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Steve Waters FCCT

7 days

Teachers: A lack of reward is one of 6 factors that contribute to Burnout (Maslach). Reward can be appreciation. When was the last time someone said, ‘Well done’ or ‘Thank you’ about your job?

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Steve Waters FCCT

@teachwellall

1 year

This is Sally Wainwright who created and wrote Happy Valley. She was also one of its 3 directors and one of its 4 Executive Producers. She deserves an award for her remarkable achievement in a male-dominated industry.

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8 months

I’m struggling to understand why some schools are not allowing students to remove blazers and ties this week. Could anyone help me out?

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7 months

@Eve6 @briebriejoy Countries can always find money for war. It’s finding money for peace that is always a problem.

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1 year

Myths about teaching. I’ll start: Teachers only work between 9am - 3.30pm.

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@teachwellall

16 days

@SuhanaAh Utterly abhorrent. This is assault.

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@teachwellall

10 months

Teachers: Please guide your pupils not to watch the Glastonbury recordings. There is a performer called CAT Stevens. You know what this can lead to. If you know, you know. If you don’t know, you haven’t been paying attention.

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11 months

I am now officially a grandad! This is Marnie!

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@teachwellall

6 months

@DrProudman It is the distress and nausea of the girls he raped that should be in the headline.

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@teachwellall

5 years

5 teacher truths to tell yourself in 2019: 1) My mental health is more important than results; 2) My school has a duty to look after me; 3) My family is more important than my job; 4) I can’t take care for anyone else if I don’t care for myself); 5) I can teach elsewhere.

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@teachwellall

5 months

1/2 Teachers: Inquest into death of Ruth Perry who ended her life after Ofsted judgement of Inadequate: Ofsted had legal team of 7 at pre-inquest hearings. Instructed to reduce it to 5 for inquest. Family denied legal aid - have crowdfunded. Spielman: profession has used…

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@teachwellall

6 months

Teachers: There is nothing that says there is a crisis in the teaching profession more than a teacher telling their son/daughter not to become a teacher.

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@teachwellall

5 years

I go to the GP. The GP is not observed. There are no medical learning walks. No drop-ins. My life could be at risk if she makes a wrong decision. I trust her because she is qualified. Why, then, do we subject teachers to such scrutinies?

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1 year

What has the NHS done for YOU? When a baby, prevented me dying from Gastro-Enteritis. Saved my baby son during an asthma attack. 3 times gave me sight with corneal transplants. Treated my Bi-Polar Disorder with medication so I’m symptom free. Fight for our NHS. Support our nurses

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@teachwellall

1 year

Channel 4 News: UK has one of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in the world. A third of all newly qualified teachers leave within 5 years. We have one of the youngest teaching force in the world. Experienced teachers are leaving before retirement. A perfect storm.

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1 year

Once upon a time…A nurse went to her local library after her hospital shift and borrowed a book. She made her way home in time to greet her son who had been at a therapy session with CAMHS. She and her husband, a teacher, earned a reasonable joint salary and they were able

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@teachwellall

3 months

One unintended consequence of raising the retirement age is that, for those who can’t afford to retire early, the role of being a grandparent and supporting their children as parents will diminish. Being a grandparent will be for the rich.

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@teachwellall

5 months

2/2…Ruth Perry’s death as a ‘pivot’ to discredit Ofsted. It looks to me that Ofsted is using taxpayers’ money to ‘pivot’ to do all it can to absolve itself of any blame and try to stack the deck in its favour. Appalling abuse of power.

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@teachwellall

9 months

Teachers: When other workers point to the generous summer break, please let them know that you don’t get paid for it. Your salary is for the contracted 10 months but is paid out over 12.

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@teachwellall

4 years

Schools: Every time question is asked of panel re schools fully reopening: Only children’s low risk to Corona Virus is discussed. No mention of risk to teachers, TAs, support staff, admin, cleaners, canteen staff, site staff, parents dropping/collecting children, crossing staff.

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@teachwellall

4 years

Nothing NOTHING is more important in schools than physical and mental health. Not displays. Not tidying classrooms. Not lessons. Not reports. Not curriculum. Not academic work. Not cognitive load. Not performance management. If anyone tells you otherwise, they’ve lost their way.

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@teachwellall

5 months

Ofsted: I have it on good authority that the ‘training’ in recognising and responding to anxiety is 90 minutes online. 90 minutes. To say this is inadequate is an understatement. As a mental health professional, I am disgusted. It is an insult to Ruth’s memory.

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@teachwellall

1 year

glad that they lived in a country which looked after its people. It wasn’t perfect but they were reasonably content. The End.

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@teachwellall

3 years

Everyone in a leadership position should embrace this truth.

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@teachwellall

4 years

If you are a teacher and you don't like or listen to the Foo Fighters, David Grohl is their lead singer. His mum was a teacher. After this comment, I think you owe it to him to at least play a couple of tracks!

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@teachwellall

15 days

@GraceREThomas This is a red flag. There is no reason for any man to do this if they do not know the woman on her own.

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@teachwellall

1 year

When a participant on Jeremy Kyle show ended their life after the broadcast, the programme was halted and then axed because it had failed in its duty of care. That Ofsted has not halted inspections after Ruth Perry’s death tells us that they don’t believe they were responsible.

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@teachwellall

6 months

Teachers have more accountability measures applied to their performance than the government.

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@teachwellall

1 year

The rationale for the Ofsted inspection process is that it ensures children have a good standard of education and are looked after. We can’t provide either if we don’t look after the people who care for the children.

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@teachwellall

3 months

Retirement age 71? Teaching is one of the jobs which is becoming impossible to do beyond the age of 60, with many teachers looking to leave in their 50s. In addition, if experienced people work longer, the opportunities for younger employees is reduced. Life is not only work.

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1 year

If you are an Ofsted inspector, given Ruth Perry’s tragic death and the launch of the Knight inquiry, please explain what possible justification there can be for inspecting schools during SATs?

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@teachwellall

2 years

An Ofsted inspector visits a school assembly and the children are behaving like the Tory benches at PMQs. What would their view be of the teacher in charge of the assembly? What would the same MPs say about that school? What dreadful examples for our children.

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@teachwellall

3 years

I was a teacher. I am a parent of 4 children, now adults. I believe in discipline. But I would have withdrawn my children from their schools if they had implemented a silent corridor style of education. We must not assume that this is what all parents want or think is right.

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@teachwellall

11 months

@PeterStefanovi2 @LabourLordsUK @UKLabour Utterly disgusted with the Labour Party. At this rate, I will be voting elsewhere. Something I have never done in my life. But not Tory, obviously.

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@teachwellall

3 years

@AuthorMonika And again the UK govt has been shown to be embarrassingly wanting. Well done those doctors. Well done the Sikhs for feeding the drivers. Johnson and Co - you should be ashamed of yourselves.

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@teachwellall

5 years

Teachers: There is nothing more important than your mental health. Not Ofsted, not results, not learning walks, not observations, not lesson or curriculum plans. If your mental health is suffering in your school, move to another. A life without good mental health is not a life.

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@teachwellall

8 months

@implausibleblog ‘More cautious than anywhere else in the world.’ Does he realise how ridiculous this sounds?

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@teachwellall

2 years

As someone who suffered from depression and anxiety from the age of 14, often triggered by the pressure of exams, I find it astonishing that Ofsted is identifying children having ‘fun’ as negative. Learning and fun are not mutually exclusive. I wish my learning had been fun.

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@teachwellall

1 year

Of all the options that Ofsted had at its disposal to respond to the tragedy of the headteacher at Caversham Primary ending her own life after she was informed that their judgement was ‘Inadequate’, this second bullet point is surely the most uncaring and insensitive.

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@teachwellall

1 year

There is a Facebook group for teachers who ate considering leaving the profession or have left teaching. There are 80,000 UK members. A reflection of the serious crisis in retention. We must make staff wellbeing and mental health the priority. Everything else depends on it.

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@teachwellall

1 year

You are at work. You always come to work early at 7.30 am. You have worked a 9 hour day. You then have a 3 hour session between 4.30-7.30 where you meet 30 customers for 5 mins each, with extra time allowed for over-runs. Who are you? You’re a teacher.

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@teachwellall

6 months

@pmdfoster @JenWilliams_FT @FT @LOS_Fisher Utterly lacking in compassion or empathy.

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Steve Waters FCCT

@teachwellall

3 years

A 15 year old girl dies of Covid. If you are a member of a governing body, your headteacher is being put in an impossible position by an irresponsible govt. Take control. Support the school by insisting on mitigations and parents are informed of cases. Lives are at stake.

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@teachwellall

3 years

No excuse for hooliganism. But can anyone explain why a woman’s vigil following the death of Sarah Everard demanded the riot pice while in Leicester Sq and at Wembley there were no riot police and a completely inadequate police presence?

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@teachwellall

10 months

Teachers: ‘Don’t waste a second.’ ‘Every second counts.’ ‘Every lesson counts.’ ‘No time to waste.’ This preoccupation that learning has to be relentlessly planned can lead to a school culture in which it is almost impossible for pupils and teachers to relax.

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@teachwellall

5 months

Ofsted: Spielman is pausing inspections for one day to train lead inspectors to recognise & respond to anxiety. Not only is this completely inadequate but it is focusing on individual failings when it is organisational toxicity that led to Ruth Perry’s death.

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@teachwellall

2 months

Teachers: It’s a disgrace to plan a lesson while you are walking on the corridor towards it. Perhaps. But when you have two young children who you dropped off at two different locations, no non-contact time that day and a duty, it’s reality.

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@teachwellall

7 months

@MainstreamViews @GodCloseMyEyes A clearer example of misogynistic nonsense you are unlikely to see in a hurry.

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@teachwellall

3 years

Teachers: If invited for interview, the only question to ask at end is: ‘How do you look after staff wellbeing and mental health?’ The answer will tell you if you should accept the post. If they don’t offer you the job because you asked that question, you’ve had a lucky escape.

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@teachwellall

5 years

For 16 yrs I taught without: Ofsted, observations, compulsory lesson plans, learning walks, PM, book scrutinies. Teachers knocked to enter my room. Laughter in staff room. Some schools great, some good, some poor. Just like today. We did our best We were trusted. Unlike today...

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@teachwellall

3 years

How can Ofsted on the one hand include wellbeing and workload under Leadership & Management and, at the same time, inspect schools days before the end of term after the pressure and a anxiety of such a terrible year. Words are one thing. Deeds are another.

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@teachwellall

3 years

What is worse than a child having no laptop for online lessons? Having a laptop without a sound card & a working camera. Some of the laptops the DfE delivered have these unique qualities. The incompetence of Williamson & his dept beggars belief. Perhaps Ofsted could investigate.

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@teachwellall

1 year

If you are a headteacher and an Ofsted inspector, would you please consider advising Ofsted that inspections should stop until Ruth Parry’s inquest and a parallel Ofsted investigation has taken place into the inspection & report at her school?

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@teachwellall

2 months

I taught Holliday Grainger English - Robin in Strike. She was absent for 6 months in every school year. The school allowed her to pursue her film career. She achieved A/A* in all her GCSE subjects. Every ‘second’ at school didn’t count. Her talent did.

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Attendance is vital to help you learn and earn, we have had record attendance this week. @MrDavidScales describes some of the things we’ve noticed this week and asks us to work together to further improve attendance.

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@teachwellall

8 months

Gillian Keegan’s office refurbishment cost £34 million. Unlike most classrooms in one of the hottest days of the year, it is almost certain that her office has air conditioning. And there will never be 30+ other people in her office with her.

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@teachwellall

5 months

@Mouhssin_Ismail Not for me. There is a difference between moving purposefully to the next lesson while quietly chatting and chaos. This is taking control to the extreme. I would neither have wanted to teach in a school like this nor wanted any of my four children to attend it.

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@teachwellall

4 years

Sunak has just said that schools opening for younger children will enable people to go back to work. This is the real reason for the decision to admit Early Years and Year 1 - every other reason is smoke and mirrors.

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@teachwellall

8 months

If the House of Commons is unable to achieve 100% attendance, how does the Children’s Commissioner think it is possible in schools, some of which have 1500+ students?

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@teachwellall

10 months

@mhdksafa None of her or anyone else’s business. I bet if she had a heart attack and you were treating her, she wouldn’t be interested in the colour of your hair.

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@teachwellall

1 year

Parents: Education is in serious trouble. Ofsted damaging schools. Reading SATs paper too difficult even for excellent readers - some children in tears. Retention/recruitment: In worst crisis in 45 years due to teachers’ mental ill-health. Little external support for children.

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@teachwellall

9 months

Teachers: The irony of teaching in heat in June to be greeted by incessant rain in the summer break in July.

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@teachwellall

3 years

If you describe your school as having a whole-school approach to mental health and don’t include the staff, you don’t have a whole-school approach to mental health. Without staff mental wellbeing, there can be no student wellbeing.

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@teachwellall

7 months

The astonishing turnaround in SATs results of Feversham Primary School. High deprivation. High EAL. RI. Headteacher promotes a love of learning through music, drama and the Arts. He says focusing only on Eng/Maths would have destroyed learning

How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it

A Bradford primary school wants the world to know its newfound Sats success is down to giving all children up to six hours of music a week

www.theguardian.com

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@teachwellall

1 year

Teachers: What comment has been said to you that has damaged your mental wellbeing? Mine: ‘He always behaves for me’.

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@teachwellall

1 year

Ofsted: Ruth Perry ends her own life after being told her school is ‘Inadequate’. Police called to escort team into another school where head wanted to prevent inspection in solidarity with Ruth. Today, business as usual. Can you see what is wrong with this? Ofsted can’t.

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@teachwellall

3 years

OK. This is getting boring now. Sorry. Have you considered being an eye donor when you die? Yesterday, I had the third transplant in my lifetime since the age of 27 using donated corneas. The 3 people who sadly died have saved me from going blind. Thank you to those donors.

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@teachwellall

9 months

@DrPujaMehta1 @HousingcrisisL @ManduReid @metpoliceuk @lolaeyedoc @eveosh Handcuffed over a bus fare…?!

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@teachwellall

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1/2 Schools: There is an extreme view of education which I’ve not seen in 45 yrs as an educator: Silent corridors; no group work; teacher-led lessons only; scripted instruction; SLANT; reading with rulers; tests/exams aim of education; no wall displays; micromanagement of staff.

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@teachwellall

5 months

Ofsted: Inspections are based on fear. We don’t perform well if we’re afraid. The pre-frontal cortex (thinking) shuts down and we go into fight or flight mode. Headteachers are fearful because their survival and the survival of their staff and school depends on succeeding.

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@teachwellall

10 months

Teachers: High Court has ruled that using supply teachers to cover for striking teachers is unlawful.

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@teachwellall

1 month

I suspect most educators would agree that when a pupil is disrupting the education of others and refuses to respond to the teacher’s instructions, they should be removed from the room. The important question is what happens next. This is where there is most disagreement.

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@teachwellall

4 months

I started teaching many years ago - in 1976. There were 62 applications for the NQT Secondary English post I was fortunate to be appointed to. It took 10-15 years on average to be promoted to HoD. Compare these figures to today.

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@teachwellall

2 years

Imagine: During severe lockdown, a headteacher invites 100 staff via email sent by the school office to bring a bottle to an after-school gathering in the school playground to thank them for their hard work. What would be the outcome?

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@teachwellall

3 months

Parents/Governors: A major threat to your children’s education is their teachers leaving the profession. We have a retention crisis due to Burnout, the like of which we have never seen. If you can, ask your school how you can support your child’s teachers.

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@teachwellall

1 year

I’ve been an educator for 45 years inc 30 in secondary English, Head of Dept & Ass Principal & 6 as LA consultant. Teacher governor. Union rep. I have never seen the profession so mentally unwell but so united. Change is essential. No option. We can - and must - make it happen.

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@teachwellall

6 months

On one hand, the DfE is compiling data on teachers, librarians and TAs. On the other, the police seem unable to gain access to Sunak’s WhatsApp messages to conduct a criminal investigation.

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@teachwellall

2 months

Brianna Ghey’s mum: Asking for phone companies to produce phones for under 16s. Excellent idea. If they have limited access to online sites, children will be less inclined to want them at school too. Educators need to get behind this idea.

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@teachwellall

5 months

Ruth Perry’s inquest: In my view, the system of inspection is so toxic that Ofsted must go. If you believe the same, we must be very careful not to get drawn in to the ‘lessons will be learned’ narrative. This assumes Ofsted will continue.

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@teachwellall

1 month

Teachers: When HMI visited before the formation of Ofsted, I always felt that they were behaving like a guest in your home. Now, inspection feels more like the visit of the police with a search warrant.

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@teachwellall

6 months

Before Ofsted: Some schools were excellent; some good; some OK; some awful. Since Ofsted: Some schools are excellent; some good; some OK; some awful. What’s changed? Before Ofsted, a small number of teachers had mental ill-health. Since Ofsted, mental health retention crisis.

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@teachwellall

3 years

Just signed a petition to support a group of girls whose school won’t allow them to wear trousers. Are there other schools whose uniform policy is that girls wear skirts? What reasoning is behind this?

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@teachwellall

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having a cheap council-owned gym and swimming pool a couple of miles away. Although the husband felt guilty for not being at school, he knew the school had adequate staffing and a contingency budget to cover his absence. While life wasn’t easy, it was manageable. The family were

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@teachwellall

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@jessphillips A huge loss as a shadow minister to the Labour party. I agree with your position. I am very concerned that the position Keir is taking will lead to a loss of votes in the GE.

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@teachwellall

6 months

@PastoralThings This is the consequence of ‘no excuses’. I am not against clear school rules but they need to be interpreted to take into account the challenges some students face. Perhaps there was a follow-up?

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@teachwellall

3 years

Could this conversation take place in your school? ‘I am teaching mostly successfully. However, 9ST’s behaviour is causing me real problems. Could we agree a time when you can come to see me teach and a time to discuss strategies that I could try?’

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5 months

Ofsted inspectors: I don’t believe all of you are uncaring. But I do have a question to which I would appreciate an answer: ‘Why are you still inspecting after the findings of Ruth Perry’s enquiry?’

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@teachwellall

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@CH0C0H0LIC @educationgovuk Yes. Only a Structural Engineer. How do Heads and Governors know the type of concrete in their schools unless they have been inspected?

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@teachwellall

1 month

Teachers: Many of you qualified after 1993 and so were not fortunate to be visited by HMI, rather than Ofsted. Independent of political pressure. Knowledgeable, respectful. Interested to hear of successes and challenges. Subject reports professional and instructive.

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@teachwellall

11 months

@JeremyVineOn5 Yes. It is right. A society’s worth and values is determined by how we treat the sick, the unemployed a d the elderly.

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@teachwellall

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Teachers: Shouting out; making fun of others; walking out; using phones; not listening; aggression; banging the desks in unison; waving paper in the air; talking under breath; not turning up; jeering; not answering questions. No, not the classroom. The House of Commons.

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@teachwellall

1 year

Ofsted should be ashamed. The presence of the police in a show of power to ensure that what will be a flawed inspection takes place is a terrible moment in education, the like of which I have never seen in 45 years as a teacher and educator.

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'Flanked by police' Dear God

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went to visit her husband in hospital, who went on to make a good recovery. He visited his GP regularly and was able to get an appointment within a couple of days if needed. He was also visited at home by the community nurse within 24 hours of discharge. His rehab was helped by

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Teachers: If your school is damaging your mental health, you have 3 choices: 1) Change yourself; 2) Change the school; 3) Leave. Try one more school - even on supply - before you leave the profession. There are wonderful schools out there.

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and, within 2 hours, was given a bed in ICU. Later, the wife collected her car from the free car park and drove home. Although not a fan of the government, the wife was grateful for their support for the NHS. The next day, her son was able to get a train to school, as the wife

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5 months

The way in which Ofsted inspects is not ‘driving up standards’; it is driving out teachers.

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1 year

jaw and down his arm. He collapsed. His wife dialled 999 and, within minutes, an ambulance arrived. It took the husband to A&E and he was admitted. Although the A&E department was busy, the wife remembers seeing that the waiting time was 20 minutes. The husband was treated

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to budget for food, lighting and heating. When her son went to bed, they planned a modest driving holiday in France, noting that their EHIC cards had expired. They were just about to go to bed when the husband suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest which travelled up to his

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2 months

Teachers: I don’t know who decided to use the term ‘cold calling’ for asking questions of pupils with hands down, but as every adult hates being phoned by an uninvited sales pitch, I think it was an unfortunate choice.

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@teachwellall

6 months

@streetskitchen @CamdenCouncil 1) This is the result of Braverman’s vile ‘It’s a lifestyle choice’. 2) Camden Council should be ashamed that this is happening. 3) If the refuse collectors were instructed to do this, they should have sought union backing to disobey the instruction.

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@teachwellall

10 months

@JohndickensSW @f33lthesun I hope that a well-known headteacher will now retract her remarks about a child identifying as a cat and apologise. After all, she 100% stands by Ofsted judgements.

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Steve Waters FCCT

@teachwellall

2 years

Ofsted: Given the crisis in retention, the worst I have seen in my lifetime, I would like to see a ‘deep dive’ to reveal the state of staff mental wellbeing, its causes and proposals to tackle the problem. Recruiting more staff is like filling a barrel with holes with water.

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