CheltenhamHT

Headteacher Sept 22. Passionate about inclusion. Founder of Teaching Assistant Conference Gloucestershire.

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

Positive Noticing Day ❤️ #theadultschange @pauldixtweets

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“She was dying. If you said to her unless you eat, you will die. She’d [say] that’s fine I’d rather die than eat.”

@JeffStelling tells #TimesRadio it was an “amazingly difficult” task to find help for his daughter who was suffering from an eating disorder.

@FifiGlover

[James Mannion @RethinkingJames]

"That tells us something very important about the kind of system that we're really imposing on kids."

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on the neurobiological case for progressive education.

#REPOD
@RethinkingJames

[Beat @beatED]

Did you know that only 1 in 7 NHS areas in the UK are able to provide the recommended level of intensive community and day treatments for those with eating disorders?

Read ‘There’s No Place Like Home’, highlighting the urgent need to expand access, here: https://t.co/ZHPf1oCZ0i

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job  https://t.co/2G23Yih1iX

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

@OliverConway And then there's the quality of those admissions. If you are discharged without further trauma, you'll be lucky. Dreadful conditions, agency staff outnumber substantive staff, mistakes made and patient risk often heightened. It's downright abusive.

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@AnorexiaMyths @allaboutjoules Only on Friday I said to a professional that as a Mum I wouldn't be expected to nurse cancer, so why am I expected to nurse serious mental health conditions?

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

SEND mums: ‘We’re running faster and faster just to stand still’

EastEnders actress Kellie Bright told @bbcnuala that fighting to get support for her son, who has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD and dyslexia, has left her ‘exhausted’.

Listen to the full programme ⬇️

[Anorexia Myths @AnorexiaMyths]

I think what people don’t understand about anorexia, is that when it hits your family you find yourself in an upside down world where nothing makes sense anymore.

Imagine your child suddenly being unable to eat, or seemingly not wanting to eat… how utterly horrifying is that?

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

Really hoping we're in an era of positive change!

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

‘Fighting every step is so hard'

Katie, 17, is autistic and has barely been to school since she was 13.

She joined @BBCNuala to discuss her experience as a child navigating England’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, and how it has impacted her.

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

Happy/supported/ thriving staff=happy/supported/ thriving pupils. Kicking off the year with team 'bake off' My summer read #puttingstafffirst @JohnThomsett @JonnyUttley @lolascupcakes

[CheltenhamHT @CPchelt]

@AnorexiaMyths That's what works in my experience with my daughter, but so many professionals were not consistent when inpatient. They were often cruel. Comments like... 'just eat half if you can't manage it all' and worst of all, meals up to 45 minutes late! That's torture

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@Southgloshead @DestinoNadia

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Over half of children with special education needs are missing school because their requirements can't be met. That's the damning findings from an ITV News investigation exposing a crisis in provision for children with these needs.

'The system doesn't work for anyone.'

Actress Sally Phillips has spent years fighting for special educational needs and disability provisions for her three neurodiverse children and says the system is frustrating.

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@DavidNautilus1 @LittleMy2020

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Any recommendations for professional books/training that can support a teacher new to year 1?

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@jamesldowns Online for my daughter. Absolutely pointless!

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@Headteacherchat Get into schools!

[Dr James Shea @englishspecial]

@Headteacherchat Really good paper cited in this article.
https://t.co/SxCNRJVr6f

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@phoenixgrouphq Tell everyone about the research based resources produced in collaboration with Dove. https://t.co/ju7g1cvIVG