After three years of headship, you just become a little more resilient to this when you turn up on day one of a new term. Bring on the challenges that the first Monday of Spring 2 will fire my way #BeYourBestSelf 🐣

This is displayed in my office and I always come back to it when having learning conversations with colleagues. Straight away the purpose of the conversation improves 🎯 Do you have a go to model / questions for giving purpose to conversations?

Leadership teams, one for you... How many times have you become easily annoyed or irritable in the past two weeks?

Here is a sneak peak at our reading tree of gratitude, which will be part of our book fair. The ideas is our families choose a leaf, kindly donate the recommended read to school knowing that they will have transported a child into a magical new place 🙏

This is a game changer! Bespoke fluency worksheet generator. Will solve the issue we have with WR resources not providing extra opportunities to practise the same question variation and without adding to teachers workload 😃

Good luck to all of the teachers and educators TeachersRunClub who are taking on the challenge of the TCS London Marathon today 👏 I missed out on the ballot for this year’s run, but in the hat again for 2025! Boston, UK, next week for us 🏃🏻‍♂️

Heavy rain, constant head wind, flooded roads and freezing but LOVED every minute of my first ever marathon at Boston (England - not America 🤣 )🏃🏻‍♂️ ☔️ 💨

Statutory Website Requirements updated! Notable changes include: ➕gender pay gap info for everyone ➕music development plan in curriculum section ➕explicitly telling parents pupils can opt out of RE 🟰remote education requirement still there although lots of schools have

🚨🚨The Department for Education have updated their guidance on what schools & academies must publish on their websites. Please note the new requirement to now publish a music development plan #edutwitter Maintained schools: gov.uk/guidance/what-… Academies: gov.uk/guidance/what-…

Extremely proud of our school community to have fundraised for this install through during a challenging school budget: Target throw 🎯 Long jump 📏 Race track 🏃‍♀️Cricket 🏏 Football ⚽️ Basketball 🏀 Mirror me station 🪞 We even ordered sunshine for launch day 🌞

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Anyone else the same? Very few things switch me away from the responsibilities of Headship, but, when the Olympics is in full swing the days blur into one, the sporting fun seems endless and the mind switches over…how did it get to the end so quickly! 🥖 🇫🇷 🏊🏼‍♀️ 🏃🏻‍♂️ #Olympic2024

Alex Yee’s amazing finish in the triathlon 🥇 Keeley Hodgkinson living up to the pressure of being GB’s golden girl 🥇 Nathan Hales taking home the gold medal with a world class, Olympic record performance 🥇 My top three 👆 #OlympicGamesParis2024

Good luck to everyone picking up A-level results today. I’ve just been speaking to a secondary colleague, who told me that the students don’t go into school anymore to collect their results envelopes, instead getting results via email. How times change, eh?! #Results2024

From today the Department for Education ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance becomes statutory in England. We have identified some key advice. We urge schools & local authorities to comply with the expectation that they use Support, Not Sanctions to improve attendance

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” To build a strong culture for learning in schools it needs to be taught not caught. ✅ Clarity over vagueness ✅ Consistency over intensity ✅ Fundamentals over fads ✅ Support over undermining ✅ Listening over dismissing

***ASSESSMENT*** Assessment is the bridge between teaching and learning. When effective it provides rich information to determine how much and how well students have learnt the intended curriculum. In classrooms, assessment is an integral part of teaching. All interactions

STEM at its absolute best! 🚀

For school leaders: How does the type of leadership required from you today differ from when you initially assumed your current position?

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