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We need a DHT! See below for details.

Thanks Helen!

The Staff have finally recovered from the Year 5 Camping Trip! Everyone had a wonderful time and even had some practice at making their own lunches! #WeAreStokeHeath #WeAreLearners #WeAreCampers

Is there a word for someone who’s not pro royal but is pro royal event music?

Do me a favour If you have a child(ren), niece, nephew, grandchild, step child etc etc that go to school.. Drop that school an email of thanks/support. School families feed off of this positivity! Education is getting a bashing in the press. Let's change the narrative! 💪🏽♥️

Today I was tracked down by an ex-pupil and received this message. The moment I read this, I burst with pride and emotion. This is what we do it for, fellow teachers. 😭 😊🙏🏽

1. What made our SIP planning better than last year? (It could still be better!). Before we met, I sent out reading to SLT - particularly from Matthew Evans and Joe Kirby - and used AI to summarise the key messages, so that every member of SLT was able to engage.

Please use your voice and spread far and wide - am very much hoping this is the start of the end of the current issues we have with Ofsted ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Rick Astley at Glastonbury reminds me of the deputy that’s been at a school for decades & who just quietly & modestly gets on with everything but when something happens they step up & knock it out of the park & everyone goes, ‘wow’ then the deputy just goes quietly back to work💖

There's a strange calm, unparalleled anywhere else, that comes from sitting in an empty school in late July. I have my coffee. I've done a few spins in my chair.

Exactly this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ I have faced some real stick in my time as a head for promoting equality (as we were told today) but now aspects of it will be banned! I shall look forward to seeing what the guidance says.

I taught a boy who routinely laid his head down on the desk and slept. Horrific home life, extreme anxiety. Important facts allowed me to make professional decisions on how to deal with his often unmanageable behaviour Being in school in lesson was far more important than maths

Right that’s it, everyone in the hall for a behaviour assembly.

One of the best parts of my role is seeing people develop and flourish 💛 For this to happen you have to let go and trust!

When I got pregnant, I did not think ahead to the moment 11 years later when I would have to stand on the edge of a football pitch in the pouring rain in December.

Current conditions at the North Pole indicate good weather for flying!! #NORADTracksSanta #NTS24 🎅🎄

Never have the words ‘corn on the cob’ got me emotional before.

3 days into a calorie deficit. Must be a stone gone by now surely?!

British people food shopping list for a heatwave: - Twister lollies (and all the other lollies) - Quiche (Lorraine) - Assortment of “bits” (mini sausages, mini scotch eggs, various beige air fryable goods) - Coleslaw, potato salad (maybe a tub of beetroot cubes that you’ll