As school leaders everywhere gear up for an intense few weeks ahead, remember: you're not alone 🧡
We're here, ready to support you every step of the way. Reach out anytime, because together, we can support each other to change outcomes and life chances as one team 🙌
We are sad to announce that Sir John Rowling, founder of PiXL, died yesterday morning after a short illness. His vision of a ‘better future and brighter hope’ for young people will remain as we partner together to continue his work. We are grateful for all your support.
In today's resource release, we have provided a Project Futures package to support Year 11-12 and Year 13 prepare for the next step, e.g. post-16 studies, the world of work or university.
Available to download here: PiXL Members Area > RSL > RSL Useful Docs > Covid-19.
Our Year 6-7 transition project 'Be Awesome, Go Big’ is NOW LIVE!
In partnership with
@HachetteSchools
, this free package can be used with year 6 in ALL schools across the country.
Access all the materials here: .
Please RT and share with schools.
"We need to make the right decisions for our children".
A truly engaging talk from
@RPUffendell
on how he created space to think and lead as a new Headteacher
What a fantastic
#PiXLNationalConference
debut – applause before he had even finished 😱
#Post16
#Secondary
A message after yesterday's Secondary meeting from Rachel (PiXL Lead). Your support and kindness yesterday meant a lot to us. It’s an absolute privilege to work alongside you and serve you.
#BetterFutureBrighterHope
Thank you for all your kind words about the PiXL Project Futures package we released last week to support Year 11-12 and Year 13 prepare for 'the next step'.
If you haven't accessed them yet, you can download them here: PiXL Members Area > RSL > RSL Useful Docs > Covid-19.
The Queen served when it was hard, when it was easy and when there was change but she was always there, the consistent presence. As teachers across the land talk to young people about these things tomorrow, they will do the same. That’s why teachers matter.
We are delighted to announce our national transition project which will be available to ALL schools by May half term.
We are partnering with
@HachetteKids
using
@matthewsyed
and
@MatthewCBurton
's books to help prepare our new Year 7.
More information to come!
#BeAwesomeGoBig
"Children who like reading are more likely to be successful in education. It is a better indicator of academic success than any socio-economic factor."
@lindsayjskinner
In light of the current circumstances surrounding Covid-19 and what we feel is likely to be the situation come May and June, we will be running online meetings for PiXL Secondary and
@PiXL_6
- please await more details, but we're excited to bring you something a little different!
Our Yr6-7 transition package is NOW LIVE!
Free for ALL schools, our hope is that in these strange circumstances, Year 6 still get a moment of recognition as they gear up to begin Secondary studies.
Access it here:
@HachetteSchools
#BeAwesomeGoBig
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at a packed Central Hall for our Secondary Main Meeting. Very excited to be bringing you our PiXL Spotlight on Curriculum conference in the afternoon too!
Still time to register if you would like to join us - book places via the website.
What an amazing profession teaching is - school leaders and teachers are doing all they can to support their communities up and down the country. We miss our students!
Please share this video on your social media, if helpful, and just tag us
@pixlclub
.
(1/4) Our Yr6-7 transition package, in partnership with
@HachetteSchools
is being released Monday 18th May.
Free for everyone, our hope is that in these strange circumstances, Year 6 still get a moment of recognition as they gear up to begin Secondary studies.
#BeAwesomeGoBig
Please note that in an effort to make our events more environmentally friendly we will no longer be providing individual plastic bottles of water - we encourage you to bring your own refillable water bottle along.
Small acts, big impact!
You're teachers, you're gold dust ✨
The amazing author, English teacher, AHT, and so much more,
@msybibi
, is on the main stage, taking us through her own leadership journey! 🤩
#PiXLEnglish
Thank you to
@MatthewCBurton
and
@matthewsyed
for working with us on a transition package. Year 6 countrywide will be starting Year 7 in the strangest of circumstances, and we want to help make this moment a special one for them!
More information coming soon...
#BeAwesomeGoBig
Schools should be palaces 🏰
Author, actor, creative producer, and now honoured
#PiXLEnglish
Festival guest speaker
@BenCrystal
takes the stage with an insightful exploration of the power of Shakespeare! 🎭
We need to equip our young people to journey through a constantly changing world. Reading is key to this. That's why, on June 29th, we are launching
#PiXLReading
. Keep an eye out for more information and sneak peaks, right here, over the coming weeks - you won't want to miss it!
What is one message you'd give to school leaders?
'Previous equivalent loss of school time did not affect results over time. Lets remember we are human beings first, and learners and professionals second"
@MaryMyatt
#PiXLDigital
Thank you to all our members who joined with us today to share best practice. We hope you found it useful and inspiring on some level, and wish you all a safe journey home.
"Every now and again, something happens in a national conference which takes us all by surprise and stops us in our tracks. This happened on Tuesday at Legacy when Olivia took the stage." -
@RachelPiXL
Watch to find out what happened:
#ukedchat
Our keynote speaker
@jazampawfarr
opens the stage speaking about “why we do what we do” at our PiXL Secondary main meeting today at Central Hall, Westminster.
Matthew Burton (from Educating Yorkshire/ BBC Bitesize) and Matthew Syed (best-selling author) are working on a national transition project with
@HachetteKids
and us!
Free and available to all schools to help the current Y6 with transition in this tricky time. Released 18 May.
Reading 👏 is 👏fundamental 👏 👀
@HughesHaili
, Head of Education at Iris Connect & Senior Lecturer at
@sunderlanduni
, is discussing the importance of fostering independence and cultivating independent thinking in students 💫
#PiXLEnglish
#EduEvent
Before 11am, we will be releasing a package for key workers/home learning, focusing on the LORIC character attributes, as well 100-point activity mats for many subjects.
It’s a package that gives structure and purpose and hopefully saves you work. Watch out for the email!
SAVE THE DATE: In May we are holding digital meetings for both our PiXL Secondary and PiXL6 programmes.
PiXL Secondary - Thursday 14th May
> Details on how to register will be available in tomorrow's email!
PiXL6 - Thursday 21st May
> Registration details available next week!
Year 11 and 13 teachers, don't forget that we have all of the PiXL Independence quizzes on
@Quizlet
for you to interact with for FREE! Play matching pairs against the clock and turn them into flashcards! Login details are on your useful docs area -
Morning partners! It's a beautiful morning here in Westminster as we get ready to open the doors to you all soon for our first 2019/20 Secondary Main Meeting. We hope you all have a safe journey here today.
"The biggest thing that changed me was that teacher who believed in me." 🙌
Emotive talk from
@MissBray_AHT
about some strategies to knock down the barriers to learning many underserved students may experience.
#Secondary
#PiXLNationalConference
We are delighted to announce we are partnering with
@HachetteKids
using best-selling author
@matthewsyed
and
@MatthewCBurton
from Educating Yorkshire's books on a national transition project which will be available to ALL schools for free on 18th May.
#BeAwesomeGoBig
What a day! It’s been incredibly encouraging to spend the day reflecting with you - and a touch emotional!Thank you so much to everyone who watched - it really felt like we were all together. How amazing are the school leaders in this country?
- The Events Team
Reading is all of our responsibility - it needs a whole-school approach.
#PiXLReading
is a two-year project which will help you with just this. The first part launches in June. Sneak peaks will be revealed over the next two and a half weeks. Are you booked to join us on the 29th?
Tickets for the
#PiXLEnglish
Festival are officially sold out! 😱
We're so excited to be joined by hundreds of English educators, dedicated educational organisations, expert keynote speakers, and award-winning authors this Thursday! 🤩
Will you be there? Let us know! 🙌
For the past 3 years+, it's been my job to manage PiXL's social accounts and make sure you know all the exciting and useful events, resource/projects, support and more on offer to you if you're a PiXL school. And today it's my last day with PiXL – it's been a pleasure!
Kate 👋
We have produced RSL calendars for August and September - we hope that they will be helpful as you work through the key things that need to happen each month. They are designed for you to use as helpful prompts rather than as instructions!
Access here:
Wonderful performance from Kings Kids Choir at yesterday’s meeting.
@BrightonHillSch
raised funds to fly them all the way from Uganda for a trip of a lifetime!
#BetterFutureBrighterHope
Drop your tools!
A thought-provoking start to the conference looking at the Mann Gulch fire and takeaways from what happened that day.
As we discuss leading through the pressure points, this conference will get you thinking 🙌
#PiXLNationalConference
#Secondary
#Post16
Have you heard of the Horsforth Quadrant?
It's a powerful tool for measuring pupils’ effort vs their progress to diagnose their specific academic & pastoral needs.
Full guidance and case studies can be found here:
👉
We're excited to announce a 12-week fully resourced package, PiXL Change Makers, coming soon to help equip students as they return to school in September.
Release date: 21st July to ALL schools (not just PiXL members)
@HachetteSchools
"Hand the power back to the students. Allow them to lead a space they had previously been excluded from."
Yasmin Bansal from
@HazelwickSchool
, passionately shares why we should all fight for a more diverse curriculum.
#PiXLEnglish
Come and join with hundreds of other SLT members at our first ever PiXL Secondary Digital Meeting next week. We are really excited to trial this new format with you, and hope it means more of you can drop in!
Timings: 10:30-16:00
Register here:
We have brought back subject conferences this year for PiXL Secondary & Post 16! Held digitally so as many of your subject teachers and leaders as possible can attend.
Conferences will be for Maths (on-demand now), English, Science, History, Geography, PE, MFL and Vocational!
Those of you who were tuned in at the beginning of today’s meeting have been asking who Andrew is. Here he is! He’s one of our fab events team, and put together all of the meeting’s presentations among other things. He says hi 👋
Have brews, do nice things & have fun💫
We're honoured to have
@dave_mcpartlin
, coaching us through doing the wave, performed a gig, AND giving tips on fostering feelings of belonging in your
#Primary
schools and community at the
#PiXLNationalConference
🙌 🙌 🙌
And that brings us to the end of the first
#PiXLEnglish
subject conference of the year! 🎉
We hope you have found the day to be as thought-provoking, informational, and inspiring as we did!
Let us know what you thought of the day in the replies 👇
Following such a thought-provoking and moving main-stage talk,
@BenCrystal
delivers this fantastic workshop, unpacking Shakespearean texts for maximum accessibility for
#PiXLEnglish
Festival attendees! 📖 ✨
A fantastic day here at Central Hall for our PiXL Secondary Main Meeting . Earlier we saw Joe Sparks speak about Level Best, asking us “what do you want to change?”
It has been wonderful to spend two days at
#ASCL2023
🤩
From warm and insightful conversations with delegates, to just watching our own CEO
@RachelPiXL
in the Conference Hub, we have gained so much from attending! Thank you for having us
@ASCL_UK
🙌
A huge THANK YOU to all speakers & delegates for making the
#Secondary
#PiXLNationalConference
a tremendous success! 🌟
Your insights, collaboration, and dedication to education are truly inspiring.
Let's continue to strive for excellence together! Until next time! 👏
We are so excited to be launching the first part of our PiXL Reading package a week today. So we thought, we'd recap a few things that are coming your way...for leaders...including reading canon selection guides with huge discounts from publishers for some truly fantastic texts!
Starting tonight, we'll be sharing
#60SecondswithPiXLleadership
every Sunday!
These short videos are meant to quickly equip leaders with some nuggests of leadership wisdom.
We hope you'll enjoy this first one with
@Heale2011
talking about the 3 C's of Crisis Communication.
And another week starts! Looking forward to our first PiXL Secondary Main Meeting of the academic year on Thursday, Central Hall. 1,500 already set to attend - don’t miss out!
We are excited to announce that in 2021/22 we will be providing even more to support middle leaders, through online subject conferences as part of your membership.
All of our conferences will come with a delegate handbook of practical ideas and current evidence-based thinking!
So exciting to hear that
@BBCTheOneShow
will be featuring the Pearson National
@TeachingAwards
all next week on BBC One.
It’s so important to give teachers the recognition they deserve – we can’t wait to watch!
#teachingheroes
How great it was to be with everyone today at the final Main Meeting of the year...and what a year it has been! Thank you for your continued support and partnership. Enjoy the sunshine!
Exciting news! 💫
There's a new PiXL Networking App coming to our member schools in September! 🤩
Watch the video below to find out more.
#edutwitter
#schoolleaders
Thank you to each and every one of you who came along to the PiXL English Conference today. We hope you had a fantastic day and feel armed full of useful and practical ideas to make a real difference to both your workload and your students!
If you haven't already read The Gilded Ones by our very own
#PiXLReading
ambassador
@NaminaForna
, then this would be a fantastic book to add to your list this summer! It's a fantastic book covering key themes with an incredible story. Namina's author talk launches in September!
We are hosting our first PiXL Secondary Digital Meeting next Thursday! Do invite other people from your SLT to attend if you would like. We are really excited to trial this format, and to bring you practical guidance and support.
Register here:
"We've got to be very sharp about how we prepare students for exams this year, not just throw everything at them. And be mindful about support for new staff who have only joined schools in this disruptive two year period."
@chrisedwardsuk
For Y6-7 transition, we have parent resources including an activity sheet 'Getting Ready to Go Big'. Encourage your child to try and complete as many as they can before starting secondary school!
Access the FREE parent resources here:
@HachetteSchools
In this week’s
#60secondswithPiXLleadership
,
@NavSanghara
discusses the need to see our colleagues as human beings first and professionals second.
She takes this nugget of guidance from
@MaryMyatt
’s book ‘High Challenge, Low Threat’.
We are so excited about the upcoming
#PiXLEnglish
conference on 2nd November 🎉
We'll be joined by incredible speakers such as
@teachals
and
@SPryke2
who will be talking about teaching literature! 📚
Don't miss out, sign up now!
👉