100% behind this, and Bridget Phillipson is right to say this. Mobile phones are a huge source of distraction, safeguarding and privacy issues, and we need to be doing more together to let children learn and flourish in schools, safe from their influence. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Great work David Scales and Astrea Academy Woodfields. Astrea Academy Woodfields is completely unrecognisable from the broken school it was 2 years a go! The exemplaryleadership plaque is lovely recognition and gives other turnaround leaders the opportunity to hear about their warts and all experiences.

"The pursuit of knowledge need neither be dull or tedious."

At it again, Q3 Academy Langley .

I really don’t understand the thinking that if schools open for longer somehow attendance will improve. How does saying to kids who already refuse / can’t attend school that the solution is even longer hours? Feels like a fruitless endeavour where schools do even more.

The soft bigotry of low expectations manifests in various ways. Dumbing down the curriculum and not expecting students to study a broad range of academic subjects, something that is their right, will only leave our children intellectually impoverished. We must set high standards

This has a LOW EXPECTATIONS argument. Some GCSEs have too much content, removing some would increase fluency (C1-7 more important than 8-10 for example in sci). These academics need to see what great schools can achieve with vulnerable children. Badly. thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

Once again, because it's worth saying: schools that went through the Behaviour Hubs program *significantly* improved their Ofsted ratings, and especially their behaviour grades. This data wasn't included in the external interim report, and, I think is hugely more important.

Detentions aren’t designed to do this. The aim is to deter future poor behavioural choices & ensure pupils who do all the right things know the school will act to preserve their right to learn.

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Tom Bennett OBE Detentions don't even disincentivise the worst behaved: they are for *everyone else* learningspy.co.uk/behaviour/do-d…

“Kids hate cell phone bans.” Yeah, they also don’t have much love for retrieval practice, interleaving, and spaced practice, prefer lenient graders, swear they have a learning style, and will live on candy if you give them the choice. Breaking: we’re the adults!

This is a hugely misunderstood point: detentions often have a limited deterrent effect on the most persistent offenders, which leads many schools to say 'oh they don't work so we might as well stop using them.' But the deterrent effect is far stronger in *everyone else*. Seeing

I really worry about the tech drive. iPads as the mainstay of educational delivery don’t actually support the cognitive development of a child/pupil, hinders their physical growth & contradicts the notion of banning phones due to looking endlessly at a screen. I could go on..

"You are as smart as you work." Imagine if every school told every student this.

Reflecting on 7 months of Headship 🧵 ‘You don’t know what it’s like until you’re sat in the chair’ A few people told me this leading up to starting my first headship and it’s so true. I read all the books, talked to experienced Heads and was completing the NPQH but

At the beginning of the year the focus was on codifying our core routines and over communicating the why. I knew that there would potentially be pushbacks from staff and students but once we had established our routines we needed to hold the line. It was also important to

This is literally the most damaging and unhelpful thing it’s possible to tell teachers about behaviour. Here’s why learningspy.co.uk/behaviour/its-…

Some people say compliance is bad. Try teaching a class of 30 pupils 5 lessons a day who aren’t compliant when you need them to be.

When I lived in Uganda the New Vision ran a story about how bad the potholes were. They asked people to send in photos so they could see which one was the biggest. The next day people went out with pickaxes and shovels. 😛