It was an absolute privilege to host Alex Wickson and the West100 team today for a visit to BristnallHallAcademy. What a fantastic group of leaders - thank you all for joining us!

What a brilliant week: incredible attendance&feedback at Parents’ Evening; a wonderful day hosting leaders from across the country; amazing world book day & ending the week with a fantastic careers day for our Y10s! Now a day of PD researchED Birmingham! I definitely have the best job!

What an absolutely fantastic researchED Birmingham! Thank you to Claire Stoneman and her wonderful students for hosting. Loved the sessions from David Goodwin, Thinking Reading, Staffordshire Research School @ John Taylor and Carl Hendrick - lots of food for thought and ideas to take back to BHA - thank you!

@MissLPritchard West100 BristnallHallAcademy Absolute pleasure and privilege @MissLPritchard as always. So much to consider and reflect on 🙏🏻. Lovely to see you and your amazing school 🤩

10 things: Common problems with Do Now Activities. teacherhead.com/2024/02/05/10-… via Tom Sherrington

🚨 Today EEF has published an update to its guidance on the effective deployment of teaching assistants. Download now: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evid…

So proud of our team for raising money for SWBH Charity💙!

🎂 What a flying start to ATTI's 5th Birthday — winning the Staff Development Award at the Optimus Education #MATExcellenceAwards 2025! 🎉 A HUGE thank you to all who help us keep #TransformingPD across Academy Transformation Trust & beyond ✈️ 🔗Read more: tinyurl.com/2bnjj89y #TransformingLives

✍ NEW POST ✍ The big one. Leadership handbook 6.0 is here! mrnickhart.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/lea… Over 270 slides covering a wide range of educational and leadership research and insights. And it's free!

New post A thank you at the end of an academic year birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/a-t…

NEW POST: A lot of the evidence on smartphones and kids is correlational but what does that mean for parents and schools? Link in reply ⬇️

Looking forward to reading Doug Lemov’s next incredible book, especially after hearing him talk about it in Lichfield last year with Knowledge Hub!

A fantastic course by Ambition Institute facilitated by The Academy Transformation Trust thanks to @MissLPritchard for being an amazing facilitator.

We would love some of our local community to become Governors at our academy. If you work or volunteer in Sandwell and would like to support our school, please get in touch!

I am honoured to be speaking at this conference and sharing the amazing work of our whole staff BristnallHallAcademy!

Kicking off the ELP launch conference we have Clive Wright and ELP alumni Louisa from BristnallHallAcademy in conversation discussing the importance of ELP and the impact it has in their schools. Thank you both! #ELPyear6launch

Our second session on the ELP launch conference this morning is the very knowledgeable David Didau creating the conditions for teachers to thrive by implementing intelligent accountability. #ELPYear6launch

What an absolute honour to be the warm up act for a day of educational powerhouses in Doug Lemov, Tom Bennett OBE and David Didau - thank you Loraine, Karen, Clive and ELP!

Thank you to Department for Education for inviting BristnallHallAcademy to share our approaches to enrichment as part of today’s RISE Attainment Conference. Great to network with lots of inspiring leaders and share our journey.

NEW POST This time on school leadership Link below ⬇️