Dame sally Coates Head. Anyone heard of her methods

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She poins up rank or order of pupils. 1 to 80 on school notice board Children named. (unusual?)

Dame Sally boasts about her method in yesterday Indy

I've visited Burlington Danes and there are noticeboards in corridors with the children's rank in each subject displayed publically. I've generally heard very good things about her, and the pupils I met there were terrific, but this particular innovation must be very difficult on the children who are, for reasons of ability rather than effort, always near the bottom of the list.

I can't stand this idea. It's like setting - great for the top kids, not great for the middle and hideous for the bottom. Some kids struggle. I prefer to support them rather than ostracise them.

On the public display part of her methods. Very few of the teaching profession think it is REASONABLE yet she gets away with it. Do academies do as they like? Even if it is seen as eccentric? I think the Dame is a fan of Master Gove. (that says a lot)

I gather she operated in the Wandswoth area of London. (close to the prison)

Don't like the idea.

But peacoat really I don't think it is anything like setting.
By setting you are supporting the strugglers. Lower sets often have fewer pupils, and the classes can go at their own pace and focus on the right issues.

We had "form orders" at grammar school. Totally hideous and of no benefit at all. The bottom 33% were more or less written off. Who on earth is motivated by being bottom all the time and publicly humiliated as well? I would avoid any school that did this.

It's surely too early to say how effective her methods have been. There could be mental health casualties 20 years from now.

She didn't even see a whole 7 years' generation through Burlington Danes but she miraculously managed to find time to be acting head of WLFS last year as well, giving Toby Young more material for his forthcoming bestseller, "How to Lose Headteachers and Alienate Parents".

If the recent WLFS thread on MN is to be believed, she didn't manage to turn that school around. A one trick wonder?