare our respective levels of stratospheric wealth in theMILLIONS. ’ “But luckily the seats go back” DON’T SAY Thinkofanumber... Teach Secondary ’s digest of the latest goings-on in the profession... The newsletter What arewe talking about? Strategies and Guidance to Support EAL Learners in Intervention Groups, produced BEAT THE BUDGET The UNINFORMED teacher’s guide to… WHAT THEY SAID “My education reforms were designed to build a country where everyone – nomatter their background – can become the authors of their own life stories. For me, that is what being in Parliament and being in government is all about.” Michael Gove, in a letter announcing his decision to not seek re-election as anMP 49.7% of children with SEND are currently waiting 20 weeks or more to receive Education, Health and Care Plans to which they’re entitled Source: SEN2 data collection performed by the UK government 6% The decline in average teacher pay across the UK (in real terms) compared to 2010 Source: The Institute for Fiscal Studies 6,500 The number of new teachers the Labour Party has pledged to hire if (at time of writing) elected to office Source: Labour Partymanifesto byThe Bell Foundation Who is it for? KS1-4 teachers, EAL co-ordinators andTAs What’s on offer? A92-page PDF containing teaching ideas and suggestions for school staff working with EAL learners, for use in conjunction with The Bell Foundation’s EAL Assessment Framework. Howmight teachers use the resources? The document contains a series of adaptable teaching ideas and examples, as well as details of recommended approaches and strategies for EAL learners and suggestions for how classrooms can be organised to becomemore inclusive. Where is it available? bell-foundation.org.uk/resources ONE FOR THE WALL “A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement” Clement Attlee 06 teachwire.net/secondary