The successful candidate will get the full support of the Trust to implement a warm/strict model. We are looking for someone who knows what ‘excellence’ looks like (not necessarily Ofsted’s grade descriptors) and has the tenacity, resilience and stickability to execute. You will…

‘Attention is the currency of learning’ 👌Daisy Christodoulou

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2023: 249 schools with 50%+ disadvantaged pupils (and a school cohort of 400+). 15 schools had a P8 of +0.5 and above, 181 schools with P8 of less than 0, 103 schools with a P8 of -0.5 and below, 38 with P8 of -1 and below. Only one school in the country with a P8 of +1.

I don’t…

Launching a lunch time debate club. Everyone welcome, bring your lunch and listen to teenagers raise their voice as they hammer home the point why prisoners should lose the right to vote. Pupils unlikely to secure Basics 5+ please attend maths and/or english intervention.

Don't kill oracy by making it the Next Big Thing - blog post by me....
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Good to use de Bono’s Thinking Hats during the ‘Drop Everything and Talk’ part of the lesson. Better still, the teacher can differentiate between pupils by allocating different hats and then switching it up part way through. Important to allocate roles to any group work so no one…

Another 10 years wasted on oracy and all the hype that comes with it. Curriculum audits, CPD sessions, oracy reviews, new oracy experts with all the latest jargon, and oracy ‘gimmicks.’ All a distraction from teaching the core exceptionally well.

Another 10 years wasted on oracy and all the hype that comes with it. Curriculum audits, CPD sessions, oracy reviews, new oracy experts with all the latest jargon, and oracy ‘gimmicks.’ All a distraction from teaching the core exceptionally well.

A reminder that kids in America's classrooms--and their teachers--are regarded as targets of opportunity by every imaginable interest, cause, and concern. From activists and ideologues to technology and toy companies *everyone* has lesson plans and products to peddle.

“The possibilities are endless. Instead of 19th-century problem sets, a teacher might ask how many trees a student would need to plant in order to combat intolerance.”

“Yep, we’re still fine-tuning things, but we’ll be focusing less on whether an equation is ‘correct’ and more…

‘Today’s parents are suffering from anxiety about anxiety, which is actually much more serious than anxiety. It’s self-fulfilling and not easily soothed by logic or evidence, such as the knowledge that most everyone adjusts to college just fine.’

‘If the anxiety is connected to…

‘Attention is the currency of learning’ 👌Daisy Christodoulou

Some of the most powerful stuff I read in my early days on here was people like James Theo explaining how they’d changed their minds on education. Being open to the fact we can do it better is essential to system improvement.

This is a very well articulated piece from Ben.

“If a leader has never worked in a place in which the completion of lots of outside school study is normalised they are far less likely to believe children capable of it.”

Spot on! 👇