Primary head with particular interest in Early Years.
Joined October 2015
- Tweets 3,518
- Following 330
- Followers 233
- Likes 3,180
19 Photos and videos
EYHead retweeted
22 Jul 2025
ALT A painting of a bird beside the text "that's enough bullshit for today"
4
57
358
10,511
EYHead retweeted
25 Apr 2025
ALT A painting of a bird next to the words "oh my god just fucking stop"
3
103
628
17,045
EYHead retweeted
23 Apr 2025
ALT A painting of a bird beside the text "you may want to consider using your fucking brain"
5
91
555
18,384
EYHead retweeted
30 Mar 2025
Artwork by contemporary printmaker and illustrator Diana Catchpole #WomensArt #MadMarchHare
1
101
825
33,366
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh.
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting TODAY?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.
#PancakeDay
76
1,054
5,180
131,287
EYHead retweeted
20 Feb 2025
Ofsted. Inspection. The sheer relentless stupid bollocks of it all. Too much power, not enough meaning or credibility.. and everyone has to dance the bloody tune.
Time to put it out of its misery and everyone else’s so they can get on with the real work.
35
67
717
61,837
EYHead retweeted
8 Feb 2025
The aim should be to work collaboratively to make every school great.
Not to pit schools against each other.
So every parent can happily send their child to their local school.
9
26
236
11,669
EYHead retweeted
6 Feb 2025
Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #WomensArt
19
301
2,028
38,765
We asked over 3,000 school leaders about Ofsted’s plans for inspectors to make graded sub-judgements.
92% told us they are opposed.
Ofsted needs to go back to the drawing board, urgently reconsider these ill-thought-through plans, and listen to the profession.
2
57
94
14,324
EYHead retweeted
6 Feb 2025
National Association of Head Teachers announces that a snap poll of 3,000 school leaders has seen them "overwhelmingly reject" Ofsted's reform plans., with 92% disagreeing "with the proposal to introduce...five-point graded judgements across eight to 10 different areas."
9
58
171
10,253
EYHead retweeted
5 Feb 2025
To continue my amplification of media from Monday - here's my friend Julia Waters, sister of Ruth Perry, talking with LBC's Emma Corr...
3 Feb 2025
Damning verdict on new Ofsted inspection plans from Ruth Perry’s sister Julia Waters.
She’s told me an online ‘Report Card’ system, where areas of a school are graded, will still ‘publicly shame and humiliate’ headteachers. @LBC @LBCNews
4
34
110
10,594
EYHead retweeted
5 Feb 2025
Mr P is steeped in education, absolutely passionate about it, but it's not just his voice, or my voice, or Julia Waters' voice, there are more and more voices adding to this chorus of disapproval. Ofsted want a consultation, give them a consultation. Tell them they are wrong.
Incoming rant about Ofsted announcement of their report cards which they think are going to improve things when it’ll be just more of the same.
6
27
127
12,726
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Can't remember an education policy development getting such a concerted kicking from union leaders, including headteachers, since...the last government, as has happened this morning with Ofsted's plans to reform itself. Will Bridget Phillipson really go forward with it all?
17
64
203
26,703
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
The layout focuses attention on what is wrong not on what is good (we read left to right in English and the table is presented from left to right; what is wrong to what is right). So, the first information you read is the most negative aspect of the evaluation…
2
5
48
2,771
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
What is being assessed may be clearer but there are no improvements to the way in which complaints about inspection judgements are dealt with. As with inspector conduct, there is no independent adjudication for disputing an inspection’s conclusions...
3
8
41
3,131
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Each ‘evaluation area’ can be drilled down into for a summary description. So, to be clear, the ‘new’ system is literally more of the same; yes, there is more detail in the reports but there are also more points to the grading system, and more areas to the headline grades…
2
2
44
2,917
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Buried within the proposed changes are certainly elements of reform I can celebrate, albeit from the perspective of being amazed that they weren’t considered essential to Ofsted’s operation prior to this moment in time…
1
2
34
3,302
EYHead retweeted
3 Feb 2025
No, apparently the changes to Ofsted are solely a response to Ofsted’s own initiative, the ‘Big Listen’. How can the sector embrace Ofsted’s reforms when Ofsted doesn’t even acknowledge the faults that made it necessary to reform in the first place?...
1
5
53
4,153
EYHead retweeted
1 Feb 2025
Yet again I’m hearing about inspectors asking leaders to break ELGs down into termly objectives. Something the DFE advises against and their own documents say they won’t do. It’s so bloomin tiresome. Make. it.Stop.
14
31
160
20,427
EYHead retweeted
24 Jan 2025
A map of procrastination' by contemporary UK illustrator, Gemma Correll #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
18
406
1,581
72,581