Super proud to announce that we have achieved a highest achiever in Sparx Maths for the whole of 2022! The awards are only given to a few schools, so a big pat on the back to all students!

We look forward to welcoming you to our Open Evening on Thursday 6th October 2022 6pm-8pm. Please come along and sample many of the wonderful things that St James has to offer. You are very welcome to take a guided tour of the school or to tour the school at your own leisure.

This term we’ve run our first national writing quiz. It consisted of 20 multiple-choice questions on sentence structure and over 10k students from Years 1 - 9 took part. What have we found?

Back in Oct 2020, we published the results of a large-scale writing assessment that showed Year 7s were 22 months behind expectations! These Y7s are now in Y9 and we have assessed them at the start & end of each academic year since. What have we found? x.com/daisychristo/s…

A curriculum only really comes to life when it comes into contact with pupils. We can have all the fancy words on websites, we can have exquisite curriculum plans And we can have the whole curriculum mapped to within an inch of its life. /1

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A beautiful new display of portraits produced by our Year 11 students. We are lucky enough to have a bespoke gallery space at St James funded by Saxon Spence CBE. It is a wonderful area to show off the amazing work produced by our students.

1. It's easy to mistake symptoms for causes. We have been thinking recently about how reading problems become more and more disguised as children get older. Instead of seeing a reading problem, we see all sorts of other problems. 🧵

Had the pleasure of observing a brilliant lesson from one of our Year 2 ECTs this week ⭐️ Nice to see the Walkthrus strategies we have shared with teachers & students and so many elements of our T&L model based on Evidence Based Education GTT being used in the classroom.

The secondary subject network schedule is now live on Myatt & Co This term focused on reading led by Steve Willshaw It starts with Jennifer Webb and the rationale for including high quality texts across all subjects Then RE with Joe Kinnaird & Joanne Harris Hurrah! /1

Ambitious, enthusiastic and determined to make a difference? We are looking for a Lead Practitioner for English and Literacy to join us in our mission to transform lives of students and ensure they achieve their best. Great Trust who grow great people. tedwraggtrust.co.uk/vacancy/?vacid…

Amazing place to work 🤩

This is my job. What a place to work. What a team. I have loved every minute. DM me if you want to know more (or why I’m leaving 😂) ❤️

Lizzie, Daisy, Daria and Amelie completed a 60km hiked from Ivybridge to Castle Drogo over the weekend in sunny conditions and an overnight camp close to Widecombe in the Moor. One more day hike left until the event! #workhardbekind

Ready to lead on working hard and being kind? Tell us why you’d be a cracking deputy headteacher: tedwraggtrust.ovw3.devwebsite.co.uk/page/?title=Va…

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It was epic 🧁(shockingly, there is no emoji for scone rhymes with gone) 🤷🏻‍♀️

Amazing place to work. Amazing outgoing head of geography Jo Payne 🌎 ❤️

Today I turn 27 YEARS OLD. Which means 11 YEARS AGO I was on Educating Yorkshire. I am so fortunate to live life sharing the power of teachers. I am proud to be someone who stammers, something one teacher helped me to accept in the classroom. Thank you to everyone for the

Proud of my lovely friend Prof Kalwant Bhopal on the launch of her important book, ‘Race and Education’ . (Sorry, Sachin, I stole your photo 😬) 👏 #raceandeducation