From the West Sussex Conference Blog
Derek and Angela write:
Martin Reed's presidential skills seem to be a matter of inverse proportion. His opening address was very worthy but delivered in a monotone and rather wordy. He could have put more fire into the speech and more of the speech into the fire.
However when he expressed solidarity with the Visteon workers and when he spoke very briefly at the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign at lunchtime today he was succinct and to the point and said exactly what needed to be said.
The early years discussion rededicated the union to a qualified teacher for every class in contradiction of the rather woolly resolution on cover on Sunday's conference session. It also called for a primary workforce classroom protocol in order to clarify (inter alia) the differing roles of teachers and support staff.
The most interesting motion was the one Hazel Danson moved on early years education where she expressed concern about the removal of the foundation stage from the national curriculum as a result of the EYFS which will mean less importance is attached to early years education as opposed to the primary and secondary phases.
Alex Kenny expressed concern over the increase in early years teachers' working day as a result of the increase in teaching hours to 6 hours a day. This has arisen because of the extension of the free early learning and development entitlement from 12.5 to 15 hours a week from 2010. He urged associations to put this issue on their agendas in order to support their early years members.
WSTA conference blog
Martin Reed's presidential skills seem to be a matter of inverse proportion. His opening address was very worthy but delivered in a monotone and rather wordy. He could have put more fire into the speech and more of the speech into the fire.
However when he expressed solidarity with the Visteon workers and when he spoke very briefly at the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign at lunchtime today he was succinct and to the point and said exactly what needed to be said.
The early years discussion rededicated the union to a qualified teacher for every class in contradiction of the rather woolly resolution on cover on Sunday's conference session. It also called for a primary workforce classroom protocol in order to clarify (inter alia) the differing roles of teachers and support staff.
The most interesting motion was the one Hazel Danson moved on early years education where she expressed concern about the removal of the foundation stage from the national curriculum as a result of the EYFS which will mean less importance is attached to early years education as opposed to the primary and secondary phases.
Alex Kenny expressed concern over the increase in early years teachers' working day as a result of the increase in teaching hours to 6 hours a day. This has arisen because of the extension of the free early learning and development entitlement from 12.5 to 15 hours a week from 2010. He urged associations to put this issue on their agendas in order to support their early years members.
WSTA conference blog
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