dhmd.bsky.social
Retired Primary Headteacher, time limited researcher, canal explorer and Francophile.
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Great picture of a ‘Wilderness Beaver’. Where is it?
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Keep smiling - the last bit seems to last forever! Great once it is finished.
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Greater Leadership capacity especially amongst middle leaders but working with 70+ staff especially at the start is much more time consuming than you might imagine.
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Finding it so depressing that another opportunity for real reform has been missed/ignored alongside relief that now I am retired I don’t have to play this game any more.
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We stayed in Luca which is lovely and full of history and travelled into Florence and Pisa by train. Florence and Pisa both busy but Luca much quieter so good for hotels and restaurants.
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The quality of placements during training, and mentoring and support from experienced staff when joining the profession are vital. The qualification alone does not prepare staff for working at this important stage of children’s development.
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What a great thread - wish I could have expressed our similar ethos so clearly.
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Retired HT here
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In addition where some change might actually work it needs time, sometimes even years, to embed and impact. Our system doesn’t allow for that- quick fix or nothing. Working on one thing at a time, over time focussed on quality of teaching can make a difference - whims of government or Ofsted do not.
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21 for me - prompted a few things I had forgotten!
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Practice (noun) and practise (verb). The noun has ‘ice’ also a noun within it.
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It really was! When I started doing it I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it so much earlier - would have saved me hours.
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I just kept a year by year rolling SIP/SEF adding and reviewing actions on a half termly basis. I started the year with a broad outline but filled in the detail as it was needed including new areas. As a rolling document I never needed to start any year completely from scratch which was a bonus.
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As a primary teacher this would make such a difference to some of the most vulnerable children and be great for the others as well!
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There are also the twin issues that firstly Ed research findings don’t always fit the political/Ofsted agenda of the times and secondly that important findings get turned into a simplified version of the actual research before being disseminated into schools and they do not have the desired impact.
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I am now retired and couldn’t agree more. The shock last September when I realised that I had time where nothing was asked of me work wise was huge. A year on and I still find myself thinking I should check my work emails! I loved my 22 years as a head but it is a 24/7, 365 day a year job!