I spent too many days as a headteacher telling myself and others that I was fine.

I'll take a break if I need one

I'll take some headship time later

It's important that everyone else is ok

If you're serious about good, sustainable leadership, be proactive, stop and rest.

Take care of your headteachers!

I've been speaking to lots of headteachers feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.
Headteachers have a challenging role.

Make sure to support them!

So true. ❤️
🌐 teachergoals.com

To celebrate the release of The City Beyond The Stars, I've got a set of that and The Kingdom Over The Sea by Zohra Nabi to giveaway to one lucky person. Just retweet to be in with a chance of winning!

👀📚Check out my APRIL 2024 Children’s Books I’m Most Excited About video over on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe!

📖🌟Each month, I put together #ComingSoon videos previewing my most anticipated children’s books releases to bump up your TBRs!

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Fantastic news Grimm & Co is a wonderful organisation, doing so much to engage children with literacy and story writing in Yorkshire 😊

I attended a Sure Start centre with my young children in the early 2000s. It provided a valuable lifeline to the community, with a wide range of positive benefits. We see the negative impact of their loss in schools 😔 bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Encouraging news in today’s Guardian. ‘The wilful destruction of Sure Start and the reductions of children’s benefits after 2010 has set back opportunities for millions of children’s futures. That’s why our country desperately needs a new Sure Start’.

theguardian.com/education/2024…

‘Child protection cases that would have resulted in an intervention a couple of years ago are now “routinely being passed back to schools to deal with themselves”.

The situation for many schools has been that when they identify a child with urgent safeguarding needs, they are

“We drain teachers too much. I think that’s one of the reasons we lose so many who have talent and who are sensitive to these things, and we mustn’t, because that kind of teacher is the one who makes readers”: Michael Morpurgo on building reading habits tes.com/magazine/teach…

Your impact on other people is bigger than you think. Someone still giggles when they think of that funny thing you said. Someone still smiles when they think of the compliment you gave them. Someone silently admires you. The advice you give has made a difference for people.

Redefining success 🧡🧡🧡
Just beautiful

Go into this week and focus on your 'why' - why you love your job, why your job is so important, why and how you will make an impact this week.

Don't forget it!

Bask in all the joy that this week brings!

#ShineOn
#BurnBrighter

I am going to keep this lovely video and look at it next time I interview a head who cries on the phone because they are trying to fix too much with too little, while feeling no one has their back. That happens quite a lot in interviews now incidentally. It’s all so wrong.

Hats off to all headteachers. It is a challenging job at the moment: increasing attendance, managing behaviour, dealing with angry parents in a tough society, aiming for high performance, and coping with recruitment struggles. Truly remarkable.

We all have rough days when teaching. I certainly did! But when you get an email like this… it reminds you that it is was all worth it and you may not have realised it at the time.

This - as a DSL I'm glad this is now getting coverage. My degree is Eng lit, not social care. Schools are left to fill the void. theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

Thought for the year: ‘ Be the shining light on the path of hope and peace, inspire others to feel joyful and positive by showing how many burdens you can lighten this year and how many hearts you can cheer’. Our children need this to happen ❤️

I Wish You Enough…
At an airport, I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane's departure and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, 'I love you, I wish you enough.”

She said, 'Daddy, our life together has been more