Mobile stationery bus out and about today providing extra equipment for those in need to help with remote learning. Idea shamelessly stolen from twitter friend
@ottleyoconnor
- thank you!
Been into school today to look at remarkable work done by our estates team. Lots of refurbishment, re-design, classroom moves, re-decorating including a brand new staff room, sixth form reception/ entrance and more!
#proud
Great to hear
@tombennett71
on
@TimesRadio
this morning - “strict schools are a good thing” 👏
“Sometimes strict has negative connotations - it shouldn’t!”
“Strict just means doing what you said you were going to do… Routines patiently and compassionately taught” 👍
My first
@parkrun
this morning with the eldest little Whittle. Fantastic atmosphere. Wished I’d done it years ago! Going to try and maintain it during term time!
Standing room only for
@MiriamHussain_
behaviour curriculum session
@researchEDWarr
this aft! Brilliant presentation with so many idea/refs.
“To be unclear is to be unkind” 👏👍
And great reference to
@joe__kirby
too - good behaviour makes everything better👇
@tombennett71
25% of secondary Heads sadly leave our beloved profession within 5 years of starting the job.
It’s the best job in the world and today was a reminder of the importance of how we keep / attract those who believe that 🙏
#ASCLAutumnConfs
Brilliant to be back at the old National College for
@SatisEducation
evening. 15 years ago since
@Iainrhall
shook my hand on this bridge as I started Future Leaders…
In my introductory remarks
@LancsVRN
planning day
@MarineHallWyre
this morning I quoted a few words from
@Iainrhall
- the man who taught me most of what I know about tackling link between disadvantage and underperformance…
Thrilled to return to
@HavelockAcademy
where I spent some of my happiest working years. Uplifting performances as send off for incredible people who have given everything to the school over many years. Inspiring to see so many former students now back as staff - mark of the place
Watch this space!
I’m excited to soon be advertising for some key SLT posts at both VP and AP level to help me come and lead and transform one of the biggest schools in the country!
The first
@researchEdhome
I attended was the National conference in London last year with
@tombennett71
- it was sweltering hot! Tomorrow I’m speaking
@researchEDWarr
on how to bring school improvement about quickly and sustainably🤞
I woke up this morning and for a split second there was no COVID. No masks, bubbles, staggered starts, long lunch duties, PHE calls, tonnes of supply, hand sanitiser, anxious parents, kids sat in one place all day, social distancing squares, none of it. And then...
Interviewing isn’t usually my favourite part of the job but this morning was different! Enjoyed interviews for new student leadership team and hearing from such articulate and dedicated
@walthamtollbar
students. Thanks for organising
@MrsBrown_Eng
@cowier2
and well done. V proud
Nearly 10 yrs ago heard
@Andy__Buck
opening address to the coaching team (of which I was one) in his role as Dean of Leadership, Teaching Leaders. Now feel privileged to count him as a friend and grateful for yet another great session inc. culture/climate for ext. leaders today.
Really pleased to speak
@edgehill
this afternoon to secondary trainees about the positives of working in challenging/disadvantaged contexts, rewarding school culture/ethos, and ways to thrive in first year of teaching wherever that may be. Beautiful campus too!
Brilliant session with
@ttct_ceo
on school improvement at scale
@researchEDWarr
this aft - great reflections from roles both as HT and CEO with really useful, practical, on the ground ideas. Certainly stealing the termly playbook! Great to see you again, Wes and thank you 🙏
Another excellent visit to
@astreaacademies
today, this time
@AstreaErnulf
Great to see a school really on the move and what can be achieved in such a short period of time both at the academy and Trust wide. Thank you
@RowenaHackwood
and
@jo_myhill
for organising.
Exciting leadership opportunities
@walthamtollbar
@TollBar6thForm
live from tomorrow!
A number of roles to help me ethically lead one of the largest secondary schools in the country serving incredible young people and their families.
Look out!
Great to see work that
@Fleetwood_High
is doing to support their community - and one another. Some really interesting ideas being shared with 000's of others about their response to COVID-19. Huge congrats to the inspiring
@nigel_whittle
and team
#honk
👏
Reflecting on visit to
@TrinityAcademyL
today with
@BarryNSmith79
and some of my team from
@walthamtollbar
- a really heartening experience. From first second of arriving at the gates got a palpable sense that this is a school providing the very best for the most disadvantaged.
I wasn’t going to say anything about this but as my longstanding education friend
@pkainsworth
has I may as well say that I’m looking forward to speaking at what looks like a fantastic event -
@researchEDWarr
- next month.
We are maintaining our House culture
@HumberstonA
in Week 3 of our Inter-House Mini Olympic Games. Week 1 and 2 were both successes with standing long jump and shot put the events. 💪Thank you to
@dalesmith98
for supporting the running of these events. 👏
Full lecture theatre of Year 11 students
@walthamtollbar
today for revision ahead of Literature tomorrow morning. Really focussed and great atmosphere. Roast pork and ham for lunch too from our fantastic kitchen team!
High rise housing blocks tower over the school and 70% PP but zero excuses and highest of expectations here. Reminded me of what can be achieved with an unrelenting belief that all can achieve regardless of background, ability or circumstances. Children and staff flourishing.
Very pleased and proud to see this name ‘above the door’ tonight. Superb job
@MusicCPDandMore
Thank you for the invite. Good luck Ian
@EdwardHeneagePA
are lucky to have you.
Hugely powerful and inspiring key note this morning.
Passionate, relevant, rooted in real experience.
Speaks volumes that on the first inset day you could be taking a break you’re in a school equipping people with skills to help the most vulnerable.
Thanks so much
@SiobhanHead
Over the yrs I’ve visited literally hundreds of schools, either when I was leading across a big MAT or ‘Future Leaders’ study tours, across UK, Charter schools in US or int. schools. Today I visited one of the very best. Thank you
@SiobhanHead
,what a special place you’ve built.
Pleased to attend this excellent roundtable event today to discuss issues facing coastal schools. Having been Deputy Head, Head of School and Principal in Blackpool, Fleetwood and Grimsby/Cleethorpes it is a topic very close to my heart.
Join us at our event on Long-term education policy-making & small, rural, and coastal schools next week at St George’s School in Blackpool ⭐️️
🗓️ Wednesday, March 13th
🕟 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
📍 St George’s School, Blackpool, FY4 4PH
Apply here:
My first
@researchED1
today! Fantastic conference
@tombennett71
👍
Brilliant speakers and well planned, insightful, thought provoking sessions. Thank you.
After smashing A Level results last week, where nearly every student went onto their preferred destination, it was great to see their successors opening results today. P8 up on last year and on 2019 ⬆️
So many great personal stories of success, sometimes against the odds.
As part of my talk
@researchEDWarr
on Saturday I talked about the ‘power of the note’ to recognise and thank individual colleagues. Snatching ten minutes this morning to do some!
What a brilliant Head
@DRETnews
has at helm of
@HavelockAcademy
. Someone who is dynamic and able to drive improvement at the same time as being steeped in the history of the great place able to share videos of outgoing 6th form singing the academy song 7 yrs earlier. 1st class.
Quite an emotional afternoon saying farewell to Year 13. They were delighted to find out that we still had the videos of them singing on their Year 6 into 7 transition days all those years ago 😉
Introductions for over 500 staff at our
#LGATEduCon
today in Louth!
Keynote speaker,
@MaryMyatt
started the day along with CEO Martin Brown, Chair Phil Bond and Secondary Principal Phil Dickinson.
Excellent visit to
@AstreaAcadSheff
today. Clear passion and enthusiasm - achieving something special for a community that so richly deserves it. Really grateful to
@astreaacademies
CEO
@RowenaHackwood
too for being so generous with your time. Thank you.
A wonderful day!
A huge thank you to all our speakers for giving up their time to share ideas 💡
A great team effort
@KingsWoolston
🔥
600 educators sharing a common goal to improve the education opportunities for students and professional development for their colleagues 🫶
This should be a massive call to arms to all those working in urban/deprived areas. Remember a speaker
@ThePiXLNetwork
conference not so long ago - ‘Not disadvantaged but underserved’.
Collective, concerted, creative effort and leadership needed…
Shocking statistic: 40% of disadvantaged secondary school kids are persistently absent from school. The rise in the average is bad (graph below), but the impact on the most vulnerable is truly awful. (1/5)
Applications for these amazing opportunities close in 3 days!
• Assistant Principal: Teaching and Learning
• Vice Principal: Inclusion
• Vice Principal: Curriculum
Relocation packages available for those considering moving to the area.
Find out more:
Sun setting over
@walthamtollbar
and
@TollBar6thForm
as we bring a successful year to an end.
Very grateful to my colleagues for their support and hard work to support our students and families.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Pleased to welcome
@BBCLookNorth
to
@walthamtollbar
@TollBar6thForm
to talk about value and importance of good attendance. Proud of my brilliant Deputy and the whole attendance team for the great work they’re doing supporting students and ensuring highest levels of attendance.
We were pleased to welcome
@BBCLookNorth
to talk about the importance of good attendance, the support we provide for young people and impact on future life chances...
Sun setting over
@walthamtollbar
and
@TollBar6thForm
as we bring a successful year to an end.
Very grateful to my colleagues for their support and hard work to support our students and families.
Merry Christmas everyone.
So interesting - a detailed exploration of
@dylanwiliam
’s NEED to know vs NEAT to know …
@johntomsett
. A way to prioritise and plan content in a unit.
Hol in North Yorkshire extended to Northumberland staying
@MacLindenHall
- I think I came here 17 ish yrs ago for ‘NCSL fast track leader programme’ assessment. I didn’t get on! A few years later I was youngest secondary Head in country. Not that I’m still bitter about it!🤣
Excellent work today
@SiobhanHead
…drawing together lots of people who are important in a child’s’ life to work out ways to support them best, really honoured to do the introduction to such an important
@LancsVRN
planning day and in such a great venue
@MarineHallWyre
Shared a reminder of this with our extended leadership team earlier this afternoon and reflected back on when
@Andy__Buck
presented to us this time last year. Important all of the time but especially as we enter exam season
@LshipMatters