05 December 2022
We won coverage in every national newspaper with our Big SATs Sit-In event, inviting MPs in Westminster and parents in schools all over the country…
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20 November 2022
Our speedy briefings take just five minutes to deliver, meaning we’ve reached more than 40 MPs and Peers…
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21 June 2021
How do you create a social media film that goes viral and gets more than 2.4 million views in a few short weeks?
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21 May 2021
On the More Than A Score campaign, we have been working hard over the last few months to build unity of opinion amongst all major stakeholders and policy influencers in the arena of primary assessment – ie SATs and other high-stakes, high-pressure statutory tests.
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21 May 2021
This month Can Can worked with fellow parent campaigners from Save Our Schools and other groups to launch a vibrant new campaign called #TurnThePage. Their short, sharp, 30-minute online rally saw parents from across the country gather to hear Michael Rosen, 13-year-old Aisha, a head teacher and Can Can founder Alison Ali talking about what […]
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27 November 2020
This week’s Spending Review served up cold comfort to educators and our nation’s children. Along with headteachers, teachers, unions and parents, here at Can Can we campaigned long and hard to win Boris Johnson’s vaunted election promise of a £14 billion cash injection for schools, which, in one of those fiscal sleights of hand we’ve […]
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18 November 2020
An open letter signed by over 1,200 school leaders – facilitated by Can Can – made headlines in the Sunday Times. Using our extensive network of primary school leaders, we collected signatures from heads, governors and other senior figures in schools across the country. The letter, outlining the reasons why SATs and other primary assessments […]
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16 November 2020
Hundreds of school leaders from across the country were joined by MPs, experts and parents on the recent More Than A Score webinar. The event was created, promoted and run by Can Can and allowed a range of voices to unite in their view that statutory assessments are the last thing schools need in the […]
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01 October 2020
“I care”, a film targeting headteachers and created by Can Can for More Than A Score has won more than 40,000 views in just two weeks. It also helped attract more than 200 school leaders to a webinar on assessment, which featured Kate Green, Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Daisy Cooper Lib Dem […]
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01 October 2020
We’re pleased to have been commissioned by the NEU to produce a new series of micro-films. The “Fair Grade” campaign calls on the government to plan ahead to avoid the same 2021 GCSE/A Level grading fiasco that hit students so hard in 2020. The series of self-shot films, with students, parents and teachers talking direct […]
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