Today a child became aggressive and left a room and destroyed a door, causing around £1700 damage plus considerable disruption
The teacher who was teaching him wants him suspended
It now transpires that the pupil became extremely agitated and broke his pen, accidentally.
He…
@fasc1nate
Personal choice and collective responsibility
Imo it seems fair, the system doesn't exclude anyone so allows personal choice, it does have encourage collective responsibility.
But without knowing full details more difficult to know, I.e. if you opted out donating certain organs…
@Peston
Talk about rewriting history, as a journalist
You were just as much part of the party as those in number 10, shown by your pieces on herd immunity, clearly been briefed on
Then those questions during those briefings, 2 questions, but none of you challenged the lack of answers…
@AAWoodfields
@MrDavidScales
Potentially 1000 pupils all going to the toilet, at the same time.... do you have toilets which are akin to a football stadium?
Let's be realistic, yes need to manage behaviour, but unless your open to denying access to children to facilities then there will be a need to allow…
@WritesBright
The irony though is they teach in such a manner that reduces their levels of empathy, creating a culture of 'born to rule', which means they have to employ people to write their scripts for them
Since i can google the national curriculum, as a parent I would much know
- when the CAMHS appointment will come through, this year, not sometime in the next 5 years
- whether the swimming pool closed down at the school will ever open again
- whether the school will ever get…
No ifs, no buts and no more excuses: parents have a right to know what their children are being taught.
I have acted today to make clear that schools must share RSHE materials with parents.
@Bren4Bassetlaw
Clearly you don't want to listen, as this doesn't fit with your ideology or narrative
But if your confident your right and he's wrong, put pressure on
@RishiSunak
for a General Election now
#GeneralElectionNow
@David_Cameron
Talking about regret, you and Osbourne had the ability and mandate to really push the infrastructure of this country
You came to power at a time of very low interest rates
You could have:
Rebuilt schools
Invested in world class road and transport networks
Rolled out superfast…
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Eton has a pupil to teacher ratio of 8:1, where class sizes start at around twenty to twenty-five in the first year and are often below ten by the final year.
You need to ask
@RishiSunak
@Jeremy_Hunt
@GillianKeegan
to get their cheque books out then if itscall about levelling up
15 April 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Herman Ruzhaner, was born in The Hague.
In September 1943 he was deported to
#Auschwitz
and murdered in a gas chamber.
@LeeAndersonMP_
Just imagine being an MP who is paid well, to do a job, then take on other roles within government and paid even more.... then just imagine that MP having such greed and ego that they take on another external job
How is the GBNews gig, you going to call out all the other MPs…
@DavidGHFrost
So your biggest issue is not the danger posed to children by the wilful neglect of
@Conservatives
@RishiSunak
but how instead the ex chief has come out and said how corrupt you all are?
BTW, I must have missed the tweet about
@BorisJohnson
breaking convention and publishing…
@davearossiter
Hate from both sides, because there is an entrenched belief on various sides, however reality is sometimes people just need to "step back & think" as they are children .... additional needs or not.
If your a member of staff who continually forget their keys or lose your fob,…
@afneil
@mailplus
Why not do some real journalism and compare and contrast it to:
- rpi and cpi since 2010
- whether their salaries have kept pace, or not
- private sector pay increases in that time
- MP equivalent pay rises during that time
- median ceo pay rises with the NHS during that time
-…
@Ofstednews
If this judgement had been levied against a school that school headteacher would have resigned with immediate effect, with a full overall of governance and let's not forget about academy conversion.
Where is the resignation Spielman?
More likely to get an honour than a…
@SchoolsWeek
And, crucially, the CEO of the Trust appeared to side with the parent based on the media story and that the teacher was asked to resign.
Really poor leadership and management - IMO it is the leadership of the school and the trust which is in distepute not the teacher.
Be…
@MrDavidScales
One photo is a school the other 3 are prisons.
Really wish prisons would take the lead from schools in creating a more therapeutic environment..... ohhh
@Peston
Since the last PM was PM for 44 days, and that there has been 6 PMs since 2016, during which there has also been:
- 9 education ministers
- 7 chancellors
- 7 health ministers
- 8 Minister of State for Energy (& net zero)
- 7 Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural…
@educationgovuk
I wonder why the unfunded pay deal was rejected
Anything to do with
#sen
for example being shortchanged by 63% or teachers upto 32%
Hardly in childrens interest
#GeneralElectionN0W
@FloraSCooper
From a legal perspective, you & governors are accountable for safety of your staff
If you feel
@Ofstednews
has not put in safeguards, i.e. RA's, to protect mental health of you & staff, & the risk is real (shown by Ruth), then HASWA is on your side to refuse
@NAHTnews
@H_S_E
@amandajplatell
Personally I am more concerned about the current
@Conservatives
, led by a Prime Minister, who is leading on policies which he has no mandate for.
@Peston
Inflation in uk is being partially driven, if not majorly driven by utility costs.
I was never one for windfall tax on energy firms, however noting wholesale prices the margins are insane considering impact
This is impacting smaller businesses and food prices, just of increased…
@carolvorders
Eton college is not privileged, it once got £3m lottery funding for a new race track, as the one it had was not good enough and as a result the school was deemed deprived!
So despite it 8:1 pupil to teacher ratio, £46k annual cost per pupil (mainstream £6k), it has now been…
@GregHands
Keep repeating this joke, the reality I'd though
@Conservatives
will be leaving the country with:
- crumbling schools
- less free trade
- fewer international opportunities for all
- a dysfunctional and ill equipped public sector
- highest tax burden
- record levels of debt
-…
@afneil
It's all about having the right colour tie, if you've been in the right school at the right time it irrelevant how bright, or otherwise, you are....
13 years!
@SimonClarkeMP
Why is it a legacy infrastructure
I thought the privatisation of key utilities was to ensure innovation and access to commercial capital funding to maintain an effective infrastructure?
Or was it really just dividends from a defacto monopoly?
@johnredwood
Well it looks like the
@Conservatives
were told, and we're also told that there is a serious risk to life!
Hope that clears up your query as to whether the
#tories
prioritise ideology over children safety and welfare
Thatcher took the milk, Sunak took the buildings…
@GregHands
This post is basically acknowledging 13 years of
@Conservatives
failure towards SEN pupils, demonstrated by the fact that the place funding of £10k per annum has not increased since tories came to power..... that's 0% inflation increase in over a decade
@afneil
Which G7 economy has:
- the greatest tax burden on general public
- highest rate of debt to gdp
In comparison to pre pandemic and post pandemic?
Genuine question
@Peston
Keep on hearing about all these
#Brexit
benefits, why not use a tool government could use - VAT
Increase the VAT on luxury goods, real high end and squeeze those with real disposable income and raise tax revenue too
Rather than hammer middle earners
@BeckettUnite
I am sure some in the labour, like yourself, prefer the Tories remain power
Is it better for the union fees or something, or easier to complain than govern?
Or, is the reality, your a tory supporter in disguise
If not, then why look to split the votes away from Labour?
I…
@MrLNeal
Not teacher blaming at all, acknowledge pressure playschool part
But that pressure needs to be managed by both adult and child, but remember the child is a child
And the reality is, if that teacher had given THAT child a pen, then later spoke to the child about perhaps…
@GillianKeegan
@RishiSunak
When my youngest was in Year 6 the following was wanted above all these "no sats"
Since you haven't done this I pressume the majority of kids and teachers are not wise?
@educationgovuk
Sorry, but this is b-s
Around 4 years ago Government,
@educationgovuk
and
@ESFAgov
announced £350 million for 2019-20
#SEN
funding
You know how much extra money most schools got - ZERO!
It all went to funding LA Deficits (which continue to grow)
That is why, the past decade…
Was thinking of the ramifications of this more
If the bar to a TRA hearing is so low then, from a risk management perspective, schools potentially need to revisit their risk assessments from the perspective of parental complaints putting staff into disrepute for, what has…
📢 School leaders have voiced outrage after a primary teacher with an 'unblemished' career was brought before a misconduct hearing over an isolated glue gun incident
Just to point out that at the cinema your allowed to
1) eat
2) have your phone
3) go to the toilet without permission
And that silence is more likely if movie is good, not because your told and even then adults, aswell as children, are unlikely to be quiet for two hours... just…
@RishiSunak
Close down a few universities, and as you do so lots of student accommodation comes up for sale
Then come along Lloyds bank, buying them all up - as they are increasing their own letting arm
Then, a full u turn, the city needs a uni
Ohhhh how cynical of me to think Rishi would…
@JohnBaldLangLit
@drlindalouise
Serious Question
There is a comment within the thread which states: "Trusting misdiagnosed labels for students who simply need great teaching, teaching great behaviours and help building good habits".
When teachers, and other leaders, complain about not being listened to…
@Miss_Snuffy
@BridgetBurke2
I am sure I noticed you shared or liked this yesterday, if did and retweeting it again, then is that not a form of “click bait”
Also sharing such a post is by its nature trying to make yourself out to be a victim, especially if repeated
@educationgovuk
@Ofstednews
according to your own manual for safeguarding to be effective the environment must be safe "the physical environment for... children and learners is safe..."
No ambiguity and very clear.
With 156 schools having closed will you be reassessing their grading & for all…
@RogersHistory
Many of those parents are, i imagine, parents of sen children, and we have seen the huge pressures there
Also if there are issues with teachers perhaps a certain baroness can ask what 13 years of
@Conservatives
demonising of the profession has done
What this SEND debate has shown to me is how vital it is for parents to research their school and not rely on one word
@Ofstednews
judgements
My own child for example could have gone to an outstanding school, however, went to a RI school
Why, because the pastoral care was…
@SteveBakerHW
I don't know about you, but I don't want a dodgy prime minister with no mandate who avoids real scrutiny by making policy changes to the press and not in Parliament
@matilda__martin
@tes
Why would an international teacher want to come to UK? (Unless really want to come to UK)
Cost of living is atrocious, employers don't fund housing, earnings are taxed
An international teacher could go to the middle east, earn similar money (which isn't taxed) and have…
@dave_mcpartlin
Wonder what would happen if, on arrival, HMI were informed that the schools risk assessment regarding Ofsted has them as high risk to staff wellbeing and health and as a result this is mitigated by all interactions being recorded by teacher body cams.
@johnredwood
So, under the
@Conservatives
, schools now need to employ:
- architects
- lawyers
- accountants
- social workers
- security guards
- police
- therapists
- teachers
- etc etc
But they will have no additional funding to do it....
@AAWoodfields
@MrDavidScales
Feels like a video that is more egotistical, imo
The risk of such videos is it could have the opposite effect, appearing to label many as the issue than target the few may alienate the majority
High risk approach, when a letter would have done the job rather than risk other…
@educationgovuk
Good job NEU referenced that they are supportive of local arrangements for Yr11 and Yr13 in order to support exams
I note you missed that bit in your spin
@afneil
Education is not just about academic progress.
Don't forget this when the MSM tells you which schools are the top of the leader board, instead consider which are the must inclusive and teach respect, morality, ethics and kindness.
@RogersHistory
Not just teachers, but also Caretakers, Business Mgrs, Receptionists, Cleaners, etc
Well any other working person in any industry too
TBH Teachers are fortunate in that they are aware of when the breaks will be & they know they wont be asked to provide the Christmas cover
@johncosgrove405
@johnredwood
Nor will it happen now IMO
I can see this being a catalyst for a significant about turn on academies, especially if 200 to 400 need to be redeveloped every year as per the ex DFE chief
PMQs may be interesting, if
@RishiSunak
bothers attending
@miconm
That is terrible, it is also telling that the school felt the incident required a TRA
Personally, if i was a teacher looking to take up employment at that school, or even the Trust, I would think twice about it since the employee has been badly let down and not supported in…
@dave_mcpartlin
Suggested
We appreciate that each inspector will be coming from their own personal background, built on a range of experiences which will be unique. We ask that any inspectors demonstrates similar understanding; every school is unique and has its own strengths and challenges.…
@johnredwood
Perhaps they applied for capital funding over the past decade, but was rejected due the lottery nature of these applications and the
@Conservatives
being fixated on
#brexit
and party politics rather than the education of children and investing in schools.
If only there had been…
@Miss_Snuffy
7am
How, can you, when you state your an outstanding leader, substantiate on wanting to meet your senior leaders any day (let alone ever day) at 7am
IMO, this is an inadequate leadership and management approach, especially where
@Ofstednews
has staff workload on its agenda
"Larger Mats, with 10 or more schools, also have higher rates of persistent pupil absence, suspension and unexplained departures than smaller Mats and local authority schools on average, according to the Education Policy Institute (EPI) analysis".
@GuardianEdu
Is this really…
@RogersHistory
- reduced admissions
- financial pressures due to less pupils, further compounded by having to spend more money to undertake 'rapid progress'
- loss of governing body (volunteers)
- turnover of staff, including non-teachers
- high stress for all staff
- pupil's negatively…
@BenWBriscoe
@JohnRyleyNews
The threat to democracy is enabling sitting politicians to have their own shows, who are all
@Conservatives
, resulting in a single narrative and bias political presenters
@GillianKeegan
Just imagine going on strike, and MPs also enabling teachers to go on strike, just to end up issuing and accepting what the independent body was going to recommend anyway (which the government would have always had to honour anyway).
@CensoredHead
@Miss_Snuffy
What I have learnt from her today is:
1) she is against pupils having mobile phones, yet she seems to have an obsession with getting attention on social media
2) she claims to have a non selective admissions policy, yet states will not go to the LA for any support so in all…
@DavidGHFrost
@UKLabour
@jeremycorbyn
actually wanted a referendum on what
#brexit
was, i.e. take it to the public but leaving the EU.... Brexit is Brexit, whatever that was
In the end we had
@BorisJohnson
who just forced through a ill thought out, ill planned, hard brexit, which he never believed in,…
@adamboxer1
IMO that is poor leadership
Leadership is about leading, i.e. empowering
If you have daily 7am meetings with your team how are you empowering them, it is micro management!
Perhaps these 7am meetings are due to her own diary issues, which I imagine is vast based on her constant…
@Miss_Snuffy
@mjello06
This is unfair on the child
A EHCP sits with that child until they are 25, as you will be aware
They do not have to tell anyone they have a EHCP once they leave school, but to look to remove or not support obtaining one is disadvantaging that pupil especially if going to…
@jennelikejennay
@WritesBright
yes lots of study on this, including from those who attended boarding schools
and general consensus was they should be no where near holding such high levels of public office
@RogersHistory
I have friends and colleagues working across the world
One teacher, working in china, teaching an English based education, said he has numerous free periods, no requirements to cover and on one day teaches 4 children in total
That's the global competition of the emerging…
@jordom1991
And here is the issue, yes they would/could
And in reality police could be involved still
But you are comparing children to adults, expecting their maturity to be on par, but they are children, who are still being taught consequences
Even 21 year old, 40 odd year old, etc, are…
@HappyHead74
@IanJohn37337084
This is correct, teachers actually only get paid a much smaller amout for the weeks their on holidays (5.8 i think it is, and incl bank hols but stand to be corrected)
Its just that rheir salaries are spread over 12 months
Many, incl teachers, dont understand the burgundy book
@drlindalouise
What I don't understand is the Trust where you work,
@athenalearning_
, has a school with a separate SEN provision, a CPLD one if mistaken
So how does your take within this thread, of not removing pupils (if I read it correctly), or having no safe space access, fit in with the…
@MrBoothY6
"I feel uncomfortable, those 1st class seats look nice, will someone swap with me?"
"No, because they paid extra for those seats"
..........
@LBC
@IanpayneLBC
Clearly cannot find enough maths teachers
@RishiSunak
, or buildings that won't fall down....
Quick what do we do?????
Ahhh National Service!!!!
@GillianKeegan
So how you going to teach Math's when there is a mass exodus of teachers?
"There are 30 children in a class, those 30 need 1 teacher to teach them maths. How many children are being taught maths if there is no teacher?"
@branwenjeffreys
@GillianKeegan
"That’s because this means the UNFUNDED offer of £1,000 one off (2.4%) for this year will be withdrawn"
There you go, corrected for you
@DanielKebedeNEU
Sorry but you failed on this STRB would have always been followed
You accepted it as soon as it came on board, and no way would the government have gone against the independent body
You had the opportunity at that moment to seek increased funding, but reality is accepting the…
@Peston
This is what happens when you have a system based on 'doing the right thing', because there will come a time when someone realises they don't 'have to'
Since prologue parliament it was clear this would be the outcome & when have someone who will hold onto power at all costs
@Bananeteaching
No doubt, and acknowledge alot of pressures & difficulties
However, is that the child's fault to, who was already heightened?
It's not teacher blaming, it's pointing out a misguided belief that a belief that all kids must be ready all the time, and sometimes the simple stuff…