Mrs.K

Creative Arts Team Leader, ITE coordinator + Y4 teacher. Lover of books, storytelling and a believer in every child needs a champion. Full-time teaching mum.

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

This is a beautiful thing

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

All in one image...

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Reason #1 ppl often don't 'get' why full day, full-timetable teaching is so tough: The pace.
It's unrelenting. It's not 'Oh, I'll pop to the loo', 'I'll day dream, just for a minute', 'I'll just switch off for the next hour and no one will know' - they will know, you will get found out! It's intense - You must be 'on' ALL the time. That's why it's so hard to sustain, esp in the toughest contexts, because humans need a head rest.
That's why extra PPA is just so, so vital and thee biggest thing that would change so many teacher lives.

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

"Mattering" is the belief that we’re significant to the world around us. When people feel they matter, they feel seen, important & needed through how others treat them. Scholars have deemed mattering to be a core instinct that drives all human behaviour. That’s why, when someone doesn’t believe they matter at work they:
- won’t share their voice if they don’t believe their voice is significant
- won’t use their strengths if they don’t believe they have strengths
- won’t contribute if they don’t believe they have something to contribute
- won’t care as much as if they feel cared for
Actions that leaders/ teams can take: see some excellent articles by @ZachMercurio - "How to Create Mattering at Work": https://t.co/vlxLnrqGWF and "The Cost of Not Mattering at Work": https://t.co/AocAKNMhxm.

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

Happy Easter!!

[Lydia Davison @DavisonMiss]

🚌 ✋🏼➗

I was recently asked where #Numicon changes the game for KS2 chn & division has to be up there!

🪜Accessible for ALL chn
👀Easy to follow
🗣️Promotes collaboration & talk
↗️Progresses to deeper learning (exchanges, remainders)

If division is coming up, give this a try!

[Bookaholic Bex @BexBookaholic]

This got me tonight

[HeadteacherChat @Headteacherchat]

Wishing, everyone a great week filled with kindness, joy and hope.

Remember to be brave and magnificent!

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

Wow! My daughter (and I!) would absolutely love to win these!
Please!

[Jamie Smart @jamiesmart]

💖Okay here’s a MASSIVE Bunny Vs Monkey contest - win the whole BVM book series, including book 9 ahead of release, all signed and personalised, AND a £10 BVM book token!
🎉Just RT this tweet to be in with a chance!
🧐(UK only, I’ll pick a winner at random in a few days time!)

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

For anyone in the UK, If you text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 when you are in a dark place or suicidal, a trained crisis volunteer will text you back. This is great If you find talking on the phone challenging. It’s completely free 24/7. Please RT you never know who might need this support

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@Loujanesla @Strickomaster @CherylLeeAssoc I agree, I hate the Monday morning drop of emails. We have a morning briefing that leads straight up to the children coming in. I’m then on duty and have a club at lunchtime. So realistically I’m not opening them until after school on Monday when I want to be collecting my girl.

[CPI Europe & Middle East @CPI_Europe]

Congratulations to our newest CIs who joined us for Safety Intervention training in Bristol last week.

Welcome to the CPI community 🙌

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@Miss_N_Soc In the pocket of the car door?

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@mattdechaine Great designs! This is mine from Tuesday.

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@MrsSpalding I’m 20 years in and genuinely love my job!
I’m pleased to read there are still others who feel the same. 😉

[John Magee 🇬🇧UK Kindness Schools' Ambassador @KindnessCoach_]

Did you know?

You can "rewire" your brain to be happy by simply recalling
3 things you're grateful for every day for 21 days.

#edutwitter

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@MrsSpalding We had a yellow one and it was a life saver for my girl at times. Often used as we arrived at shopping centres or play parks and she decided she needed to go. Also on long journeys. Great to keep in the boot of the car.

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

Great start to the summer holidays!
Fantastic staff night out but unfortunate 2 day hang over, dad admitted to hospital after spending a night in A&E with him and today the boiler has been condemned and turned off! Yay!

[Mrs.K @SPSMrsK]

@HannaJ21 My happy photo is tucked inside my desk draw!