A one pager capturing some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy! 📙 Read more: explicitinstruction.org

🧵🧵Some great education resources/guides have been published (or come to my attention) recently. A thread on those that I have found most useful. 🧵🧵

How do you ensure that all students are thinking hard about every question you ask? Here are a few ideas:

Another impressive text added to our staff reading room Mark Burns. Miss Sharp and Mr Riley engaging in some practitioner enquiry research tonight Andy Buck Claire Grimes. 5⭐️ Schools work still features heavily as a staff favourite 📕 😊 Newbattle High School - Learning and Teaching Gib McMillan

A great geography AdH and Higher Source to Sea field study with the fun and hard working pupils from Newbattle High School - Learning and Teaching . A beautiful morning in the Pentlands—we even found what we think was slime mould.

Exciting opportunity to join a very strong team! Excellent leadership opportunity at whole school level. Principal Teacher – Head of House - Newbattle High School - MID05773 | Midlothian Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/355871?utm_sou…

Great opportunity to join an amazing team! Head of House (guidance/pastoral). myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/midlo…

Please DM if you would like to know more about this opportunity to join a supportive and forward thinking team and school

NEW BLOGPOST - The Engine Room Are you a middle leader in a school?? Here’s why what you do is so special and why it’s crucial to cultivate, motivate and inspire strong middle leadership. fleadbeater.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/the…

I think one of the problems with the current debate is that it suggests we need reasons and evidence to ban phones in schools when actually we need reasons and evidence to let them in. The burden of proof is all the wrong way round. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/is-there-eno…

The #rEDAberdeen programme has just dropped! Book tickets now for what will be an amazing day on May 11th!! researched.org.uk/event/research…

Teacher of Business - Newbattle High School - MID06114 myjob.scot/T6Mg60 #midgovjobs

A great Learning Festival with colleagues from Professional Learning and Leadership. Staff sharing their practitioner enquiries and practice with each other too. #AIMHIGHER #proudHT

✨🧡Newbattle are GOLD🧡✨ 🥇Over the last year we have worked extremely hard to increase opportunities within Sport & Wellbeing using the SportScotland School Sports Awards criteria & we are delighted to share that we are in the 5% of schools in Scotland to be GOLD.

Last meeting before departure on Sunday 📣 Miss Reid @NSubjects

Day 1 in Belgium - Hill 60, Sanctuary wood, Black Watch & Brothers in Arms memorial 🇧🇪

Moment of reflection as representatives from Newbattle’s football team lay a football at the URFA Christmas Truce memorial site 🇧🇪⚽️ Newbattle hsfc @NSubjects

Day 3 | final day started Essex Farm, before moving to Poelcapelle cemetery. Afterwards we marched through Passchendaele to Tynecot cemetery, before visiting the Brooding soldier memorial, and Langemark German cemetery too. 🇧🇪

Day 3 | on Thursday night we attended the Menin Gate ceremony, where Hamish played to over 600 people, and Lennon & Darcy lay a wreath on behalf of Newbattle. We were all so proud of them!!

Day 3 | to end the day we then went to Railway Dugout cemetery - here Alessia lit our candle of remembrance, Connor read us a beautiful poem, and our final wreath was laid by Anna & Finlay. Hamish once again gave us an excellent performance to finish the week.