Primaryheadteacher

A reflective primary headteacher trying to do the impossible job as well as I can...

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@tombennett71 Perhaps the government should do something about this first 🤬

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

Just thinking how quickly Kurt Zouma’s cats were removed from his home. Compare this to how many young people are victims of trauma daily and never get protection or intervention…

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@nadhimzahawi Have you informed your colleagues at Westminster that the covid strategy is about to break the education sector? By lifting all restrictions but still having to isolate until sometime in Mar. there will be 0 staff left in schools and millions of children out of Sch.

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@nadhimzahawi @educationgovuk With the probable difficult term ahead with staffing problems, it was very disappointing to check my emails today to discover Randstad Education have put up their charges up for supply cover 😡🙄

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@chrisdysonHT @nadhimzahawi Let’s hope the DfE come up with a plan. 😬

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@nadhimzahawi @chrisdysonHT When KS2 Sats or GCSE exams are taken next summer, what does the school do or a young person do if they are isolating due to Covid-19? Will there be any guidance ready?

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

⁦@chrisdysonHT⁩ Trying to keep everyone’s morale going in the staffroom. It’s the little things that matter…

[18 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) @RaeSnape]

Lovely chat last light with DD & her boyfriend telling me how they couldn't bear endless hours learning #BritishValues! "What's with the exceptionalism, how about universal values?
'Respect & Tolerance' are on the list. Have you *seen* how refugees & asylum seekers are treated?"

[Censored Head NPQEL 🙋‍♂️ 🇺🇦💛💙 @CensoredHead]

I have written another blog - An open letter to Sir Michael Wilshaw.

https://t.co/InkUNVo4ZX

@EdRoundtables @KyrstieStubbs @MrHtheteacher @chrisdysonHT @chrisparkhouse @Alienwife99 @FrankiLopezzz @HappyHead74 @coachingHT @dave_mcpartlin @smithsmm @MrARawlings @llewelyn20

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@GavinWilliamson @BorisJohnson Come and spend a day at my school and gain an understanding of how underfunding of schools makes the teachers job incredibly difficult every day as the amount of complex needs and SEMH needs must be met. If only I had 4 more members of staff...

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@branwenjeffreys @GavinWilliamson One of the main factors of poor mental health of YP is because of a decade of understanding of schools and many other support interventions.

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@branwenjeffreys @GavinWilliamson A few thousand pound extra funding is laughable. With one member of staff shielding and another going on forced maternity at 28weeks it will cost my school that ‘extra money’ to cover for their absence over a 4 week period. #schoolsunderfunded

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@RaeSnape @chrisdysonHT The best way to support pupils with ‘catch up’ is to simply fund schools appropriately all of the time and give HTs the autonomy and resources to do what’s right for their pupils on a daily basis. Not summer school, not extending school day.

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@RaeSnape @BorisJohnson We will need to tell parents the whole school will be closed tomorrow while we have a day to work out which pupils come in. Timing is ridiculous. Could have made this decision days ago

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@educationgovuk @GavinWilliamson A new low using the Daily Mail to communicate messages. Why are you promoting this paper, that continually bashes teachers?

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

@NAHTnews @RaeSnape @educationgovuk Can I please remind everyone that no schools are closed in the coming weeks. HT and teachers will be trying to juggle the challenge of accommodating vulnerable and key worker children and providing remote learning. Bubble challenges too...

[Primaryheadteacher @primary_HT]

A gift from one of my teachers proudly sitting on the wall of my office 😃

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Gove and Gibb made it a habit to pour contempt on teachers and what Gove called the ‘blob’. This A-level debacle cements in the contempt of teachers in ignoring their grading, or worse: calling it ‘rampant inflation’. They hate the profession.

[Bottisham VC @bottishamvc]

This is how Bottisham Village College staff celebrate the end of the year!
https://t.co/fMjfFoCCYf

[18 Years A Head - NPQEL🦩📚 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸(she/her) @RaeSnape]

There's something seriously fudged up about our littlest citizens being state tested in the middle of a pandemic that is destroying livelihoods & lives! Will someone please think of the children & get the priorities right! Our precious children are #MoreThanAScore @MoreThanScore