5 hours into the power cut. Time for bed, I think. Hopefully wake up with it fixed!

Absolutely brilliant. I am in awe of this incredible woman! Well done Sara Cox!

Friday night in watching telly on the sofa stolen from me with (currently) hour long power cut.

‘Exclusive’: things that have been happening since the dawn of time. I’m surprise the proportion isn’t more. It’s been 100% in the 9 schools I’ve worked in.

My favourite comment on a news report featuring our school this week. I may get it framed!

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How many are on the SLT at your school? We are 11-18 Local Authority with 1214 students. Me DHT 3 x AHT SENCO Head of Sixth Form It seems in line with the schools where I have worked previously but may be different around the country? Think I would struggle for capacity if we cut any.

It isn’t necessary to pander to the racists to get elected.

Frankly, it’s amazing that schools work at all. Every day, hundreds of pupils stream through the gates and a vast, invisible system whirs into motion: teaching, safeguarding, meals, attendance, support, behaviour, communication, enrichment and care. A short thread about why schools are miracles:

Have to say the school trip to China was a huge success. 24 year 11’s, 4 teachers. I wasn’t convinced when we were told we could keep the price less than £1500 per student (£500 pupil premium) but we did and for that we got… (1/2)

There may be savings to be made at the big MATs with huge central teams, but our school is a local authority school. Our local authority is skint. There is nothing left to cut! @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social

Finishing off an awesome school trip to China in Shanghai. What a brilliant week.

I was also presented with a beautiful hand painted scroll. Not sure how I’m going to get it in my suitcase.

The second school we visited today had drone flying on their curriculum. They had to fly the drone back into the classroom. Michael Gove would not be happy.

Our first school visit at a high school in Hai’an. Here I am signing a partnership agreement in a very fancy meeting room.

Day 2 of our trip to China. What a brilliant day.

China bound! See you on the other side! www.facebook.com/share/p/1GPz...

The floor collapsed in one of our 50 year old ‘temporary’ buildings today putting three classrooms out of use. We also got a quote to make the trees damaged in the recent storm safe (£7000!!!). Anyone out there want to gift our school a shit load of money?

Please can they also introduce mandatory ‘enough money to run a school’?

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Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

On Educating Yorkshire tonight: “it’s not easy, it’s well-taught”. Lovely.

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So yesterday’s migration from Google to Microsoft wasn’t as straightforward as promised. Anyone have any ideas why as to why I can’t add my Google calendar to Outlook?

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The new year has arrived! Year 31 here we go!

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Wonder how many people listened to this in a church this morning and yet will also go online or in the streets later today and call for the shutting of borders and for those in the most desperate need to be turned away?

Ah, naive little me, thinking my first year of being a Head was done at the end of term! Nobody warned me about the relentlessness of the summer holidays! Luckily I have been far away for most of it, but there is no switching off.

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Happy results day everyone! And happy new year to our Leicester colleagues who go back to work today (I’m so sorry).

Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.

The leader of our council. ‘Schools getting extra money’- how is he in this position?

For pre-season we went to watch Flamengo Mirassol at the Maracanã last night. Incredible atmosphere. Bring on Forest Brentford next week!

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Today wasn’t too bad either…

Yesterday was incredible

Lucy Bronze played the whole tournament with a fractured tibia?? Absolutely hard as nails!!

Incredible.

2028 MGW #NFFC

I never get things with the correct spelling of my name! My cousin brought this back from Italy.

First year of headteachering done! I’ve loved (almost) every minute. Happy holidays Derbyshire teachers! Hang in there my Nottingham friends - just one more day!

What a lovely idea.

As well as best wishes, love and all the support they have needed and wanted over the past 7 years to enable them to grow and develop into the incredible young people they are, we give our Year 6 children a pencil case full of everything they’ll need for Year 7 as they leave us. 1/3

So we had a substantial leak at school today which resulted in no water and a school closure. Nothing like a nice calm end to the year! 4. More. Days…

Come on England!!!

Just got home after a lovely presentation evening at school. So many wonderful comments from parents which is much appreciated as we crawl to the end of term. And then one dad said ‘the trouble with this school is that you’re too woke’. Well, yes. Yes we are.