My Year 10s loved making their An Inspector Calls blame plates today! 🔍They were keen to see how many likes/retweets they could get - please retweet so I can show them 😊 #AnInspectorCalls #teamenglish

It was good to visit Darras Hall Primary School and Cardinal Hume Catholic School with the Education Secretary Damian Hinds to discuss #OpportunityNorthEast I look forward to seeing the opportunities it brings for young people

"As a STEM Ambassador, I go to schools and talk about engineering. We have a lot of young people visiting so they can see the reality and we have many women on site (and it helps to encourage young women to get into the industry)". Great article The Guardian ow.ly/2Ji130m9BMy

HMCI: For some time, Ofsted hasn’t placed enough emphasis on the curriculum. For a long time, our inspections have looked hardest at outcomes, placing too much weight on test and exam results when we consider the overall effectiveness of schools #SNEsummit18

HMCI: Ofsted will challenge schools where too much time is spent on preparation for tests at the expense of teaching, where pupil’s choices are narrowed, or where children are pushed into less rigorous qualifications purely to boost league table positions #SNEsummit18

It’s brilliant to see the North East at the centre of the education debate for really positive reasons today. Warm response from c.500 Heads at #SNESummit18 to Amanda Spielman speech on changes to the inspection regime. They sent msg that proof will be in its implementation

My Y7 advisory group have sent all of their teachers thank you cards this week during #kindnessweek to tell them what they are thankful for since joining in September. I was so blown away by their wonderful comments, I wrote them all one back! #bekind

Wonderful to host 16 dedicated and inspirational leaders from @Ambition_SL at South Shields School - it was a privilege to share our school improvement journey with you. #therealsouthshieldsschoolstory

Spent a genuinely brilliant morning at South Shields School with the amazing allie denholm, her inspirational staff, and the lovely students. The fact it faces closure is frankly ridiculous. The absolute definition of a brilliant community school. Keep fighting, you’re exceptional.

Thank you Matthew Burton - we really enjoyed hosting - it gave us all a lift! The students loved meeting you all too.

Let's develop a network of great Future Leaders in the North - you could be eligible for a time limited subsidy!

There was an excellent turn out for the first Year 11 revision evening last night with most of the year group in attendance. Thank you to all parents, carers and students who attended. The next Year 11 calendar is the consultation evening Tuesday 30th October.

Schools 'can't turn themselves around in a year', says Sir David Carter tes.com/news/schools-c…

Brilliant to be at Newcastle University finding the teachers of the future. Standing room only! Teach FirstNE @TeachFirst Newcastle University #traineeteachers #toon #newcastle

A group of @TeachFirstNW Ambassadors continuing to lead the way and creating highly engaging and useful GCSE content for English Literature students. Please share widely! #tfambassadors

“The home is the hardest but most important place for education to focus on.” More than half of gaps in achievement at age 11 are due to inequality that was present at age five - it's great to hear Damian Hinds raising the importance of the home learning environment #HLEsummit

2/2 if you want to see a long-term and sustainable shift in outcomes for children in deprived areas, start with poverty. To compare a gap in outcomes between different schools in completely different circumstances across a region or nationally is naïve in the extreme.

Exploring Barak Rosenshine's seminal Principles of Instruction: Why it is THE must-read for all teachers. teacherhead.com/2018/06/10/exp… Not everyone has read this yet!

More and more schools are battling grinding pupil poverty. ‘But we also need joined-up social and economic policies which restore hope to areas reeling under the never-ending hammer-blows of disadvantage’. tes.com/news/more-and-…