And it’s happened - got through the whole of the pandemic in the classroom and get it for Christmas 2021 😊

I’d love to see Greg Davies back in the class room you know 😂😂😂

So excited to announce that mine and Mr Barker ➗🎶🔢’ debut book is out 12th May and available for pre-order. Massive thanks to Vivienne Porritt OBE FCCT FRSA WomenEd 10%Braver #DisruptiveWomen and Sue Cowley for all their help. Also Molly Selby and Annamarie Kino-Wylam for their brilliance. Exciting year ahead

Practice *with feedback* makes perfect Practice *without feedback* makes permanent

I just had the best sleep - thank goodness for half term 🤩

My y7s need to develop better fluency with times tables so I've been making starters like this. They always start with writing down a times table and end with a double number line; the other questions vary but all involve that times table. Simple but effective #maths #iteachmaths

Never wearing heels to school again; felt like a giant and feet hurt. Would not recommend

School SLTs – They’re not gods, they’re just colleagues | via Tracey Leese FCCT bit.ly/3bdcC5u

It’s happened… the bad dream when none of the students listen to me and chaos descends on my classroom 🫣🫣 first day of ECT2 let’s go

Listened tonight while on a quick walk! Loved the contributions 💪🏼 👑

Start of spring term consistency 👌 Teach to the top 🔝 Scaffold up 🪜 Ask lots of questions ⁉️ Check for understanding 👀 Activate regular spaced retrieval 📂 Provide guided feedback 🔁 Explain with precision 🎯 Model excellence 🔍 Develop self-regulation 🧐

This week in emojis: Mon 😋 Tues ☺️ Weds 👍🏻 Thurs 🤨 Fri 😢 teaching is so unpredictable.

Whole day of cover tomorrow as I’m going to the hospital for an appointment, how will my room look when I get back?? 🫣

Why are there so many hugeeee spiders about lately? 🫣

CPD on making our modelling more expert. Love the analogy of passing the baton and the complexity of the 'we do'. Pass it on too late and you slow them down. Pass it on too early and they drop the baton.

What a lovely fella Well said 👏

One thing I see and hear of a lot with warm/strict is teachers forgetting the warm part. The counter-balance to teachers needing to be firm when firmness is required is teachers needing to be friendly. Teachers not wary greeting students, or even worse 'blanking' them, is toxic.