Pieter

Headteacher. REAch2. Cluster 6.
Passionate about education, Great schools, love nature and people.
Views and opinions are my own.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@BassieBuzzing @Julius_S_Malema You're struggling in your naivety.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@Julius_S_Malema Ja Cockroach. Come, catch me if you can. Zap, your time is up.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@RobbieRinder @piersmorgan Just wait until the wind blows a different direction Robbie, your friend @piersmorgan will be no more.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@RobbieRinder @piersmorgan Wow. Didn't know you were judge and jury today. Pipe down, you hollow sounding noise buckets.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@VodafoneUK What is going on with your signal?? Zero!! Sort it out!!
#badsignal #cm77 #PoorService

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

✍️ “Sentence stems scaffold pupils’ talk by supporting them to start a sentence. This enables them to concentrate on what to say rather than how to say it,” writes @katehenshall1 in this guest blog on supporting high quality talk in maths.

Read more: https://t.co/h9a4TA1F4B

[Pieter @pieterlab]

Vodafone, your signal quality is beyond a joke! 4G shows with 1 or no bars, telling us 99% of UK is covered. What's the point of coverage and signal can't even carry a call or messaging service!
Get your act together !
@VodafoneUK #togetherWeCan #togetherwecant

[Sarah Dear @SarahDearEd]

@tombennett71 @Mouhssin_Ismail Wasn't surprised when I saw the overall results, but I saw this breakdown yesterday and was horrified. SLT and head are the people who can have the biggest impact on behaviour, yet seem to be the ones who prioritise it least. Why is this?!?

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

A lot of people miss that you can have an inclusive school system (ie one that ensures access to a safe, dignified education) AND still exclude a minority of high-challenge students (to specialist school environments/ fresh starts), but you cannot have an inclusive system that doesn’t exclude a minority, because for the majority, school becomes hell, and their access to safe schooling is in name only.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@tombennett71 Agreed.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

SUSPENSIONS. Quick reminder:

1. Schools with challenging intakes need more disciplinary responses than ones without
2. Suspensions are one way to help reduce exclusions
3. Schools that need to suspend, need to suspend
4. If they don’t, the environment gets much worse for children
5. Not all behaviour issues can be resolved by a kind word
6. Criticising a school for above average rates of exclusion, demonstrates a misunderstanding of what ‘averages’ means
7. Don’t shame schools you couldn’t run

[Stuart Lock @StuartLock]

On pupil premium from Sir John Townsley.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is interesting. The danger is that no one principle is sacred above all others. Being 'inclusive' without limit can create safety hazards for staff and students. The more important question is: what do we mean by inclusivity, and what are its boundaries?

It would be a disaster if a school was marked down for eg having a higher suspension or exclusion rate than another school, if they faced higher challenges. This is a very blunt tool, and one we should be very wary of embracing without caution.

Ofsted could assess inclusion performance https://t.co/FB0hXWDaQ7

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

'While Ofsted will not be swept away as a result, we should expect significant changes'

☣️ One year after Ruth’s death, one month to detoxify Ofsted | @johncosgrove405
https://t.co/GiC1GtewR2

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@tombennett71 @Jeffery_Quaye Agreed @tombennett71

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@dave_mcpartlin Wholly agreed. It's broken, and the impact it has is far reaching.

[Pieter @pieterlab]

@dave_mcpartlin Let's hope the reform happen for all our sakes 💪🏻

[Ofsted @Ofstednews]

Sir Martyn Oliver begins term at Ofsted with mental health awareness training for inspectors https://t.co/yaJbefyg3u

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

Bill Rogers remains one of the consistently best voices speaking about behaviour, and one of the first writers in the field that actually helped me.

Where we are going wrong on behaviour https://t.co/bawuksIhAH

[Tes magazine @tes]

How England lost its teachers.

Recruitment and retention in education are at critically low levels – but why has this happened and how can it be turned around?

@matilda__martin’s in-depth investigation is a must-read this morning
https://t.co/CrB3JXjufI
https://t.co/CrB3JXjufI