Just when you think Ofsted can't get any worse at reading the current situation in schools. 😒🙄

Actual footage of your Headteacher picking kids up from school next year after only being provided 3% funding for the 6.5% pay rise:

It’s scandalous that the Govt has failed to act on the RAAC schools crisis, while parents remain in the dark about whether children can return this week. I’m calling for a full list of impacted schools to be published. The Govt must come clean about the scale of the problem.

Your baby doesn’t need screens. 📺 Your baby doesn’t need expensive “educational” toys. Your baby needs you. Your time. Your love. Your undivided attention. Watch this little one’s eyes as he interacts with his dad. They never once leave the most beautiful sight he knows:

📚 “If we are ever to close the gap between disadvantaged children and their advantaged peers, reading must remain the relentless focus.” David Windle of @CDResearchSch examines the importance of reading fluency. Read more: buff.ly/3LCnNE0

🪄 Baroness Mary Bousted sets out the three distraction techniques ministers are relying on in the absence of a vision and policies for schools schoolsweek.co.uk/no-smoke-and-m…

The funding we were informed of, have planned for, and children’s futures and people’s livelihoods depend on MUST be honoured. Fund your error. Fund our children

In honour of #WorldChildrensDay, we want to celebrate children's fundamental right to play. Play helps them learn the skills they need to change & thrive in an ever-changing world 🌍

As we approach home visits this term for our new children, families and carers joining our Nursery, this blog that I wrote some years ago still resonates and perhaps more than ever playplayandmoreplay.com/2019/09/07/hom…

The brilliant Sonia is inspiring as always as we hear about the principles that underpin the approach to crafting a quality writing curriculum. #MyVoiceMyWriting

I remember once saying to Nick Gibb: "I think you're trying to deprofessionalise teachers so terms and conditions can be eroded over the long term" He objected to such an assertion. But here we go....

Want to give your child a leg up in kindergarten? Expose them to a million extra words. It’s easier than it sounds. I wrote recently about the vocabulary building power of reading aloud to your child. Books expose children to new worlds through their storytelling - and with

✂️ Fourteen years of school cuts have harmed our children’s education. 🏫 Together, we can tell the Government enough is enough: our schools must be properly funded. Join the Stop School Cuts campaign ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-sch…

"It occurs to me that sometimes people are suggesting initiatives that we might not actually need because in various ways what you want to happen is going on anyway" #PedagogyInformed Been saying it for a while, Research needs to reconnect to classrooms😏 tes.com/magazine/teach…

What a fabulous fifty minutes in the company of the wellschools board, working towards a network of "The happiest, healthiest schools in the world!" Such an uplifting and positive meeting! With Chris Wright Adrian Bethune Ben Levinson OBE Chris Dyson FCCT Join us! well-school.org

Ofsted have released their English subject report. Some brief thoughts on my first impressions... gov.uk/government/pub…

Interoception.... This is why it is so valuable when adults help children to develop an emotional vocabulary. Then they can match words to what their body is feeling. Those adults include: parents, teachers, early years staff, aunts, uncles, grannies....

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." — B.B. King