Gladtone

mum - primary teacher - persnickety

[Simon Baddeley @SimBadd18]

Ofsted should NOT be inspecting what school staff do voluntarily, outside directed hours, without pay.

Pushing back against things like this is precisely why Trade Unions exist rather than just legal representation. This MUST be resisted.

[Dr Siobhan Sanders @SiobhanParker11]

In January we were judged 'Needs Attention' for Achievement.
6 months later, our Year 6 SATs are over 80% in R/W/M/SPaG.
What changed?
Not the teaching.
Not the curriculum.
Not the leadership.
The cohort.
Context matters. Judging schools by results, not progress, is the problem

[The Sutton Trust @suttontrust]

The report analyses the link between disadvantage & SEND in school admissions.

It shows that the top 500 schools for attainment in England take in just half as many disadvantaged pupils with SEND as the average comprehensive.

They also take less than live in their local area.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@icod Me and my best friend made up a very sassy dance routine to this, aged 11. I can still do it.

[Headteacher Update @HeadteacherNews]

The first 43 primary school reports from new #Ofsted inspections offer key insights:
• Rise of Expected Standard
• Attendance & Behaviour is weathervane
• Inclusion & Wellbeing as strengths
• Curriculum judged tightly
Key insights from @pkainsworth https://t.co/Da5Ucba1P9

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

Absolutely stunning piece. Just read it! https://t.co/wPrnfxWQXy

[Sophie Blake @sophieRblake]

I am beyond angry that women with Stage 4 secondary breast cancer are being left to die before their time in this country, while the rest of the world moves forward with life extending treatments.
Women like me are dying because proven cancer drugs are being denied on cost grounds. Friends are gone who should still be here with their families and children. So many of the amazing women featured here, many of them my friends, have now tragically died.
Despite a median life expectancy of just 3–5 years, secondary breast cancer was reclassified by @NICEComms from “severe” to “moderate severe”, reducing access to funding for the latest life-extending treatments and diverting it elsewhere.
Secondary/metastasic breast cancer is one of the biggest killers of women between 35-64, yet patients are denied drugs that are routinely available in other countries. This is a political choice and women are paying with their lives.
#Enhertu is approved in the US, EU, Japan, China, Canada and Israel, and is available in Scotland.
Yet women in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are deemed “not cost effective”.
Why can all these countries provide this treatment while we cannot?
Why are women with secondary breast cancer treated as expendable? @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @BBCWomansHour @AshleyDalton_MP @UN_Women @UKLabour @NHSuk @METUPUKorg @BreastCancerNow

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

🧵One of the cornerstones of being a deeply informed primary educator is understanding multiple areas of research and how they relate to practice - child development, cognitive science, specific pedagogical approaches to name a few.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@icod Bath was my teenage stomping ground. Loved ABC. Right era and everything. Enjoy.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@omnissiuntone @MsSammyMcHugh In Primary we don’t move about. There are no spare SLT in corridors. No spare SLT at all. We’re often alone in classes all morning with no adults around. Not a problem when most classes had a TA, but gone are those days.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@tes I should have said EYFS/KS1 came out highest. Ours days are now ridiculously loaded and frantic in a way that is not healthy for children or adults.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@tes I refuse to run a voluntary after school club. I used to, when my working week was less intense and long. Teacher Tapp recently ran a survey on teachers needing time to ‘decompress’ after school. KS1 came out highest of all sectors. That’s me. I’m not lengthening my day further.

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

This
Is
Genius.

The new Toy Story storyline is 100% solid gold if this trailer is anything to go by.
Showed it to all 3 of my children and they all gasped!

https://t.co/ZkoXZFBdJC

[Claudia Lewis @MBDscience]

Years ago, it was decided that coding was the future, so we all-but-stopped teaching ICT in favour of Computer Science, and now I have classes of children who can't send emails, save files, touch type.

Perhaps before we replace the current curriculum with AI lessons, we pause.

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

🧵Sometimes you pull over in a lay-by and want to howl with frustration.
Working in edu for 28 yrs & now with hundreds of schools every year & the stories I heard once a in a blue moon are now multiple times in a single class in almost all schools. It’s absolutely heartbreaking

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@SchoolsWeek 1FE primary - SLT consists of the Head, one AH who class teaches 0.8 and a SENCO who is 0.6 with a teaching commitment. That’s it. We can’t cut anymore. KS leads are in name only. No TLRs. TAs already cut to bare minimum despite big rise in SEND. Already unsustainable.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@LukeHarding18 @SchoolsWeek That already what happens in most Primary schools, but without the ‘less teaching hours’. No TLRs. No time away from teaching other than statutory PPA but ‘leading’ 2 or 3 subjects.

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@icod It is SO complicated. I started in 1993 as well. I feel panic rising each time I try to understand my options, which is ridiculous as I’m relatively intelligent and savvy. David Fountain’s Facebook group is useful.

[Edmund Barnett-Ward @Edmund_B_W]

In January, I called Ofsted’s chief inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, a liar for misrepresenting the coroner’s findings on Ruth Perry’s death. I’d like to be more conciliatory about his performance at Tuesday’s select committee hearing—but I can’t…

[Gladtone @gladtonebag]

@icod Day 1 - episode 5. Loving it - thank you.