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Keziah

2 months

Really chuffed to announce that Punk Leadership, with an introduction from Iesha Small, an afterword by @HYWEL_ROBERTS and a foreword by the legend that is @CaptainSensible will be published by @SageEducation this autumn. #PunkLeadership

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4 years

For anyone anxious about not having done any school work yet, YOU’RE ON HOLIDAY and it’s ok. As you were.

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4 years

Saw this and thought it makes a lot of sense for most sectors.

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3 years

I think every one working in a school right now is worth their weight in gold and then some.

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4 years

I maintain that we cannot even vaguely consider a partial reopening of schools until my hairdresser is working again.

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3 years

I heard of someone who is considering applying for a promotion at her school and the HT asked about her baby plans… This has to change. #womened

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5 years

Managed to save my pedicure appointment to the school shared calendar.

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2 years

100% of our A level Physics students are girls. #ExpectMore

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4 years

I’ve had these little figures of my #SLT made - raised a smile or two.

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6 years

Delighted to announce I will be taking on the headship at the new Q3 Academy Tipton - glad to be returning to the West Midlands and so looking forward to working with the children, families and staff.

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1 year

I don’t know what YOU were up to when you were in Y11… but I certainly wasn’t crocheting my friend a bouquet of flowers for their 16 birthday. My daughter’s friends are lovely. They’re all lovely. The future looks good.

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3 years

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3 years

14yo spent 4hrs painting this in acrylics today. I love it.

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3 years

Well, it made ME laugh…

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1 year

As a headteacher it seems utterly bonkers to accept any unfunded pay rise; it will undoubtedly lead to redundancies, hardship for committed colleagues and less support for children.

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4 years

What is the collective noun for English teachers wearing Tiaras on a Tuesday?

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5 years

Feeling a bit weepy, #womened chums...

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4 years

It is the eight year anniversary of the day I didn’t realise I’d done this until I’d reached my office.

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4 years

It’s as if the DFE’s aim is to collectively trigger every HT in England to an immediate breakdown. They’ve really ramped it up today.

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3 years

It’s REALLY hard at the moment, isn’t it?

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4 years

Off to Kos. I know it sounds shallow of me but bloody hell I need a holiday away.

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3 years

Thank heavens for that. Was getting a bit Borissy.

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4 years

Centre-assessed grades were the culmination of 11 years of formal schooling, hard work and incredible teacher professionalism. Every grade earned and deserved. #Classof2020 #GoodRightTrue

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1 year

I’ve been thinking about this head and her family ever since learning of the tragedy. Just can’t shake it. How have we done this to our profession? To our schools? To our people? It has to STOP.

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3 years

A reminder, all schools will be open (to some kids) and ALL school staff will be working (much harder).

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5 years

Shoes are on #tesawards

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4 years

This happened 50 years ago today. ❤️❤️ They’re I’m self isolation rather than sitting on a Cuban beach drinking rum, but once this is all over we’ll have a huge cuddle. #Golden #Weddings

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6 years

My friends’ son said his first word today - his name. He’s nearly 8. #autism

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3 years

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3 years

When does the transference of responsibility for Father’s Day move to the actual child? Asking for a friend.

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2 years

Someone I know was about to go on interview elsewhere. Called into mtg with CEO & HT and promised X, Y, Z if they stayed - so did. Now backtracking has started, nothing promised will happen and they are gutted. I’m so angry.

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5 years

16 years of marriage as of today. I have no idea how this happened.

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3 years

No school is shut. All school staff will be working, harder definitely but slightly differently.

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3 years

Today I’ve eaten 185 Jaffa Cakes.

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3 years

My mum and dad have both had their second jabs. First jabs brought horrible flu like side effects and mum in particular very anxious about second jab for that reason. But NO side effects this time - hopefully this will reassure some. #AstraZeneca

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4 years

We’ve hired some gym equipment for the staff to use at work - needed for dark nights and lockdown; designed to aid mental and physical wellbeing.

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6 years

11yo outraged she won’t get paper back, see marks, get feedback on #sats - “what’s the point?” She asks. “How do we know what we have to work on?” Hmmmmmm

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4 years

So here is me and me mam 50 years ago today. Neither of us have changed that much (I’m on the right). #fifty

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4 years

Possibly the best SLT in the known universe.

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4 years

Every teacher is saying the same thing over and over and over and it’s not being listened to.

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2 years

So very proud to be able to call ⁦ @ViviennePorritt ⁩ OBE my friend, colleague, co-editor, arse-kicker and fellow disrupter. 💜💜💜💜💜 you #newyearshonours #womened

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2 years

For those asking, yes we’re still at school this week! We run a completely free trip to Weston-Super-Mare every year for every Y7; as we’re in the Midlands for many it’s their first trip to the seaside and WSM cordon off a stretch of beach for us. #GoodRightTrue

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3 years

The National Tutoring Programme has been a real let down for us and our families. Often don’t turn up or tutor changes and kids lose confidence. Am I alone in this?

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2 years

All of a sudden, for the first time since KS1, my 14yo gets school. She is loving lessons and is ambitious. She’s thinking about A Level options. So proud.

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4 years

The incredible team made me a bit weepy today with some pre-birthday surprises...

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3 years

So so important for our students. #womened #gender

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4 years

What’s increasingly clear is that those making national decisions for schools have no idea how schools work. Thank heavens school leaders have been making their own plans for weeks.

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3 years

School is out. Lavender is a go! 💜

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3 years

Tomorrow it’s wear something rainbow to school day to celebrate Pride month. I practiced early 💜

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1 year

Five years ago Caroline said, I have a school for you. It needs a lot of work. It didn’t because the kids and staff were awesome. But tonight we celebrate significant achievements. 💛

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2 years

Number 24 and I love em.

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3 years

View for breakfast today; this shall sustain me during those cold winter lunch duties…

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4 years

Yes. I know I am obsessed. That’s 17 pairs.

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4 years

It’s ok to panic now.

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4 years

For anyone anxious about not having done any school work yet, YOU’RE ON HOLIDAY and it’s ok. As you were.

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3 years

The problem with us being so bloody awesome at remote learning and moving everything online as a snow day will never be a snow day again. 😞

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10 months

Twenty years 😳

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5 years

Note to self: break in new DMs before wearing to work...

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4 years

Genuinely, I do not know where the next generation of head teachers will come from; but I do know the current one is being demoralised and bullied out.

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3 years

I am in the entire universe’s biggest Primark with two teenagers and I’ve lost the will to live. Send cold drinks and patience.

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5 years

A couple of months ago it seemed like a really good idea to invite all staff over to my house for cheese and wine this evening...

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3 years

I delivered an amazing whole school online assembly to… just myself. You’d have thought after 18m that I’d have cracked this thing… 🙄

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3 years

Off to get my vaccine this morning... #COVIDVaccination

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3 years

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4 years

The challenge of raising a teenager.

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5 years

Of course grandad got her the inflatable dinosaur outfit...

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6 years

Due to the heat, and hunger, and shock of looking at school budgets, I accidentally bought an eyeshadow more suited to a 22yo... at least I’m ready for the Mamma Mia revival.

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3 years

I ate about 74 bags of Wotsits today and I’m not sorry.

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2 years

With just days before the end of term we have been let down by a new member of staff due to start with us this September. It’s a pastoral role but if you don’t have any thing lined up for September let me know. We are brilliant!

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3 years

The most disappointing moment this week was when I asked my class if they had any pets they could show me by picking them up, turning on their cameras and showing me. Nothing. No cameras. No mics. No comments in chat. No pets.

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4 years

2020 has not been a recruitment or retention advert for school leadership, especially not in recovery schools and/or serving areas of disadvantage. BUT it is still the greatest privilege ever.

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3 years

New Docs ( #27 ?)

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4 years

#NewProfilePic

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1 year

Representing @HeadsRoundtable in preparation for @EducationFest in @SchoolsWeek today. And you know I’m probably mostly right.

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6 months

In amongst all the heartbreaking testimony, this one has hit me really hard.

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4 years

I’m always genuinely bewildered and impressed by those people who cook their own teas on Fridays and Saturdays. These are takeaway or eat out nights. Law.

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5 years

12yo has friend for sleepover. I am banned from the front room. I am banned from asking how they are. I am banned from reminding them not to eat all 24 mini muffins. I am banned from pointing out we have beds and they don’t have to camp on the sofas...

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4 years

My mermaid shoes from @drmartens finally arrived 😍 In stock pair 17 I think...

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4 years

I think mum and dad as shocked as I am that I’m still alive at 50.

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4 years

Dear @GavinWilliamson and @educationgovuk . The plans I’ve read for September will simply not work in my school of 1500 before 6th Form (300 per year group), tight staffing and already running a recovery curriculum after years of SM. Please rethink.

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4 years

@matthaig1 Pugs.

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5 years

#WomenEd #unconference sold out.

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2 years

Y7 trip to Weston-Super-Mare - toilet duty in wind and rain??? Loving it!

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21 days

Oh my word. Got the proof copy of this through today. Bewildered, overwhelmed and terrified. 🖤

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9 months

You know how you usually warn new staff that week three is when the honeymoon period is over, especially when the weather is ghastly? Hmmm…. I should listen to myself.

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3 years

Eh, still a fat lass but weighing the least I have since I was 17.

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4 years

I can’t explain how awesome it was to welcome back some Y10s and Y12s today. All smiling 😃

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4 years

So glad we spent weeks on getting these right then.

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Teacher assessed grades have not been used to calculate the "vast majority" of this year's GCSE results, and 60% of A level entries in popular subjects, @Tes can reveal. @ofqual has instead used statistical modelling

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3 years

Don’t want to bang on about this too much, but we played David Bowie’s Heroes today for Monday Briefing tune and three members of staff had never heard of it

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5 years

Repeat: I do not need different coloured Dr Martens to coordinate with each and every work outfit I have...

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4 years

Yes. This idiot totally sabotaged my #WomenEd contribution this evening.

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5 years

Today I returned from shopping to find Alfie trapped in the bin. #puglife

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11 months

There is no way my degree of Cultural Studies and Writing would be considered a high value degree. But I loved it. It changed me. Without it I would not have become an English teacher or a headteacher. I wouldn’t have been driven to co-found @WomenEd or…

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"Whether a degree is good or bad value depends not just on your salary but on how it changes your life." As Rishi Sunak plans to end 'rip-off degrees', @AndrewMarr9 says it feels "remarkably reductive" to judge a degree by its financial outcome.

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7 years

What I love about #WomenEd is that it's not specific people; we're an organic movement. Like porridge.

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3 years

Nice walk into Dubrovnik this evening.

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4 years

I think I’d like to open up a pick n mix sweetie shop. Just spend my days weighing out quarters (100g) and putting in little white paper bags. Put extra sweeties in the kids’ bags. Sneak the occasional liquorice torpedo or sweet peanut. Sigh.

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