“The recent PIRLS study shows England rising to fourth place out of 43 countries that tested children at the same age. In 2016 we were joint eighth, up from joint tenth, a rise attributed in that report to our focus on phonics.”
Does he back the National Education Union’s advice to its members not even to engage on a possible June 1 re-opening?
Despite media provocation to constantly move the story on, a new pseudo-normality has dawned; and yet no-one quite knows what the boundaries are.