Chris Hirst

Headteacher Sonning Common Primary School since January 2009.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

This is a brilliant resource for 2D nets to 3D shapes.

[Enséñame de Ciencia @EnsedeCiencia]

Una actividad de aprendizaje para este verano 👇🧠✅️
https://t.co/RkcQkUcBoY

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

This is brilliant...
Thank you.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

We were visited by the Let's Go Zero Climate Change Ambassadors on Tuesday and they were amazing to talk to. Lots of positive advice. Just looking forward to receiving the action plan report. @LetsGo_Zero

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

Our Year 4, 5 and 6 swimmers complete a course on personal survival as well as how to rescue someone in trouble in the water. These are life skills - how many other schools do this. If not why not? This is after all a serious Safeguarding concern...

[Swim England @Swim_England]

This week, make it your mission to educate your family about @RLSSUK's #DrowningPreventionWeek 🛟

Use their free resources to start the water safety conversation 👉 https://t.co/0EEf5MQA0k

Accidental drownings increase in summer and through education we can make a change! #DPW

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

Revelation time. I run courses for school and run meetings over the internet. Why didn't someone tell me this earlier - I can run a split screen on my laptop. Although, when I have run courses recently no-one can ask questions, at least I haven't been able to see their hands up.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

A song that has become our song of choice as we enter assembly - https://t.co/RWQEK3SoHd @LetsGo_Zero

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

@ShiplakeCollege Thank you very much for providing the opportunity. Our teams had lots of fun...

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

Ok, just asking - as a Headteacher, how do you explain what you do when questioned by a Year 1 class?

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

I have been reflecting on the trips to the Normandy Beaches with Brill CE School. One year we were fortunate enough to be there on the 6th June and literally bumped into some veterans. They were just as thrilled as we were to meet each other. A truly memorable moment.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

We’re proud to be part of 3000 schools signed up to #LetsGoZero. Our pupils, teachers and parents are working to reduce emissions, increase biodiversity and safeguard our planet for future generations!

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

When we have taught our pupils in Years 1, 2 and 3 to swim, this life lesson is then taught to our Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils as part of life saving and how to save a life.

[RNLI @RNLI]

#FloatToLive:

- Tilt your head back with ears submerged
- Relax - try to control your breathing
- Move your hands to help stay afloat
- Once over the initial shock, call for help or swim to safety
- Call 999 or 112 & ask for the coastguard.

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[Chris Hirst @headscps]

I'm planning Earth Day for our pupils! You can sign up to get Earth Day education materials here: https://t.co/jFUz3CPqge

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

@ajjolley This is why we use @KitesKitchen amazing food everyday - lots of choice and fresh.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

🚀 We're officially kicking off #BigWalkAndWheel, the UK's largest walking, wheeling, scooting, and cycling challenge. Looking forward to seeing all your #ActiveTravel journeys. 🌎👋 https://t.co/c32uYp1yvA

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

Growing something for nothing. A pupil has come to let me know that they are trying to grow an apple seed that they have planted within a large pine cone and stuffed mud into it. I am looking forward to hearing what happens. @EcoSchools @FSAForestSchool

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

New competition
Eco-challenge
We are setting the challenge of growing something for nothing. We are trying to encourage positivity and maybe a little bit of awe and wonder by growing a plant from waste seeds that you may well have thrown away. @EcoSchools

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

I thought I had read somewhere - probably safeguarding guidance - that the child should be put at the center of everything that we do... Some schools might find that quite a challenging ethos to conform to.

[Sarah Dalton @MrsSDalton75]

@headscps Totally agree! It’s become all about exam results for schools, it’s not about what the child wants but about what’s best for the schools outcomes. There needs to be more options for individual needs.

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

I think the point should be that everyone is good at something and it is a school's job to find out what that is. The shame of it is when some teachers value some subjects over others. Who has the right to say what is important and what is not? Government - society?

[Sarah Dalton @MrsSDalton75]

Watching the David Beckham docu-series. Becks didn’t do well in school saying he isn’t intelligent? Much like Robbie Williams in his series, saying he was ‘thick’. But they managed to turn their passions into successful careers? Why then do we tell kids school is so important?

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

We're participating in the 15th year celebration of @sustrans #BigWalkandWheel. In partnership with @SchwalbeUK, it's the UK's largest active travel to school challenge from 11-22 March 2024. Register your school here to join too: https://t.co/c32uYp1yvA

[Chris Hirst @headscps]

First Headteacher's Award of the Year - Bruno D (Year 6) for being such a fantastic young person. I am so proud that the decision was so hard to make - there are so many deserving pupils.