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@DrHeery

3 years

Contacted today by a member of our local community. She had no direct links with our schools but wanted to fund a laptop for one of our vulnerable families, in recognition of the difference a similar gesture made for her own son 25 years ago. Humbled by an act of such kindness 🙏

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I have one message about next year's exams: whatever the decision - delay until July, reduce content, use teacher assessment, abandon league tables - we need to know very soon. It's impossible to plan effectively if we don't know what we're planning for.

Coronavirus: Push back GCSE and A-level exams, says Labour

Exams due in May in England should be pushed back as late as July for more catch-up teaching, the party says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

When you come into school, turn your phone off, leave it in your bag. If you're caught using it, it's confiscated. On occasions, a member of staff may give specific permission for it to be used. That's how it works in the vast majority of schools - not sure we need a consultation

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. @GavinWilliamson has also pledged to consult on 'how we can help heads remove phones from the school day'

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4 years

Interesting that outrage is focused on primary, where it's physically impossible to meet gov guidelines and fit everyone in the building, whereas sec schools, that could easily accommodate far more pupils, are hardly mentioned. It's as if the issue is childcare, not education.

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4 years

Looking at front pages today, narrative is all about Johnson taking on the educational establishment and insisting on keeping schools open. How are we the bad guys here? We never closed the schools! Boris Johnson closed the schools. We've done everything that's been asked of us.

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3 years

Straight from the playbook - make an unevidenced and sweeping generalisation, and use it to drive an unnecessary and damaging 'crackdown' policy. I'd just like to say that we're incredibly proud of the way our pupils have come back to school.

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@DrHeery

4 years

BBC Newsnight reporting schools will be given money to employ private tutors from approved agencies to run 'catch-up' sessions. A terrible idea which will lead to money wasted to little effect. Pass funds to schools and trust us to spend it in ways that will have the most impact

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1 year

How do we encourage mid-career teachers to stay in the profession? Would access to a paid sabbatical to pursue professional development after 10 years in teaching make a difference?

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4 years

'Children in the highest-income families spend six hours a day on education, but the poorest spend four and a half.' Not accusing people of lying, but does anyone else find these figures suspiciously high....?

Coronavirus: Better-off children 'studying more than poorer pupils'

A study suggests young people in wealthier households do more learning at home than poorer peers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

Of all the deliberately provocative and misleading headlines, this from today's Telegraph has to be right up there. You have to read to para 7 before it explains that schools aren't actually giving extra holidays, just changing the pattern slightly. School-bashing at its worst.

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@DrHeery

4 years

I've been supportive of the decision to keep schools open up till now, but tonight's advice is making it almost impossible for many of us. We can't run a school if our staff are told to stay home. New advice re pregnant women adds to the list.

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@DrHeery

4 years

So it looks like primary schools may be opening considerably before we do in secondary schools. If that's the case, my question would be, how can we help in secondary? One idea is that, after giving the opportunity to say goodbye, we start Y7 early - could help ease the pressure.

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4 years

Parents were sold the idea that you know how good a school is by results alone. Now, without results, they're finding they have an even better way of judging the school - by the care, professionalism and dedication they show to their pupils.

'The human stuff matters': heads call for a kinder school system post Covid-19

Ten years since Michael Gove’s reforms began, coronavirus shows up their failings, says the Headteachers’ Roundtable - and offers a chance for change

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Internet flower delivery, Thai takeaway and sitting in the garden - not quite the Silver Wedding Anniversary we were planning, but 25 years together is still worth celebrating!

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4 years

Driving through Kenilworth today - what fresh hell is this?

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@DrHeery

3 years

It's not the decision that I take issue with, it's the fact that it's announced in the Sunday Times. These strategic leaks happen so often that it's clearly a deliberate policy to test public reaction before the official announcement - oh, for a bit of honest government.

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@DrHeery

3 years

Just emptied out my coat pockets - 6 face masks and 7 dog poo bags. Sums up my 2020 perfectly. 👌

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@DrHeery

4 years

Can't emphasise enough how much work went into prep for full opening in Sep. If conditions are changing and plans need re-drawing, we need to know. If gov is genuinely working with sch leaders, we need full access to information, unspun and without delay.

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@DrHeery

3 years

Celebrating 26 years married today with a cup of coffee on the pavement - I know how to treat a girl!

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@DrHeery

3 years

I'm fully aware that it's not the most important issue here, but, really, how hard can it be to get a suit that fits? Our Prime Minister looks like a Year 7 with a uniform his parents have bought so that he can 'grow in to it'.

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1 year

Youngest daughter had a clearout today - thank goodness I came back in time to rescue this. Read countless times with all 3 girls, as well as lots of KS1 classes, still know it by heart. Anyone else have books that immediately transport them back to when the children were little?

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4 years

Tomorrow's headlines will be about grade inflation but national figures are all but irrelevant. There are many thousands of real stories of young people receiving the reward for their hard work, and who don't deserve to have their achievements undermined by ungracious sniping.

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@DrHeery

4 years

Looking at the figures, and the speed at which we are coming out of lockdown, I have a horrible sense that we are just learning to live with a backdrop of a couple of hundred of people every day dying from Covid-19 - figures that 3 months ago filled us with dread.

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@DrHeery

4 years

We started the school year with the working assumption that we'd have measures in place to pretty much stay fully open. We now seem to be moving to the assumption that we'll have a hugely disrupted year of partial and temporary closures. Feels like we're back to the drawing board

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3 years

Early start for a Saturday morning because it's vaccine day for me! Feel very privileged that it's my turn.💉😁

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@DrHeery

3 years

Just nonsense - '200,000 primary leavers now lack basic skills'? Based on what evidence or criteria? What on earth does 'according to unpublished government figures' mean? A figure plucked from thin air to justify a one-size-fits-all tutoring policy.

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10 months

One thing I've learnt as a school leader is that we need to handle colleagues with care in these last few days of term - everyone is tired and desperate for a break, things that would not cause a problem at another time of year can tip people over the edge.

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I was HT of a school co-located with one of the first Surestart centres, potential was obvious then, and it's now backed by strong evidence. One of the most effective long-term investments that government can make, there should no longer be any debate about reinstating Surestart.

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Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

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4 years

Anyone else waking up today to a completely different reality than they did yesterday? - all schools fully open from September - summer schools quietly shelved - small group tuition as the main provision model The pace of change is dizzying, finding it hard to keep up.

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@DrHeery

4 years

Every school in the country has a plan in place for full opening in September. Seems clear that the government strategy is to claim credit for something that is happening anyway.

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Boris Johnson vows that schools will be last to close in the event of a second wave of coronavirus, behind pubs and shops.

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3 years

Not advice or recommendation, but a centrally directed ban, whether or not the school believes it to be an issue. Will be a nightmare to administer and police, for marginal benefits at best in most schools. If this happens, it will represent a huge erosion of school autonomy.

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@DrHeery

3 years

Back to school, Tesco?! Some of us haven't broken up yet!!

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@DrHeery

3 years

Watching the news, it's very clear that Covid had disappeared - thank goodness. Funny that if you talk to people in school, it seems very different. Constant flow of new positives. Today, one of our Heads described this term as the hardest one of the last two years.

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4 years

Spent the day travelling down to Bristol with my daughter Beth to help move her out of a flat that she hasn't lived in for 3 months, into a house that she won't live in for at least the next 3 months, so that come the new term, she's able to get to lectures that won't take place.

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2 years

It's really concerning me that an unfunded pay settlement dropped right at the end of term when people have other things on their mind (not least having a break). If we don't keep shouting about it, by September it will be a fait accompli, and we will be in another budget crisis.

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2 years

With school restrictions all over front pages today, my reaction is weariness - heading into another term clouded by uncertainty. The best thing that DfE can do now is recognise the scale of the challenge and trust school leaders to make the right decisions in their own context.

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@jowilliams293 Not sure what courage has got to do with it, esp bearing in mind that schools have been closed by the government, teachers haven't just decided to stay away. This is a time for wisdom, compassion and common sense - like all public servants, teachers are showing plenty of this atm

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@laurateaches_ I don't think it's affected the relationship with my children, maybe with the tall one, whats-her-name, but definitely not with the other two or three

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#teacher5oclockclub , today is the very last time that I'll be on a morning walk with my little friend Geno. After 11 years and countless miles together, it's got to the point where we can't put him through any more pain or discomfort. Never realised how heartbroken I would feel.

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4 years

'Almost every primary will defy trade unions and take pupils back on Monday' On Monday? That really doesn't reflect what I'm hearing from primary HT colleagues.

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4 years

For those of us who've been working for months in the clear expectation that we are opening for all children this term, this is news management at its most cynical - presenting what is already happening as the PM forcing recalcitrant teachers back to work.

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says it is 'vitally important' children return to class

Boris Johnson tries to reassure parents that schools are Covid-secure, ahead of term starting.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

I respect the work of tutoring organisations but the more I see the detail, the more I worry it's an expensive and inefficient strategy. Why not allow schools to use their own staff and tailor programmes based on their detailed knowledge of the children?

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3 years

It's 3 minutes to 8 and every teacher in the country is sat in front of the TV - I'm expecting higher viewing figures than the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special

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4 years

It might not be what we planned, but it's still Molly's birthday! 4 of us in isolation with a very large and very nice chocolate cake! Happy birthday Moll 🍾🍰

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@DrHeery

3 years

Raheem Sterling - he's good isn't he?

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4 years

Of all the return to school predictions, the least accurate seems to be that behaviour will be a significant problem. Early days, but the opposite seems to be true - children completely understand the part they play in keeping school safe, and take their responsibility seriously.

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3 years

Morning all #teacher5oclockclub - still not begun to work through all the implications yet, but heading in to try and come up with some sort of plan. One thing about working in schools at the moment - no two days the same! Take care and have a good one!

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4 years

In this article, Adonis et al call for teachers to plan over summer so that pupils can start in September. Literally what happens every single year.

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@DrHeery

4 years

This was the deal - we had to provide care, write the curriculum, put risk control measures in place, train staff, communicate with parents, reassure pupils, set up remote learning systems. You had to make sure we can get tested quickly - that's all.

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@PaulGarvey4 Morning Paul, morning all #teacher5oclockclub , welcome to the new term - strap yourself in, going to be a bumpy ride! I would tell you what I'm doing today but I'm afraid I've no idea. Best of luck to all colleagues out there coping admirably in crazy times - have a good one!

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4 years

I'm really hoping that we don't have a rush of schools publishing 'results' this year, celebrating how well they've done compared to others. We need to be consistent in the message to parents that this year's results do not tell us anything about the performance of the school.

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4 years

When was the last time that an a announcement from the DfE wasn't leaked in advance? They can see the reaction, claim it's only a draft, and quickly alter it. Poor way to communicate with the profession.

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3 years

Like everyone else, I've had my fair share of successes and failures in life, but this morning's bit of parking is definitely amongst my proudest achievements. #winningatlife

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4 years

#edutwitter behaviour debate is so dispiriting. On a subject so complex, multi-layered and context-driven, how have we ended up with such a simplistic division? Allowing a pupil to disrupt others' learning is clearly wrong, as is ignoring individual needs - it's not either/or.

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It's not just the scale that's so disappointing, it's the fact that we're putting everything into a single strategy, and not giving schools the ability to apply the best solution in their own context. Tutoring is not the only answer.

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4 years

Amazed and delighted that we had 99% attendance yesterday, despite all the stories about children not returning. Some nervous parents, but when was the first day any different? Was that typical?

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@DrHeery

3 years

The situation re Covid is now moving so fast that any planning for next term is beyond pointless. Best guess is that for many parts of the country, learning takes place at home for at least the first few weeks and schools are sites for testing and vaccination.

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@DrHeery

4 years

The threat to schools staying open is staff, or household members, developing symptoms, and having to isolate. Can't maintain a safe environment without staff who know students and school. This is the urgent problem - we need to prioritise rapid turnaround of testing for staff.

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This is a fiasco wrapped in a shambles, inside a debacle. On the night before we get the results in school - the night before! - the whole system has been thrown up in the air. Has anyone spent even 10 minutes thinking this through? via @schoolsweek

Unhappy exam students can use mock results - reports

Pupils in England will be allowed to use "mock exam results" if they are unhappy with the grades they are issued this year, according to reports. Several newspapers reported tonight that ministers...

schoolsweek.co.uk

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4 years

@educationgovuk This seems crystal clear. It would now be really helpful if ministers could stop briefing the Sunday Times to the contrary.

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5 years

To everyone out there facing a big day tomorrow, very best of luck to you and your students. Let's make sure that none of our (well-deserved) celebrations this week are at the expense of other colleagues or schools. We can undermine league table culture by not engaging with it.

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4 years

Delivered training for governors this evening via Zoom - I so rarely reflect on it, but it's amazing how generous governors are with their time, commitment and skills. School governors demonstrate the very best of the tradition of public service in our country.

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I know my electronic calendar is more efficient, but there is nothing that sums up the possibilities of the new year like a blank page-a-day diary, if possible accompanied by a large americano and a Lamy pen. Happy New Year to all my Twitter friends and colleagues.

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The absolute first requirement of a high-stakes exam system is fairness. It can be tough, it can be limited in its focus, but to have a shred of credibility, it must be fair. It's impossible to read this and conclude that the system has been fair.

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3 years

Language and tone of this concerns me - facing an 'enormous battle' and 'fighting the lockdowners'. If you start discussions from an entrenched position, you're far more likely to make poor decisions - can't they have a rational, evidenced-based debate?

Gavin Williamson fears schools lockdown in January as he warns of 'battle’

The under-fire Education Secretary is said to be keen to get schools back open again, but the government faces calls to bring in a full lockdown to prevent the mutant coronavirus strain spreading...

www.mirror.co.uk

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It feels both churlish and pointless to moan at this point, but we've still got two weeks to go and the current situation is unsustainable. If we lose many more pupils, we'll have more self-isolating than attending, and no staff available to teach. It's an impossible situation.

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More personal than my usual blogs, but I've shared my reflections on moral purpose, SEND, Inclusion and the experience that shaped my values @MHeery12 @PaulGarvey4 @johncosgrove405 @WSF_UK @noonetoldmehow @WayneNorrie @yourdcsnotts @NetworkEDEM @Vivgrant

Values in Action – where rhetoric meets reality

In this blog I share my experience of being a parent to the wonderful, indefatigable Molly. We have read through it together, and she is happy for me to share it with you. Values are important. Not…

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3 years

When we decided our kitchen needed a bit of modernising, I had in mind a lick of paint, maybe a new spice rack. Trying to understand how it's reached the point where we've just had four huge steel girders delivered.

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Least surprising news of the year. I love occasions when data confounds you and makes you rethink what you believed from your own experience. The fact that Gove's GCSE reforms were most damaging for disadvantaged students is not one of those occasions.

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Clearly there's a lot of children who have been disadvantaged by this, but this is a ridiculously reductionist analysis designed to generate a headline and which will not inform sensible policy making.

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So, a low point this weekend was losing my bank card on Friday evening, but a high point was someone getting in touch on social media to say that they had found it - turns out it was found by a Year 7 from one of our schools! House points definitely in order.

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The constant sense of crisis and conflict surrounding education since Covid hit is so damaging. We need a few quiet news weeks where we bring students back to school as safely as possible, and get on with what we do best. My advice to gov now is to trust us to get on with it.

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If the government want a big idea to 'recover' from the impact of lost schooling whilst building on the learning of the last year, how about a commitment that every child in a UK school has their own laptop and full internet access within 3 years. Achievable and transformational.

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It's not surprising that some opinion makers are attacking teachers. 40 years of undermining and denigration of the very concept of public services has been overturned in a few weeks. Fortunately, parents and communities see how schools are reacting and stand with them.

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Braving the motorways this morning to head from Notts to Bristol to bring my daughter back from uni, for the very last time after 5 years veterinary training! Bristol has been a great city and a great university for her 👏

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There seems to be growing criticism of Head Teachers and schools about the numbers of children sent home and forced to isolate. Just to be clear, we have been, and are continuing to follow government guidance and government policy.

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📰The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: 'PM asks for patience as crisis grows in schools' #TomorrowsPapersToday ✍️Sign up for the Front Page newsletter

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Set off for @AttenboroughNR , ended up in Narnia. Absolutely beautiful.

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4 years

Can't help thinking that @Telegraph is missing the point...

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As well as this welcome acceptance of reality, I'd love an honest appraisal of the likely situation in September. If we are expected to operate at lower capacity, we really need to know before the end of term. If we have time to plan, we can make it work

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Best twitter caption ever

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It beggars belief that the Children's Commissioner can have so little understanding of the process, and so little empathy for a profession who she should be standing alongside. Next time we have to call our Local Health Team, maybe she should join the call

Overcautious teachers are sending entire year groups home unnecessarily, Children's tsar warns

Just one pupil testing positive for coronavirus can send an entire school into "chaos", Anne Longfield says

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Can't speak highly enough of the wonderful staff and volunteers manning the vaccination centre at Nottingham Uni King's Meadow campus - but very appreciative to have had it. Only side effect so far is a feeling of relief!

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There'll be plenty on here who go to bed tonight with some anxiety about what the next few weeks hold in store for schools - just remember, we can only do what's possible, try to keep people safe, support our pupils and support each other. All the very best for the next half term

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Anybody else joining the #teacher5oclockclub for one more week? Still a few more caffeine-fuelled days left of the strangest school year ever. At least the sun's shining - have a good one!

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Up to 75%? That's shocking! Although if you're going to pick a meaningless figure out of the air without any evidence to support it to support a political agenda, why not go for 90%? That's even worse!

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4 years

Genuinely not our experience of working with teacher unions. I had some trepidation before our meeting - we discussed our risk assessment and union reps made some constructive suggestions. There was no attempt to stop our reopening plans.

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@DrHeery

3 years

#InsideNo9 so clever tonight - they manage to fit more ideas into one half-hour episode than the average 13-part series

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@DrHeery

3 years

I'm in the middle of a round of Headteacher Performance Management meetings, and it really brings home the incredible job that school leaders have done over the last 18 months, and the scale of the burden they've been carrying. Humbling.

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@DrHeery

4 years

This is what we were expecting, schools to stay open. However, with the current rate of infection, people should be prepared for a constant cycle of groups sent home and classes taught by supply staff. It's dishonest to suggest it will be 'normal '.

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@DrHeery

10 months

I'm not expecting it to be too crowded in the #teacher5oclockclub this morning, but we can't be the only ones still going this week! Whether you're hanging in there with us, or enjoying the first day of holiday, have a great day!

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I think we all suspected this might be the case, but still quite shocked to see it confirmed when I think of the hours and hours that teachers spent making sure this process was accurate and was done with integrity.

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@DrHeery

3 years

The Sunday Times 'Guide to the Best Schools' is out today - pernicious, poorly-evidenced and pointless at the best of times, this year comparing schools in this way is absolutely ludicrous.

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@DrHeery

5 years

This weekend is Williams Syndrome Awareness weekend. Watch the brilliantly funny @MathewBaynton and his nephew. #ShareYourHeart

Williams Syndrome Sketch

Mathew Baynton sets out to raise awareness for Williams Syndrome and comes up against an awareness problem of his own... people are more aware of James Corde...

www.youtube.com

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Congratulations to all the Year 6 colleagues out there - you made it to the weekend! Hope you get the chance to relax and breathe. Now passing the baton to all the Y11 and Y13 colleagues! Sending best wishes and positive vibes!

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1 year

Anyone else had the experience of using ChatGPT for the first time and been literally open mouthed by the result? Happened to me today- feels like this will be such a huge change to the way we do things

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@DrHeery

4 years

I am starting to get concerned about the summer school plan - it is being set up in a way that will once again be presented as indifferent and ungrateful teachers unwilling to help. Despite everything that schools have done, we seem to be identified as the enemy within.

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@DrHeery

3 years

Morning all #teacher5oclockclub - waking up to the start of one of the most unpredictable half terms ever! Who knows where we'll be in 6 weeks time? Expecting lots of conversations today along the lines of 'How was your half-term?' - 'Very quiet, yours?' - 'Same' Have a good one!

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1 year

Some teachers will be on strike, others working as normal. We'll have to manage that, but whatever they're doing today, every single person I know who works in education believes passionately that we should fund schools properly and pay the people who work in them fairly.

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@DrHeery

4 years

We're going to have to rethink our approach to student attendance after all this. It will be a long time before we're insisting that everyone is in for at least 95% of the time.

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I thought it would be nice to celebrate our wedding anniversary by cooking us both a lovely meal. Then I thought, after 27 years of marriage, the poor woman's suffered enough, so we're off to Anatolia in Beeston for some top Turkish food!

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