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Founding Co-headteacher of a unique new school opening in 2024. NPQH. MEd.

Feltham, London

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8 months

I am delighted to share @Tillybrownie & I will be founding co-headteachers @Reachhanworthpk a new all-through sister school to @reachfeltham committed to achieving extraordinary things. Find out more here. Career-defining opportunities coming soon!

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New School, New Chapter

I am delighted to share that I will be the new Co-headteacher of Reach Academy Hanworth Park, alongside Matilda (Tilly) Browne, who will divide her time between Reach Academy Feltham, where she is …

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3 years

I’ve just been told by our Head of Physics that if you hold ‘ctrl F’ within a class Microsoft class ‘Team’ and type in a student name you can see all their contributions in the chat function of any lesson to check participation. Seriously helpful.

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Creating a list of ‘teacher hacks’ for our new NQTs/ trainees. What are the things you wish you’d known? E.g. collecting books in on the page you want to mark or including a header on your PP slides so the title & date are always visible. Contributions/ RTs appreciated!

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I’ve learnt over the last couple of years how crucial students’ welcome to school is for a shift in school culture & behaviour. 1. We now have at least 2 members of SLT on the gate who give a huge theatrical ‘good morning’ modelling positive professional interactions but also…

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Cover teacher came out of his 1st lesson today, strode up to me with a beaming smile & said ‘that Y8 class were incredible’. He said they all greeted him on entry, addressed him as Sir, handed books out, worked silently, said goodbye. I’ve always wanted a culture where I…

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The more I’m involved in school improvement at leadership level the more convinced I am that we have a national obsession in evidencing & it’s the enemy of progress in comprehensive education. School culture & excellent teaching don’t naturally produce evidence so leaders are…

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Over the last couple of years I’ve been thinking a lot about school culture & behaviour. I’ve put together a thread here of some of the things I’ve been thinking about/ what I’ve done to try & enhance school culture & behaviour in case it’s helpful to anyone.

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The reality is, for those of us that choose to work in challenging schools, is that we’ll always be criticised by those that choose not to, but think they have the ideas to do it better than we do.

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This time a year ago I was planning for taking on head of year 11 for their last two terms. One of the most important experiences of my career to understand the job of a head of year - especially now part of SLT. HoYs are underrepresented on Twitter. Pastoral work is HARD.

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My Year 8 socially distanced assembly this morning revolved around analysing these 2 pictures of the first day back at school in Taiz, Yemen. I talked about the barriers we face as a school in this pandemic, how we can overcome them & how precious a high-quality education is.

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I became a more effective teacher & then leader once I realised the best schools don’t do anything particularly complicated, instead they’re doggedly consistent & agonise over what to invest time/ resources in.

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One of my biggest dislikes about my early days at Phoenix was how students left the canteen. This was the canteen after Year 7-10 had been through today without staff cleaning. Progress. Getting behaviour right makes schools better for everyone.

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… *know* behaviour in cover lessons will be excellent. Where students will be kind, work hard & value knowledge despite their teacher not being there. Behave because it’s the right thing to do. This is now our new norm & it feels like another big milestone on our journey.

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Practical classroom management strategies: 1. Scan the room/ always be seen watching 2. Always explicitly ask for silence (NOT quiet or ‘shhhing’) 3. Dismiss row by row not all at once 4. Try to always face the majority of the class 5. Printed seating plan Any others?

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3 years

'Teaching Behaviour Explicitly' New blogpost covering: ✔Our threefold approach to improving behaviour ✔Specifically, our new 'character curriculum' & attempts to systematically & explicitly teach good behaviour

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5 years

My latest blog post on 'what makes a good head of department'. Based on my own experiences at @WestLondonFree , my involvement in the DfE curriculum project supporting HoDs nationally & very generous contributions on Twitter. Thank you all!

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What makes a good head of department?

I have been meaning to write this blog post since finishing my time as a head of department; mostly as a way of articulating an evaluation of my time in the role. I absolutely loved my time as a he…

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Post-pandemic in Sept 2021, we struggled with behaviour, so we unashamedly & explicitly taught behaviour. Showing students why positive behaviour benefitted them, their peers & the school. I’ve written a bit about it here & happy to take visitors…

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Teaching behaviour explicitly

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I’m a better teacher & leader because of teacher-written, school-based blogposts with examples of application with children in schools. I love hearing from teachers. It’s the main reason I am still on Twitter. If you’re a teacher with a blog please keep posting & sharing.

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✅Safeguard students. ✅Enthuse students & publicly celebrate success. ✅Build strong relationships between staff & students. ✅Set high expectations. ✅Get students in the right mindset for lessons.

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3 years

Ran a session on Classroom Culture today. I have tried to distil WHAT good classroom culture looks like & then HOW to achieve this.

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My girlfriend & I are 1 school year apart. Both state school educated. Her school one of strict discipline, largely trad methods, smart uniform & thorough enrichment. She cannot speak highly enough of her school. Had an amazing time with a whole host of opportunities at the end.

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As an SLT, we have expectation that at meetings we should be able to raise what’s going wrong, even if crosses into another’s ‘responsibility’. IMO it’s so important, no tiptoeing around but honest debate framed within our shared drive for an extraordinary school.

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To transform school culture & thus behaviour leaders need the time to be highly visible. On the gate, leading line-ups, at break & lunch, assemblies, lesson transition. Emails, meetings & admin is comforting but shouldn’t be at the expense of visible leadership.

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This cost of living crisis will mean a very tough first term of safeguarding. Fellow DSLs & pastoral SLs serving disadvantaged areas would love to hear about how you’ll be proactive from Sept. I’m in the process of planning currently so let me know if you’d like to collaborate.

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Schools have to obsess about behaviour because it is the essential foundation for all the good & important work schools do. Safeguarding, teaching & learning, curriculum, teacher development, recruitment, retention, parental engagement, maintenance of the school building etc etc.

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I’m worried that ‘trial by media’ will put people off working in schools in challenging contexts. School shaming is a threat to us all in comprehensive education. We need people to want to work in challenging contexts, not be scared that their every move is under the spotlight.

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I think the most daunted I’ve felt when facing a new role was as a head of department in 2016. In hindsight, the most important years in my career. I learnt value of a happy team & important lessons on curriculum implementation in particular. But it …

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The more I work with heads of department & reflect on my own time as HoD, the more I think creating a ‘subject culture’ to foster intrinsic motivation, enjoyment for the subject etc is one of the most important parts of the job.

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Delighted to say I’ll be joining @PhoenixAcadW12 as a Vice Principal from September. A school with unwavering commitment to social change & addressing educational inequality. Superb teachers, students & SLT. Cannot wait to get started & work with them all.

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I don’t know how much of an advert this is for teaching, but it’s been my only job since university & I’ve never regretted it. It’s fulfilling, fun, fascinating, unpredictable, hilarious, energising. It’s just got everything. Very lucky.

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*New blog-post* on my work on a new whole-school approach to training/ CPD: ✅Replacing lengthy whole-staff training with a consistent dialogue around T&L ✅A teacher-driven CPD programme ✅ Space for leadership training & subject knowledge enhancement

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Whole-school training. There must be another way…

It’s INSET, January 2013, I am sat in a cold sports hall, an enthusiastic NQT, ready to run through brick walls to listen, develop and teach the highest quality lessons I can muster. I will do anyt…

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Sat down with our Head of PE today to talk about sports role within the school culture we’re building. They’ve been phenomenal & played a massive part. ✅Increased number of fixtures & entered more external competitions for more opportunities to represent the school ✅They’re…

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I switched to the pastoral side of SLT 2 years ago mostly because I wanted experience shifting school culture. But I think being Designated Safeguarding Lead has been simultaneously the toughest thing I’ve done in teaching & the biggest privilege. Such a steep learning curve.

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3 years

I think some people who haven’t been Heads of Department do not understand the damage this extra workload caused by 2 years of TAGs at this time of year will do to the quality of teaching/ the curriculum. This is where high performing departments do the heavy lifting.

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Just marked my 1st set of books for the year. Took 20 mins because: 1. Coded marking for some personalisation 2. Verbal feedback for common errors 3. Chosen best paragraph to model 4. Established culture of self-corrections in different colour to respond to feedback

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Rudeness in schools. We say to students every day that a foundation of our school are ‘professional relationships’ built on ‘genuine mutual respect’. Teachers will work hard to make sure students leave with a ‘body of knowledge’ that will be with them ‘for the rest of their…

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Just met with our ‘T&L reps’. Simple concept. One representative from each department. I run any new initiative by them to check it doesn’t undermine subject-specificity & we have a voluntary meeting every half-term so I can hear their opinions on how whole-school T&L is going.

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The more I’m in comprehensive schools the more militant I get in my belief that people outside schools don’t understand the challenges and how to overcome them. We need voices from within the sector, now more than ever. Challenges are unique and need domain specific knowledge.

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I am a big fan of centralised detentions. Far more workload efficient than teachers running their own. Also allows me to speak to all students as a collective about how detentions are meant to change behaviour for the benefit of students.

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Noticed when a Head of Year that pastoral middle leaders didn’t tend to get same systematic approach to training academic middle leaders do. I’ve spent today putting together a pastoral CPD plan for new role in September.

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1 year

We shouldn’t underestimate how transformative working in a school where the norm is students being kind & courteous can be for a teacher’s job satisfaction. Our Year 10 football team walked past me leaving for a fixture today in glorious sunshine everyone with beaming smiles…

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If you’re not enjoying teaching because of bad behaviour & disengaged students. There are schools serving deprived areas where students love learning, integrity of subjects valued, workload managed, strong professional relationships with students & adults. Find & join them.

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9 months

So pleased for our whole community at Phoenix with today’s confirmation of our Progress 8 Score. A P8 of -0.05 pre-COVID. Still a school with 45.1% FSMs. Now +0.73. Top 3.5% nationally. Many people have been part of this incredible journey. Huge congratulations to all.

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To avoid misinterpretation, I think accountability for schools is essential. I think schools should be judged on various measures but evidencing of the day to day *just in case* someone asks for it is a huge problem.

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2 years

School closures, staff absence, attendance issues, masks & other COVID restrictions were always going to make behaviour the big challenge this academic year. Schools need a long-term behaviour strategy. I cover 1/3 of ours here: frontloading.

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Teaching behaviour explicitly

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2 years

One of our students told a visitor yesterday she wanted to go to the University of Oxford. He asked her how she planned to get there. ‘I can just get there on the A40 Sir’ she responded. Legend. @PhoenixAcadW12

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If we want excellent behaviour we have to have the confidence to explicitly teach right from wrong. Decide what your core values are as a school & what behaviours & character would you see in your ‘model student’? Then teach, model, reward, sanction.

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I have seen the most delightful, honest & hardworking students blatantly lie in front of their teachers & parents to keep their mobile phones. The hold smartphones & social media has over our teenagers is terrifying - a strict mobile phone policy now essential in schools.

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2 years

… insisting on the same back. ‘How are you Rayyan?’ ‘I’m great thank you. How good was Mr Mehra’s lesson yesterday?!’ Brief, but we insist on a 2-way conversation where equal respect shown on both parts. We stop & explain why this is important if this doesn’t happen. We also…

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… under pressure to waste hours & hours creating it. When building a phenomenal school culture & excellent teaching needs obstacles removing & hours on the ground. Huge educational progress could be made in this country if we aggressively tackled this. It has to happen.

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11 months

Bumped into a student I taught at GCSE & A-level in the gym today. Chatted for ages about his new grad scheme, uni, his family & he gave me some banter about the Arsenal throwing away the title! If you’re early in your career these moments will come & they’re priceless.

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One behaviour anecdote I’ve shared with staff is when students say ‘but everyone else was doing it’ as a defence say: “if a policeman catches me speeding. Can I use the defence ‘but the car next to me was speeding!’? You have to do the right thing because it’s the right thing…

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3 years

One of the most common things I (increasingly) see heads of department neglect is resourcing. So much navel-gazing on curriculum but means nothing if it is not being delivered well. One way to quality assure is to ensure all teachers have organised, high-quality resources...

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When I was gaining experience & observing lessons before starting my PGCE I remember a teacher referring to another school as an ‘exam factory’. A 6th former muttered ‘I wish I went to an exam factory’. It’s always stuck with me.

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4 years

New post on how we increased pupil participation so all are ‘cognitively active’. Argues 100% pupil participation built on bedrock of strong school culture, excellent behaviour, clear/ concise explanations, curriculum & concerted effort from all teachers.

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Incremental improvement so all pupils are ‘cognitively active’ all of the time

This post will share how important I believe incremental improvement with a concerted effort from all teachers is to improving the quality of teaching across a school. I will also argue that increa…

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3 years

Invested a lot of time this year in showing students that their teachers sanction them because they care. It’s taken a while but is starting to get through. ‘If your teachers didn’t care do you think they’d bother trying to help you be the best version of yourself?’

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New post: 'A fully-resourced character curriculum'. I've had requests for the resources used to launch each 'character focus' within our character curriculum. I have shared all resources within this post with a bit of context/ health warning!

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A fully-resourced character curriculum

Since writing my blog on explicitly teaching behaviour (found here), I have been asked by a number of people for the resources that accompany our first term’s ‘character curriculum̵…

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I have finally managed to write this up for our trainees & NQTs - sorry to not include everything from the original tweet. Thank you to everyone who contributed. I hope it is helpful. NEW POST 'What I wish I knew when I started Teaching. Teacher Hacks'.

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What I wish I knew when I started teaching. ‘Teacher Hacks’ from the wonderful world of EduTwitter.

This post is in response to an amazing number of contributions to a tweet (shown in figure 1) where I appealed to teachers for advice for our NQTs and trainees joining the West London Free School i…

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Creating a list of ‘teacher hacks’ for our new NQTs/ trainees. What are the things you wish you’d known? E.g. collecting books in on the page you want to mark or including a header on your PP slides so the title & date are always visible. Contributions/ RTs appreciated!

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New blogpost sharing what I’ve learned from working with the best pastoral team, doing the best pastoral work I’ve ever seen. Hopefully helpful to some, but also a celebration of pastoral teams nationally, specifically ours. Here’s to pastoral teams!

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Here’s to pastoral teams!

Since September 2021, I have worked at a school in White City, West London. This school has 46.1% of students on free school meals, around half of students with English as an additional language an…

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Does anyone have a good story to use in an assembly trying to make the point that it is important to not sit back and expect success to happen - you have to be proactive and go and get success?

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If your someone who has always wanted to teach in a school serving a high proportion of disadvantaged students but have worries about committing to the challenge. I can only speak from my experience but my only regret is not doing it earlier. Most happy I’ve been in teaching.

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It speaks volumes that I’m tweeting this because we’re sat on Hampstead Heath & she’s on her multiple round of talking about a teacher, subject, club or trip she loved & it’s dawned on me she does this all the time. All I do is tell funny stories about my friends.

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Whole-class reading, my advice is model reading before handing over to pupils. I start by saying: ‘I’m going to read first, you must follow along as I’ll call on you, I’m going to concentrate on reading loudly enough, projecting my voice, stopping at punctuation...

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Teaching’s inherently a challenging career, I think this is part of the attraction. What’s previously frustrated me is the pointless workload. Deep marking, ‘edutainment’, unnecessary data input, evidencing, poor behaviour. Lots of schools have shown we can eliminate this & …

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As I’m moving into a Vice Principal pastoral role from September. Who are best people to follow for pastoral practice? I plan to blog on my work on a pastoral curriculum, public celebration of achievement, SEN & behaviour amongst other things & want to build on work of others.

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4 years

One of my new term’s resolutions was to try to learn every pupil’s name in the school. Gate duty is my prime testing time. It’s hard but hugely worth it. Really enhanced my SLT pastoral work, particularly managing behaviour around the building.

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Increasingly convinced that lots of the amazing work done to improve curricula & teaching & learning nationally is being wasted on the ground due to poor behaviour & attendance. A concerted effort on character education needed nationally. Need to learn from schools already…

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I am line managing SEN for the first time this September. I have the ResearchED guide from @KarenWespieser and have @SENDMattersUK new book (and get to work with Gary which is amazing). Any other recommended people to follow or ‘must reads��? Really enjoying it so far.

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1 of highest leverage ways to improve behaviour is for staff to be unashamedly explicit in teaching students how to behave. Behaviour’s not complicated but you must be relentless & need buy-in from all teachers to convince students behaving excellently is part of who they are.

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1/2 For those interested in the explicit teaching of behaviour & character education in light of @amanda_spielman assessment of the national picture post-pandemic, I have blogged on my experience of explicitly teaching behaviour & shifting culture as a VP.

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Teaching behaviour explicitly

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This from �� @RogersHistory ⁩ is why schools have to obsess about behaviour. Academics, consultants, politicians etc with purist views have to listen to teachers about *how* important getting behaviour right is. For those of us who work in schools…

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What's it like to be a teacher?

A classroom. 30 seats, set out in rows of 4. 20 boys, 10 girls. Big kids – 14- and 15-year-olds, many of whom are already 6 foot+. You enter the class ‘blind’ as you don’t have your own classroom. As...

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My Year 13 classes being unimpressed by my piece of Berlin Wall is becoming an annual event.

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One of these is for a pupil who joined us from Bangladesh in Y11 having studied none of the 5 GCSE history topics. We sat down most lunchtimes & chatted history. She has an offer to study history at Cambridge through sheer grit, determination & hard-work. Amazing.

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The longer this attendance crisis goes on the harder it’s going to be to improve behaviour. Even more important to be proactive by establishing a culture where excellent behaviour is the norm. Preempt by explicitly teaching behaviour, not just reacting.

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As a teacher of Year 11 & 13 I will be devastated for our pupils if GCSEs and/or A-levels are cancelled. They grafted during lockdown & are grafting now. Our pupils know the value of hard-work & high-standards regardless of the circumstances. They shouldn’t be denied examinations

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If we’re serious about wanting to improve the education of our most disadvantaged, we have to amplify the voices of those who’ve chosen to work in schools serving disadvantaged demographics & then listen to them. Even if this challenges what we think/ an ideology.

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3 years

Relaunching the House System for September with aim of spirit of healthy competition, teamwork & consistent public celebration of achievement & championing of our core values. With almost a blank slate, what would you say are most important aspects of a successful House System?

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My tip for learning names as a senior leader is to test yourself via the gate every morning & put yourself on the canteen queue at lunch. Force yourself to address every student by name, if you get one wrong, apologise & say their name back to them in conversation.

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4 years

Make sure everyone is looking after their pastoral teams at the moment. The job of a Head of Year is intense at the best of times but at the moment even tougher and absolutely essential.

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2 years

1. Weekly assemblies on school ethos/ vision 2. Daily line-ups to reinforce/ update on progress towards vision throughout 3. Explicit teaching of behaviour with clear rationale for why behaviours important 4. Transition duty for pastoral staff & teachers on classroom ‘threshold’

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@LouisEverett1 Hi Louis - can I ask what you've put in place to achieve this? Be great to hear your thoughts!

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Louis Everett

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In my experience, engagement through diversity of task distracts pupils from what’s inherently interesting about a subject. For example, if you teach pupils through a game, you send the message your subject isn’t interesting enough in its own right, it needs jazzing up.

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Louis Everett

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I think non-teachers will find the emotional impact of exams being cancelled hard to comprehend. The comradery you build with an exam class is vital to its success & pupils/ teachers work incredibly hard to prepare. Tomorrow will be a tough day for pupils & teachers nationally.

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I am not ready for this potentially to be the last 2 days of seeing my year 11s.

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Louis Everett

3 years

I was concerned about the effect the pandemic may have on school culture, student motivation & behaviour. Over the summer I wrote up a plan for a big concerted effort to build a new school culture & teach good behaviour explicitly explained here:

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Louis Everett

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Mentoring our History NQT. He’s phenomenal already. He’s focused on perfecting teacher explanations, direct instruction, pupil ratio, subject knowledge, questioning etc. Makes me cringe comparing hours I spent cutting out card-sorts & thinking of ‘creative’ activities as an NQT

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Louis Everett

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IMO colossal challenges schools facing of recruitment crisis, attendance, behaviour, mental health, cost of living & lack of social services capacity (esp severe for disadvantaged areas) means leaders have to be freed up to be on the ground. Huge danger that increase in admin…

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Louis Everett

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We’ve introduced the term ‘genuine mutual respect’ (taken from @BarryNSmith79 ) to students this year to describe the sorts of professional relationships they should have with others in the school. Means the norm is expecting a warm welcome & base level of politeness/ kindness.

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Louis Everett

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Such a relief that the national issues with behaviour are finally starting to gain some traction in education debates. As an SLT, we predicted behaviour would be a major priority post-pandemic. From what I’m hearing & seeing, it is still a national priority. I think this makes…

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Louis Everett

2 years

…check for uniform here & any signs that students need support in the morning. We flag our free breakfast club, take students to the uniform shop or radio year teams. 2. Students then move to their year group playground where we have both members of the year team…

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Louis Everett

2 years

… so when things go wrong we have to act, sanctions are there to benefit students & teachers because it makes our school a better place. Disrespect & rudeness doesn’t benefit them. We explicitly teach excellent behaviour then enforce it. More here:

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Louis Everett

2 years

My advice to any teacher looking for career progression is, at any stage of a career, bleed out the value & joy & consequent experience in every second. Try to avoid impatience & perfect the role. I look back at my time as teacher, HoD & HoY with real fondness & the …

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Louis Everett

9 months

NEW BLOGPOST. Here’s to pastoral teams! Shares the work of a team who’ve risen attendance from 89-95%, created a cultural norm of exemplary behaviour, ensured students are happier & safer, & helped our P8 score rise from -0.05 to +0.73.

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Louis Everett

3 years

Year 7 induction today: ‘We need to sit with them because they’re on their own!’ I gave a merit for ‘obvious kindness’. ‘It’s not about merits Sir, he’s just on his own’. That’s assembly on living our shared values because it’s ‘who we are’ sorted for Thursday!

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Louis Everett

3 years

Amazing news. West London Free School’s Year 13 artist Fritzie has been confirmed as winner of the Global Sovereign Art Foundation prize. The prize was selected by a highly prestigious judging panel including Damien Hirst & Tracey Emin. We are so proud her & our Art department.

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Louis Everett

3 years

Really feel for teachers in schools that haven’t invested in long-term strategies to lower workload this term (e.g. centralised resources & detentions, sensible feedback policy). A pragmatic & efficient whole-school approach has never been so important.

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Louis Everett

3 years

There are leaders working in challenging contexts who’ll do community duties, safeguarding referrals, parental meetings, curriculum thinking, observations, lead CPD, break & lunch duty, teach, line manage then be held to account by those who haven’t achieved in this context.

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Louis Everett

5 years

I gave up my early 20s to teaching. Planning late into evenings & at weekends searching for methods to enthuse. In reality my lessons were of a worse quality than if I’d focused on my subject knowledge & perfecting my teaching using tried & tested/ evidence informed pedagogy.

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Louis Everett

5 years

@james_of_rivia Check through our KS3 resources here and see but we use the same activities at GCSE & A-level. Quizzing, comprehension questions, timelines, story boards, live-typing, short-paragraph writing, reading aloud, mind-maps. We aim for familiarity/ consistency.

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Louis Everett

3 years

In my experience, one of the most important roles of anyone responsible for whole-school teaching & learning is to create the conditions for excellent teaching to happen. To empower subject experts you need a calm, studious atmosphere around the building & in classrooms.

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Louis Everett

4 years

I have written up my modest attempts at 'Changing Classroom Culture' since September. Would welcome hearing of other schools' experiences of trying to create a really positive whole-school classroom culture & happy to discuss my experience further via DM

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Louis Everett

3 years

Within our middle management training, my advice to those wanting to step up to senior leadership is to commit to concrete change in middle leadership first. As one of the biggest pitfalls of senior leadership is establishing credibility. Be confident in what you’ve achieved.

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Louis Everett

3 years

Those worried that testing & retrieval kills the joy of learning for pupils must never have seen Year 7 going at a recap quiz. Furious scribbling followed by a sea of hands up. I think one of the major benefits of starting with retrieval is as a morale booster.

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