Trying to bring a little of the Indian Ocean lifestyle back to sarf Leeds. Deputy in a fabulous little school that cares.
Not in Seychelles
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I'm pinning this here so I can add to it as I think of more things I love about the UK.
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While sorting my mum's house this week, I came across this article. Rose-tinted specs perhaps, but 'cookies and milk' followed by a mid afternoon nap with a blanket sounds pretty appealing🥰
@3dancingfeet @rebecca5key @llewelyn20 @VerandaThought @DHTDurrant
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Where’s the buzz? Great teaching needs evidence, consistency and strong routines. But it also needs personality, judgement and a little bit of magic. Enjoying the writing process again, my latest blog on why we shouldn’t take the “teach” out of teaching.
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The three-year-old did such a good job of running into a door handle, he needed a general anaesthetic so the consultant could take the time to stitch him back together properly.
Still, at least that's the Hallowe'en costume sorted.
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Great to be up in the NW rolling out
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The number of colleagues attending an online session this morning with me, looking at my 5 golden rules for teaching and learning.
That’s quite the start to the week!
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Having lived it; ask for your ofsted inclusion grade to be written on supersoft paper to give it some use.
The first pupil that tells me they have "irrefutable evidence" that they didn't do it, but they just don't want to tell me yet, is stone cold getting let off. 😂
Where's the, "Hell no, that there is the dream!" option @TeacherTapp?
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I don’t generally engage with inflammatory posts on X. It’s the nature of this platform that being shocking is often a deliberate ploy to provoke engagement and feed the poster’s need for attention. However, I’ll make an exception for @tomhfh ’s grotesquely offensive views…
Ten things other people like but I hate:
1. Other people
2. Progress
3. Cucumber
4. SUVs
5. Newcastle United
6. Santa Claus
7. Instructional Coaching
8. Electric cars
9. Hallowe'en
10. The cinema
I think it says quite a bit about life in a Primary school, but I need to select four of these options @TeacherTapp.
Modern medicine is bonkers (in a good way!)
It's only 10am and I'm already post surgery, drinking coffee with a good book and TV, waiting for my sandwich.
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Judging an education system on PISA scores is a folly similar to judging countries based purely on their GDP.
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We all know this happens , now there is a framework which actively supports schools to push kids elsewhere so that they get a better Ofsted report. Not only do they get good inclusion grades but they also get much better achievement grades. What a messed up system!
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The problem with inspection is... inspection! The horrible delusion we're all supposed to buy that strangers can walk into a school for two days and arrive at objectively meaningful judgements. Bullshit squared however you dice up the numbers.
This is a superb analysis of where we are now with Ofsted inspection grades from @JohnGRoberts
“I don’t think this is any more coherent, less confusing or less stressful for people,” one school leader told him.
