Jo C

Vice Principal - Quality of Education in an amazing secondary school. I love music, F1, football (SCFC) and a few cheeky drinks at the weekend!

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@nigel_whittle @MaryMyatt I’ve said this a long time and I’m getting our staff to ensure a robust and challenging KS3 which has been lacking!

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@GCSE_Macbeth Lexonik - Leap for lower readers and advance for those who aren’t far off but not quite there. Massive gains but strategies need to permeate through the school to maintain the impact.

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@ShakinthatChalk Totally agree but isn’t that the deal when becoming a parent too?

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Just a quick post for any parents of A Level students… my son is not one but nervous which makes me more nervous for him! Fingers crossed!! #ALevelResultsDay

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@SuperStretch30 @RogersHistory Totally agree with this but teacher recruitment to ensure there are enough staff to teach has to be addressed first or it is just impossible… we’ve struggled to timetable with PPA as it is with the recruitment we’ve managed and we think we did well with recruitment…

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@naomicfisher As a parent, I take the communication as a chance to support the school. I talk to my children about what happened and do give a consequence at home. It works for us - I certainly don’t find it stressful to feel informed about my children’s behaviour.

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@missdarby_ If he wasn’t, I’d query it as that is unfair. No criticism to anyone. I just said how I would deal with it if my son was disruptive as I never worry about what other children get just my kids behaviour. But if he was good, there is certainly an issue.

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In principle, I have no issue with national service but I worry about the logistics… can students not go to university or get a job at 18 if this comes in?? #nationalservice

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Another flight, another cancellation. Thank you @Ryanair - free transfer to a flight that was cheaper at the point that I booked and looses me 8 hours of holiday with no other viable option… don’t advertise and sell flights which you don’t intend to run!
#ryanair #cancelled

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Just got a new job as Vice Principal - quality of education. What prep work would you want to do before you start? #edutwitter

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@ARCpricealex Student panel: why did you tell students to be quiet while you were talking?

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

I'm reminded, as schools start to trickle back into action stations, of the time when I attended a course for gifted and talented children (remember that?), where I learned all about high-challenge, 24-step activities. 'These sound great,' I said, 'But lots of my classes are really challenging, and I couldn't do this with them, without chaos erupting. What to do?'

'Ah yes, replied the trainer,' You can only really do this when the behaviour is pretty good.'

And that's when I first realised that behaviour is prior to every other aspect of high quality provision for students. Without that, you're juggling on the wing of a plane.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Fascinating response to this.

‘You see! No need to punish kids!’

Repair conversations are vital with kids and we do them at Michaela EVERY time. We have a system- of course! ☺️

But we also follow through with punishments. Kids need them.

A detention is no big deal and kids will expect them and be grateful for them in the right culture.

We adults dislike detentions because they make US feel bad.

We want ONLY the restorative conversation because of how punishment makes US feel, and we ignore the total devastation on the child caused by lack of punishment.

At home, you don’t need to punish every time because it is one on one. But if you never punish, there too, children will become tyrants.

Punishment is a natural part of disciplining a child.

It doesn’t mean beating them. It means following through with consistent and predictable punishments that the child understands.

Strict means love: you love them enough to overcome how uncomfortable YOU feel around discipline, to do what is right by the child.

[_Lm Charles @PL_9009766]

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds deserve exactly the same driving intolerance of failure that the children of the rich reliably get. In fact, they need it even more. Indulging them, letting them off and making excuses for them is the opposite to ‘compassion’.

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@TeachLeadAAli I would really appreciate this if possible. Thank you.

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@Strickomaster Agree - only needs to happen if the sanctions were given in an emotive way. Calm follow through of policy and clear consequences for poor choices. As long as the teacher doesn’t react to the behaviour and just deals with it (easier said) then relationships aren’t impacted.

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@neuroteachers @melissacreate15 AirPods are a problem which are hard to detect and definitely distract from listening…

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@_literatureco Using Freytags pyramid has really helped mine understand what is happening where and why.

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@MsGHist Me and I don’t drink tea either!