Claire Harding

Head of MFL, Mama, Wifey, VW enthusiast, Cake tasting extraordinaire

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

S - start
L - listening (to)
A - actual
N - (not just claiming to be)
T - teachers

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@captainstoddy Here here

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@NewbieSlt Or suggest you teach another subject that’s completely different but ‘basically the same’?!

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@RogersHistory 💯

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@richardtutt I’ve always wondered what it would be like to teach in one of your schools. I’m not sure I’ll ever teach again now 😔

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@richardtutt And the lack of SLT presence and absolutely zero support from SLT regarding behaviour was the reason I finally left. SLT would walk past me dealing with behaviour, outright deny there was a problem or stay in their offices despite the noise indicating there was ever an issue 😔

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@RogersHistory And some schools just make existing staff cover all the gaps- what a helpful suggestion. Still it makes budgets look good and apparently that’s the key to management looking good

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@educationgovuk This is a joke right? Take a look at retention rates and you’ll realise you’ve missed the boat. Most of the experienced practitioners have realised their mental health is much more important and have left for pastures new. Too little too late. Also it won’t stop toxic management

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

The amount of teachers who say ‘if I could just have X% less teaching contact time and more free periods than I do now, I would LOVE my job, but as it is, I can barely stay afloat’ is staggering.

Significantly more PPA/free time would absolutely be the game changer the profession needs.

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
Can the more ambitious among you please stop asking us to fund your NPQH courses? We already have one Needy, Pathetic, Questionable Headteacher, we don’t need anymore.
Thanks x

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@NewbieSlt Staff room?

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
Tomorrow’s twilight CPD is the one we had to postpone from September so that our CEO could rant about exam results for four hours. So, meet in the Main Hall at 4pm for “Ice Breakers - Getting To Know Our New Staff”. Actually almost all of them have left.
Thanks x

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@NewbieSlt I presume the first order of business is to give heads of department more things to do and take nothing away from their existing very long list?

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@cathsbruv You mean you weren’t told that you ‘care too much’ and that they’re just normal teenagers?

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
To show our appreciation for all the hard work you do, we are going to get the pupils to clap for two minutes during each assembly. This will be instead of any pay rises over the next year. It seemed to work for the nurses.
Thanks x

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
Just one more exclusion will trigger another Ofsted inspection, so can you please start to be more lenient to our less-than-cooperative pupils. Turn a deaf ear to their swearing, a blind eye to the violence and theft and we’ll all be OK for the rest of the year.
Thanks x

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@NewbieSlt Or while you’re on strike?

[SLT Newbie @NewbieSlt]

Hi all,
As we care about your Well-Being and Work Life Balance, we have decided that, from September, you will no longer be required to respond to any Academy emails between the hours of midnight and 5:30am. At weekends. Unless it’s marked URGENT. Obviously.
Thanks x

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@RuthKRobinson @richardtutt I wish the school I worked in had continued the hard work of others- it made lessons so purposeful and had a genuine impact on staff well-being. I never would have left teaching completely had it not been for the slow decline of standards in what was once a great school 😔

[Claire Harding @beetleclaire]

@RogersHistory Life. Tax. Pensions. Savings (what are they). How to set up house. How to clean. How to budget. How to live within your means and work for what you want. Almost requires some sort of ‘big brother house’ type scenario