Tim

Head of Maths at @ArkSoaneAcademy

Formerly at Michaela and @reachfeltham

[Tim @mitnorseman]

https://t.co/7n93YNvxmk

Wow! @coldxman packs so many excellent points into 15 minutes

[Jess Asher @MissAsherMFL]

So much joy at @ArkSoaneAcademy this morning for our first ever results day as Team MFL🎉✨Absolutely thrilled to see so many of our students securing top grades across French and Spanish, including 24 grade 9s! 🇫🇷🇪🇸 So grateful to be a part of this very special place.

[Tim @mitnorseman]

Very proud of our pupils and the team @ArkSoaneAcademy that worked so hard. Well done everyone!

[Abby Hughes @abbyjhughes]

The founding cohort of a school where 56% of pupils are eligible for FSM. This is so so impressive.

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

Massive congratulations to Ark Soane for a sterling first set of GCSE results. This is the power of teaching explicitly, a culture of inspiring kids to work hard & a curriculum rich in knowledge.

[Ark Soane Academy @ArkSoaneAcademy]

Today our founding cohort received their GCSE results.

90% of students achieved grades 9-4 in English and Maths

75% achieved grades 9-5 in English and Maths

54% of all grades awarded were a 7 or above

75% of students achieved the EBacc

We are so proud of them all.

[Matt Burnage @MJBurnage]

I’ve seen a few claims that the EBacc was inconsequential, or has had no long-term impact. This is definitely not the case 🧵

[Tim @mitnorseman]

Totally amazing!

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

GCSE results are OUT!

First time we have achieved this!

Congratulations to everyone!

Social mobility at its best! 🥰

[Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr]

This is not an April Fool!

At 11.05pm on April 1st the documentary Better Off Dead? will be broadcast @BBCTwo

If you can't watch then, it's still available on iPlayer

It's an @RTS_media award winning doc & might just make you think a little differently about assisted suicide?

[Natasha Porter OBE @NPorter_]

Actually the strongest link between school and prison according to the data is not exclusion.
It’s illiteracy.
So synthetic phonics, explicit vocabulary instruction and guided reading might be a better intervention line…

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

Fascinating first day in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill committee, hearing evidence from experts (most of them pro assisted dying). Main takeaway: it really isn't clear what shape this Bill will be in when it comes back to the Commons. Issues that arose:

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

Direct instruction is joyful & leads pupils to success. Here is a *clip* where I use high frequency & high participation questioning in 3 phases:
1. Check for listening
2. Rehearsal
3. Check for understanding
Established routines: all hands up, turn & talk, SLANT & ruler reading

[Teacher's Manual @UnofficialOA]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but learning requires repetition

and repetition requires patience

and patience is not ‘fun.’

So what? Not everything is fun all the time- that doesn’t mean we don’t do it.

Telling kids otherwise is doing them a disservice.

#edutwitter

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

*NEW post* Becoming Better People.

Do your pupils become more polite, more hard working & more responsible each year they progress through school?

https://t.co/SxwdaeYuU4

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

On average, teachers at @ArkSoaneAcademy observed 40+ lessons & were given feedback on 40+ lessons since September! This truly low stakes, high frequency feedback culture is key to rapid staff development. Want to join us? We're recruiting across subjects! https://t.co/6QOl0mWf1m

[The Spectator @spectator]

'Many MPs, in five- or ten-years’ time, will claim sheepishly that ‘we didn’t know this would happen’, or ‘we didn’t vote for this’ when the disabled and the vulnerable are killed. But MPs cannot be allowed to claim ignorance.'

✍️ Yuan Yi Zhu
https://t.co/ForpjJXeAb

[Tash Taylor @NTAScience]

Since joining @ArkSoaneAcademy 2 weeks ago as Head of Science, I have loved it!

What a privilege to work in a school where teaching and wider school life has been so joyful and exciting. A real team effort from everyone who works at Soane.

The top three reason for this:

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Schools that parents want to send their children to are only ‘selective’ in the sense that every school can be, and criticising them for this factor is the best way to demonstrate that you would simply prefer schools not to be so good that parents want to send their children there.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Today is the big day!

My debut book, "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class," is now out in bookstores everywhere!

The Audiobook is read by yours truly.

US: https://t.co/52BcktW8GC

UK: https://t.co/t3WCFIFwbF

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

If anyone is keen to hear more, come along to our conference on Monday 22nd January at @ArkSoaneAcademy at 6pm. There will be 4 talks followed by pizza and wine!

Tickets here: https://t.co/7ig9BxzgoZ