Proud Deputy Headteacher- Pastoral @BCHSchool. MA Ed, NPQH. SLE SEND. Inclusion/Pastoral/DSL. I’m a Mum too. Views belong to me, not my employer🤟🏼
North West, England
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Did you know that team debriefs can have a huge impact on performance? Research shows that teams can boost their effectiveness by 20-25% by regularly reviewing processes, using a few tried and tested methods.
Here are a few approaches that can work…
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As two teenagers are found guilty of murdering Brianna Ghey, the 16-year-old's class mates have paid tribute to a "beautiful, gorgeous" friend.
I'm very grateful to Emily, Ella and Eleanor for sharing their memories with me.
👇
itv.com/news/granada/2023-12…
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This is again brilliant from Alex and should serve as a real warning flag to anyone rushing to embed any Literacy strategy element too quickly. 👏
🚨 NEW POST 🚨
‘Why Literacy Fails (Part 2) The Oracy Challenge’
“Put simply, no matter how much we value oracy, meaningfully changing and sustaining practice that improves pupil outcomes is devilishly hard.“
theconfidentteacher.com/2023…
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Autistic and Hating to be Perceived…
ALT All slides have my username @neurodivergent_lou in the bottom left hand corner. All slides have a light background with blackboard with black text. Slide 1: Text reads- Autistic and hating to be perceived.
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GCSEs in England hit by high absence levels and mental ill health, heads say theguardian.com/education/20…
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Samantha Rigby-White retweeted
We are just about to share an updated ‘Pupil Premium Guide’ with related resources. Keep an eye out! There are some excellent blogs in the research school next work on this e.g. researchschool.org.uk/unity/… &
researchschool.org.uk/aspire…
Samantha Rigby-White retweeted
💬 The assumption that OCD is just about wanting things clean and orderly has to change.
Share this post so that people get the facts on this severely debilitating condition.
Find out more in our factsheet 👉 rethink.org/ocd
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Fantastic resource on "Autism in girls" written by the Autistic girls network. A must read for any practitioner or educator. If only the world understood and recognised autism in girls. autisticgirlsnetwork.org/kee…
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New blog on blocked care in education. How educators' relationships with children, families, colleagues, and services can become characterised by defensiveness, inflexibility, and negative narratives.
epinsight.com/post/blocked-c…
ALT A picture of an infographic which summarises a blog by Dr Chris Moore about blocked care in education. The infographic has a white background and includes the following sections. 1. The five systems of caregiving. 2. What happens to these systems when they are compromised by stress. 3. Signs that educators are experiencing blocked care. 4. What these signs might reflect. 5. Supporting blocked care. The full blog can be accessed at the following URL: https://www.epinsight.com/post/blocked-care-in-education
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Attendance and picking children up for school - a thread 🧵
Whilst I totally buy into the mindset of getting children to school at almost any cost, there is a stark reality to this that the people suggesting extreme measures (head teachers collecting) simply do not understand.
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Secondary schools should ‘identify the pupils whose reading is poor and who, as a result, have negative attitudes towards school’, says updated @educationgovuk reading framework
tes.com/magazine/news/primar…
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The DfE have published the updated Reading Framework, which now features non-statutory guidance on the teaching of reading up to Year 9 gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Fancy watching informal chat between six former HMI (Meena Wood, Julie Price Grimshaw, Debbie Clinton, Adrian Gray, Adrian Lyons and Frank Norris) chatting about Ofsted's current problems, how they got into such a place and how it might move forward? youtu.be/sVAcoekknVY
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"Reading for Pleasure" may well be one of the most misrepresented terms in education
The problem is that it is so emotive that we read the research with word tinted glasses
We need to cut through the romance to the evidence & look at it with fresh eyes
literacyengine.co.uk/index.p…
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SEND Stats for England are out today. Headlines: EHCPs: 389,171⬆︎by 9.5%. 4.3% of pupils have EHCPs, ⬆︎ by 0.3%
SEND pupils no EHCP: 1,183,384 ⬆︎ by 4.7%. 13.0% of pupils are on SEN support. Up ⬆︎ by 0.4% We'll be working on our usual analysis & infographic 1/
