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Do you know any Year 6 parents or carers applying for a secondary school place next month? My next free webinar on how to make sense of all the online data about school performance is on Wednesday 24th September at 7:45pm - please help spread the word, thanks! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secrets-of...

Why is communication so hard? Is there any writing on how to get good communication in a large organisation?

'Exam analysis can provide powerful insights into what really matters: how we teach, what we teach and how we develop our teams': @ensermark.bsky.social offers top tips to make the process work for you

Probably the wrong type of day to ask… anyone got any good reading on best practice pedagogy in vocational learning?

And today we are waiting for G’s retirement party in Cardiff castle.

The most thought provoking session of the day was about leadership. The importance of trust and vulnerability. I don’t think you quite appreciate it when you have it in a team, or realise that it’s the missing link when teams struggle. But my experience says that’s right. #red25

Causation or correlation? Love this graph! #rED25

We can’t only rely on experience as leaders. #rED25

#rEd25 I can cross of the Dylan Wiliam quote from my bingo card. I haven’t spotted Rob Coe yet though.!

#rED25 not everything you read about the curriculum review is true.

Ther has been little change in time in ks3 curriculum time per subject, but it has changed in ks4.

On the tube trying to spot teachers. 😆

#rED25 is it on purpose that there is always one session where you want to hear everyone that is speaking? 😆

First Saturday in September? It must be #researchEd Too much choice. But I do have an hour on the train to decide what to see.

That fuzzy feeling you get when someone high up praises someone you mentored.

2025-2026 is a go 🌍 Aim: to combat the idea that the only important subjects are maths/eng, to answer the question “why do we even learn geography?” Oh and to show that geography is everywhere! I’m quite happy with this years one!🥰

🚨PLEASE RT🚨 Are you a full time #teacher in #England? Can you do three, 20 minute surveys approx two weeks apart? Researchers @WorcesterUni are studying teacher #wellbeing, #burnout & the hidden work #teachers do everyday. Interested?! Click here! lnkd.in/exct6_P3

⚠️New Post: Attention ⚠️ "What we attend to, we amplify." Attention is an element of school leadership. Are we considering the attention of school leaders? How often is this spread across multiple areas? Read by thoughts below: researcherteacher.home.blog/2025/08/17/l...

#Booksky #Readersky #Books #Reading

We saw ‘the comedy about spies’ last night. Hilariously clever, the jokes build, and they arrive and they don’t disappoint.

Isn’t the science museum brilliant?

About half way through the summer holidays now and sharing this again for any parents / carers who’ve missed this - a thread of TOYS you can make with your children from scrap materials

I'm not sure it works like that, Steve: inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1880...

I have the reboot of MacGyver on it’s something you don’t have to concentrate on as you know he wins. It’s bonkers. Do you think they start with ‘what problem can MacGyver solve with some duct tape’ and then build the episode around that? Although today he’s defusing a bomb using the millennium bug.

Trying to re-read the Green Rider series before the first half of the last one comes out in September. Into book 4, not sure I am going to make it. 😱

This week’s fun is involving watching the AIG open golf at Porthcawl. Will be back at the weekend to see the climax. It’s been a lovely day.

It starts…

That’s that then for Gary and the ITV cycling team. Gutted.

Phew!

Me right now.

Come on Chloe. 🫣

Do they know the stress they cause? #lionesses

Interesting thought.

Oh Lionesses, do not blow it now. 🫣

See a year ago the cultural knowledge required to understand this reference would have passed me by. Thanks to TGT I get it.

Enjoying channel 5’s slightly daft murder mysteries, Madam Blanc Mysteries, Good Ship Murder and now Murder Most Puzzling.

Wishing, every one a great week filled with kindness, joy and hope.

And if you are a leader do this for your staff. Some might not care, but others do. I need to get better, but had a head who was brilliant at extemporaneous praise and often gave written notes too. I want to be more like that.

Thank goodness the #lionesses are doing well tonight.

This is a brilliant read, and an important part of the picture. Parents are the focus of the law. But if the schools can’t deliver, then it’s all for the birds.

Phew #lionesses

I’m pretty sure every woman leader has had a cry at work. We are human. When our work matters, and we care about it, we feel it. #imwithrachel

Graph of British Rivers

Only 25% informally support others? I hope this low response is because they don’t realise they are doing this, rather than teachers hoarding knowledge.

Really enjoyed Marcus Chown talking about black holes. #cheltscifest

Invisible meat! As you do. #cheltscifest

#cheltenhamscifest I am in you. Looking forward to the four talks I have booked today.

Wishing your students could know enough about the Elgin Marbles to contribute meaningfully to the discussion about their return, because it's a great debate, right? Well, in the TGT Archive, you'll find this on Slide 152 from 29th November last year. #justsayin tutorgroupthink.com/archive