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NEW BLOG: The Inspector that never called.

It has been, at time of writing, 2,241 days since an inspector last called. The first three years don’t count. The inspector rarely calls before their report’s third birthday. But, at t…

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It’s tough working in schools at the moment, so I asked the parents if there was anything they’d like to say to the staff. We had 132 messages of thanks & support - enough to fill the staff room. It gave everyone a real lift.

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After a shocker of 18 months, a moment 60 year 6’s on camp at PGL will remember for the rest of their lives…

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Two of my TA’s love backing display boards so much they have taken to calling themselves ‘backs and borders’ plc. Today I discover they’ve even had a stamp made (by one of their partners) to signify their handiwork work around school. 😂

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2 years

So today a Reception child explained squared numbers to me using this model he’d made. In fact he could tell them me up to 12x12?! He’s 5! 😯

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A Y2 child with his onscreen Covid isolating pal during the opening song on the front row of the Y1/2 nativity. A photo for our times.

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2 years

Queen Elizabeth assembly if you want something:

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4 years

So we asked our YR,1&6 parents if they’d mind finishing term a week early to allow Y2-5 some time in school. Cue a deluge of emails... All supporting the idea of their children getting a little less so others could have something.

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3 years

My staff might be on their knees after a long term, but they still found the energy to light up the school for our Window Wonderland - conceived as a defiant stand against Covid last year and returned with a PTA Christmas market & live music this year. Bravo!

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4 years

Favourite quote from one of my returning KS1 Autistic Resource Base children to his teacher today: “I kept you in my heart, but now I have you in my heart AND my eyes!” #outofthemouths

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While the rain lashed down, and as the band played on, at the end of the Summer Fair a lone 4 yo danced with her Dad as though it was the most exciting event that had ever happened in the history of the world.

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6 years

Y6 Leavers’ party tonight: - £80 ball gowns x 0 - Boys in tuxedos x 0 - Limousines x 0 - Posh seating x 0 - Bouncy Castles x 4 (incl. Disco dome) - BBQs x 2 - Happy children x 60

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3 years

As it was a bit rainy, I had a go at making a summary of our Covid Contingency plan for parents and staff. I'm no expert on these things, so take it for what it is - my first effort - but if anyone wants it, here you go:

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2 years

We have young SEND chap who won’t engage with traditional phonics lessons, so his TA has taken to dressing up for various ‘phonics hunts’. Some days they’re both ghostbusters. Others both Bear Grylls. But the phonics now gets done. Today she was an inflatable dinosaur.

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Miss Croucher, the TA who goes above and beyond. Hear her roar!

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So we had a film shot to try and capture our vision. Ten years ago (whilst bottom of the league table & with only 11 first choices for a 60 place EYFS) we set about changing the narrative to one of ‘building champions’. Ten years later… this!

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2 years

Every headteacher in the land…

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Had I known a year ago that I’d be handing out bi-weekly plague test kits on the day the U.K. total fatalities topped 100,000, I would have worried less about SAT scores.

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3 years

Sometimes school improvement prioritisation is best done with post it notes.

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3 years

I have not missed a weekly newsletter in 10 years. So, having had the internet, all computers, all drives and all printers wiped out by a computer virus this week we had to go the oldest of old school!

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Sunday pm and the COVID email arrives. Holidaying stops and back to doing Track & Trace.... For all those MPs banging on about longer days and less summer holiday, can I remind them that I have now been on COVID duty every holiday for a full YEAR.

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2 years

Sleeping on the school field tonight with Year 4. When I start to feel a bit tired by this thought I remind myself how much we missed being able to do this stuff over the last two summers.

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6 months

Blimey, my new Blog seems to have chimed with a few people - 4000 reads so far today. How did we end up here?

How did we end up here?

If you drop a frog into a pan of boiling water, it will yelp and struggle until it eventually dies. However, if you drop a frog into a pan of cold water and then gradually heat the water until boil…

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3 years

The holiday is yet hours old and the first potential case email arrives. As I said at the start, when this is over I want a medal. Not a metaphorical medal, an ACTUAL medal... that is shiny ... and I can wear on my jacket... and endlessly bore the Grandkids about.

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3 years

Right! Term 6 looks like this!

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Favourite gift from a Y6 child so far. Can’t decide whether to keep it in my office, gift it to my wife for valentines or let my daughter take it to Uni to remember her old man…

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3 years

When a group of KS1 farmers knock on your office window sporting the spring onions they’ve just pulled from the ground (planted in the depths of the pandemic winter) and headed for the school kitchen as part of the lunch menu. THAT’S a recovery curriculum. @lightinguplearn

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4 years

I tell you, MS Teams-based Governor meetings are the future. No locking up in the dark and driving home. The meeting finished at 8:10 and I was home at... 8:10! This would do wonders for my work-life balance!

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7 months

I don’t often donate to these things, but after hearing Amanda Spielman on Woman’s Hour I have no faith that OFSTED will do anything other than arrive with a minibus full of lawyers and seek to cast blame far away from their organisation.

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We are three days away from the beginning of the inquest into Ruth Perry’s tragic death, which followed an OFSTED inspection at her school, Caversham Primary…

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3 years

My daughter (19) queued in Eastville park for 3 hours today with thousands of other teenagers to get her vaccine at a drop-in pop-up vaccine centre. When an anti-vaccine demo turned up they were booed by the 1000’s queuing. Our young people aren’t daft.

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11 months

Before and after. Sometimes painting the corridor isn’t actually about painting the corridor.

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1 year

While we’re talking about SATs etc, who remembers the Richmond Tests, beloved by primary schools in the 80’s? The test sheet alone was something from ‘Tomorrow’s World’!

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1 year

Nothing says ‘happy end to SATs week’ more than the LA writing moderation email 😂

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6 months

NEW BLOG: How did we get here? @miss_mcinerney @TeacherTapp @chrisdysonHT @Teacherglitter @HappyHead74 @RetirementTales @RealGeoffBarton @dave_mcpartlin @jillberry102 @Headteacherchat @Oldprimaryhead1 @MichaelT1979 @pauldixtweets Pls RT

How did we end up here?

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8 months

@FloellaBenjamin ’s keynote at CST conference was incredibly powerful. She touched on racist, resilience & positivity. She even bought ‘humpty’ along for her ‘Playschool babies’.

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3 years

For anyone feeling guilty: I’ve not been into school, I’ve not been working on a revised Risk Assessment or remote learning plan or held an SLT meeting. We open as before on Tuesday. If things change, the plan will change. But until then...

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3 years

Great message from one of my Y3’s on the Jaffa Cakes she brought in for the staff!

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1 year

Trying to simplify how we communicate the History Curriculum at both schools. Nothing new but it’s taken me a while to get my IT skills to match minds-eye. Happy to share my template for others with limited design skills.

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What was only supposed to be a little throw-away thought about relaxing during the holidays has become the most popular blog I’ve ever written with over 6000 reads in 48 hours. Thanks all.

Strategic Laziness: how rested leaders make better leaders.

Pete & I at this year’s Isle of Wight Ultra. My brother-in-law Pete (who I do most of my daft running challenges with) has just got a new job working quite high up in a government ministry, aft…

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4 years

Despite having got the school through the last 120 days in reasonably good shape, and having had loads of lovely messages from the school community yesterday, this morning I woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a train. I guess you can only run on adrenaline for so long.

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5 years

Where my thoughts have been this summer holiday: Wk1: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓 Wk2: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓🏖🏖 Wk3: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓🏖🏖🏖 Wk4: 🏖🏖🏖🏖🏖 Wk 5: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓🏖🏖🏖 Wk 6: 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓👨‍🎓🏖

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5 years

“You need to stop looking at the @TTRockStars maths board and eat your lunch!” was my favourite Lunch Break Supervisor instruction to the kids today!

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3 years

My son (15), noting his old man was looking a bit stressy this week, went out and (with his own cash) bought me a Nine Inch Nail in Concert DVD to cheer me up!

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10 months

I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ but anyone else noticed sunset is starting to happen a little earlier…

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4 years

I've found the full new government School opening during lockdown guidance published this afternoon if anyone needs it.

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3 years

Guess I won’t be taking the new bike out for the next ten days then! Feel fine (slight cold) & only did one today as we were having friends over tonight. Good to see the Oxford jab doing its thing!

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11 months

Like many schools, we have an external defibrillator mounted in the outside of the school. It sits largely unnoticed. Until it saves a member of the public’s life (email received today).

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Strategic Laziness: how rested leaders make better leaders.

Pete & I at this year’s Isle of Wight Ultra. My brother-in-law Pete (who I do most of my daft running challenges with) has just got a new job working quite high up in a government ministry, aft…

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11 months

Following another email from LA auditors requesting a ‘photo of the school with a copy of a newspaper baring the date’ as ‘proof of the school’s existence’ (it opened on 1958…) we finally acquiesced. We didn’t have a newspaper, so printed our own...

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8 months

I tend to avoid political posts but it increasingly feels like the profession is being gaslighted by the SoS. I’m not entirely sure who has been making excuses?? Most schools happily publish all this already, so making it into a parents vs schools issue seems very cynical.

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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.

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3 years

Determined that every child will have their own tablet or laptop (not sharing) this lockdown. So far over £1000 in donations from parents, plus 8 donated tablets & 4 parents who donated new ones & 12 from school fund cash. Will have the whole school covered by next week.

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5 months

This is very useful: A summary of OFSTED's School Inspection Handbook (updated January 2024). by Jonathan Coy

A summary of OFSTED's School Inspection Handbook (updated January 2024). by Jonathan Coy

A summary of OFSTED's School Inspection Handbook (updated January 2024)

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3 years

Anyone else found the last fortnight an unexplainable emotional roller-coaster? Some days I’ve had to drag myself out of bed, others completely fine. I guess we are where we are.

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4 years

The same parent who wrote the lovely letter today, also sent this package into school today which gave our, ever-positive but ever so tired, staff a real lift today.

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11 months

NEW BLOG: How to fail: A School Improvement Story

How to fail: A School Improvement Story

I’d felt physically sick for the last 48 hours. Whilst the reason for feeling like I was about to throw up was daft (we can argue about the whys and wherefores on that one another day), the t…

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3 years

Six positive PRCs in the staff over the weekend. Three days of end of year events to safely navigate ahead. Need to wisdom of Solomon to pick the right course. I’ve said it before, but I want a bloody great medal from @educationgovuk when this is all over.

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2 years

Stealing @Headteacherchat idea, I reckon I could guess your rough age from which maths book you used:

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6 years

My daughter has just finished Y11 at @marlwoodschool #School achieving high grades in all her subjects. But budgets made it v difficult for leaders. I have more non-class based leaders available at my 420 primary each day than Mr Pope did for a complex secondary.

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One of the best things we did with our PP money about 4 years ago was hire our own School Counsellor. Her and Stanley (the therapy dog) support a great many children, providing point of need care. She’s held lots of vulnerable children (& their parents) together this past year.

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3 years

NEW (short) BLOG: Strategic Laziness. @Headteacherchat @TheVirginHeadt1 @SLTchat @jillberry102 @misterunwin @chrisdysonHT @gazneedle @MichaelT1979 @ModernCassie @MrEFinch @TheHeadsOffice @MrNickHart @secretHT1 @Tes_Primary @TeacherTapp PLS RT

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5 years

NEW BLOG: My 10 weirdest days as a Headteacher so far! Pls RT ⁦⁦ @MaryMyatt ⁩ ⁦ @tes ⁩ ⁦ @jpembroke ⁩ ⁦ @PaulGarvey4 ⁩ ⁦ @RogersHistory ⁩ ⁦ @debrakidd ⁩ ⁦ @gazneedle ⁩ ⁦ @PrimaryRocks1 ⁩ ⁦ @smithsmm ⁩

The weird world of Headteachering. The ten strangest days in the job so far.

“That’ll never happen! How could it? Surely those things don’t happen in real life!” Like many Headteachers, as part of my National Professional Qualification for Headteache…

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5 years

⁦ @chrisdysonHT ⁩ and the Parklands approach to maths that achieved some of the best results in the country.

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@miconm Appalling. Not entirely sure why it was referred to the TRA at all. Foolish - possibly. But nothing that would warrant a DfE hearing?!

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3 years

I've tweaked out Remote Learning plan so it matches the new guidance for September. If any new HTs need something, help yourself:

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6 years

NEW BLOG! ‘My 10 biggest mistakes as Headteacher!’ @chrisdysonHT @misterunwin @theprimaryhead @SLTchat @jillberry102 @Oldprimaryhead1 @TeacherToolkit @primaryleaders @Headteacherchat Pls RT #Sltchat #PedagooFriday #PrimaryRocks

My 10 biggest mistakes as Headteacher

“Don’t do it Simon!” My Deputy was quite sure that it was a terrible idea. I looked out of the window in the airless training room and inwardly fumed. “They need to know!…

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4 years

If anyone asks what my thoughts are about any @educationgovuk re-opening guidance issued over half term I will simply reply: “Dunno - I haven’t read it. Because it’s half term. The first break we heads have had since February”. Then I shall get back to sitting in the garden.

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4 years

My only advice to fellow HT on the current ‘troubles’ is to lean into the chaos: assume that every day a bubble will close, staff will be off & you’ll spent most of it running around doing Covid-y things. Then each day it doesn’t happen is a win.

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My blog with advice to new HTs taking over schools (esp difficult ones): #PedagooFriday #sltchat @tes pls RT

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4 years

Yes. I have taken highlighters to the beach. What of it?

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11 months

ONS Survey bod: So your contracted weekly hours are 32.5? And you do no paid overtime? What about unpaid overtime? Me: 30 hours ONS: Sorry, did you say THIRTY? Me: Yes ONS: What… actually 30 hours a week unpaid??? Me: Yes The British public doesn’t have a clue.

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2 years

It appears that unlike the 17 year old who he so ungraciously ‘took down’ on Twitter, @tombennett71 so disliked my polite rebuke for his behaviour, that rather than defend or address it he blocked me. I’ve never before got into a Twitter beef but I can’t do with poor manners.

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11 months

Accidentally strolled into some Twitter beef in the last 48 hours. In order to ensure this doesn’t happen again, I will therefore generally post only about cider, bicycling/ running and ‘90’s vinyl records for the next few weeks… And maybe the odd blog if the mood takes me.

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4 years

For the sake of balance, for every edutweeter busily creating resources for next academic year, there’s another (like me) drinking cider in the back garden.

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3 years

Favourite quote today from a Y6 child handing out leaflets in the lobby to visiting Intake 2022 parents: “this is the corridor of pride”. I’ll be using that myself from now on! 😀

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3 years

I spent the day in a Secure Unit housing some of the UKs most troubled children. I think every HT should spend a morning here to see @pauldixtweets ‘unconditional positive regard’ in action. I guarantee HT would be less quick to press the PEX button after a visit.

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Whilst corridor installations may just look like decoration, I’ve had dozens of spontaneous geography conversations with @BlackhorsePri children this week since the ‘map stair-well’ was installed.

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This is genuinely quite shocking: a teacher hauled in front of the DfE for poor use of glue guns. I fear a chilling affect on the use of tools in primary DT as a result once this gets round. @DTassoc - thoughts?

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Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Sarah Mead - Good grief. I mean GOOD GRIEF. I feel very sorry for this teacher.

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But two hours longer than I usually takes me, plan A was completed. I finished the 46 mile course (albeit a husk of a man).

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4 years

I have no control over an airborne pathogen being breathed in by a child/ parent at Tesco’s. I have some control over cleaning, distancing & ventilation. I have total control over how I lead, what strategies I choose & how I spend my time. Only worry about what you can control.

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Are we making our children too fragile?

I’ve written and re-written this blog three times over the last three months. This is exactly three times and three months more/ longer than I usually think about these things. But I want to talk a…

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3 years

Today my staff will all sit on the same room together for the first time in 607 days. 607.

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5 years

Do you believe in magic? Trip to the North part 1 – Parklands Primary, Leeds

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10 months

Just discovered my Corfu holiday comes with free Cocktails. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing..!

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1 year

Anyone else still knackered at the end of the weekend? It’s been a busy run from a January to Easter and I’m ready for a holiday now!

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3 years

Anyone else noticed a sudden massive uptick in workload as 14 months of COVID backlog ‘stuff’ (along with the usual T5 stuff) works through the system!?

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1 year

Anyone else notice that their twitter feed is suddenly full of people who they don’t follow, most of which hold extreme views on a host of subjects?

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5 years

Although I’ve broken up for summer, I’m still in the ‘decompression’ stage where I have to remind myself not to think about work. This usually lasts about a week or so. It’s a bit like taking off a heavy rucksack which you’ve been carrying for ages.

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NEW BLOG: About the magical place that is @ParklandsLeeds and it's excellent Headteacher, @chrisdysonHT . PLS RT @MaryMyatt @jillberry102 @TeacherToolkit @carpenter_rob @DelPlanter @EnserMark @gayle_fletcher5 @theprimaryhead @Oldprimaryhead1 @SGlosAll

Do you believe in magic? Trip to the North part 1 – Parklands Primary, Leeds

“… ‘ere’, Mister… You them visitors what have come’t see school?” The small moon-faced boy beamed up at us. He’d been waiting for our arrival and pou…

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In 24 years of teaching, including 13 years of headship, I’ve never felt so touched by the outpouring of support and thanks from parents and staff. Leading in this crisis has been exhausting but an enormous privilege. It also looks like they know I’m partial to a cider...

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We’re trying to simplify our learning walls by using a common format which focuses on: recapping prior knowledge, vocabulary, understanding the learning steps and exemplifying modelling. The fact the borders in every class match the colours of the exercise books is just my OCD!

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6 years

Preparing for Re-entry: 10 top tips on surviving the Summer a terms as a new Headteacher.

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2 years

@teach_well @rEdDeutschland @tombennett71 I literally not an hour ago put up a blog about phoney twitter culture wars (referencing Tom) over behaviour. So in a craven attempt to widen my readership by joining the beef, here it is:

Give a little respect – obvious reflections on behaviour.

I stood proudly awaiting the children’s arrival. My first assembly as headteacher felt like the moment I’d be setting the scene for the temple of educational excellence which I would su…

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6 years

As the children were leaving for the day today some music started, then this happened...

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2 years

Despite everything on the news, and perhaps because I always lean towards hope over experience, I’m thinking 2022 will be a better year than the last two. And as school leaders, I think we all have to be in the business of optimism.

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@Southgloshead

2 years

As my SLT have already taken over ‘my’ office and cracked out their ‘Head of School’ (& new DHT & AHT) badges, whilst I’m on medical leave, I guess it’s time to update my profile to Executive Headteacher of this exciting new partnership!

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@Southgloshead

2 years

For the past ten years I’ve taken a solemn pledge to only wear short trousers during the summer holidays. Surely I’m not the only chap in teaching to take this oath?

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@Southgloshead

3 years

6pm: School starts mass staff testing. 7pm: first member of staff tests positive (no symptoms). 7-8pm: contact staff & parents and tell them to isolate. 8pm: I test negative. 8:15pm: I open a cider.

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@Southgloshead

4 years

Getting all the foyer boards ready to celebrate the last 100 days of home learning completed by all the children (the remainder of which will return on 13th!). I know it’s window dressing but it’s all I’m good for come the end of the day! @lightinguplearn

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@Southgloshead

3 years

There is a reason food banks don’t give out hampers and instead set up food on shelves for customers to choose: picking your own food to eat is a matter of human dignity. We’re sticking with vouchers.

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4 years

Back to staring at the ceiling at 1am, 3am & 5am, interdispersed with terrifying work-related dreams (last night I dreamt that someone had released a lion in the school). Welcome to Term 6...

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