I must have spoken to well over 100 headteachers across the country recently and they're all saying the same things:
Many, many more pupils with complex SEND needs.
More challenging behaviour and at a younger age.
Too little specialist provision.
Frustrated families.
Social Services bar too high.
Public services skint and burnt out staff.
No real Ofsted reform.
Falling birth rates.
People are angry.
Communities in despair.
Funding that’s nowhere near enough.
Schools are holding the system together but it’s becoming unsustainable - they can't keep asking more and more of staff, with less and less. Something has to give.
Without urgent reform and real investment, I'm worried that this could be the year we've all known was coming and education finally breaks.
Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.
Forget the small boats. If the media wasn't banging on about it daily you wouldn't even notice.
Focus on taxing the rich. If they paid there fair share - reducing wealth inequality - your life would get better immediately.
"The vast majority of sexual crimes are by British born people"
ANDREA JENKINS "Well, I think the issue there.. I'll correct you"
KGM, "That's a fact"
REFORM keep falling apart. This is a masterpiece from @krishgm
And it's probably his most simplistic interview 😂
It's the summer holidays, which means that I have **two copies** of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.
Simply **retweet** this tweet for your chance to win a copy.
I will pick two winners on Sunday 17th August.
Good luck!
Education will always evolve - through new standards, new strategies, and new tools.
But one thing will never change:
Relationships will always matter most.
Lead with compassion.
Extend grace generously.
Offer each student a fresh start.
Every single day.
Because at the heart of great teaching is something profoundly simple:
Connection.
If any heads or teachers are needing a last minute addition to the end of year assembly, here's "Leavers' Song" from Allan Ahlberg's "Heard it in the Playground".
Goodbye, old school...
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 keep getting in the way of doing what’s right. The world’s changed but the system hasn’t and it's our young people, our communities and generations to come who will pay the price.