Paul Cornish
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Exec Director of Ed. in a cross-phase (5 primary, 3 secondary) MAT in sunny South Devon. Love Guinness. Love rugby (Chiefs and England). Love all sport.
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Me: ooh, I'll email that to myself and read thoroughly later.
Me 2 secs later: ooh, an email. Who on earth is mailing me at this time in the morning?!
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@Jobaker9
@sainsburys
They clearly don't know the UK law.
The minimum age in law for alcohol consumption in the home is, believe it or not, 5 years of age.
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I can't believe the daily briefing has ceased.
This was the only line of communication from the government to Headteachers.
How are we going to know what is expected of us in schools the next morning if we can't find out each evening at the same time as Joe Public?
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If outdoor exercise is banned completely due to the minority who refuse to follow the current guidance...I will know how every child has ever felt when a teacher has issued a whole class detention because a few couldn't stop talking.
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When you are about to turn in and your 14 yr old daughter says, "Daddy, would you mind shaping, buffing, and polishing my nails for me?" 🙄🙄
Not a bad job done though, even if I do say so myself!
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Seeing a few tweets about returning to Term 3
When did this become a thing, six terms in an academic year?
In my head, there are 3 terms, split into 6 half terms. Each full term split by a 'half term' holiday in Oct, Feb and May.
Surely it is now Term 2 - the Spring Term.
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I didn't manage a weekly shop at the weekend. I went to Tesco this evening. I really didn't want to.
Halfway round, a parent of a student stopped me, apologised for interrupting my evening and thanked me and my staff for everything.
I nearly burst into tears. I'm glad I went.
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4 things on my Christmas list:
A one year injection of school funding to cope with COVID costs
Ofsted inspections cancelled until Sept 2021
School performance tables postponed for further year
Urgent clarity over GCSE and A levels in England this summer
Retweet if agree
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Teacher salaries up between 5 and 8.9%, putting staff costs up massively
Inflation 9.1% putting most bills and resources costs up massively
Per pupil funding up 1.9%, making very little difference to income.
Anyone see a problem here?!
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Had he not passed away, aged only 67, in 2016...today would have been my Dad's 75th birthday.
Cheers, Dad. Happy birthday 🍷
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I am firmly in that zone where I need the end of term right now, whilst also needing at least a fortnight extension to get at least four weeks worth of work done in the next 10 school days.
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Can't say I was jealous of those that went back to school last Tuesday, whilst I still had a week of Easter hols left.
But today, I am a little envious that they have a week of the summer term under their belt.
Start of term dread and anxiety levels are high today!
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Some of you may have picked up from some of my tweets over the last couple of months that I have spent the Autumn Term on a massive health kick.
The pics are my bathroom scales 100 days apart. 1st September to 10th December.
It has been hard work, but so worth it!
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3 stone down in 100 days!
Really enjoyed my journey with the Elite14 programme building sustainable habits.
If you want to get involved comment ‘more info’ and
@KatMerchant14
will DM you
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Thank you teachers across the UK for what you have always done, what you have done over the last 9 weeks, and what you will continue to do for the remainder of the summer term and beyond.
An incredible profession full of amazing people!
#thankateacherday
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Only went and got myself a
#parkrun
PB this morning.
31 mins 44 secs.
I know this isn't fast by most people's standards. But I am quite proud nonetheless.
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Really, really tricky day.
As a result I have opened the 1 litre bottle of brand name irish cream liqueur and poured myself a MASSIVE glass over ice.
It was not to be opened until Christmas!
When I am done. I will probably pour a second.
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195 term days in a school year. Schools 'closed' for 10 term weeks. 3 have been 4 day weeks. Schools have been 'closed' for 47 days.
47 days is approx. 1/4 of a year.
47 days is 1/58 of a school career lasting 14 yrs (yrs R to 13).
47/2730 days.
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Made the dizzy heights of fame in the local newspaper...
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Sometimes you just have to buy yourself flowers and put them on your own desk...just because.
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Would give anything for the phone to ring right now and for it to be my old man.
He always knew when I could do with a debrief.
He would ask how the week had gone and I would hardly have to say much at all. He would understand, empathise, care and be proud.
I miss him.
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@laurenpattison
If Mum put anything on the dinner table in a jug.
Jug of water
Custard in a jug, instead of straight from pan into individual bowls
Gravy boat, instead of straight onto plates...
Jug of any sort = trying to be posh for guests!
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@GavinWilliamson
It is very good news.
Any chance, whilst you're online, you could let Headteachers across the country know what's happening in schools on Monday.
Staff need to know what they are planning for for each year group and parents need to know which children will be in school/at home.
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@emily_murnane
My children (13, 11, and 9) were discussing at lunch today how they can't believe shops still sell children's clothes in gender sections.
They are horrified that there is such a divide.
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Another Secretary of State for Education in the job for only five minutes and only as a stepping stone to a role considered more significant/important.
Can anyone name a single thing he has achieved during his time in the role?
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Two bugbears this morning:
1. It is an espresso, not an eXpresso
2. Outlook 'reactions' to emails. My professional work emails are not social media posts. A brief professional reply is more appropriate than a 👍
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The email from
@GavinWilliamson
sent to Headteachers at 1803 on the first day of our holiday (implicitly expecting us to be working) is pages and pages long...and ends with... 1/2
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Gonna have to stop going to the supermarket...too emotional.
This evening I'm paying for a very full trolley of shopping and a member of supermarket staff approaches me, hands me a carrier full of biscuits/sweets/treats.
"For you and your staff in school. Thank you all"
😭
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Broke up for half term as CEO of a small 3 school MAT
Back to work tomorrow as Exec Director of Education in an 8 school MAT
Change in role...same aims: increase opportunities, maximise outcomes, and improve life chances
Excited about the future for the schools in our Trust
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Increasingly seeing the approaching holiday being referred to as half term. When did this change?
We used to have 3 end of terms (Christmas, Easter, and Summer) and 3 half terms (October, February, and May).
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Exhausted ✔️
Heavy cold ✔️
Sore throat ✔️
COVID ❌️
We plough on. I am dragging myself through currently.
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Today's DfE announcement to schools is more insulting, and has made me angrier, than if they had stuck to their guns and done nothing.
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Really, really hope that Eriksen makes a full and speedy recovery.
Feel incredibly emotional about the whole thing.
This sort of thing, ladies and gents, is exactly why I walked and walked and walked.
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Yesterday, I didn't want to drive the M6 and M5 during the peak of the day but had to leave accommodation in the Lakes at 10am.
So, I spent the day in a city I had previously never visited on the way home.
What a stunning city. Loved it.
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As I stepped out of my van this morning at work in the staff car park...and yes, that is the sea.
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First day of Christmas holiday. No need to get up early. First chance for a lie-in...
4.12am I am being tapped and there is a whisper..."Daddy, Daddy..."
My 11 year old boy is standing over me...
"Daddy, we are 12 mins late for the cricket"
Now downstairs watching.
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stationEry
stationEry
stationEry
Unless of course you are describing something as being motionless 😉
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Me: ooh, I'll email myself a link to that article/blog and read it later
Me 2 seconds later: ooh, an email at this time in the morning. I wonder who that can be...
Every time 🙈🙄
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Gutted to wake up at 5.08am in a panic at the prospect of work today and everything that needs doing.
Relieved to realise it is Saturday and whilst I probably won't manage to drop back to sleep I can at least relax a little. A few deep breaths...and calm.
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Who would like a Science teacher role in beautiful South Devon from 1st September?
Please DM and get in touch.
Can my twitter network the hell out of this please? Find me a Science teacher for next year by the end of this week and the drinks are on me!
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I've only gone and done it...
1st in my age category at this morning's
#parkrun
I am over the chuffin' moon with that!
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Stop urging... guiding... advising... suggesting... asking...
Start bloody telling... instructing... demanding!
There are times when commanding, directive and authoritarian leadership styles are necessary.
This is one of them!
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@SchoolsWeek
Meaning instead of a call on Tuesday for inspection Wed and Thurs, someone will get a call on Wednesday for inspection on the last two days of the Autumn Term.
Merry Christmas, love from Ofsted.
Clearly still don't care about mental health of staff and leaders!
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Just received this via the Teaching Awards 'Thank a Teacher' scheme.
Has blown me away and choked me right up.
No idea who from...but thank you so much. Has made my day!
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It has been a really tough term, with an unexpected twist.
I need a rest and to recharge.
This'll do.
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When one of your schools is short staffed for overnight year 6 residential.
My digs for the night.
Slippers on for the evening's calming activities.
Sergeant Cornish has just finished room inspections.
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...I would also very much welcome your comments on the attached revised guidance which we are due to publish on Monday, so that we can make it as helpful and supportive as possible.
Explicitly expecting us to work this evening and tomorrow. Reading the guidance and feeding back
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I do not wish to belittle the emotional, mental and social impact on young people of this period of school closure.
I do, however, wonder if the loss of learning and progress is being over-egged.
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A fair few tweets complain about the weather being good for next week. Or at least imply it is a shame, given the relatively poor summer
I would MUCH prefer to go back to school/work with good weather. Staff and students are so much happier. Everything better in the dry and sun
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@MissHPrimary_
well planned and practised interview answers.
Go in tomorrow. Hold your head high and put your shoulders back.
The right school will employ you, I'm sure. And you will look back in hindsight and thank your lucky stars that you didn't get this one.
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So...I did a thing this morning...
I ran in my first ever formal run/race/event.
It was a
#ForestRunner
10K.
It was hilly and the weather was dreadful.
I think I did it in about 69/70 mins.
Happy with that!
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I often wish somewhere did a 'takeaway' roast dinner about this time on a Sunday.
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Children playing Game of Life whilst I watch a bit of footie. Proud of the open and honest question when they land on Get Married space..."are you going to marry a boy or a girl?". 6 yr old (girl) has just married a girl after little deliberation. Noone bats an eyelid. Next go...
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If they announce a lockdown over Christmas the police will be in an impossible situation...how can they enforce rules created by hypocrites who have blatantly failed to follow them themselves throughout?
The public, who have been careful, want to see their families this year.
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Waking up to find someone on Twitter, who has never met me and doesn't know me, has decided I am a c*×t.
Happy Saturday everyone.
Years and years of trying to lead schools with love and compassion...but I'm one of those.
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Ironing a shirt 👔 and wearing a tie for the first time in weeeeeeks.
Interviewing to fill vacancies for September today.
By the end of today, some lucky person is gonna have secured a great job on a great team!
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When your external speaker welcomes all into the auditorium with some music...
@teacherhead
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Thought for the day...
There is a national recruitment and retention crisis in education in the UK.
If you weren't a teacher and stumbled across edutwitter...would you want to become a teacher? Are we a good advert for our profession?
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@educationgovuk
@GavinWilliamson
@BorisJohnson
@educationgovuk
Can I just check whether there was any consideration at all for the mental health of secondary Headteachers when deciding to publish this secondary guidance on reopening schools on the bank holiday Monday of the May half term?
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@GavinWilliamson
Are you actually serious?!
He has set out clearly how he broke the guidance, or at least the spirit of the guidance.
Neither he nor his wife were particularly ill. They definitely should have stayed at home!
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Fun Friday competition...
Worst supermarket online shopping substitution ever...
I have just had LOTUS BISCOFF BISCUITS replaced with RICH TEA FINGERS
What the hell!
Best biscuits ever replaced with plainest, most boring biscuits ever.
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Devon Heads'/CEOs' conference today and tomorrow.
Not a bad setting.
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Am done
Made it!
#imaginewhatspossible
Lovely of
@MrEFinch
and
@No9Jules
to welcome me to
@SandyParkExeter
at the end
Along with many family/friends
Special thanks to the
@NAbbotCollege
students who made the effort. Great to see you guys
@Jays_AIM
#principalschallenge
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Last night I took my son and daughter to cricket training
Was approached and asked to play for club second team today. In their words, "we are desperate"
Pretty sure that my last game was in 2004
17 years of no training and no matches. I am old and fat. What could go wrong?!
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@GavinWilliamson
Thank you for including all school staff.
Teachers are ace...but none of it is possible without the support staff too.
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To buy the first round. And the next one if necessary. Not to do it with an expectation of getting one back from each person, but because it is a kind thing to do. Not to care how many people are there and how big the round is. Money is for spending and you can't take it with you
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@Thinkingschool2
1265 is not contracted hours. It is the number of 'directable' hours. That is, the number of hours a Headteacher can require a teacher to be doing a specific task, at a specific time, in a specific place.
Beyond that their wage also covers hours required to perform the job.
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The 'disadvantaged gap' is almost entirely a socio-economic political problem and requires a solution that recognises it as such.
Schools can only do so much.
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@Teacherglitter
Introduced by the then Ed Sec, Ken Baker.
As my Dad was a teacher, I grew up calling them Baker days too.
Still do sometimes and noone in work knows what I am on about.
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Top Gun: Maverick has got to be one of the best film sequels ever made.
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey...it's Monday...can we get this thing moving?
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Socially distanced for the anthems...and then ruck, maul, scrummage, tackle, cuddle and snuggle for 80mins...
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Got a course PB on my home
#ParkRun
this morning.
To put that it context, my home Parkrun is listed in the top 20 hardest/slowest in the UK.
It is very hilly.
31 mins and 54 secs.
Not quick. But proud nonetheless.
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Special moment this week. New Asst Headteacher in one of my secondaries told me that my Dad was her Science teacher. He inspired her to do a Chemistry degree and therefore played a part in her becoming a teacher/going in to education. Now she's a leader working with me.
#legacy
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@secretHT1
@educationgovuk
@bbceducation
@GavinWilliamson
@SusanAclandHood
@NickGibbUK
@IanMearnsMP
@halfon4harlowMP
@CommonsEd
@alicewoolley1
@SchoolsWeek
@tes
@branwenjeffreys
And place them on outside of building as public access defibs so that available to whole community and not only during school hours when building is open!
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Why is it so much more exciting when a film you have on DVD and have seen a million times is actually on terrestrial TV??!!
About to watch the Sound of Music and I am proper excited!
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Apparently, according to my biggest fans on Facebook's Spotted Newton Abbot, I am an 'arsehole principle' (sic).
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Really, really miss my Dad.
Wish I could zoom him, over a drink, and tell him how shit it all feels at the moment.
(If you are a parent of students at my school please excuse my language).
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Well, here goes...
It's only 13.1 miles. Only 21km.
How hard can it be? 🙄😱
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Yesterday, my 11 and 9 yr olds spent ages producing this for their 7 yr old sibling.
This morning, engineering an argument over checking for post before sending her to do so.
She is absolutely made up.
What a lovely act of sibling kindness!
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19.15 miles done...fast approaching the finish line. Managing a smile...
@Jays_AIM
@NAbbotCollege
#principalschallenge
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Yesterday evening, I led my last senior team meeting at
@NAbbotCollege
In Sept I pass the reins to the new Headteacher
I am so proud of the staff and students and everything we have achieved in 7 years
I hope I have served thee well
#imaginewhatspossible
#proudprincipal
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@RogersHistory
Myth for me. Career of 21 years, 6 schools. Behaviour has remained constant. In schools where Leadership set an excellent culture, high expectations and great relationships are the norm behaviour is good. Where these things are not in place - behaviour poor. Same 21 ago as now.
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Yesterday evening, I ran more than 10K for the first time EVER in my life.
12K in 1hr 14mins.
I am preparing for a half marathon (21K) in May.
This morning my knees are screwed and I can barely walk 😂😂
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@tes
@NickGibbUK
No, not introduce an INSET day.
Move an INSET day from somewhere else in the year. And deliver it remotely.
No idea what is involved in planning a full day of high quality training for a staff of highly qualified professionals.
Too little, far too late.
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Have worked out how to close the funding gap in schools from Monday.
Rooms to hire on Saturdays and Sundays for anyone wanting to have gatherings of more than 6 people. They may need to sit in rows and face the front, but they can gather nonetheless.
😂😉
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@brettruganalyst
@alexdillon33
I called it straight away in real time.
FORWARD PASS...shouted at the TV.
They even checked it. How on earth did they conclude that it wasn't forward?
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4 stone lost in 155 days!
Could not have done this alone Supported, advised, guided by the wonderful team from the Elite14 programme. No gimmicks
Changed my body. Changed my mind. Changed my life.
If you want to get involved comment ‘more info’ and
@KatMerchant14
will DM you
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I am training for a half marathon in May.
This morning I woke up and thought, "I'm just going to give 21.09km a go and see if I can do it. No matter how slowly."
It didn't go too badly...
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This evening, amongst the mania of the end of term and Christmas across our 8 schools, I will attend my son's school as Dad and watch him perform as Sven in Frozen the Musical.
I am nervous for him...but so excited to go and watch him.
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We have done it.
£10 000 of donations.
Completely blown away and overwhelmed by the support and generosity.
Thank you everyone and massive love to you all x
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