Mrs B
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In recent weeks the majority of our calls have been from headteachers completely drained by utter nonsense from parents. Needs gripping: we know of three highly successful heads who have retired early due to this. If we know of three, imagine how many others! @educationgovuk
It’s the coordinated & sustained campaigns towards headteachers that my original post was about… …HTs often left isolated without any real right to reply, adequate legal response & in most of my examples, often poor LA & MAT support It is not okay!
The issue isn’t the length of the summer holiday, which is one of the shortest in the world. The issue is a lack of investment in clubs, activities, camps & things for kids to do. Schools aren’t a babysitting service & our core purpose risks being severely undermined.
Shocking if unsurprising findings. Of 800 English teachers: Only 1 in 5 say GCSE English is enjoyable to teach. More than half say it focuses on the wrong things. 54% say it doesn’t meet the needs of all students. Pearson’s #LetsTalkEnglish campaign. bit.ly/3GAKAAy
Liz Kendall complains that almost half the country isn't saving ANYTHING towards retirement. That's because they don't have ANYTHING left over each month after paying their bills, Liz. 🙄
Fake people listening to fake music. Teachers using AI to grade papers that students didn't write. It makes sense once you understand that many tech moguls believe humanity has no purpose other than building the machines that will replace us. They view us as unnecessary.
Human cultural replacement. Not just AI music but AI listeners too - a fake and fraudulent way for Spotify to generate Ad revenue. Who needs humans when bots can click on links and trick advertisers into paying for fake engagement.
Want to attract NEW teachers? Want to retain CURRENT teachers? •Make smaller class sizes happen •Improve the response to student behavioral issues •Increase planning time •Improve salaries
Are our systems truly meeting the needs of our youngest children, or are they shaped by policy, convenience & funding? Where is the child in all this? They need love. They need play. They need people who understand children, not data. #WhereIsTheChild #EarlyYears #PlayMatters
TAYLOR I AM SAT TO WATCH A 13H LONG ERAS TOUR DOCU SERIES THAT INCLUDES ALL DETAILS OF EACH ERA, BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE, TTPD SET AS BONUS EPISODE AND A LITTLE INTERVIEW WITH YOU AND FRIENDS/FAMILY/DANCERS/BAND EACH EPISODE, YES I WILL WATCH THE WHOLE THING, NO IT WON’T BE TOO LONG
We need a bigger discussion in society about what it means to throw something away. There is no ‘away’. Seems we are determined to live out the plot of Wall-E
I hope the curriculum is being carefully looked at & teachers are being consulted. Many ‘working towards’ children simply haven’t had time to consolidate skills, rather than being less able. We’ve got a maths curriculum that fires a variety of strategies at them without them ever…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Water companies say they're putting billions in" Feargal Sharkey, "They took £84 billion in dividends and created £74 billion of debt.. We've been cheated" "There is no pollution control in this country anyone, the companies are out of control" "These…
When millionaires can bypass conflict of interests and rules ! Another fabulous thread by @warwickmansell
Exclusive: Ruth Miskin announces new handwriting programme for schools – days after government reveals new focus on handwriting, following her advice educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-misk… Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
In today’s education news, as it is revealed it now costs parents over £1000 per child for childcare over the summer break, whilst some argue the holidays need to change, I say what are businesses and employers doing to help parents?
This is a huge achievement for the Labour government in its first year. The number of children accessing funded early education & childcare has increased by 33% in a year, reaching 1.7 million, an increase likely related to government initiatives aimed at expanding access to…
Here's the best thing in Labour's first years: today's new figures show the number of children accessing funded early education and childcare rose by 33% in a year to 1.7m,
We’re sleepwalking into a crisis if we don’t wake up to the impact social media and digital devices are having on our kids. The systems meant to protect and support them aren’t/can't move fast enough. We need real change and we need it yesterday. Bureaucracy and politics can’t…
In 25 years of teaching, I have never seen such a rapid & fundamental change in the way children are thinking, behaving & interacting. I thought it was Covid but I now think it's the digital age they're growing up in & I really hope people cleverer than me are looking in to this.
Charge £20 for GP appointments, says think tank. People fall from it, “£20 isn’t much.” That’s how they get you. It STARTS at £20, then gradually climbs up until it’s out of reach for many, just like dentistry. Sajid Javid works for US healthcare firms. share.google/uISEwjT9NiX4HP…
Remember Covid when inspections were paused? The psychological safety, time & brain space created by this led to schools doing what was best for their community, not Ofsted. We need to be disruptive, we need radical change, we need to move quickly. The system needs to change.
Teachers and former teachers are calling out the 'misuse' of support plans, which they say are being 'weaponised' to 'force out' staff from schools schoolsweek.co.uk/support-plans-…