Louise Kelman

Primary Headteacher, primary and secondary experience, mum to two boys and a puppy 😀 @stokeheathps

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

British people food shopping list for a heatwave:

- Twister lollies (and all the other lollies)
- Quiche (Lorraine)
- Assortment of “bits” (mini sausages, mini scotch eggs, various beige air fryable goods)
- Coleslaw, potato salad (maybe a tub of beetroot cubes that you’ll inevitably drop down your white t-shirt)
- Sausages, chicken drumsticks, burgers etc (if there’s any left)
- Some sort of bright red marinade (will also drop down white t-shirt)
- Baps/rolls/buns (or whatever you want to call them, don’t start)
- Bag of salad leaves, with random decision made in shop as to whether you get “Italian Style”, “Bistro”, “Baby Leaf”, or some sort of iceberg and grated carrot fiasco (will throw away next week)
- A cucumber and some tomatoes, obvs. It’s not a proper basic British salad without these sliced and dumped on the side of the plate (for proper British salad, do NOT mix them, they must remain in their own separate piles)
- Some kind of horrible couscous pot type thing with raisins in it (that nobody will eat)
- Dips (maybe some flatbreads that you’ll burn in the toaster)
- Large bags of crisps to put into bowls
- Strawberries
- Ice (will leave in the car by mistake and find a bag of water in there later)

[Louise Kelman @SHPShead]

@fidsta77 Can you still get to work?

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

3 days into a calorie deficit. Must be a stone gone by now surely?!

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

Never have the words ‘corn on the cob’ got me emotional before.

[NORAD Tracks Santa @NoradSanta]

Current conditions at the North Pole indicate good weather for flying!! #NORADTracksSanta #NTS24 🎅🎄

[Louise Kelman @SHPShead]

@fidsta77 Jealous!

[Caroline Hardman @LittleHardman]

When I got pregnant, I did not think ahead to the moment 11 years later when I would have to stand on the edge of a football pitch in the pouring rain in December.

[TheTattooedHeadteacher Deputy CEO 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾she/her @KyrstieStubbs]

One of the best parts of my role is seeing people develop and flourish 💛
For this to happen you have to let go and trust!

[Louise Kelman @SHPShead]

@fidsta77 🤣

[Mr Pughsley🌍📚🌳 @ScottPughsley]

Right that’s it, everyone in the hall for a behaviour assembly.

[Educator Supe @ShakinthatChalk]

I taught a boy who routinely laid his head down on the desk and slept.

Horrific home life, extreme anxiety.
Important facts allowed me to make professional decisions on how to deal with his often unmanageable behaviour

Being in school in lesson was far more important than maths

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

The teaching life https://t.co/XUhdGdVzuY

[Jamie Barry @JamieGBarry]

Exactly this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ I have faced some real stick in my time as a head for promoting equality (as we were told today) but now aspects of it will be banned!

I shall look forward to seeing what the guidance says.

[Louise Kelman @SHPShead]

@lloyds2611 Good luck! Shout if you need help!

[David @dsprimed]

There's a strange calm, unparalleled anywhere else, that comes from sitting in an empty school in late July.

I have my coffee. I've done a few spins in my chair.

[Emma Turner FCCT @Emma_Turner75]

Rick Astley at Glastonbury reminds me of the deputy that’s been at a school for decades & who just quietly & modestly gets on with everything but when something happens they step up & knock it out of the park & everyone goes, ‘wow’ then the deputy just goes quietly back to work💖

[Caroline Sherwood @Caroline_Alice_]

1. What made our SIP planning better than last year? (It could still be better!).

Before we met, I sent out reading to SLT - particularly from @head_teach and @joe__kirby - and used AI to summarise the key messages, so that every member of SLT was able to engage.

[Dave McPartlin @dave_mcpartlin]

Please use your voice and spread far and wide - am very much hoping this is the start of the end of the current issues we have with Ofsted ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Mark Dent @Mr_M_Dent]

Today I was tracked down by an ex-pupil and received this message. The moment I read this, I burst with pride and emotion. This is what we do it for, fellow teachers. 😭 😊🙏🏽

[Louise Kelman @SHPShead]

@HT_Helen_Nelson