Gary Haines

Head of School, Chingford Foundation School. Former Head of Olive AP, previously a VP, AP, Head of faculty, Head of Year and once upon a time a kindly tutor!

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@piersmorgan Just listened to your podcast with Simon Jordan—loved it. As a headteacher, I share your views on resilience and the need for young people to bounce back. Would love you to speak to our students. You could be the Jamie Oliver of resilience in schools!

[Chingford Foundation School @ChingfordSchool]

Our #ChingfordFoundationSchool students have competed in the Waltham Forest Athletics League this term. The Borough Championships were on 25 June & many students were rewarded for their hard work with medals! Well done to all involved. Full gallery here: https://t.co/xGz0HGeBAl

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

What a brilliant week of Enrichment events at @ChingfordSchool with every student in the school out on trips to theme parks, museums, trips to London and even Southend! A massive shout out and thank you to @Chingford_PE for an amazing sports day, enjoy well earned rest this WE!

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

Was interviewed for ITV News today regarding the euro final with Harry Kane and David Beckham having passed through our halls. I clearly did a ropey job as I didn’t make the cut! 🤣 Pleased to say our students that did were brilliant. #ChingfordfoundationSchool #EURo2024

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@essexlive As head of CFS we’re very proud of having 2 England football captains walk our corridors & halls & hope that Harry can go that extra step & lead England to Victory inspiring the new generation of pupils in the school and support with raising money for a new 4G pitch in the school

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@UCL_Holocaust I met Leon about 15 years ago & I remember just how sharp his eyes were and the fact that he still did 100 press ups a day in his 90s! Amazing talk to some very privileged, fortunate students and teacher. He dedicate his life after the War fighting inequality and fascism, RIP ❤️

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@redgierob It’s an orchestrated campaign against the head and this form of ‘Bennett-esque’ behaviour management, esp after the previous bins debacle. He’s a good man doing a bloody hard job and the pile on is frankly unacceptable. Don’t like this approach, choose a different school 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

As a massive arsenal fan I’m very much looking forward to the North London Derby but with 4 members of the senior team all being Spurs fans I won’t be looking forward to SLT in the morning if we somehow lose. 🤣🙈 Come on you gunners!

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@MrDavidScales Can I remind everyone that David is a teacher that dedicates his life to improving the life chances of his students (Scholars!) and creating opportunities for children to be successful. U may disagree with his methods but for goodness sake, get off his case. It’s hard enough!

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@BBCNewsnight I love his analogy as PRU’s as intensive care units. Absolutely spot on. Children often come to PRU’s broken with low confidence, self esteem on the floor and a lack of trust of adults and the education system. PRU’s and AP’s do wonderful jobs rebuilding these children and YP

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@MissDaveyMFL Fancy a relocation to London? Only down the A12 😉

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@tombennett71 Haha quite an analogy.

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@historychappy Haha I do vaguely recall Devon Malcolm smashing Shane Warne around in an ashes tour when I was at school myself. It probably happened once and only once but it happened. There remains hope for all of us 🤣

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@historychappy Get that head forward and transfer weight onto that front foot Mr O’ Shaughnessy 😉

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@m_chiles Hi Michael, thanks for the add. Are you able to offer a little context in regards to the links for each point of the triangle? By curriculum links are you suggesting That there must be appropriate habits, formations and norms within the classroom also?

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@JoshLawLovesArt Bliss in the sunshine!

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@Strickomaster @teacherhead A brilliant blog and incredibly pertinent to my school, It is indeed a lonely place as head however one thing Tom doesn’t refer to is the importance of building a brilliant team around you. I couldn’t ask for a better and more committted senior team.

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@OliveAcademies @OAHavering This fills me with so much pride. Whilst head I had a vision to be the first of our schools to take students overseas and thanks to the Olive Foundation Venture beyond project, this dream became a reality. Well done the team for seeing this through. Truly amazing 🤩

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@Strickomaster Well said Sam

[Gary Haines @Haineshead]

@m_chiles Love this 👍🏾