June 2025 – John Cosgrove
1 post published by John Cosgrove during June 2025| John Cosgrove
At the start of this month, Bridget Phillipson made a speech to school leaders from the Midlands, about what she called her “mission” to improve attendance. This is what motivates her, she declared…| John Cosgrove
“Through A Different Lens” described by its author Ger Graus as a “professional autobiography” was published the week before Easter, just in time for the season of school trips, residentials and wo…| John Cosgrove
A school taking its pupils ski-ing is wonderful. Neither I, nor I hope anyone else, would ever have a problem with it. What I do, however, have a problem with, a big problem, is a school with the a…| John Cosgrove
Three schools were responsible for almost half the exclusions of secondary aged pupils across Cornwall according to the most recent Government figures. In the Autumn term of 2023-24, Camborne Scien…| John Cosgrove
The first big child abuse scandal I knew of came to light in the mid 1980s. Dozens of children in a school in Cornwall were abused over a decade and their headteacher went to prison. The official r…| John Cosgrove
“I know you’re full John, but…” The Borough’s head of Special Needs had rung me to discuss Clyde (not his real name) a boy in Year 6, who had been attending a school just across the border in a nei…| John Cosgrove
The teacher put on a red wig, sunglasses and a surgical mask. She hid her carving knife in a bunch of flowers and when the door was opened in response to her ring on the bell, she stabbed and slash…| John Cosgrove
…and should we be concerned if it does? Gareth Southgate’s England team has thrilled and excited the entire country and while the immediate aftermath of disappointing defeat may not be the be…| John Cosgrove
“This Government,” the Secretary of State for Education tells us, “is investing more funding in our schools than ever before – in real terms.” She quotes numbers to prove it but the reality i…| John Cosgrove
It would be overstating it to say my mother was proud of being denounced from the pulpit of the parish church, but if it was a nasty experience at the time, in her later years she was at least able…| John Cosgrove
