As tradition demands, my group get to push me into the river at on our Year 6 residential at Thorpe Woodlands - this year, they even took a run-up!

First Colchester United game for Emma today.

Very grateful to @teachertapp.bsky.social for making my blog one their Daily Reads. If you’re thinking of adding a specialist provision to your mainstream school, or want to know more about specialist units in general, I hope you find it useful. eattheheadshipfrog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/o...

My parents were just sorting through a few things and found my old 7” single collection, including these absolute classics from one of my childhood ( and adulthood! ) favourites, the wondrous @kylieminogue.music-social.com ! I had a jeans patch with her on too - she’s amazing!

I know that many schools are considering their own #SEND provisions due to a lack of places elsewhere and so I have written this blog today to share our experience of having a Specialist Unit at our school in case it is of use. eattheheadshipfrog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/o...

The Red, White And Blue Jays Fantasy Premier League is for @torontobluejays.bsky.social fans all over the world - come and join us at the link below! fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...

Beautiful gift from our Year 6 leavers of a signed, framed photo of the whole class wearing their @torontobluejays.bsky.social jerseys. Will be up on the office wall very soon!

Just when you think you couldn’t love Troy Hawke any more than you already do…

It’s the Year 6 sleepover at school so I have to pull an all-nighter - currently powering through it with many, many cups of tea and a perfectly timed @torontobluejays.bsky.social game. Last child went to sleep at 3:20 am…!

The @teachertapp.bsky.social effect…! Thank you for making one of my old blogs on feedback for non-shortlisted candidates the Daily Read today. eattheheadshipfrog.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/6...

The face of someone who was thrilled to discover he still knew the words to Together Forever by Rick Astley when it came on in ASDA… …and the face of someone who was not thrilled to listen to him sing it all the way around the store!

Lucy’s chemo starts next week and altogether her treatment will last for over a year so it’s important to catch the sunshine when you can, which we did tonight when her wigs arrived!

Thank you to @torontobluejays.bsky.social legend and broadcaster supreme Buck Martinez for this message. Great to hear he’s looking forward to seeing Sir Harry Ford and GB Baseball in the WBC again too!

The news that my wife Lucy has breast cancer turned our world upside down. She is being so brave as she prepares to undergo treatment to cure and things like this help so much: the wonderful staff at her school doing Race For Life to show their support. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/team-br...

This was fun!

This was such a wonderful surprise ( and we have a very cool new school uniform now! ). www.instagram.com/p/DJCwpp_J06...

Well, this was quite the surprise! Not every day Fanatics arrange an out-of-the-blue visit to your school behind your back to give the children a new ( and definitely improved! ) uniform because they saw your @torontobluejays.bsky.social assembly! Look out for the full story on their socials.

Our amazing Mrs Harries will be taking part in the #LondonMarathon on Sunday 27th April to raise money for the school. If you would like to support her, you can sponsor her here: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... Go Mrs Harries!

Mothers’ Day stroll in the sunshine at Markshall Estate.

Had a surprise delivery at school today - a Blue Jays / R2-D2 hat! Two of my favourite things ever combined in one warm, cosy, stylish accessory! No idea who sent it, but they clearly have impeccable taste - thank you mystery Baseball Santa! #CapsOn

Today is #OpeningDay, which called for a special assembly at school this morning all about the @torontobluejays.bsky.social wa! The children certainly know their stuff…

With #OpeningDay just around the corner, here’s a flashback to 5 years ago when the pandemic meant the ballparks were empty so we had our own Opening Day at school with our key worker children and the @torontobluejays.bsky.social walked it off against the Yankees!

“ Daddy, can we go to Duxford today please? “ Music to my ears!

Cannot recommend this book highly enough to all of my #edusky friends. As a memoir it is beautiful, but as a validation and celebration of the power and importance of literature and humanities it is absolutely essential. You can buy a signed copy here: www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

My primary school’s History Club trying to answer one of the big questions here. It would be wonderful if any fellow #IC members could reply to the children's video on our school feed please - they have a real passion for learning about the Second World War and loved putting this together.

Our Parents’ Evening supplies are all laid out and ready to go in the staffroom - someone has added a banana and turned it into a work of art called “ The Fruit Bowl’s Lament “ 🍌😭

Please support our school and Comic Relief if you can. The children have visited care homes, litter-picked, donated to food banks and charity shops and planted trees as well as having a second Christmas, a Hokey Cokey flashmob in town, ice cream for breakfast and more! So proud of them!

We are fundraising for Comic Relief on their 40th birthday by trying to make the world a better place in 40 different ways. Check out our Just Giving page to see what we have done so far and please donate if you can. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Never had a Del Boy on World Book Day before - had to be done!

Happy World Book Day!

Your annual reminder that the definitive pancake topping is blue cheese and raspberry. #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday

Had a delivery of green face paint today - time for Shrek to make his annual #WorldBookDay appearance this week!

Treated myself to a very, very early Christmas present and booked tickets to see the wondrous @susiedent.com at The Apex in December - can’t wait!

Friday competition time! 🎉 #Marvel's Hawkeye and Loki Season 2, and #StarWars' Ahsoka and The Mandalorian Season 3 are OUT NOW on 4K steelbook. We have sets of all four to give away! To enter: RT, follow Empire, and reply telling us your favourite show of the four... UK entrants only, must be 18+

It’s one month until #RedNoseDay, so it’s time for my annual sharing of my blog in praise of whole school theme days and events and how Comic Relief played such an important part in helping me to establish myself as a new headteacher. eattheheadshipfrog.wordpress.com/2020/08/02/t...

Happy #ValentinesDay ❤️

This was a beautiful surprise at school today and a little overwhelming ( in a good way! ). Very, very lucky man.

Suffolk schools - we’ve booked the incredible @rockkidzuk.bsky.social for Feb 11 next year if anyone wanted to book them the day before - helps cut costs a bit. Cannot recommend them enough - fun, active, great messaging and top tunes that have a lasting impact.

Today we’re visiting @danielwoodrow.bsky.social in Suffolk 🥁🎤🎸 Next year is already in the calendar 👏 We’ve been teaching our #AntiBullying anthem “Taking Bullying Down” ✅KINDNESS is the way ✅Make everyone feel WELCOME in school

It's Valentine's day on Friday - so we're giving away a Hotel Chocolat Large Dipping Adventure this evening (it'll be with you in time for the big day!) To win, simply LIKE, REPOST and make sure you're following us - the winner will be announced later today. Good luck! 🍫 ❤️ 🍀 #edusky #edchat

Outfit sorted for @rockkidzuk.bsky.social on Tuesday!

Thank you to @newsagents.bsky.social for playing my voice note about the new Ofsted report card to Bridget Phillipson today and for a great wider discussion on education and teaching. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Either Tesco forgot to switch off the autosuggest or they are big fans of An Officer And A Gentleman! @simonmayo.bsky.social

This was a lot of fun! #wicked

We think the world would be a better place if everyone was like Elphaba from Wicked - she is brave and good and stands up for what she believes in - so we tried learning her battle cry from Defying Gravity! Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-0L...

Just finished listening to The Siege by Ben Macintyre - a fast-paced, gripping account of the six day siege of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 and how it was ended by the SAS. He really is a masterful writer - I was completely gripped. Thoroughly recommended!

Legend.

Lovely moment in class today when I asked if anyone knew the name of the Greek writer of stories with a moral or message like The Tortoise and the Hare and one pupil replied in glorious sincerity, “ I don’t know his first name but I know his second name - it’s Fables. “

Incredibly grateful to the lovely people at MLB Europe for sending me these wonderful gifts - so kind! Let’s go @torontobluejays.bsky.social!