Chloe French
@chloeaefrench
Followers
1,314
Following
777
Media
238
Statuses
1,463
Principal. English teacher. Future Leaders. Teach First ‘09
Joined November 2019
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
برشلونة
• 777516 Tweets
BRICS
• 559224 Tweets
Eminem
• 333784 Tweets
John Kelly
• 249100 Tweets
Atlantic
• 240891 Tweets
Trump is Hitler
• 196813 Tweets
Barcelona
• 153275 Tweets
Bayern
• 142626 Tweets
Pegasus
• 138141 Tweets
#tusaş
• 126872 Tweets
#BlackOps6
• 86760 Tweets
Peñarol
• 62748 Tweets
Hopkins
• 52625 Tweets
#6GoldenYearsWithATEEZ
• 48103 Tweets
#편도행_해적선_6년째_순항중
• 46850 Tweets
Desperation
• 43918 Tweets
Şehitlerimize Allah'tan
• 42105 Tweets
Botafogo
• 36454 Tweets
Raphinha
• 28384 Tweets
Rio de Janeiro
• 24508 Tweets
Recreio
• 19246 Tweets
Varela
• 18775 Tweets
Fallout
• 18540 Tweets
Hatch Act
• 17364 Tweets
Brest
• 16776 Tweets
INBA
• 15082 Tweets
Leverkusen
• 14206 Tweets
Atalanta
• 11553 Tweets
Fermin
• 10726 Tweets
Finally made an appearance this week. Introducing baby George. So worth the wait 💙
36
0
627
So proud and so privileged. I can’t wait for the next chapter, leading the school that I love as Principal. Roll on August! 🤍 💫
𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒍
We are delighted to publicly announce the appointment of Chloe French as our new Principal.
Miss French, a founding member of staff and our current Head of School, will begin her new role in August.
We look forward to this new chapter for all at CMA.
7
5
85
29
1
134
Some work to do on the Wordpress front, but here’s my first ever blog.
An ethic of excellence - building a culture of craftsmanship with teachers.
13
28
128
Last few days of maternity leave. Will miss seeing these faces all day, but excited to get back to work, see colleagues and scholars and start my new role as Vice Principal!
7
1
102
5 years ago today, I was appointed as Assistant Principal at a brand new school about to open its doors to the founding cohort.
Now, those amazing young people are about to shine brighter than ever, and I get to lead us through our next phase as Principal.
What a journey 💫
5
1
101
Happy Christmas! 💫
What a term. Prouder than ever to be Team CMA.
Roll on 2024…
14
0
93
After a summer of memories made with my beautiful boys, the job officially starts tomorrow. Excited doesn’t quite cut it💫
Can’t wait to see our scholars and staff, refreshed and raring to go. And also looking forward to having a new roommate…
@AdnaHarris
3
0
79
A very special day today. Our new building is incredible, and our staff team even more so. I’m so excited for our scholars, and for all that lies ahead as we embark on the next phase of our journey
@CastleMeadAcad
2
3
67
The beginnings of our staff CPD library. An impressive selection!
@HFletcherWood
@C_Hendrick
@Doug_Lemov
@PoojaAgarwal
@EnserMark
@researchED1
@EmathsUK
@MaryMyatt
@RealGeoffBarton
@87History
@HuntingEnglish
@DTWillingham
(Dual Coding with Teachers already out on loan
@olicav
!)
5
12
60
Looking forward to welcoming new colleagues to our induction day next week. Pre-read shared in the post, in preparation for a really collaborative, hands on day exploring what it means to be part of Team CMA 💫
8
6
55
Fascinating to hear
@Miss_Snuffy
talk about establishing a culture of candour.
‘If someone has gone out of their way to put themselves in the uncomfortable position of giving you honest feedback, *be grateful*.’
@TMETrust
@CastleMeadAcad
#GrowingGreatLeadersSeries
Excited for our Growing Great Leaders Series to kick off next week! We have some incredible speakers lined up to challenge our thinking as we strive to keep getting better. A great opportunity for
@TMETrust
staff to come together, too.
0
5
26
1
10
49
New addition to CMA classrooms this year: baskets on every desk to engineer efficiency around effective use of mini whiteboards. Part of our drive to ‘relentlessly monitor understanding’.
4
4
43
Some snapshots from the Summer Booklet we’re sending out to our new yr 7s. Lots of ‘what to dos’, clear explanations of ‘the why’ around some of our routines, & plenty of questions & tasks to complete. We can’t wait to go through these with our yr 7s at the start of the new term!
2
9
41
Little man out with grandparents today so that I could pop into school. Amazing to see a snapshot of life in our new building & such a joy to see our wonderful scholars again! So polite & so many smiles. Grateful to still feel very much a part of the CMA family while on mat leave
2
0
41
@RufusWilliam
@olicav
Establishing a shared understanding of the ‘why’ behind an open doors ethos & specifying norms as to how it’s enacted (inc. what to do/not to do when going into a lesson) are both key. To aid colleagues in giving precise, developmental feedback, we use this email template:
3
3
40
Wonderful lunch with wonderful colleagues today. My last day in this building as will now be working from home until mat leave starts, and we’ll be in the new build when I return. Quite a profound moment: a very special journey began here! Long may it continue.
6
0
40
Back together! First face-to-face meeting as a team in what feels like forever. Raring to go now. Roll on next week...
@TomHague88
@MichaelaRueben
@NikMurphy3
3
1
37
Four and a half years in, and the most amazing journey so far. Proud every day to be Team CMA 💫❤️
It is with immense pride we officially announce that we have received an ‘Outstanding’ rating in our first ever Ofsted inspection.
We could not have achieved this without the support of scholars, families, staff and the
@TMETrust
Read the report here –
24
34
187
2
0
37
Not sure my new Vice Principals are prepared to put the graft in…
0
0
35
Excellent first day of
#FutureLeaders
@Ambition_Inst
, looking at crafting school culture.
Create clarity, over-communicate clarity, reinforce clarity.
Practise with pupils; practise with staff.
100% consistency.
Thank you
@ldsparkes
&
@DTA_JThompson
- inspirational.
2
2
35
Hearing from
@AdnaHarris
, ‘queen of instructional coaching’, at today’s ECF conference
@LeLTSH
@TeachFirst
0
6
34
Loved our day out at
@CattowsFarm
today. Planning lots of little adventures for the last 8 weeks of maternity leave!
1
1
34
A helpful summary of why ‘pause points’ are so important in remote lessons, from ‘Teaching in the Online Classroom’
@Doug_Lemov
. A very useful read.
1
9
34
Abandoning unhelpful rhetoric around ‘hard to reach’ families, and instead asking the question ‘how do we make our school easy to reach?’
@jameslane41
on improving attendance.
@Ambition_Inst
#FutureLeaders
1
6
33
Ensuring our pupils speak and write like scholars: the focus of today’s Professional Learning. “Vocabulary is the breath of life of the curriculum” - love this quote from
@MaryMyatt
from
@pna1977
’s podcast! Great contributions, as always, from the
@CastleMeadAcad
team.
2
7
32
What a Christmas present. My new nephew, Baby Otis. Arrived Christmas Eve morning 🤍
1
0
33
What a day, what a team!
Thank you to everyone who sponsored us.
8
2
33
As leaders, we have an ethical responsibility to be guided by high-quality information. It’s dangerous to assume that this comes purely from books&research; high-quality information comes from speaking to each other.
@KLMorgan_2
on building relational trust- excellent session
4
7
32
Our scholars wrote some beautiful letters this week, explaining why they’d like to receive a bouquet to give to someone special this Mother’s Day. Such a joy to read them all, and a privilege to give out these out this afternoon!
1
0
32
Reading through letters our scholars have written to the new yr 7s & it’s an absolute joy.
‘I feel privileged to be a CMA scholar because you get so many opportunities to try new things. Teachers are so kind & are always there to help.’
Our school community is very special.
0
7
32
Our first School Improvement Group this evening, and we’re focusing on all things behaviour: open, smart, ambitious staff, helping us to keep on getting better. The teamship in our school is so strong 💫
Chaired by the inspirational
@MichaelaRueben
0
0
30
Reading his favourite story to little brother. Think he’s about ready for babysitting duties.
3
0
31
A bit late to the party, but started this today. Already so many illuminating analogies and fascinating real-world examples. Particularly like the section on systems over goals: focus on the system and ‘the score takes care of itself’. Apt reading for the start of a new year 👌
3
2
29
Grateful to
@clivewright1969
for coming to CMA this afternoon to talk to us about servant leadership and creating a culture of candour.
A great way to end this year’s Growing Great Leaders Series!
2
1
29
‘Now that you’ve been shown, you can practise on your own and you’ll all be expert fliers by the time you’re fully grown.’
We’re all enjoying the delightful ‘Zog’ this evening!
2
1
27
Three years ago today since I interviewed for an Assistant Principal role at CMA. We didn’t even have a building at the time. What a journey and a privilege it’s been!
1
0
27
Staff & scholars have all written ‘their sentence’, capturing the mark they want to leave on the world. Some were shared today; it was special.
Our school’s: ‘CMA grew a community of excellence where all staff & scholars thrived & were empowered to lead happy &fulfilled lives.’
1
2
27
Two apprentices helping me at work today. Future CMA scholars in the making 💫
0
0
26
All smiles at CMA on World Book Day!
Still bitter I didn’t get the conch, though..
@thorleymaths
@AdnaHarris
1
3
26
Ready to pop, but so enjoying our special days together while we wait for little brother to arrive.
2
0
26
This afternoon we focused on honing the art of teacher exposition. We scripted explanations and practised delivering these, giving each other feedback on leanness and lucidity of language, and the clarity & cadence of delivery.
@pe_mrg
took it to the next level, props and all!
1
2
25
Excited for our Growing Great Leaders Series to kick off next week! We have some incredible speakers lined up to challenge our thinking as we strive to keep getting better. A great opportunity for
@TMETrust
staff to come together, too.
0
5
26
Remote learning at our school - a thread.
Have found reading about other schools’ approaches really helpful in continuing to refine our offer, so thought I would share an overview of what we’re doing currently. Questions and feedback welcomed.
/1
2
8
25
‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
#WorldBookDay2023
@thorleymaths
@AdnaHarris
1
2
26
On distributed leadership:
“The best leaders lead *through* others; they don’t micro manage others to become ‘mini-mes’”
@jameslane41
#FutureLeaders
@Ambition_Inst
0
3
24
First time delivering Friday PL in over a year. Grateful for such an amazing staff team. So happy to be back!
1
0
25
Finally got to meet baby Zaniyah today. So beautiful, just like her mum. So good to see you
@MichaelaRueben
, we all miss you!
4
0
25
Proud doesn’t cut it 💫
#Founders
#GrowingACommunityOfExcellence
One week countdown until GCSE exams begin! Year 11 scholars working hard with their revision in lunch time study club with Miss Thorley. 📚📖
0
1
13
0
0
24
Lovely to see my year 7s engaging in such informed, critical and professional discussion using the
@Showmyhomework
‘Discussion’ feature. A great way for me to gather feedback on their learning and, as one of our scholars put it, ‘if we collaborate we are still united as a team’.
2
3
23
Looking forward to spending some precious time with this precious pair over the next couple of weeks.
Wishing colleagues a wonderful and restful break. See you in the summer term!
1
0
23
Graduation Day for the big boy. So proud of him and grateful to his wonderful nursery for a beautiful send off. Just about managed to hold it together for a photo..
Next stop: primary school!
0
0
22
Kouzes & Posner on leadership:
Great leaders are clear about what they believe and model this, always. They challenge the process, enable others to act & inspire a shared vision.
The greatest leaders encourage the heart.
@Ambition_Inst
@jameslane41
0
4
21
What a joy this week has been. Lost count of the number of scholars who have asked to recite the poem to me, and they do so with such pride and determination. Hats off to
@LVCWoods
for fostering a shared love of poetry amongst our entire school community
Castle Mead has been buzzing this week as scholars and staff have focused upon learning the next stanza of our poem, Invictus, as well as answering the big question 'Who was William Ernest Henley, and does it matter?'
#PoetryInVoice
#Invictus
#MasterOfMyFate
#CaptainOfMySoul
0
1
19
0
4
20
Planning my offering for our menu of ‘Castle Talks’, created by the
@CastleMeadAcad
team and organised by
@MichaelaRueben
.
#BuildYourCharacter
0
1
21
Privileged to work with such talented, open colleagues. Tangible enthusiasm at our Curriculum Leaders’ forum this morning, as we discussed the scope for intelligent interdisciplinarity, the sharing of expertise, and the importance of responsive leadership.
2
3
21
Winging it half the time… But the way they love each other, I must be doing something right!
Happy Mother’s Day to all 🤍
1
0
21
Far too excited about my new planner. Bespoke, and lots of additional space to write questions, scripts, feed forward notes... etc. Deserved a Boomerang!
0
1
21
Thought-provoking session from
@mathsmumof2
, looking at associated behaviours and impacts of the hegemonic ideal in schools and beyond. Tender, over toxic, masculinity- with credit to
@Positivteacha
2
2
21
Future Leaders launch today. So excited!
Really excited to launch the 14th cohort of Future Leaders today with
@Ambition_Inst
.
Another 135 colleagues join us to kick off their 2 year journey, starting by learning to craft school culture with
@jameslane41
@DTA_JThompson
@ldsparkes
&
@Barker_J
.
#FutureLeaders
#cohort20
5
6
60
1
2
20
Our Y10s thoroughly enjoyed the
@NationalTheatre
production of An Inspector Calls at
@CurveLeicester
today. So proud of the exceptional manner in which they conducted themselves, which was praised by members of the public and theatre staff. We wouldn’t expect anything less!
0
0
20
Ending the day completely awe-struck. Thank you,
@jazampawfarr
A phenomenal speaker, empowering words, and such an important voice.
0
1
22
Toasting the fact that, after over 35 years together, my parents have set a date for their wedding. Roll on May!
2
0
20
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of empathy, sensitivity and listening.
Inspiring talk from
@nazirafzal
at our Trust PL Day.
@TMETrust
@Mead_Institute
#AlwaysLearning
0
2
21
The important distinction between ‘snapshot’ checks for understanding and the longer-term substantiation of these is explicated with such clarity and substance by
@SaysMiss
here. Prompted rich discussion in this week’s PL session - thank you.
1
2
20
Great coaching conversation with
@thorleymaths
today, discussing how ‘own and track’ (
@Doug_Lemov
) could be used to optimise feedback lessons.
Instructional coaching continues at CMA whilst we teach remotely, to make sure we keep getting better.
2
2
19
An excellent summation of the importance of planning to the detail. The subject knowl/substance/action distinction is particularly useful. Given a lot of thought recently to how we might use similar questions (first draft here)
@CastleMeadAcad
. As always, subject autonomy is key.
Booklets, Rosenshine, Teach Like A Champion, and Knowledge-Rich Curriculum
29
243
816
1
7
18
That was quick…
My beautiful boy is 3 🎈 Perfect family day in the sunshine ☀️
Finally made an appearance this week. Introducing baby George. So worth the wait 💙
36
0
627
0
0
19
So lovely to see
@Kellyhartopp
in school today. Managed to squeeze in a selfie with
@MissDeeshaM
- three generations of mentors! ❤️
2
1
19
A bit fresh out this morning 🏃♀️ but the countdown is on to the Spring
@thewolfrun
with team CMA - can’t wait!
2
0
19
Come and join our amazing team!
We believe knowledge is power.
We believe in the value of scholarship.
We believe in developing experts.
Hear from
@chloeaefrench
below, as to our approach to Teaching and Learning at CMA.
Come and join our team!
Sign up for our recruitment event:
0
6
36
0
4
18
It was amazing to see many of our families at our ‘Welcome to Year 7’ event this evening 💫
0
0
18
Excitement is building for this evening’s Christmas concert. I can’t wait to see our talented scholars perform! 💫
0
0
18
Celebratory team breakfast to kick off our PL day today 💫
0
1
18
Out for a run this morning. My first in forever. Very slow, but felt good to get moving again!
1
0
18
Finalising arrangements for this year’s Growing Great Leaders Series. We have some incredible speakers lined up- watch this space,
@TMETrust
colleagues!
0
1
18
And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who contributed this afternoon. Stimulating discussion and great team spirit.
#CMAPLchat
5
2
18