Steve Fox

KS2 Teacher. Forest School Level 3 leader, retired SLT member 😂. Playtime Improver! Views are my own.

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Very apt quote came up on my Timehop today: ‘The better the trust in a school, the better the performance’. Byrk and Schneider 2002. Let’s not beat staff with a stick to get what we want and they may not all leave the profession!

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@RoyalMail can I please have a complaints contact. Delivery tracking says I missed my delivery yet I was in and both ring cameras showed nothing. They clearly just lied. 🤬🤬🤬 The website is horrendous and offers useless information.

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@NeilMellor33 I support LFC and to be honest, the ref not giving this was the least of our worries. It happens. 🤷🏼‍♂️. We still had 95+ mins to do something better than we did.

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@strong231977 @NeilMellor33 I'm sure the ref immediately recalled this incident from 2.5 years ago and decided Macallister was cheating. 🙄

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@msbhhistory On the plus side, spring 1 is 6 and spring 2 is 5 and 4 days. 😁. Got hardest 1/2 term out of the way.

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@PrimaryMissD You don't get a place in the nuclear bunker. Sorry.

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@Keir_Starmer Why do we need this? Do you know something we don't? 🧐

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I feel we need to focus our attention on learning how children with additional needs learn best as we, as an industry, just do not have the tools and expertise to do this. Over 1000 followers, would love some people to respond with their thoughts on this.

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As someone who was always 'on the pulse' with research and innovative new pedagogy, I now feel we are far too scientific about teaching children. Strong knowledge, good relationships and appropriate tasks means almost all children learn and progress effectively.

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@secretHT1 And what Ofsted will never see when they are suggesting you need to start your lesson more quickly.

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@ShakinthatChalk And you'd just buy a box of glue sticks from Amazon whenever you needed them. No office purchase form and approval needed. Class trip to awesome places, I'll pay! 😁

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@secretHT1 If you get Ofsted or any other kind of formal observation before you have chance to finish them and that is the main thing they pick out, your teaching must be okay. 😆😆

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@tombennett71 Yes. Increasingly, you now have to prove / show parents you actually care and are human for them to give you a break. I always thought people would notice this but it seems we have to more explicitly show and tell them all the things we do purely for the children.

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@pickyandthrivin @tombennett71 I constantly tell them that if I wasn't bothered, I'd just let them get away with low level, off-task chatting and to not complete work to a good standard as that is loads easier than pulling them up on it. This is at primary school level.

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@secretHT1 Good relationships and subject knowledge with appropriately selected and pitched independent activities and people learn stuff. It really doesn't need to be dissected and over complicated (aside from children with additional needs obviously).

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@secretHT1 Older teacher become cynical because it's the same 'advisors/academy leaders/Ofsted inspectors' who peddled learning styles that now say teachers MUST do the latest fad. Forgive us for having just a tiny bit of reservation on this!

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@secretHT1 20 years ago I'd say Jeremy Kyle on TV? Definitely should stay clear of watching that!

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@secretHT1 😆😆😆

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@by_witter @ICT_MrP This is something unions need to look at @NAHTnews @NEUnion . If staff (with now increasingly little TA support) are expected to move classrooms, they should either be given time in lieu for it or released from teaching. Why should staff movement mean teachers lose holidays. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@FabrizioRomano Solid player but never going to get a look in now with Kerkez and Robertson both available for LB