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David Scales
@MrDavidScales
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Principal of Astrea Academy Woodfields, Doncaster. https://t.co/IPLUIl9lFX - Views my own.
Sheffield, England
Joined August 2013
Very very proud of @AAWoodfields in the @astreaacademies annual report. We have worked so incredibly hard to turnaround one of the schools in this country that has needed it most. The people that did it were our amazing staff and our incredible scholars.
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Exactly this. For the many or the few? And for the few, how can we help and support them to turn their lives around - in a specialist setting. No school community should have to fear for their safety, and having served in a school that suffered a triple murder, the grief.
The default position of a school that finds a knife in a student should be an immediate suspension, with a presumption to exclude except in the most extenuating of circumstances (eg it was planted on them). The safety of children is sacred. Exclusion doesn’t mean the student is ‘cast out of society’- they are placed in another setting, preferably a specialist one. This may even provide the young person with a better environment in which to change. But every other child in the school threatened by a knife deserves their rights and needs to be upheld by us. And that means excluding any child with a knife. They need to know ‘this will happen to me if I carry’. Which maximises the deterrent, and reassures students, staff and parents: we are safe
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RT @Rebekah_Ramsden: Do you have the ambition & expertise to lead @Netherwood_Acad on its journey to becoming an exceptional school? If you…
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Triplicate marking… HORNET 🐝 if ever I’ve seen one! 🤣 @joe__kirby
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RT @tes: Education secretary @bphillipsonMP today told a live webinar for the schools sector she is ‘concerned’ about the amount of school…
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RT @Rebekah_Ramsden: Today I popped in to Y7 @AAWoodfields in music. It was a joy to see the whole class playing an instrument, reading th…
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Tickets now available! 🎟️ I will host a PANEL of leaders who will talk about the challenges they have overcome followed by food and drinks. Hot off the press! @richardtutt will be on the panel. Book now! 👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿
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RT @tetheredtoed1: I keep ruminating about how my workout classes are led by and include a lot of teachers who spend their days at school e…
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RT @BarryNSmith79: Astrea Academy Woodfields. If u know a teacher frustrated by dreadful behaviour & SLT who do nothing to improve it but w…
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RT @DamianLeese: Wow! What a privilege to visit @MrDavidScales and his team at @AAWoodfields. Remarkable turnaround and transformation of…
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RT @njw499: Great students, great Leadership, great school. Thanks to @MrDavidScales and @AAWoodfields for hosting a brilliant day! https:/…
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Always an incredible pleasure to welcome visitors to Woodfields. We give a warts and all tour, talk about how we transformed this school, what we do really well, what we need to improve. We welcome the feedback and the sharing of ideas, and are glad if anything helps.
Welcome to visitors from across the country for our first ever @aawoodfields Visit Day. We hope you enjoy meeting the scholars and staff and hearing about our rapid transformation.
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RT @TTRMaths: ** Announcing ** @AMercerMaths will be speaking at TTR Connect in the Maths strand! Call and Response in the Maths classroom…
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RT @Dr_Castelino: Can we please stop acting like practising 6 mark questions is going to get students better at doing 6 mark questions in S…
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