School Improvement Team for Westcountry Schools Trust. Executive Director of History. SWIFT History lead.
Joined September 2017
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Thrilled that today we’ve published the @Education_NI curriculum consultation. It has been an absolute joy working with local teachers and curriculum experts over the last six months to get to this point. Led incredibly by our taskforce chair @Counsell_C 🎉
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Jun 14
NEW BLOG: Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity
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ALT Illustrated blog banner for an education article titled Retrieval Is Not a Starter Activity. A teacher leads a discussion with pupils while a mathematical problem involving trigonometry is displayed on a whiteboard. The scene emphasises the use of prior knowledge to solve new problems, with visual references to retrieval, method selection, connection-making and application. The design conveys the idea that retrieval is most powerful when embedded naturally within the story of learning rather than used as a disconnected classroom routine.
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Apr 20
Leadership | Women and the Practice of Leadership saysmiss.wordpress.com/2026/…
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Apr 12
🌟 New blogpost: 8 Tips for SENDCOs to Drive Teaching and Learning for Pupils with SEND
Comments and reposts appreciated
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
“We have made a fetish of the more visible things that can be seen in lessons” says @C_Hendrick YEP 👏 #rEDBrum
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We’re inviting all RE teachers to take part in a short survey. Complete the survey for teachers by 27 Feb will get up to 5 free resources from NATRE as a thank you!👇
🔗 RE Hubs teacher survey bit.ly/3XjAj0i
🔗 RE Hubs stakeholder survey bit.ly/497qCJG
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Feb 4
Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
👉Don't forget, if you are a state-school teacher, we are offering travel bursaries to ensure that all teachers across the country have the opportunity to attend. Simply follow the link here to apply:
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#classics #cpd
There is still time to sign up for our Ancient History CPD day at Harrow School on Tuesday 27 January!
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Jan 17
The activity fallacy: an obsession with instructional novelty has produced a strange inversion of priorities. Teachers are sent on courses to acquire new “strategies,” to diversify their repertoire of techniques.
Meanwhile, the curriculum they are teaching may be completely incoherent, the sequence arbitrary, the assessment disconnected from both. This is what @Counsell_C calls an “intransitive pedagogy”; a pedagogy without an object.
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
Jan 12
Meant the world this ❤️
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Macclesfield’s Sam Heathcote, who's also a PE teacher, returned to his school as a hero this morning! 🤩👏
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6 Nov 2025
🚨 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
We're so excited that Steve Mastin will return for another keynote conversation at #Soane26.
He will speak with Prof Sir Richard J. Evans about his newest book, 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich.'
Get tickets now. Link below! 👇
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Rebecca Bailey retweeted
18 Nov 2025
Here's a slice of text from #OpeningWorlds Year 6 Spring 1 history. Words in bold are taught this lesson. Every other word you see which is tricky has been taught thoroughly in Years 3, 4 or 5. We write texts in order to deliberately meet those words again, again and again.
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24 Oct 2025
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
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29 Sep 2025
Outstanding talk by Michael Fordham, principal at @ThetfordAcaduk on role of curriculum in school improvement. Beware trying to take assurance from subject leaders using generic criteria, instead of listening to distinctive structures, rhythms & roles of subjects. #TransformEd
29 Sep 2025
Dr Michael Fordham discusses the challenges and opportunities in Senior Curriculum Leadership at today’s post-primary #TransformED Curriculum Conference.
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28 Sep 2025
Just three more days at 99p! If you're keen to read #Cecily, you've got till the end of the month to snap up a bargain! Tell a friend..
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14 Sep 2025
🚨 First blog post in about 5 years. Link below.
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