Kate Treacy

Assistant Headteacher for Teaching and Learning.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Very nice cakes. Tea a bit weak. Chat very policy focused.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

How has my first half term as AHT gone? Well I heard a year 8 boy say “she’s everywhere. So jarring.” I’ll take that!

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Monday was 5000 years ago, right? 😵

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

@matildewarden Congrats on the headship. I’ve just started at a new school as assistant headteacher. Monday feels like 5000 years ago.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

@matildewarden I think I was in one of your first classes at SJH. Did I have you at GCSE? I should have worked harder at Maths - I quite like it now!

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

New job anxiety dream: I couldn’t find the school. In my panic, drove right through the front of a shop. Simultaneously, lost my 4 year old daughter and my only hope was that she would find the school I couldn’t find and meet me there.

Just want to get on with it now!

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Adieu Parli. What I take with me is a model of education that places people at its heart. And I know whatever I do in my future career, it will be firmly rooted in what I’ve learnt at @ParliHillSchool Thank you for making me a better teacher and a better leader.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Yes Parli! It has made me have more faith in the system that a school like ours has been judged outstanding when we don’t always follow the prevailing narrative. The sun is setting on my 13 years at the school but I’ll always be proud of the work we do there

[ParliamentHillSchool @ParliHillSchool]

@Ofstednews have just rated us as 'Outstanding' 🏅🎉🎉🎉. We, pupils, staff and parents, are absolutely thrilled! Great place to study! Find out more https://t.co/jvQrWuPH1f
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#camdenschool #ofstedoustanding #oustandingschool #nw5

[ParliamentHillSchool @ParliHillSchool]

Year7 were treated to a modern, magical, murderous performance of Shakespeare’s #Macbeth by @DonmarWarehouse as part of #EnrichmentDay, performed by a cast of 5actors who used beatboxing, direct address & powerful performances to immerse our Y7s in the wicked world of Macbeth.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

My 8 year old son has started to help me prepare dinner each evening. It’s such a simple way of connecting after a day away from each other. Of course he’s also learning all sorts of good habits and skills and *bonus* I get to feel less like the family dogsbody.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

3 hours straight in the company of an Ofsted inspector. They keep checking we’re ok though.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

It’s been an absolute privilege to lead the English Department at Parli but I am off to pastures new come September. It is a brilliant place to work and a brilliant job. If you’re interested in the position the ad is here: https://t.co/fLtncaTC0Z

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Tell me your mum’s an English teacher without telling me your mum’s an English teacher. #WorldBookDay2024

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

My pass/agg action plan when meetings overrun. 1: Point out time. 2) Explain to someone I really have to collect my children, at volume the Head might hear. 3)Ostentatiously close laptop. 4) Look pleadingly at the Head. 5) Mumble “ I’m really sorry, I have to go” and walk out.

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

A busy and interesting few months ahead for me…

https://t.co/7pEFmrIkvp

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

@jonathanalewis @AQA @Team_English1 @EngChatUK We’re committed and have started to Year 9 (we roll up after May half term). They are great poems and going down well with staff and students. We have been to EMC training and will also get their resources but have planned lesson for 6 of the poems. So far so good!

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

World Book Day isn’t just for little kids! #fantasticmrsfox

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

Well this is disheartening. Teaching English is an absolute privilege but we need the conditions to thrive.

[Jack Worth @JackWorthNFER]

This is despite higher bursaries in some secondary subjects. They've had an effect: geo, MFL, D&T bio, phys, chem all higher than last year.

But underlying interest, once you strip out the expected bursary impact is much more subdued

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

I have been lucky enough to hear Hilary Mantel speak on more than one occasion. What struck me was she held such intelligence so engagingly. I always use an extract of hers to teach narrative writing to Yr 11. It now becomes my tribute

[Kate Treacy @nowashingdishes]

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