It also works the other way. Plenty of Secondary teachers, me included, who wouldn't want to teach primary. Main reason is primary you have to teach all subjects, instead of the specialism you bring to your own subject.

Not sure about this. "Some thought it might be easier to achieve a better work-life balance in secondary because “they felt secondary teachers have more non-contact time for lesson planning, marking and other admin”.

Since basically every child takes science, why isn't there an all through curriculum from ks3 to ks4 like maths? We just have a continuation and study topics when they are ready to progress and have mastered what went before.

TAs in our schools have always been 'helicopter TAs'. This won't be anything new to a lot of teachers.

Don't get a choice in maths you have to teach it all. Teach it through all the key stages. Otherwise, you don't have the foundations to continue to ks4. Anything can be asked in GCSE maths from the Spec, which comes from the national curriculum.

It is a capacity sapper. And some staff can not make an efficient spreadsheet that provides easily the data they want, taking up even more of their time.

I worked in industry, all parties would be consulted first on what they need. Without spotlighting where I work, we will have middle leaders filling in different spreadsheets created by different members of SLT or higher in the MAT for their specific purpose.

If only someone would coordinate what data is needed and how they will use it. Then instead of making 20 different spreadsheets we could just extract what we need from 1 data source. Industry is a lot better at doing this. Education we have different members of staff working in isolation.

And often not reactive... because they can be ignored and there is no paper trail.

Facing your class while explaining, modelling step by step, no need to make fancy slide copying and pasting the questions on there from a sheet, hence cutting workload. What is there not to love?