An ✨epic✨ group of voices coming to #rEDEastAnglia in Suffolk on 13 June! ✈️ This amount of INCREDIBLE expertise under one roof... don't miss it! 🤩 📍 Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #UKEduChat #EduSky #EducationConference @tombennett71.bsky.social @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social @academytrust.bsky.social

Is it just me, or are there a lot more ants than usual?

Whilst writing my thesis, I’ve been leaving bits that will take a while to unpick ‘for later’. Well now it’s later and I am very bitter.

Me when I make a low ball offer on Vinted: Worth a go, seems reasonable. Me when someone makes me a low ball offer on Vinted:

Chicken pox quarantine Day 5. It’s fine. No, it’s totally fine. Honestly, it’s fine.

We had loads of fun plans for the bank holiday/half term… so of course my son has chicken pox 🙃

Happy flies getting in your house season for all who celebrate.

Wonderful evening meeting our soon-to-be Year 7 and their families. Phenomenal turn out and wonderful atmosphere as we met the first group who will be joining Base Camp - our Year 7 base for enhanced transition. So lovely seeing their excited faces! Class of 2033!

So pleased to have been lucky enough to get a @britishacademy.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk Small Research Grant to look at workhouses 1690-1834. Research has already started and I am finding some brilliant stuff www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Just completed my Postgraduate Progress Review to send to my internal assessor and supervisor. What are your aims for next academic year? Submit my thesis. Starting to feel very real.

Productive use of kids’ clubs and nap time. 1,800 words added to my thesis and two conference presentations written. Time to head off to the park!

Can’t wait to speak at the #rEDEastAnglia I’m going to be sharing some ways I think we can support teacher agency whilst still being aligned in our thinking.

#rEDEastAnglia is shaping up to such be a powerful day of professional learning! ✈️ Thrilled to have @ldonald-dsl.bsky.social, @claireharley.bsky.social & Kiran Satti joining us – bringing insight on decision‑making, incident management & safeguarding. 🎟️ Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD

If you put egg boxes at the back of your bookshelves, you can fit twice as many. Now you have an excuse to buy more books! #booksky

Can’t wait to speak at the #rEDEastAnglia I’m going to be sharing some ways I think we can support teacher agency whilst still being aligned in our thinking.

📣 Speaker announcements continue for #rEDEastAnglia! We're so excited to welcome: 💠 Andy Samways 💠 Hannah Sweeney 💠 @bethgg.bsky.social All bringing research‑informed approaches to strengthen everyday classroom practice ✈️ 🎟️ Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #TransformingLives #EduSky

We said goodbye to our lovely dog today 💔

Even the ducks came to school for revision today!

Time to head back to reality after a wonderful few days away with friends. Tomorrow I’m heading into school for revision sessions and then Friday is an EdD day!

Road Songs. A Willerby Story. Eagle eyed villager @claireharley.bsky.social pointed out this was never put on the website so if you get your stories there, go have a look. A haunted guitar and the soul it belonged too. willerby.substack.com/p/road-songs

Getting ready for a supervision meeting this morning. Writing my analysis has been so much fun!

Walking and writing!

First term as a deputy done! Also first (very short) blog in a loooong while!

First term as a deputy done! Also first (very short) blog in a loooong while!

We can get drawn into camps a lot in education, but I think I’m getting the balance right when I change my mind on something… What have you changed your mind about recently?

I’m going to be at the Festive of Education talking about my EdD research!

I’ve just gone from packing Year 11 revision packs to making up paw patrol birthday bags. I mean, honestly 🫠

Set myself a writing challenge! If I average 140 words a day, I will have reached the word count by 1st September!

Trust PD Pathways afternoon means dedicated time for my doctorate. Second of these afternoons so far and love them so much!

The older I get, the more I just want to be part of a coven.

I won’t be posting on International Women’s Day as it’s my birthday weekend and I will be off spending time with my family, but have been thinking about the brilliant women who have supported me in my career thus far.

No matter how much notice I have or how much planning I think I’ve done, world book day creeps upon me every year!

I’m going to be at the Festive of Education talking about my EdD research!

Hello! Love this idea. I’m a deputy headteacher and EdD student

𝐀𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐬! A brilliant day at @researchedbrum.bsky.social a genuine “holiday for the mind”. Ideas, challenge, warmth and connection all in one place. Grateful to everyone who gave up their Saturday to learn together. 🔗 wp.me/p9tOLc-HD

Is it useful? Last session of the day is @bennewmark.bsky.social asking questions about the usefulness and consequences of the way we approach diagnosis

@pkainsworth.bsky.social is as funny and insightful in real life has his blog! Great talk - such an important topic for a profession susceptible to fads

On the floor as I am absolutely not missing @jonhutchinson.bsky.social!

Starting off today with Carl Hendrick arguing the biggest issue we have at the moment in schools is lethal mutations.

🔥 #rEDBRUM 2026 PROGRAMME DROP!!! 🔥 LINK IS HERE, BABS: drive.google.com/file/d/17t5_...

Everyone in our house has been ill this week (besides me, luckily). Rough start to the half term, but excited for @researchedbrum.bsky.social tomorrow!!

This term, we’ve been really intentional about how we structure our Teaching & Learning briefings. Rather than briefings being a space where leaders simply talk about good practice, we’ve shaped them around sharing practice.

Please say I’m covering MFL today…

How do we make decisions in the classroom? A thought process to break down the complexitiies of teaching: open.substack.com/pub/claireha...

Very much in my retelling of Ancient Greek myths/Greek and Roman historical fiction era. Just finished The Penelopiad and now loving Rosie Hewlett’s Medusa. Book recs in this genre if you have them please!

Revisiting Biesta today. Is there a difference between what is 'good' and what is 'effective' in education?

I call this artwork ‘Half Term’

I reeeeally enjoy seeing how far I can stretch a chicken. XL chicken at Aldi gave us (a family of 2 adults 2 little kids): 1. Chicken and mushroom rigatoni 2. Chicken soup from the stock 3. Chicken in white wine sauce 4. Sandwiches for a Teddy bear’s picnic 5. Chicken for a salad tomorrow

How do we make decisions in the classroom? A thought process to break down the complexitiies of teaching: open.substack.com/pub/claireha...

When I’m feeling exhausted or demotivated I make my workspace as pretty as possible. Romanticising the writing process genuinely keeps me consistent when I don’t always want to be! #EdD #PhD #schoolleadership #edres