Year 6 teacher, Assistant Head Pastoral & Maths enthusiast

Joined December 2010
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Hosted my schools’s first smartphone free working group yesterday with parents. We had some brilliant discussions from pressure on parents, homework online and the different pressures for boys and girls (gaming v social media). Excited to implement and see positive change.
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@drchatterjeeuk quoted your podcast (how smartphones are rewiring our brains) a lot!
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I love this!
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No young man should be told to "man up". #InterenationalMensDay
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Amen πŸ™
12 #Leadership reflections from a year as Deputy Headteacher. #SLTchat
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There’s so much beauty in this country. Cornwall has always been a personal fave πŸ‚β€οΈπŸŒŠ
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A fox terrier who loves a Cornish bakery! Sporting his @Joulesclothing
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The calm before the storm in beautiful Falmouth! β˜”οΈ 🌊
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Autumn is the prettiest here πŸ‚ @WindsorGtPark
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Thanks Matt! Pleasure to work with you on this! Such an important topic and it can sometimes get forgotten about/ missed at primary.
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And from character and integrity comes leadership. This is such a great read!
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Francesca Oakes retweeted
This #WorldMentalHealthDay, spend 20 minutes having a conversation about mental health with your child. Here are some conversations starters you can use.
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Is it half term yet?

ALT Tired Princess And The Frog GIF

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Kindness counts! 🧑
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Absolutely shocking! Something needs to be done. Change of working conditions would be top for me and a greater focus on tackling poor behaviour!
🚨BREAKING: New figures show the Government has recruited only 52% of the trainee secondary teachers it needs, despite offering huge bursaries. Ministers must tackle the big issues of declining pay and funding, increased workload and the unreasonable pressures of Ofsted – tinkering won’t fix this crisis #ValueEducation β€œTeaching is a vocation, yet this Government is clearly failing to do enough to keep teachers and attract more. For children, this is leading directly to a discontinuity in their education. A Government which truly had education at the heart of its priorities would not tolerate this situation. The cost of failure is too high." @NEUnion GS @DanielKebedeNEU on figures showing only 52% of the secondary teachers needed have signed up. #ValueEducation
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Really interesting to chat to Andrew Hampton @boys_working this afternoon. Very excited to put the lessons into action at our school and strengthen our already incredible boys.
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You would probably not put bleach and children together but today our year 6 pupils upcycled some of their old clothes during this bleach art workshop. The results were fab. Combatting fast fashion! #educacion #Sustainability
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Quote of the day: "Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be." - Rita Pierson
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