15 December 2020
Our online rally for the More Than A Score campaign brought together MPs from all sides of the House, the leaders of the main three teaching unions and over 1000 school leaders, teachers, parents and supporters. But in such a high-profile line-up, the most moving and engaging contributions came from year 6 pupils expressing, from […]
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10 December 2020
“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.” After four bitter years of division in our country, the murdered Jo Cox MP’s words have never sounded more prescient. Fighting and in-fighting have rampaged like so many wildfires through the UK and around the world: between and within […]
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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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18 November 2020
By Maxine Thomas-Asante 2020 has been a tough year. From Covid-19, to life in lockdown, to global race equality protests, we have faced enough challenges to inspire films for the next decade. However, through all of this, we have been reminded of what is most important: community. Communities have gathered, supported one another and mobilised […]
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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
For educators 1. Black History Month is the start – and not the end – of the conversation Black History Month is towards the beginning of the academic year. This means that we have many months afterwards to develop and expand on the learning started here. The British curriculum has more scope than we often […]
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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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23 September 2020
If one thing is clear when we look at the English education system, it is that we could be doing more to prepare our children to thrive.
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