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Headteacher, CogSci, High Expectations, Kindness and Clear Modelling. Trad Teaching. Be Kind Always. MSc MA MSc(Oxon) EdD FCCT FRSA - Views Own
Joined August 2022
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@RogersHistory Wasn’t many years ago nobody mentioned ‘curriculum’. Now we coach ‘curriculum directors’ to parrot what we hope will be familiar & appealing to inspectors. Farcical.
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Today, it is never more clear that the English education system is being systematically deconstructed by an ideologically driven govt. The way to create equity and opportunity for our most disadv. stds is not to remove curriculum opportunity for them. That’s the road ahead.
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A great example of why student voice can sometimes be bad metric to measure ourselves against.
Back when i was a professor, early on I used to get bad reviews occasionally. My institution was extremely critical of this. So, what did I discover was the easy solution? I watered down my course and made everything easier. Magically, I started to get near perfect evaluations in
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A timely and historic reminder of what happens when teachers are not supported with reasonable behaviour systems: Since rebrokering and considerable changes things have much improved at my neighbouring school. https://t.co/GY9GBsrF6x
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Staff a school on the Isle of Sheppey say pupil behaviour has left them fearing for their safety.
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Agreed. My school is a non selective and has five grammars within its catchment. We’re a mainstream school and absolutely have a good no of students doing 3 x science, but it wouldn’t be an appropriate default choice for all. In fact, insisting on it could be counterproductive.
Compulsory triple science is folly. Not every teenager has the skills or interest to study three at once. Do one properly, giving them a choice, and more than one only if the person has an aptitude or interest in it. 3 low grade passes are much less use than one good one.
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Rarer than giant pandas in some parts of the country.
Triple Science…. Where are all the Science teachers magically going to come from? More so Physics teachers?
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Interest read. Unusual to have such candour from a DfE source. I think his diagnosis and solution are very astute.
standard.co.uk
Former DfE permanent secretary Jonathan Slater suggests replacing current Ofsted inspections with a new accountability system for schools
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In most office or customer facing workspaces wearing coats inside isn’t typically normal. Professional dress very common in many fields. I see no issue with schools that have expectations around this so long are fair, consistently applied and appropriate to the context.
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The 'luxury beliefs' of those proposing no use of internal removal rooms or suspensions etc. They are either not teachers who have to deal with disruption, verbal or physical abuse or their own children are not impacted by disruption, verbal or physical assault in schools.
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Doing Whatever It Takes, holding the line and brave leadership transforms failing schools.
I don't know @MrDavidScales personally but have followed his journey. He came under a lot of flak here for so many things but as is often the case his efforts and holding the line have transformed a school that was struggling. Great job and well done.
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Overcommunicating is rarely done. Messages become whole school messages over time. You have to be consistent, insistent and persistent, always living the words that you speak.
🎯Organisational Health🎯 @AAWoodfields @MrDavidScales ▶️A cohesive leadership team in place who are... ✅Creating clarity ✅Overcommunicating clarity ✅Reinforcing clarity And driving transformation in one of the most exciting turnarounds in England. @patricklencioni
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@richardtutt The ONLY thing that guarantees a child anonymity from their home life when they walk through the school door is an absolute level playing field when it comes to clothing. Even bags and shoes .
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‘If students grow up in systems where integrity is negotiable, they won’t just lose faith in schools’: one former international teacher highlights the risk of the slow erosion of integrity in schools https://t.co/LLl8U1yP91
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I always get told off for this, but you can spend 5 minutes in any school these days and figure out pretty quickly that there are way too many students with special arrangements like toilet passes, extra time, time out passes etc etc
The over-diagnosis and over-medicalisation of children is a growing concern, one that has already caused significant harm and threatens to do even more in the future. In many cases, children are being labelled not because they are truly unable to cope, but because adults, whether
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By the same token, the reverse is also true. Selective schools have largely got a hard pass in the inspection system. You compare the sea of green on a typical grammar’s IDSR (and formerly RAISEonline/PANDA) it means a school will find it to v.difficult to get worse than good.
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In the last 20 years of my career I have seen a status quo in Kent whereby the inspectorate routinely come in and bash the non-selective sector or the basis that national average outcomes are not being achieved, despite by definition, these schools missing the top 25% by ability.
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In other news, shock as it is found that turkeys rarely vote for Christmas.
New Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts (MATs) should not be graded, the sector body for trusts has said https://t.co/g3iz2nmg5k
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We teach inner city kids that criminality, vandalism, total self-absorption are wrong. But the Church of England glorifies it. When the kids grow up to question the rule of law, beauty and selflessness, don’t blame the schools. Blame the CHURCH. Appalling. 🤢
The Church of England decided this week to cover the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the voices of “marginalised communities.” The Very Rev David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury, said: “There is a rawness which is magnified by the
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Great university!
NEW: We’re honoured to be ranked number one in the @timeshighered World University Rankings for the tenth consecutive year. 👏
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100% of the four children raised in our home would have supported having televisions in their bedrooms. That’s why we didn’t ask for their input or opinions on the issue. No regrets.
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