Never visited this school. BUT… I know someone who teaches there. Ex Michaela, Charter, West London. I trained her! She’s best. I’ve ever trained. She’s also very picky! She really enjoys the school & massively rates the head & esprit de corps of entire team. Please Retweet!

No Attendance & Behaviour Hub status for us this time. We’ll just carry on doing what we do, welcoming schools on our regular visit days. Maybe next round we’ll be good enough to hit the DFE’s benchmark. Please feel free to message me if you want to visit St George’s Blackpool.

Can confirm: a great school doing great things.

I spent today in St George’s School in Blackpool with @TheTeacher6. This school is achieving astonishing things and has a wonderful culture. The thing that stands out about the school more than anything is how warm it is, and how polite the children are! 🧵

Another Michaela visit! Teacher energy impressive. You can’t run schools on ‘personality’. But real concerted effort to build relationships & warmth. Lot of humour. Teachers bounce off each other. Teachers joking with kids very much in evidence.

Join us on Sunday 18 May 2pm! Why? The schools bill is now in the Lords. We need amendments! Schools will suffer, behaviour standards will plummet and standards will drop. Here marchforchildren.uk for more info on what we want government to do and not do. Please RT!

Very useful revision for AQA literature from Mr Baugh. youtu.be/8Yw9xc6Bcqk

March with us on Sunday 18 May, 2pm Whitehall: for OUR CHILDREN! Sign up/more info here: marchforchildren.uk A few weeks ago, home educator Michelle wrote to me ‘with trepidation’ because she disagrees with my ideas on education. But she and I have a goal in common: we demand action from our government! Now is the time for us to reach across political/ideological divides, hold hands and march TOGETHER. Whether you are an anti-smartphone campaigner or school leader against the schools bill or a parent worried about the lowering of standards, or a family devastated over VAT or just members of the public who care about kids… Whoever you are… March with us! Show them what we are made of. Children are the future. Fight for our children. Fight for the future of our country.✊

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… I really enjoy these podcasts.Highly recommend. I always revise English lit of school I’m working with. Great conversation piece with pupils.

@Miss_Snuffy is trying to do something about this. She’s very keen to hear from people at all levels willing to put their head above parapet re: new education bill.

I create gcse English literature booklets. Gcse texts. I use these with all year groups. A double page spread for each period. So 10 pages on ACC per day. Each period is different. Teacher reads aloud. Pupils read aloud. Pupils copy. I’ll do a recording.

Ensuring safety is the school’s first duty. Everything is done to prevent a PEX. The next step is usually a place in another mainstream school. It’s not the end of the road, it’s hopefully the change they need. Why charge schools after they’ve done everything already?

A flat-fee charge for exclusions disproportionately impacts schools serving the most challenging communities. High-performing schools enforcing high expectations behaviour policies, keeping their community safe will be punished.

Of course not all of the Labour MPs will have behaved in this way. But this is very concerning. Don’t they care about disadvantaged kids at school doing well? Aren’t they meant to want to enable social mobility for the poor? Baffling. 😢