Tom HB
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Teacher of History | Subject Lead for Politics | Literacy Coordinator | ITT mentor | Governor | Tweets in personal capacity
Nottingham
Joined January 2012
Okay, here are my education predictions for 2025. 1) Bridget Phillipson will still be Education Secretary in a year’s time. However, for reasons to be explored in the rest of these predictions, her popularity amongst the profession will have waned significantly.
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@EmathsUK I always tell my trainees to read it but with a pinch of salt. Local knowledge will always trump Ofsted. E.g. I have encouraged our trainees to apply to an Ofsted “inadequate” school because they will be well-supported (and their P8 this summer was +0.51!)
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@greeborunner As @Suchmo83 will argue the picture is more rosy in England than in the other three nations. But the executives in NI and Wales are now beginning to put SSP at the heart of their approaches to early reading, which is promising. But it will take time
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I made a conscious effort to use “I Say You Say” and choral response when teaching our unit on the Holocaust this half-term to Year 9. As a result, the number of students who embedded key subject-specific vocabulary in their writing was much higher than previous years.
*New post!* Choral response & 'I Say You Say' are two techniques I use with high frequency during my explanations. Although they seem simple, there is a lot of thinking behind them.
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I was wrong on this one - but that’s because I thought Phillipson understood her own bill
7) Academy freedoms. There will be a three-year plan for academies who pay staff above national payscales to bring them back in line with national pay, without seeing their salaries cut. This won’t be popular. All schools will be mandated to publish their 1265 on their websites.
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4) Ofsted. The scorecard will be similar to what’s been reported, but eight areas rather than ten. There will be a grading/colour-coding system proposed. NAHT/ASCL will kick off, and they will settle on a pass/fail for each sub-category and overall strengths/AFIs aimed at parents
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Lots of thoughts about the Ofsted scorecards. Overall? A retrograde step. But this definitely won’t be the final version.
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First time listening to this on the Riverside app, which is a totally enhanced experience…
Welcome to our live show!
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I assume that if RE becomes a National Curriculum subject then parents will lose their right to withdraw their child? @missdcox
Watch 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 today at 10am This week our panellists discuss: 🔅Should pupils be allowed to opt out of Religion 🔅Teachers clothe & feed children and brush their teeth 🔅What's really going on with teenage girls? #EdChat #Education #EdLeaders #Teaching #Maths #EducationFirst
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I look forward to reading this and evaluating our school’s practice with our weakest and weaker readers (2ndry) in accordance - from what I have heard about the book so far, there are a lot of parallels, but open to ideas as to what we can do differently (or the same but better)
My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday (27th January). Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>
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Very interesting discussion on how far social media is driving a mental health crisis among young people - pertinent given the latest developments surrounding TikTok in the US
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I think Ian has hit the nail on the head here. Leaders: can your teachers teach like this? If not, why not?
This is crucial. This video is far more a challenge to leaders than to individual teachers.
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