Siobhan Sanders BSc, MA.
@SiobhanParker11
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Headteacher. Doctorate student - exploring how leaders drive school improvement in MATs. Dabbled in blogging. All views my own.
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Blog Post Two
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Unpopular opinion: for those worried that kids won’t catch up - you’ve clearly never experienced inheriting a weak year 6 cohort 😂🙈. The kids will surprise you!
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For THREE weeks the Amazon forest has been burning! Zero media coverage! The world's largest
#rainforest
and with it, it's
#wildlife
. 😥 Billionaires run to save Notre Dame - where are they now?!
#AmazonRainforest
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NPQH PASSED‼️ 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Wooo so glad that’s done 😅
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Day 30 of headship:
✔️ Sorted some recruitment things
✔️ Sorted some behaviour incidents
✔️ Got through 100’s of emails
✔️ Cleared THOSE shelves! 😬
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❗️Pleased to announce that from the 8th April I have gained a substantive headteacher post 🥺❗️
Huge shift from an acting Head of School for the last 2 years I should imagine! Please tag people who you feel would be great to follow on this journey! 🥰
Any advice WELCOME! 😬
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@TTRadioOfficial
@hussain_roksana
Absolutely not. We have a duty to attempt to educate, not eliminate. Children who make mistakes need guidance, not exclusion. Children. They are children.
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I might write a short blog on the temp transition from deputy head to acting head of school if it is useful for anyone x
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I’ve now uploaded the art, DT, science, geography and history units of work that I’ve built for whole school with progression maps. These can be found for free on my TES account. Username: SiobhanSanders123. Hopefully it helps people out / gives you a spring board. 😀😀😀
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Breakfast bits for all the staff tomorrow for being SO flexible with the SATs. Small schools and one form schools really do struggle logistically 😅
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I feel I’ve really taken what we do as ‘basic’ to be ‘perks’ after convos on here.
✔️ PPA is taken off site, one full day every 2 weeks. Do not expect you in.
✔️ We encourage NPQs. We have had 6 successfully completed in the last 3 years and release time
✔️ We provide time out
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Day 6 of headship:
✔️ morning briefing
✔️ attendance meeting
✔️ meeting for potential social worker student
✔️ meeting with the school improvement partner to design support for an ECT
✔️ Parent survey analysed
✔️ staffing sorted for trips
✔️ dealt with behaviour
✔️
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Day 14 of headship: 🤗
✔️ Met with some parents
✔️ Popped into assembly after for the launch of our whole school art project
✔️ Visited Year 2,3,5 and 6 maths 🧮
✔️ Handed out some praise cards to children working hard 🥹
✔️ Safeguarding paperwork 😐
✔️ Visited the EYFS
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Since March I have been acting Head of School due to a temp leadership shortage and, oh my, it’s been a journey
#baptismoffire
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I have 6 glockenspiels, 2 with missing notes and no funding to replace. Can I write that on my development plan? 🤷🏼♀️ 😅
🎺 Schools will be 'expected' to publish a summary of their 'music development plans' on their websites from September,
@educationgovuk
has said
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NPQH submitted! 🥳🥳 Stick to the word limit they said. Looks like I had to use every word 🤣🤣. Don’t want to do this again 😭
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Day ✨ TEN ✨ of headship done!
✔️ attended a CP conference
✔️ spent lunch time speaking to children
✔️ spent the afternoon WIZZING around on an office chair excited to see some colleagues popping in
✔️ had lunch with a colleague who had popped in from being off for a long
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Day 29 of headship:
✔️ Staff breakfast
✔️ In deputy head interviews all day
✔️ Provided interview letters to the teacher post candidates
✨Successfully appointed a Deputy Head! ✨😬
Off to have wine and a curry! 💕
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❗️Calling all experienced teachers ❗️
I have budgeted a class teacher role for UPS3 and with a TLR to drive a core subject. I have advertised on my new term / DfE. Little interest. I’ve re advertised on WMJobs. Little interest. What’s the main site you would look on when looking
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Day 7 of headship:
✔️ supported a teacher with the moving of room furniture to support behaviour
✔️ started out as the office person for half an hour (let’s say I tried my best 😅)
✔️ meeting with HR around systems used within the MAT
✔️ reintegration meeting with a parent
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Don’t care what anyone says, these are the best books if you are in a teaching and learning role. I’ve used these to inform the teaching and learning framework designed for my school
@teacherhead
@Doug_Lemov
@paul_bambrick
@shaun_allison
@atharby
#Teaching
#educhat
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SATs experience as a head:
❗️2 single section 47’s on the Friday (weekend before) so two children did not spend the last weekend with their families
❗️One child witnessed a child get run over on the way to school on the Monday and was extremely upset
❗️Two children went on
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Day 20 of headship: ✨Happy bank holiday!!! ✨
✔️ finalised budget for 2024/2025
✔️ spent the whole day being thrown into strat meetings after strat meetings
✔️ filed a complaint to SENAR.
✔️ left school at 6pm
✔️ GOT TO THE PUB FOR WINE!!!!
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Day 33 of headship:
✨Successfully appointed an experienced teacher ALL thanks to Twitter!! ✨
✔️ Completed a phase return for one of our teachers - who also then stayed to help with the escorting of interviewees
✔️Successfully appointed a TA post in the morning
✔️ Met with
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Day 11 of headship ✨ with NPQ work added ✨😭🤣
✔️ introduced a temp deputy to the school
✔️ engaged in a DLP project
✔️ dealt with behaviour
✔️ met with parents
✔️ printed off all of the staff’s preference forms for next year
✔️ have been completing the NPQ assessment for
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My wedding photos came today! I’m so pleased with them 😍 Mount Charleston in Nevada was insanely beautiful! 😍
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Day 27 of headship 🥵
✔️ Spent the morning on the phone to social workers and families to get children in for SATs
✔️ Found money around the office drawers to make the money up for a child’s taxi to get in for SATs
✔️ Had TWO people look around for the leadership job today
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I have secured an interview for a Doctorate in Education 😀 fingers crossed 🙆🏼♀️
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Feel so sorry for my year 6’s. Their progress and scores are incredible and would have produced the best the school has had in a few years (and the school is in a position where it really needs it). They’ve worked their socks off - such a shame
#schoolclosuresuk
#schoolclosure
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Day 21 of headship: Spent the whole day thinking it was ✨Monday ✨
✔️ Morning briefing
✔️ Checked in with our most vulnerable
✔️ Walked around school and visited lessons to check on behaviour actions and impact so far
✔️ Lunch duty
✔️ Switched from heels to flats so I could
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And yessss, it RAINED on my wedding day in Vegas 😂😩🎉
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GDS is so subjective in KS2. Moderated last year. GDS were fine.
Then I moved schools. Moderated this week, GDS were weak according to the moderator (yet I would actually say they were stronger than last years!) Did the exact same thing as the previous year .. 🤨
#KS2moderation
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Day 2 of headship:
✔️ Welcome back assembly
✔️ Visiting classrooms
✔️ Finance meeting
✔️ Draft staff structure for 2024/2025 from Budget meeting
✔️ Reviewed SEN budget
✔️ Received ten million emails 🤣
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What a half term that was! Got promoted to deputy headteacher after an intense interview process and Ofsted came and went! 🎉🎉 Now time to chill! 🎉🍷
#halfterm
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Day 13 of Headship ☀️
✔️ Completed the usual 15,000 steps around the school site 🏃♀️
✔️ Sorted a safeguarding incident
✔️ Met with a governor and discussed the lovely upcoming holidays (as well as posts advertised) 💬
✔️ Got OVER-EXCITED when the
@EarlyExcellence
furniture
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Right. ‼️I’m looking for Taylor Swift tickets. I registered last year and have a code for ticketmaster! The issue is I can only go the 20th August! Is anyone selling this ticket and can sell through ticket master / AXS to me? Looking for 2 tickets
#taylorswift
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Day 32 of headship: ☺️😁
✔️ Settled children into class
✔️ Watched the Yr 1 parent assembly. ✔️ Wrote offer letters for various positions (Office manager is currently off so picking up quite a bit of HR!)
✔️ Lunch - sorted behaviours
✔️ Replied to finance regarding some wages
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Day 34 of headship:
❗️Made it to half term ❗️
Hope everyone has a lovely break 😬
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Day 31 of headship: 😴 ✨Counting down the days until I have a full leadership team and additional support staff (Sept!) ✨
✔️ Sorted all staffing timetables and PPA for Summer 2 (does everyone else’s school diaries look bonkers?!)
✔️ Met with a parent a regarding behaviour
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Anyone else crawling to the end of the academic year?! So tired 😭🙈
#teacher5oclockclub
#teaching
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Today I got accepted on a Doctorate in Education course! So happy! 📚🖋🤗
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✨Reached FRIDAY and Day 44 of headship❗️✨ Happy Friday Everyone!
✔️ Dealt with safeguarding
✔️ Meeting with finance where all numbers were finalised after the recent recruitment
✔️ Planned out money for LAC and SEN to match their needs for 2024/2025
✔️ Met with office staff
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If you asked me which staff member I worry about most, it's the SENCO. Their job is incredibly tough. Ours is out of class full time and it’s still not enough. Constantly told by the LA that students don't meet thresholds—it's exhausting. Parents, understandably, want help, but
Being a SENCO is an impossible task!How are you managing the increasingly complex needs coming through? 🤦🏻♀️😞
#squarepegroundhole
#SEND
#help
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Day 8 of headship:
✔️ Caught up with DSLs
✔️ Home visit to some children
✔️ Involved in an external attendance audit to see how we can inform practice
✔️ Behaviour meeting with a parent
✔️ lunch duty
✔️ Safeguarding strat meeting
✔️ Attended staff meeting
✔️ Met with
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- PPA at home for the full day every 2 weeks
- Schemes that show videos on HOW to teach the concept they are delivering to children - with adaptable resources
- Edukey provision for teachers to write IEPs
- Training teachers on AI
- Wellbeing staff meetings closer to the end
@DeputyGrocott
Extended PPA in teams
Specialists to reduce curr load on CTs
Google school no paper planning
Shared planning
Reviewed feedback policy
Report writing day
Reports by email
Well-being team
Days in lieu for residentials
Time for subject leaders
20% non contact for year leads
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Day 25 of headship: 👩💼
✔️ Supported Year 6 in breakfast club for SATs
✔️ Solved an issue with a child attending school for SATs
✔️ Lunch duty
✔️ Shortlisted for deputy head post
✔️ Finalised letters and plans for DH post
✔️ Drafted questions for DH post
✔️ Meetings with
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I don’t know who needs to hear this today but SATs test the KS2 programme of study. KS2. Not Year 6. ✨ ☺️
#SATSDay
Be kind to yourselves! 💕
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Day 19 of headship: 🧐
Spent the day being a ✨social worker✨
The end.
Goodnight 😅
One more day until the bank holiday weekend 🥲
#headship
#systemisbroken
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Any teachers worried about going back to school, I feel you.
Any SLT members worried about section 44 letters, I’m with you.
Remember though, this is not an SLT V’s teachers battle. This is an incompetent government.
#CloseTheSchoolsNow
#CloseTheSchools
#SLT
#COVID19
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Quite a few people have messaged me asking how our school moved teaching from ‘RI’ to ‘Good’. One of the biggest ways was designing and implementing a teaching and learning framework.
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Yes, I was just hiking around in my Jimmy Choos 🤷🏼♀️💁♀️ If you’re not extra on your wedding day, then when are you?! 👀
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I lead teaching and learning (R/W/M) across the school, KS2, maths, school council, PR for the school and mentor NQTs.
Today, I mapped out the curriculum and progression for geography across the school.
Small school problems 😂 Many hats 🎩 🙊
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Am I the only one that hates quizzes?! If one more friend asks me ... 🙈😬
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Had a great supervisor meeting this morning discussing my research proposal and literature review so far ☺️ Sometimes you need to remember how far you’ve come!
#phdchat
#phd
#doctorate
#Thesis
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Day 9 of headship:
✔️ forgot the actual day and thought it was Wednesday 😅 😳
✔️ meeting with site manager regarding applying for a grant for outdoor area
✔️ met with the office regarding purchases
✔️ met with the ECT to discuss last night’s staff meeting and actions
✔️
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@MrsB_NQT
I’ve had an email about my NQTs. It just tells me as long as you’re not failing I can still pass them. It also tells me I don’t need to do an observation to pass them either. So you should be fine :-)
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☀️HUGE thank you to all of YOU for sharing the teaching post across this platform! ☀️I had one applicant before the bank holiday. I will keep you all updated with the revised number of applicants when I’m back at school to see if social media recruitment is the way to go! 👀
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Today a teacher asked me what she should do as she has just caught a pet budgie in the corridor of our school .... I’m not trained for this type of scenario 😂 P.S: the budgie is cute! (We’ve contacted parents to see if anyone has lost a bird)
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❗️❗️Wondered how long this would take 😃🙄. It’s not a SLT V’s Teachers world. Teachers do an incredible job. Heads and teachers should all be working together for the children. I’ve spent YEARS gaining insights into headship through research as I feel the role is just not talked
@SiobhanParker11
@Headteacherchat
Why are you telling us this? Most teachers have worked much harder than you each day. Would you like them to break their day down? Meeting with and having a chat with people is easy; have been there.
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Applied for don’t tell the bride yesterday and had a missed call today from them, following an email! Do I do it?! 😃😃
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Day 23 of headship:
✔️ attended the MAT heads network designated to leadership training
✔️ Caught up with staff
✔️ Messaged back potential candidates for the jobs we have out ☺️
✔️ Sorted some things out with social workers - who are fantastic!
Cannot believe it’s Friday
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Day 15 of headship: (in my PE kit 🏏)
✔️ Sat in a head’s briefing discussing how to handle complaints across the MAT
✔️ Safeguarding half termly meeting with the MAT
✔️ Moaned about the state of education for our most vulnerable and the rate services are closing on them before
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LAST SATs TEST TODAY! 💪🎉 I could sleep for a week! 😂🙈
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@KellyOHanlon8
A whole day?! I just have a lesson observation, (can be done at your own school) some writing moderation about strengths and weaknesses of a piece (with TAFs provided for guidance) and an interview planned! SLT really do need to think about ‘purpose’. I feel that’s enough for me
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Day 26 of headship: 📖
✔️ Spoke with payroll and sorted out some maternity pay errors
✔️ Chased up the children who hadn’t shown up for SATs yet (again!)
✔️ Dealt with KS1 behaviour
✔️ Sat in a Year 3 maths lesson
✔️ Completed all the equipment/ books / stationary order for
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We do history 3 times a year (every other half term). Hopefully this helps someone! PRIMARY HISTORY WHOLE SCHOOL COVERAGE via
@tesResources
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Findings chapter full draft is completed!! My God that was difficult! Fingers crossed I look at it tomorrow and still feel as happy about it as I do now 🤣 (hubby drew my illustration. I have zero artistic skills)
#phdvoice
#phdchat
#PhDstudent
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Day ✨12✨ of headship:
✔️ school improvement advisor meeting - who is a GEM! 🌟
✔️ saw year 2 out on their trip 👀
✔️ finalised plans with the site manager about the new EYFS equipment on the way that’s been sorted 🎉🥳
✔️ liaised with school support for recruitment processes
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Monitoring of teaching and learning has been a key focus this past two years. A focus on pedagogy has really moved the teaching on and a clear monitoring framework is embedded.
#LittleWins
- may also blog!
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@MrBoothY6
@DeputyMitchell
please retweet all of this too! Had no idea this was not the ‘norm’ and has been sold as ‘perks’ 😭🥲
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Day 16 of headship: ☕️
✔️ Sorted cover for absent staff (we have an awful sickness bug going around!) 🤢
✔️ Morning briefing with staff 😊
✔️ Met with the data lead from the MAT who showed me how to pull lots of ✨fancy ✨templates from arbor for bulk letters for attendance
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25 Ascot Tickets have arrived 🎉 Can’t wait for my hen do 🤭
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@wendyfaber2
And this is how, as a country, we’ve ended up in this mess. Not valuing the experienced teachers is the biggest mistake I’ve seen in the sector!
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Had such a productive session today regarding the process of the mock viva. So so close 😭
#phdvoice
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Smashing a pack of cookies before I hit the gym is acceptable, right? 🙈
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Sent hubby to get food. He comes back with enough meat to feed the whole close 🙈😂
#bankholiday
#COVID
ー19
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Always been year 6. Today I covered PPA and taught 4 year olds. Oh my .... 🙈
#primaryschool
#EYFS
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Day 43 of headship - lots of coffee ✨
✔️ Finalised the majority of the SIP for a finance meeting tomorrow🤞
✔️ EYFS pupil progress with data uploaded 😀
✔️ Year 6 pupil progress for TA judgement
✔️ Behaviour meetings with a couple of parents
✔️ Saw some lovely work from
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