Christopher Griffin

MEd, MCCT, NPQSL. MAT trustee. Music teacher by trade all subjects for the love of the job. Making students see their own self worth and pushing them further!

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@MissLLewis Snacks!!!!!

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@dave_mcpartlin I took mine 21 years ago…I have had to send proof of them to my new job, the deluded incompetent urchin.

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@miconm And then people wonder why teachers are leaving. Shame on the trust and headteacher! I bet her union/lawyers may have a field day with this!

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@Emmsibo Scan them and then you have a clutter free folder and a nice electronic copy if you ever need again!

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@CliveLawrence00 1997 for me 😂 God, I feel old now! Little bit upset we never got a certificate for it!

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@CliveLawrence00 The very best of wishes in your new role. Still chuckle at our car pushing antics in the snow!

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Thank you @FoxfordSchool it’s been one hell of a journey. Really emotional week with some amazing gifts and cards that have even made me a little emosh! Met amazing colleagues and students, left with fantastic friends! Now it’s time for Mr Griffin to get gone!

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@SCDerbyuni Can you tell the schools broke up this week? Who will the press vilify now…ah…higher education. I hated a levels even the subject I have taught for 18 years. University spent a year de-aleveling us to make us better musicians and academics. Got a first in my BA and MEd! D at A2

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Absolutely honoured to have served as a trustee at Esteem Multi-Academy Trust for five brilliant years. As I depart to become Deputy Head at Cairo English School, what a fitting and genuinely wonderful leaving gift, thanks to the Year 5 legends at Fountains Primary school. 🇪🇬😂

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@Headteacherchat Why was a parent able to set and send the teams meeting? If they weren’t you need your IT team to look at the school’s settings as this shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place. Speak to the parent it may have been an accidental click.

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Just at a meeting at Esteem South Academy in Swadlincote - the students here renovate bikes to give to any new students who need them, or to sell for school rewards funding, so if you have any standing unused in your garage I can help you give them a great new home!

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@bex_renshaw @Headteacherchat @MrsBallAP @MrMountstevens @MrThorntonTeach @MrPattisonTeach It’s about discipline. As a musician and historian I made sure that I engaged in an “activity once a week” whether it’s a bit of reading, resource making…just something that involves you within the subject but isn’t seen as meddling.

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@head_teach I also think it’s the plethora of formats and layouts and type of information requested. Sometimes the deadlines from the new school are ridiculous. I also agree many staff no longer have the courtesy conversation with the HT/LM.

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@TheAGBetts @Headteacherchat Probably question why it wasn’t said in the first place. It’s tricky, how can you be assured it is fair??

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@Headteacherchat You must also consider how the school would fill the position, at a later stage, if you “turned them done”. Schools are struggling enough, my advice would be to withdraw and chance it.

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@CraigMcKeeEdu @misterunwin @chrisdysonHT @CensoredHead @Headteacherchat @EdRoundtables Although as for a minimum 1 or 3 for me.

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@CraigMcKeeEdu @misterunwin @chrisdysonHT @CensoredHead @Headteacherchat @EdRoundtables It’s tricky as if they are a sole candidate, do we see their best? For me it’s always on the strength of the application, however as it’s an slt position the nagging “what if” is always there. As an aside the timing of the advert is always our biggest factor.

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@TheStudentLeads Wow this is my first bit of Twitter beef! I love dark chocolate! Especially the dark chocolate bounty!!!

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@MsGHist Cheese and brown sauce is immense….but I use salad cream instead of butter!!!

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@jwalms93 If you consider how many people have read this advert…maybe it’s marketing genius. I would like to see a school where being an AHT is easier than curriculum leadership. 😂