I have broken up today. I have 14 jobs to do still. None include marking or planning. I am back into work Tuesday when I should be off with my kids. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Happy holidays all

I love this. Absolutely love it.

DfE Suspension rates. Really interesting for behaviour leads to compare your figures to. Spring term 2021/22 secondary schools rate 4.88%. By year group: 7=3.82%; 8=5.73; 9=6.52; 10=6.70; 11=5.44. Clear that suspensions going up everywhere

Awesome email from member of public asking what I’m going to do about teenagers in town at 7pm vaping. In the holidays. Answers on a postcard please.

Help needed! When looking at suspension rates for FSM do you take the # of suspensions for FSM and divide by the total number of students on roll or just the total number of FSM students? DfE has FSM rate of 16.02% for 2021-22

First day back with all students. No disasters. Phew. 189 days left.

After a calm week 1 methinks the honeymoon period will be over this week…..

7 months for stabbing a teacher. Wow.

Seriously. Is this a joke? What on earth is happening. Where has compassion and decency gone. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-673213…

Not posted in a while. I am completely and utterly fed up with absolutely awful parents enabling their children’s terrible behaviour. It is an epidemic.

It is simply not right that parents should be able to complain to the TRA. A loophole that needs to be closed to protect the wellbeing of staff.

Interesting stuff today about parental complaints. This is a huge problem and will continue to get worse. It is now commonplace to be verbally abused, shouted at, blamed for students poor behaviour. Needs to come to an end.