Kate Licence

Local Director of Primary Education

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

This is the best blog I've read in a long time. Fantastic, terrifying and highly prescient. An absolute must read from @joel120193

https://t.co/R2EkjV4rZ1

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Homegrown tomatoes taste great and are ideal for people who want to eat five hundred of them in a week in early September and none at all for the rest of the year.

[TheTattooedHeadteacher Deputy CEO 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾she/her @KyrstieStubbs]

‘Many schools don’t emphasize handwriting and spelling enough’

[Kate Licence @_KateLicence]

@lamb_heart_tea @Inner_Drive @MrsBallAP 😂

[Kate Licence @_KateLicence]

@ShareenAdvice it was here when I got home! Lovely to see you and hope your session went well @researchED1 #REd25

[Kate Licence @_KateLicence]

@researchED1 best session so far with @ClareSealy

[Kate Licence @_KateLicence]

@icod I saw that earlier! Is it a Scottish company?!

[Dr. Neil Gilbride @nmgilbride]

🚨PLEASE RT🚨

Are you a full time #teacher in #England?

Can you do three, 20 minute surveys approx two weeks apart?

Researchers @WorcesterUni are studying teacher #wellbeing, #burnout & the hidden work #teachers do everyday.

Interested?! Click here! https://t.co/xtYiQTwqDM

[Dominic @dominic_mcg]

Looking at A level grade boundaries.
To get an A Star grade in French (AQA), you must average 90%. The highest of any subject.
To get an E grade, 42%. Imagine getting a U with 41%.
In Chemistry, 20% is an E. 42% is a C. #ResultsDay2025
No wonder students are not taking MFL…

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

A few years ago an explicit phonics lesson looked weird to people. Now it is accepted by most that this is what good phonics looks like. It’s not inconceivable that this revelation could extend to the teaching of all new and foundational skills - including much of the math block.

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

I'm telling you all the signs are already there. We're sleepwalking into even bigger problems than the ones caused by phones

[Kate Licence @_KateLicence]

@baronbedford @JSherrington79 @educationgovuk @Curriculum_USP @CST_UK @PepsMccrea @Edu_Meadows @juliangrenier @MaryMyatt Love this book, so useful

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

3.1 Embrace Cognitive Similarity

How all students learn is more similar than it is different. Our best bet for supporting mainstream students with SEND is to strengthen universal provision built around common cognitive architecture (rather than focussing on individual deficits).

[Rachel Ball @MrsBallAP]

It was a pleasure to speak at the Xavier Catholic Education Trust conference today about The Scaffolding Effect. Great to see the lovely @Mr_Crome @KateJones_teach @TeachLeadAAli and @JTavassolyMarsh as well!

[Peps @PepsMccrea]

Mindblowingly advanced thinking on attention & learning from @mikehobbiss

https://t.co/0GLpYV4Q71

Someone knight this guy asap

[Kate Jones @KateJones_teach]

I'm excited to be part of this event with @Mr_Crome @TeachLeadAAli @MrsBallAP 👏

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

Truth.

[Mumin Humayun @Mr_H1978]

I confiscated this phone at the start of the day.

Compliant student- handed it over, no issues, I said I would return at the end of the day.

Do you know how many times it pinged/vibrated in my office?

Over 78 times.

Please don't tell me they are not a distraction.

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

@tombennett71 For me, the issue that needs to be addressed is, given the teachers we have, what kind of professional development will be of most benefit to students? From the research that I've seen, PD addressing pedagogy is likely to have a greater impact than PD addressing subject knowledge

[Alex @teachingwrens]

Revisiting this glorious book - for sentence-level teaching, there really is nothing better. @TheWritingRevol