Rob Hacking

Head of a Primary school in Bucks. Love learning, all views my own.

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

Find out about Government funding cuts to your school. #schoolcuts: https://t.co/Bx2P3ZaPDr

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

🏫 It’s unacceptable that our children learn in schools with crumbling buildings, bursting class sizes, and cuts to arts & sports.

✍️ Email your MP and call for £12.2 billion to start reversing the impact of 14 years of school cuts this year.

➡️ https://t.co/CojXeRTyGj

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

✂️ After 14 years of chronic Government cuts, 70% of all schools in England have less funding in real terms when compared to 2010.

🏫Is your school on the list?

➡️ Find out now: https://t.co/oesrqGAWu0

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

If a leader says to you ‘the delay to OFSTED inspections has been a weight off my shoulders, even for 2 weeks’ imagine what a permanent pause would do? Revolutionise leadership life and contribute towards saving the teaching profession in England is what!

[Barrington Stoke @BarringtonStoke]

🌟SCHOOLS GIVEAWAY🌟 For 25 years, we've been working to empower EVERY child to become a reader. To celebrate our birthday and #DAW23, we're giving away a set of 25 Barrington Stoke books *of your choice!*
To enter, follow and RT by 5pm 8th October. UK schools only. Ts&Cs in bio.

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

https://t.co/1mNxLritIr we’re already doing it. Would love to invite Jim Carter to my school to see what we’re doing if anyone knows how to contact him?

[Head Lines @HeadLines_EMM]

The Downton Abbey actor, Jim Carter, is campaigning for gardening to be included in the national curriculum.
https://t.co/WwOOJPLTrn

#curriculum #schools #education

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

The Incredible Edible Garden - LCPS on Vimeo - finally this has dropped! https://t.co/sICoUgzwOk

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

We're in a nature crisis. The @Woodlandtrust is calling on councils to declare a #NatureEmergency and take action to restore nature locally. They recently launched a report with everything you need to know about #NatureRecovery: https://t.co/wNdPkXqZLU

[Education Committee @CommonsEd]

We've launched an inquiry into Ofsted's work with schools, and we want to hear from you.📢

Submit your written evidence by 20 July.🗓️

Find out more about the inquiry and why we're looking into this subject: https://t.co/GbwPYGTu9R👈

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

Urgently review the current Ofsted Framework and associated methodology - Petitions https://t.co/hui3TPVh2b

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

8 Reasons for abolishing OFSTED or at the very least stripping it of it’s powers….

1.Unfair judgements - as inspections last for 2 days and are done by a small group of humans (sometimes 1), the chance for unreliable judgements is high

2.OFSTED doesn’t help schools to improve - following an inspection, OFSTED doesn’t help a school or it’s staff. For example ‘this school has bad behaviour in it’ - they walk away post inspection not to be seen until the next inspection. There is no school improvement arm to OFSTED.

3.Impact or a poor grade - this links to 1 and 2, but the community impact can be as follows: a) parents don’t want to send their kids to the school (each child is worth money to the school) b) some teachers don’t want to join the school as scared off by rating c) and prob the biggest - the psychological imprint of a poor grade is something I can’t imagine having to deal with as a school leader. But what I know is - it can be devastating for an individual and their family.

https://t.co/FcRjWQf93F and budgets - HMI pay is 72,000 a year, day inspection pay is £330. OFSTED budget is £150 million a year. Bonuses are awarded to OFSTED senior leaders usually between 5000 and 20000. OFSTED haven’t disclosed what these bonuses are for. In a school funding crisis, where teachers and TAs are having to battle for relatively small increases, surely this is wrong.

5.Impact of OFSTED pressure - it won’t take you long to find examples of leaders needing healthcare as a result of the pressure of upcoming inspection. Grades can be career defining but, as previously mentioned, are not reliable. The lottery of ‘who you get through the door’ and ‘what their lines of enquiry might be’ causes uncertainty, doubt and stress.

6.‘Doing it for OFSTED’ - OFSTED say no one should do anything for them which is easy for them to say when their own careers don’t rest on OFSTEDs judgements. Schools feel they need to ‘do’ all the time - new policies, new protocols, to ‘keep up’ with other schools and OFSTED themselves. The competition culture OFSTED inspires is damaging.

7.There are alternatives - the grading system doesn’t have to exist, neither does the OFSTED inspection system. Other countries do things very differently - take Italy, Ireland, Finland and Germany as just a few examples very close to home. It can’t possibly be argued that the English education system is better off than any of these by employing the system it does.

8.There is no evidence everything would fall apart without OFSTED - what’s the harm in giving it a try for a year or two? What’s the harm in a 5 year experiment - no OFSTED gradings whatsoever for 5 years and then survey schools, parents and children to find out about what’s changed for them positive or negative?

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

Urgently review the current Ofsted Framework and associated methodology - Petitions https://t.co/hui3TPVh2b

[Rob Hacking @roberthacking]

90% of schools face cuts next year.

That's why I just signed the @SchoolCuts Open Letter asking @RishiSunak to Stop School Cuts.

If we make our voices heard, we can stop this. Add your name today:

https://t.co/QEby1H92si

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Your reminder…

That after just 45 days in office

Truss will now be entitled to £115k per year

…from the taxpayer

…for the rest of her life.

https://t.co/xdmBLe6ke6

[Ros McMullen @RosMcM]

Hugely important evidence from trusted colleagues https://t.co/A9oNdY9Viq

[Joe Wicks @thebodycoach]

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[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

This is such a powerful video…

So simple

So much sense

The Tories know this too

But they also know that it’s the millionaires & billionaires who donate to them that keep them in power

…and the sad truth is, that’s who they really work for.

[Tes magazine @tes]

‘This isn't a department using the press to highlight its success in education; instead, we have a minister prioritising PR over purpose.’ @MichaelT1979 outlines, precisely, why government plans to reveal use of NTP cash is so misguided
https://t.co/1pCqivmgeQ

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

I have *another* free copy of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading to give away. Retweet this tweet for a chance to win it. I will select a winner at random on Monday 18th April.