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In my ten years at our school, we’ve never had a better start to a term or felt the school in a better place. The years of hard work and change have paid off - the place is singing and I feel immensely proud.
But the level of hard work, resilience and commitment it’s taken to reach this point - and more importantly, to sustain it - in an era of massively increased SEN needs, insufficient provision and reduced funding, simply isn’t realistic.
We’ll always give everything for our children and families - it’s what we do. But schools can’t keep running on goodwill alone. We need more funding. The effort is huge, the responsibility is real and the cost to staff and leaders has never been higher.
I know I'm not alone in thinking this.
TillyT retweeted
“For those working in education who have been exasperated by Gibb and his buddies for the past 15 years, it will be tragically vindicating to read how little of substance exists behind the man and his reforms.”
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
TillyT retweeted
I've been chasing an invoice for some work I did in March, April, and May. I've received no acknowledgement of the numerous emails from the finance dept at this trust. I'm out of pocket by almost £3k when I factor in the money spent on travel and accommodation, which I don't
TillyT retweeted
One day we will all be old.
I have been rather horrified to see the complete lack of sympathy people show to the elderly.
I put out a post about my elderly friend who struggled with parking apps.
People suggested everything from not driving at all to riding a tricycle in the dark and rain around the country lanes of Cornwall.
Have people become so callous that they think that the elderly should be locked in their homes?
TillyT retweeted
I have an elderly friend who is in her 80s.
She lives in Cornwall.
Mary is very switched on but she struggles with new technology a bit - especially parking apps.
All she wants to do is put her car in a space for a couple of hours and pay.
She does not want to sign up for a new app.
She does not want to verify her device.
She does not want to save her credit card information.
She does not want to figure out why the app thinks she is in Devon and cannot geolocate the car park she is standing in.
She wants to take a few coins and put them in a machine and do her shopping/meet her friends. Now, she finds excuses not to meet friends or shop because she is so worried about the parking situation.
It is a disgrace that parking has become so discriminatory and this is just the start. When Digital ID is introduced, her whole world will feel like this.
TillyT retweeted
I must have spoken to well over 100 headteachers across the country recently and they're all saying the same things:
Many, many more pupils with complex SEND needs.
More challenging behaviour and at a younger age.
Too little specialist provision.
Frustrated families.
Social Services bar too high.
Public services skint and burnt out staff.
No real Ofsted reform.
Falling birth rates.
People are angry.
Communities in despair.
Funding that’s nowhere near enough.
Schools are holding the system together but it’s becoming unsustainable - they can't keep asking more and more of staff, with less and less. Something has to give.
Without urgent reform and real investment, I'm worried that this could be the year we've all known was coming and education finally breaks.
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⚠️ Act now for fairer. safer inspection
We're calling on Ofsted to halt the introduction of its revised framework and rethink its approach in light of evidence that its plans will damage school leader mental health & well-being.
Get involved - send a letter to your employer 👉 naht.org.uk/Ofsted
TillyT retweeted
Interesting that senior inspectors are saying on here that you don’t have to provide evidence for every statement, but someone who has experienced the process as a teacher says otherwise. I know who I believe.
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As a provider in Devon, I find this so difficult to swallow, high house prices, lack of employment opportunities, complex LA area to meet need, with rural, coastal and urban issues, why should it be substantially less
If you live in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Cambridgeshire, North Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, West Sussex (and many more), your children are funded up to £5,000 less per pupil than others. That’s the F40 unfairness. #FairFunding
Parents: this is not fair. A child in Cornwall or Buckinghamshire is worth no less than a child in London or Birmingham. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive. It’s time for fair funding for all schools. #FairFunding #F40
F40 areas cover much of the South-West, South-East, East and rural North, including:
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset
Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire
North Yorkshire, Northumberland
Buckinghamshire, West Sussex
…and more.
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Less funding means:
Fewer teachers and bigger classes
Fewer books, subjects and trips
Less support for children with SEND
Meanwhile, children in better-funded areas enjoy more opportunities — simply because of where they live
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TillyT retweeted
I can’t expect other people to care about the death of Ruth Perry as much as I do. You didn’t know her, I can (and have) spoken at length about the great many ways she was an amazing headteacher but those are just words to you, it is not your lived experience, I 'get it'…
TillyT retweeted
The latest ofsted model will simply perpetuate, or possibly worsen, what is already happening. It is a dead parrot simple as that. The selection by compliance schs will continue to be rewarded. The inclusive ones will live in fear of the next insp. People will be damaged again
TillyT retweeted
Just terrible reading Ruth Perry's personal notes - I can imagine so many leaders thinking things like this post-inspection. #ruthperry #ofsted
TillyT retweeted
You run a sch in a disadvantaged area? Here's your lifeline. P27. Achievement toolkit:
This evaluation area considers:
... the progress pupils make **across the curriculum from their starting points**, so that they know more, remember more & are able to do more.’
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RT plz.
Well what a surprise. Absolutely bloody disgusting
“Sir Martyn Oliver, the chief inspector, has previously pledged to be “open and transparent” over the reforms, with “nothing hidden from the system”.”
Then falls at the first hurdle!
Ofsted refuses to publish data on response to report cards schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-ref…
