Andy Downing

50th year educating, learner, coach, grandfather. Consultant for leadership devpt. Would be gourmet, practising gourmand! ITFC fan

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

Coming to the tail end of my career it was a delight to be invited by Emma to reflect on my leadership journey.
https://t.co/I2dyLZO1Lm

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@HeadTeachDunn @smithsmm @ballater6 I think the most surprising aspect is that anyone pays any attention at all to what @BarryNSmith79 says. I have never seen a post from him which adds anything to education debate

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@mley46_ley @RetirementTale5 I had two of them. So basic but so practical

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@David__Osland @YvonneShaw4 And of course in his new party there would be no way to compete for the leadership which is securely in the hands of the owner

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SwailesRuth Oh Ruth no 🙄 How are you going to cope? 🤔

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SwailesRuth I don't like using the words pig ignorant!

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SwailesRuth "I'm not prepared to debate with someone who uses big words" 😊

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SwailesRuth Oh Ruth ! How do you have the bandwidth to discourse with such a dinosaur? 🤔

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SamStrickers181 @dustonschool I've been a long term advocate. Started consultation on it in Nottingham before I left but not sure how it ended up..

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@SamStrickers181 @Emma_Turner75 @dustonschool Well done @Samstricko181 and team. What a change from my recollections in Northants

[Amys Here 🇨🇦 @amys_here]

Break the internet sharing this please

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Most of you will never have had:
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Tetanus
Diphtheria
Polio

And none of you will ever have had Smallpox

Why?

Because vaccines work

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@vicgoddard @educationgovuk Well @Rory_Gribbell is bound to have something meaningful to say about this!

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

PR says: "After more than two decades of academisation, the education system has become increasingly complex and atomised, with inconsistent transparency, weak local accountability and decision‑making often remote from parents, staff and communities."

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

Seven unions - NEU, NASUWT, UNISON, Unite, GMB, Assocition of Education Psychologists and Community - issue statement warning that gov plans for every school to join an academy trust "will reinforce and exacerbate fragmentation of schools and divert money away from pupils."

[Kevin May @Yam_Nivek]

After six prime ministers in ten years since the referendum, the idea that the architect of all the chaos and instability, Nigel Farage, is what our country needs is an absolute joke!

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@smdowning Congratulations Steve!

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@Bonniepurple @MrFerguson85 @tombennett71 And that's being generous to him!

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@JamesMelville Johnson but closely followed by Truss

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@kateowbridge @neils46 @BarryNSmith79 And totally unjustified disparity

[Andy Downing @DowningAndy]

@CamillaTominey @GBNEWS @darrenpjones "Scared of a journalist"? Perhaps when @GBNEWS employs a journalist they will appear