Sam Strickland
@Samstricko181
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Principal/CEO, Historian, Martial Artist, IL Trustee, NITE steering group member, educational speaker and author, FCCT
Northampton
Joined January 2026
Exclusive: School leaders are having to seek medical support as a result of ‘undeliverable’ expectations and work demands, warns @Headrest_UK
https://t.co/j9DiEEo7Nr
tes.com
School leaders are being set ‘undeliverable’ expectations, says Headrest, as it fields a big increase in calls
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As a school leader, especially in the window, Monday's can feel a bit stresstul. However, receiving this accolade from the Secretary of State today makes Friday all the better. This is hugely humbling. What a community effort! Bravo team @dustonschool , bravo!
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A lot of people who don’t do the job say Heads/leaders should do XYZ. Please walk in our shoes, see the job first hand and then come back to the table. It’s hugely demanding and does take its toll.
Union survey reveals that 45% of school leaders needed mental health support in the past year – and this ‘should be a real cause for concern for the government’, says @NAHTnews' @PaulWhiteman6
https://t.co/VxqvwmhELT
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Excellent! Well done to the Duston team! Feel very proud of yourselves!
As a school leader, especially in the window, Monday's can feel a bit stresstul. However, receiving this accolade from the Secretary of State today makes Friday all the better. This is hugely humbling. What a community effort! Bravo team @dustonschool , bravo!
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The pipeline of new secondary school teachers will shrink after next year, following a short-term gain in numbers, @TheNFER analysis suggests https://t.co/46qT0i3A0q
tes.com
The pipeline of new secondary teachers will increase in the short term but drop off in 2027-28 and beyond, NFER analysis suggests
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A lot of people who don’t do the job say Heads/leaders should do XYZ. Please walk in our shoes, see the job first hand and then come back to the table. It’s hugely demanding and does take its toll.
Union survey reveals that 45% of school leaders needed mental health support in the past year – and this ‘should be a real cause for concern for the government’, says @NAHTnews' @PaulWhiteman6
https://t.co/VxqvwmhELT
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Union survey reveals that 45% of school leaders needed mental health support in the past year – and this ‘should be a real cause for concern for the government’, says @NAHTnews' @PaulWhiteman6
https://t.co/VxqvwmhELT
tes.com
A stressed, overworked and struggling workforce should be a major concern for government, union leader warns
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As a school leader, especially in the window, Monday's can feel a bit stresstul. However, receiving this accolade from the Secretary of State today makes Friday all the better. This is hugely humbling. What a community effort! Bravo team @dustonschool , bravo!
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This makes 90%+ GLD by the end of EYFS all the more challenging for some settings… because the staff are having to do things that really are the role of parents.
More than a quarter of pupils starting Reception are not toilet-trained, according to a survey of EYFS staff highlighting the impact of the growing problem of children not being school-ready https://t.co/3565cvyXhl
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One of the oddest arguments about phone use in schools I’ve heard is but we can teach kids about safe use. You can do that without pupils having a device.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Lords have voted to ban under-16s from using social media Ban: 261 No ban: 150 The Government can try to scrap the amendment but most Labour MPs support a ban and would be risking a rebellion
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on the delivery of the day and the gave their time so readily.
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Massive thank you to @Samstricko181 for allowing me to visit The Duston School and their AP provision. It was great to see the intentionality behind their thinking and has given me so many ideas on what we could consider at my school. A special thanks to Craig and Nicola who led
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Low level disruption (which is disruption) is kryptonite to a classroom environment. Teachers suffering this are constantly interrupted & learning really suffers.
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A big issue with school complaints has been the ever growing trend of treating parents as customers, which they aren’t. Of course valid complaints should be heard but there’s little definition of what this really is.
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Having a critical lens is a trend amongst the most successful tech adopters in education. Clarity of purpose, incremental development, and onus on safeguarding and ethics.
Inevitably this week some people will come away from the BETT show having lost their minds over the new shiny tech that’s being released. All I will say is view everything with a critical lens (not negative). Lots of shiny tech has been presented over the years, not all good.
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Inevitably this week some people will come away from the BETT show having lost their minds over the new shiny tech that’s being released. All I will say is view everything with a critical lens (not negative). Lots of shiny tech has been presented over the years, not all good.
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Low level disruption (which is disruption) is kryptonite to a classroom environment. Teachers suffering this are constantly interrupted & learning really suffers.
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In my experience, it is significantly high. English is arguably more significantly impacted. Very worrying & I really feel for kids. Yet another reason a results app is a bad move - we need to have review of marking conversations with pupils.
We don’t know the proportion of exam grades that contain marking mistakes, but analysis of the available data suggests it could be an alarmingly high figure, writes @noookophile
https://t.co/LZcEqqvX3E
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What’s needed is a much clearer line of what constitutes a complaint, what schools will listen to/investigate & what they shouldn’t have to listen to.
New: Official guidance for schools has told them to “tune into feelings over facts” when handling parental complaints. Parents have also been given their own version of the guidance, which is backed by govt and unions. https://t.co/DZfdOYirEQ
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