Local Director of Primary Education
Joined February 2009
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Kate Licence retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Homegrown tomatoes taste great and are ideal for people who want to eat five hundred of them in a week in early September and none at all for the rest of the year.
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Kate Licence retweeted
‘Many schools don’t emphasize handwriting and spelling enough’
6 Sep 2025
Key messages from Clare Sealey about the new writing framework.
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Kate Licence retweeted
19 Aug 2025
🚨PLEASE RT🚨
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Can you do three, 20 minute surveys approx two weeks apart?
Researchers @WorcesterUni are studying teacher #wellbeing, #burnout & the hidden work #teachers do everyday.
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Kate Licence retweeted
14 Aug 2025
Looking at A level grade boundaries.
To get an A Star grade in French (AQA), you must average 90%. The highest of any subject.
To get an E grade, 42%. Imagine getting a U with 41%.
In Chemistry, 20% is an E. 42% is a C. #ResultsDay2025
No wonder students are not taking MFL…
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Kate Licence retweeted
27 Jul 2025
A few years ago an explicit phonics lesson looked weird to people. Now it is accepted by most that this is what good phonics looks like. It’s not inconceivable that this revelation could extend to the teaching of all new and foundational skills - including much of the math block.
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Kate Licence retweeted
20 Jul 2025
I'm telling you all the signs are already there. We're sleepwalking into even bigger problems than the ones caused by phones
'We don't really play anymore... it makes me really sad.'
10-year-old Ella opens up to @BenKentish about how her school friend now has an AI boyfriend that she feels she 'can't compete' with...
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Kate Licence retweeted
3 Jul 2025
3.1 Embrace Cognitive Similarity
How all students learn is more similar than it is different. Our best bet for supporting mainstream students with SEND is to strengthen universal provision built around common cognitive architecture (rather than focussing on individual deficits).
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Kate Licence retweeted
23 Jun 2025
It was a pleasure to speak at the Xavier Catholic Education Trust conference today about The Scaffolding Effect. Great to see the lovely @Mr_Crome @KateJones_teach @TeachLeadAAli and @JTavassolyMarsh as well!
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Kate Licence retweeted
13 Jun 2025
Mindblowingly advanced thinking on attention & learning from @mikehobbiss
hobbolog.wordpress.com/2025/…
Someone knight this guy asap
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Kate Licence retweeted
10 Jun 2025
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Kate Licence retweeted
23 May 2025
I confiscated this phone at the start of the day.
Compliant student- handed it over, no issues, I said I would return at the end of the day.
Do you know how many times it pinged/vibrated in my office?
Over 78 times.
Please don't tell me they are not a distraction.
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Kate Licence retweeted
14 Apr 2025
For me, the issue that needs to be addressed is, given the teachers we have, what kind of professional development will be of most benefit to students? From the research that I've seen, PD addressing pedagogy is likely to have a greater impact than PD addressing subject knowledge
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Kate Licence retweeted
8 Apr 2025
Revisiting this glorious book - for sentence-level teaching, there really is nothing better. @TheWritingRevol
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Kate Licence retweeted
29 Mar 2025
“If children struggle it’s because they’ve fallen into the gaps we’ve created.” @DavidDidau #rEDNYC
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Kate Licence retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Listened to teacher on Radio4 PM stuck with entire Year 5 in Spain after Heathrow disruption. Her verve and calmness, the way she was making it an adventure for the kids (who will now journey for 24 hours by coach and ferry) was a classic example of why teachers are ace.
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Kate Licence retweeted
19 Mar 2025
adolescence on netflix has convinced me that children should not legally be allowed smartphones and that one day we’ll look back on the fact that we allowed it and be really ashamed 😭
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Kate Licence retweeted
14 Mar 2025
I spent the morning at Xavier’s secondary inset today and I honestly can’t remember the last time I laughed so much and so hard.
This is a trust achieving incredible results, but doing so with such joy and humility. The way they honoured both staff and pupils was so powerful.
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Kate Licence retweeted
2 Mar 2025
Best yet. Please spread far and wide
1 Mar 2025
Here's a 🎶 twist on @coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque disrespectful media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with @ZelenskyyUa 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
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‘Daffodowndilly’
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour
“Winter is dead.”
~A.A.Milne #daffodil #spring #StDavidsDay
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