With the holiday upon us, my maternity post is now live on @myjobscotland.
It has been a total honour to lead and serve the Rosehill community for the last few years.
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
https://t.co/w2Ww1niN9W
A huge thank you to our @RosehillHS and wider community for all of the support this term - it has been another fantastic Quadrant for Expressive Arts 🎶🎭🎨
We hope you all have a restful festive break!
Teachers hold the 🔑 key to lesson accessibility.
Will all students have access? Can every student participate and engage?
It’s not enough to make the content available.
#teaching#teachingenglish#teachingideas
If you care about knowledge in schools, please have a read of my essay, 'The fragility of knowledge in England's schools' just published in the new @Civitas_UK volume. Here's a taste from the beginning, middle and end.
https://t.co/dFyI1siu7h
How do you ensure learners engage with feedback?
"Ensuring students engage with feedback is vital. A lack of feedback engagement can prevent learners from making progress and can potentially lead to repeated mistakes.
If students don’t act on the feedback they receive, the time teachers spend reviewing work and providing thoughtful, relevant comments is wasted."
Blog by Kate Jones
Read more here: https://t.co/L1GqH4xIGM
Excited to see the Nutcracker @SCOmusic with some of our @RosehillHS Senior Music and Music Technology pupils this evening! 🎄🎻🎺 Thank you for continuing to fund school tickets to allow our young people the opportunity!
We have really enjoyed the first act @theusherhall 👏
In an interview, ‘a woman asked me how I thought I could be both a mother and a head’, says @JulieR_isc in Tes’ How I Lead – tackling the sexism, she simply replied: ‘I am already'
https://t.co/QvKXJjKTPV
❄️ Our @RosehillHS Festive Showcase 2025 tickets are now LIVE on ParentPay ❄️
We look forward to welcoming you on the 17th of December from 6pm 🎊
Please get in touch with the school admin team if you have any questions 🎄
A group of Scottish primary school boys have become a Christmas sensation after doorbell camera footage of them singing Last Christmas went viral. https://t.co/U7jAE5Lm0T
Happy @wickedmovie release day for those celebrating 🩷💚
It was made even happier for me when watching our @RosehillHS Higher Music Tech pupils expertly recording our @ELCArtsService ELJam pupils this afternoon! A very proud teacher moment to end the week ✅
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: sustaining an enquiry community. A really useful question from @MrsKRGray. Its difficult to start a community, but harder to keep it going, what can help that continuous process and make it a part of 'normal'? /1🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
Whether or not you fully subscribe to cognitive load theory, there’s one takeaway we can all agree on: clearer slides help pupils think. Too often we overload them with text, busy designs and distracting images. Strip them back. Use white space. Highlight what actually matters. If we want students to focus on the key idea, we need to signal it. How often do you review your slides with this in mind?
🧵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
Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: Leading for and through enquiry. School leaders can make or break enquiry communities in regard the support and space offered to enquirers they work with, and in regard how model our own processes of finding out/1🧵
#PractitionerEnquiryTotW
Our friends @skillsdevscot are hosting an online webinar for parents and carers around Discover! The Creative Industries, to discuss the breadth of opportunities available! 😊
This will occur during #ScottishCareersWeek on 11.11., 6-6:50 PM!
More here:
https://t.co/htY0QvCY8I
Not long before Discover! Creative Careers week (10-14 Nov) in Scotland! 😊 @CreativeCareer5
We’re putting on exciting events about the Creative Sector, including Film and TV, till February!
Book events to your school now via the Opportunity Finder: 👇
https://t.co/n9Hvr8ZSOH