THE CALL
Imagine having a really important interview that you’ve prepared years for and you badly want to ace. You’ve worked as hard as you could and have committed your life to it.
Imagine every night going to bed, wondering if it’ll be the next day. But it doesn’t come that next day, the next month or even the next year. The pressure builds and you start to jump when the phone goes between 10am-12pm every day, ready to drop everything for the interview to start.
Imagine knowing that when it finally does come that there’s a good chunk of luck involved and it’ll depend on who interviews you on that day and what they happen to focus on and see.
Imagine praying for one of the good interviewers but you end up with one of the bad ones, who doesn’t listen and has their own agenda but there’s nothing you can do about it.
Imagine it leaves you in pieces and everyone know it’s not fair, but, so be it, and all that will now come your way.
Imagine knowing that that you can’t tell anyone the outcome of the interview, and you have to carry that around, on your own, for what feels like forever.
Imagine what that does to a person.
Imagine a better way.
New report by the government shows teachers work more than 50hrs a week on average - almost 60hrs a week for school leaders.
"Anyone questioning why we are in dispute only has to look at these survey results," says @PaulWhiteman6
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A former inspector and headteacher, who asked not to be named, said: “It is a completely subjective judgment, dressed up as an objective one.” She said the lead inspector would typically make up their mind in the first 10 minutes, “and everything else is about justifying that” 😳
@moffat_andrew @wbprimaryheads@andrewbhiggs Dear Andrew. Sorry no postcard. What a pleasure to listen to you at the WB head’s conference. You are such an amazing, inspirational person. I’m so grateful to have met you, heard you speak and have you as a quiz team member. We won! You have fired me up!
NAHT is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ruth Perry. Ruth was clearly a well-respected and much loved headteacher. Our thoughts are with Ruth’s family, friends and all those in the school community she served with such passion and dedication.
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Ruth Perry’s death is so sad and avoidable. @Ofstednews should suspend all inspections until an independent enquiry produces recommendations on how inspections should be conducted to ensure tragedies like this never happens again.
@MichaelT1979 Andrew Moffat No Outsiders. Inspirational and relevant to what we aspire to do in schools. Using story and oracy to nurture acceptance and understanding of diversity in schools.
Tomorrow morning this advert will appear in over 20 newspapers. Over 1 million people have viewed the advert on @tiktok_uk in the last 3 hours. We are taking our message to the country. #SaveOurSchools
Why we should be building solar farms instead of drilling for North Sea Gas:
1) Solar is quicker. 3 months to build solar farms vs. 1 year+ for gas drilling
2) Solar is 9 times cheaper than gas
3) Solar will actually lower bills. We don't have enough gas to affect energy prices
Jacob Rees-Mogg has just opened a new licensing round for oil & gas companies in the North Sea.
This is totally reckless.
Renewables are 9 x cheaper than fossil fuels.
And our climate can't support more fossil fuel projects.
This is yet more climate vandalism from the Tories.
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Headteachers!
Please contact me if you are fed up with the failure of the DfE in areas such as exams, SATs, phonics, unfunded costs of Covid, FSM, insufficient staffing levels, laptop scheme, continued inspections...
Action is planned!
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