Headteacher Sonning Common Primary School since January 2009.

Joined October 2012
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21 Jun 2024
This is a brilliant resource for 2D nets to 3D shapes.
Una actividad de aprendizaje para este verano 👇🧠✅️ x.com/froggyups/status/18035…
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21 Jun 2024
This is brilliant... Thank you.
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21 Jun 2024
We were visited by the Let's Go Zero Climate Change Ambassadors on Tuesday and they were amazing to talk to. Lots of positive advice. Just looking forward to receiving the action plan report. @LetsGo_Zero
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20 Jun 2024
Our Year 4, 5 and 6 swimmers complete a course on personal survival as well as how to rescue someone in trouble in the water. These are life skills - how many other schools do this. If not why not? This is after all a serious Safeguarding concern...
This week, make it your mission to educate your family about @RLSSUK's #DrowningPreventionWeek 🛟 Use their free resources to start the water safety conversation 👉 rlss.org.uk/DPW Accidental drownings increase in summer and through education we can make a change! #DPW
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19 Jun 2024
Revelation time. I run courses for school and run meetings over the internet. Why didn't someone tell me this earlier - I can run a split screen on my laptop. Although, when I have run courses recently no-one can ask questions, at least I haven't been able to see their hands up.
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Ok, just asking - as a Headteacher, how do you explain what you do when questioned by a Year 1 class?
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I have been reflecting on the trips to the Normandy Beaches with Brill CE School. One year we were fortunate enough to be there on the 6th June and literally bumped into some veterans. They were just as thrilled as we were to meet each other. A truly memorable moment.
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24 May 2024
We’re proud to be part of 3000 schools signed up to #LetsGoZero. Our pupils, teachers and parents are working to reduce emissions, increase biodiversity and safeguard our planet for future generations!
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23 May 2024
When we have taught our pupils in Years 1, 2 and 3 to swim, this life lesson is then taught to our Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils as part of life saving and how to save a life.
22 May 2024
#FloatToLive: - Tilt your head back with ears submerged - Relax - try to control your breathing - Move your hands to help stay afloat - Once over the initial shock, call for help or swim to safety - Call 999 or 112 & ask for the coastguard. Share this post to save a life
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18 Apr 2024
I'm planning Earth Day for our pupils! You can sign up to get Earth Day education materials here: action.earthday.org/earth_da…

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11 Mar 2024
🚀 We're officially kicking off #BigWalkAndWheel, the UK's largest walking, wheeling, scooting, and cycling challenge. Looking forward to seeing all your #ActiveTravel journeys. 🌎👋 bigwalkandwheel.org.uk

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Growing something for nothing. A pupil has come to let me know that they are trying to grow an apple seed that they have planted within a large pine cone and stuffed mud into it. I am looking forward to hearing what happens. @EcoSchools @FSAForestSchool
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New competition Eco-challenge We are setting the challenge of growing something for nothing. We are trying to encourage positivity and maybe a little bit of awe and wonder by growing a plant from waste seeds that you may well have thrown away. @EcoSchools
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23 Feb 2024
I thought I had read somewhere - probably safeguarding guidance - that the child should be put at the center of everything that we do... Some schools might find that quite a challenging ethos to conform to.
Replying to @headscps
Totally agree! It’s become all about exam results for schools, it’s not about what the child wants but about what’s best for the schools outcomes. There needs to be more options for individual needs.
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23 Feb 2024
I think the point should be that everyone is good at something and it is a school's job to find out what that is. The shame of it is when some teachers value some subjects over others. Who has the right to say what is important and what is not? Government - society?
Watching the David Beckham docu-series. Becks didn’t do well in school saying he isn’t intelligent? Much like Robbie Williams in his series, saying he was ‘thick’. But they managed to turn their passions into successful careers? Why then do we tell kids school is so important?
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23 Feb 2024
We're participating in the 15th year celebration of @sustrans #BigWalkandWheel. In partnership with @SchwalbeUK, it's the UK's largest active travel to school challenge from 11-22 March 2024. Register your school here to join too: bigwalkandwheel.org.uk

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23 Feb 2024
First Headteacher's Award of the Year - Bruno D (Year 6) for being such a fantastic young person. I am so proud that the decision was so hard to make - there are so many deserving pupils.
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You too. Difficult decision - but the right one.
Replying to @headscps
Good luck with your future!
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Always great friendly rivalry.
Today and yesterday our Year 3 and Year 6 classes thoroughly enjoyed themselves taking part in the Sportshall Athletics tournament at @MEChilternEdge. Lots of fun and good sportsmanship.
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