independentschhead.bsky.social
Headteacher, Clarence House Preparatory School in Hampton Hill. 3 x Ofsted Outstanding.
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Hope the Spy & Espionage series doesn’t peter out. Great we’re getting Leonard this year, but be lovely to see some other titles, too.
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Love the new single.
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Not compulsory. Audiobook links for EAL parents. But hope ‘What to Read at Bedtime’ will (a) encourage parents to read bedtime stories through to Y6, (b) give opportunity for children to hear stories that might be trickier than those they’d read for themselves & (c) broaden horizons.
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Thank you!
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Yes: putting pupils first requires leaders to prioritise teacher workload and wellbeing
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My fear is that it’ll be riddled with ‘The Adverb Problem’ & remake APP.
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Be helpful to have national push on hw, as we do with phonics. One of lessons of @nomoremarking.bsky.social is that there’s a strong correlation between ‘This child has terrible handwriting’ & ‘This child doesn’t use full stops and capital letters.’
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Much undervalued by younger colleagues: knowledge. If you’re engaged with the curriculum and cognitive science, you’re of great value to schools. The managing people side of it can be taught on the job.
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#EdChat Outline the key knowledge in question-and-answer knowledge organisers. Organise those organisers in Knowledge Books. Set low-stakes retrieval practice quizzes for hw and in every lesson.
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Great way to do this is to give the pupils Knowledge
Books: nickhitchen.weebly.com/home/knowled...
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3. Planning what you’re going to teach for next 4 years in meticulous detail. (Cog sci not yet embedded enough in profession for all colleagues to understand primacy of ‘long-term memory’.)
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DM (Are they called that here?) me an email and I’ll ping you a copy.
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Downside: spreading the load is tough; upside: speed of change. See impact v.quickly.
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Yes. Team put together over 18 months. Started as organisers glued into A4 exercise books; proved so useful we had them professionally printed.
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Well, as they say in our staff room, Happiness is a Warm Bun.
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Paul well ahead of John. Teachers = soft and sentimental?
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Presume that this is the intent of the proposed ‘exemplary’ grade.
As ever, what we really need are plug-in-and-play resources, e.g., reading comprehension schemes that build background knowledge towards summative assessment on the same topic.
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Always encourage colleagues to wear a suit - if only because it’s a way of ‘putting on’ your work persona.
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Agreed. If we, as adults, struggled at work for four years, no-one would be surprised if we gave up; we could quit/get another job/‘quietly quit’. Children don’t get that option.