🧵 My favourite things that our school does for wellbeing/workload
Which are your fav?
1. PPA can be taken at home
2. Termly keep/bin/trim exercises which are acted upon
3. No lesson observations
4. Full day of PPA in the first week of each term
It has been decided SLT can have 1/2 day “non contact time” each week & work from home. I’ve decided to take a full day every other week.….
Today was my first day and by golly it was amazing and sooooo productive with no distractions!
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#SLT2023
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Hi everyone. My name is Clare and I am an assistant head who is passionate about reading. I am fairly new to twitter so trying to grow my reach.
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⭐️ Comment which Year Group box you would choose to win
Maybe for a pupil in your school or maybe for a class library top up? 😍
Draw Mon 24th
17. All staff that run an extra-curricular club for a big term receive a day off in lieu. This can be 3 days a year if you do one all year.
18. We support each other to attend our own child’s nativity, sports day or school performance etc or family events.
5. No weekly/termly written planning/templates required.
6. One celebration display board for work in the corridor. In class displays are working walls only.
7. Walkie talkies in every classroom. Extreme behaviour centralised with SLT/Pastoral.
13. SLT lead daily assemblies with no expectation for staff to attend
14. Teachers do not do break or lunch duties.
15. All staff have an annual Wellbeing Golden Ticket day.
16.Admin team complete tasks such as Parents Evening bookings, reports and sorting payments for trips
8. School reports are 2 sides of A4 max with one summative comment
9. Just 3 data drops per year (Terms 2,4,6) with support staff inputting marks and data for teachers.
10. Sensible marking expectations. Hot marking in the lesson. No comments. The “next step” is the next lesson
Chen’s teacher is in school from 7.30-6pm daily and marks books during lunch.
Chen has read that 1 in 3 teachers leave within the first 5 years.
Q: How many education secretaries will it take to make things better
YOUR TURN ⏬️ add your Chen Q below!
19.Cake Friday with treats provided by SLT and a chance to debrief/offload before going home
20.PPA is allowed to be taken at home
21.Staff encouraged to lead healthy lifestyles outside of school and pursue sports and hobbies. No judgement for what time you arrive or leave
11. Staff meetings focus on professional development. Staff meetings cancelled for parents evening, reports or data drops.
subject leads receive at least one half day per short term. Core subjects receive half a day per week. We can ask for more as needed
I have been teaching 12 years and am a deputy. Saw my dad before work this morning…..
Dad: You’re in sports kit
Me: Yes I’m teaching P.E today
Dad: are you allowed to teach P.E?
Me: are you serious?
Dad: are you qualified to do that?
🙄🤯😜
Can I just publicly say a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to
@DapsDraws
for creating characters that invite black representation so joyfully. Seeing all the ‘Look Up’ and ‘We’re Going to find the Monster’ costumes today has made me all 🥹 Here’s my 5yo son as Rocket!
First day as Deputy (Assistant head last year) and really please with my Curriculum slot on our TD day.
Felt confident and like I actually know what I’m talking about. 😉
Even it was the just before lunch slot, straight after safeguarding training 😬
This time last year I left a consistently good school with a retiring head of 30 years to a school that had received an inadequate judgement 2 weeks before with a leader new to headship.
Was it hard? Absolutely.
Any regrets? Absolutely not.
#impact
#leadership
#bethechange
A beautiful walk to end the quickest half term there ever was!
Roll on Term 2:
- Challenge Partners
- OFSTED (hopefully)
Cannot wait to show the work we have been doing and the impact it’s having on our community. 🤞💪
@missdcox
Also if you run an after school club for 12 weeks, you get a day off in lieu. That’s three days a year off in addition to our well-being day 💕
Year 1 of leading an inadequate school- ✅
What a year of blood, sweat and tears! But it was ALL so worth it! Our children and staff are INCREDIBLE and they deserve the absolute best!
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What do I do after a few wines at the Christmas Party? Order my next gate duty extravaganza……. They’re going to LOVE it! Pics to follow…..
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#forthekids
£70 extra per Pupil Premium child coming April 2023.
How much extra does that mean for your setting?
For our school it means around an extra £5600.
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My first year as a Senior Leader during SATs. I never realised how much of a military operation it is!
Sign in, sign out, lock, escort, registers, a multitude of plastic bags and barcodes 🤯🤯
Anyone else’s first year? 😄
#SATs2023
Benefit of having the same class again means I already have a good idea of their reading habits so tomorrow, everyone will get one I’ve read & thought they’d enjoy as their first Y6 read 📚
#BacktoSchool2023
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Happy reading!
📞 We got the call!
📚 Our reading curriculum is the at the heart of all we do and early reading is strong.
Can’t wait to share any key threads and themes with you all!
🥺 Children’s faces when their Book In A Box delivery arrives through their letterbox 📚
Nearly 1,500 children a month benefitting from a subscription. Are yours?
“If we can get it right for our most vulnerable children we can get it right for everyone.”
“Do less better.”
“Inspect what you expect”
What key phrases keep your focus in school improvement? 🧠 👩🏫
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@Dawnf1
Yes but the capacity to look at them and reply and not someone coming to talk to me or a call to support with something else or a call ….. time to focus on jobs like emails…..
What has everyone done with their Sunday? Work or play?
A day of content here. Dog walk, family visit, delicious hearty spag bol - all reset and ready for the week ahead!
Wonderful books such as this are so important for developing cultural capital throughout our curriculum. Do you have a diverse range of books and authors in your curriculum?
⚠️ GIVEAWAY! ⚠️
TEN winners will win a magazine bundle worth £35!
⭐️ Like, share and tag 3
Top up the school library, reading prizes or gifts for those children you are trying to engage in reading.
Winners announced Friday 2nd!
@BBrainzMag
@whizzpopbangmag
@StorytimeMag
We always review our boxes, their contents and their impact on the children but also the world 🌎
Therefore ALL of the contents of our boxes are now recyclable: book, magazine, activity booklet, tissue paper and then the box itself.
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📚 What a milestone! What started as a small, local business run by me as a teacher is now a small family-run national business providing quality books to the most disadvantaged!
Over 25,000 Book In A Box deliveries completed! Fantastic impact for Pupil Premium wider strategies!
⭐️ Reading for pleasure ⭐️
Don’t get caught in the “trap” of generating data to PROVE children love reading. The culture in your class/school will be clear. Invite “visitors” to speak to children about books, authors and reading. That’s enough to make a judgement 😉
😞 Don’t use the phrase “non-negotiables”
Create a culture where everything is up for discussion or negotiation.
The answer may still be “no” but there’s a cultural difference.
We prefer “active ingredients” ✔️