Around this time last year, the #MPTA or My Personal Twitter Awards really took off – thanking those who had made a difference to your own PLN in the previous year. This morning, this tweet from @HealthyToolkit caught my eye… #ReverseAdventCalendar Day 23 Before your #EduTwitter Digital Detox, tag in your Top 10 Tweeters who… Continue reading #ReverseAdventCalendar
Tell the people, Tell the people that arrive, Tell the people, Tell the people that arrive, We don’t need to multiply. X – System of a Down This week has been an interesting week in school. Some time ago, we were invited by the STA to take part in a trial for the new Year… Continue reading It’s all about the knowledge…
Like many teachers up and down the land, I sometimes struggle to balance the needs of my class, my school and my own family. Sometimes it feels like real life is getting in the way of my career (maybe) choice and something has to give. Also like many teachers, I seem to spend a large… Continue reading How do we buy the time?
Put it in your heart Where tomorrow shines Gold and silver shine REM – Shiny, happy people Trawling Twitter of an evening often makes me melancholy. Sometimes it inspires, sometimes it riles me but a lot of the time it just makes me sad. You see the human condition seems to make us want to… Continue reading #smallwins – my manifesto for happiness.
Unless you are living under a rock (and I assume if you are reading this or following me on Twitter you are not) then you cannot fail to have noticed the inordinate amount of press that Parklands Primary school in Leeds gets. There are many reasons for this, some of which I will attempt to… Continue reading Why we must all learn from Parklands Primary…
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“Love, love is a verb, Love is a doing word” Massive Attack – Teardrop I read lots of stuff on Twitter about teaching; I even read people’s bio pages when they follow me and I read lots of lines about passion. Passion about children, passion about pedagogy, passion about learning. What I don’t see is… Continue reading The things we do for love…
In 2011 I was detached from the Royal Air Force to serve in a Royal Artillery unit at Joint Operating Base BASTION in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The role of the unit was to protect BASTION against attacks from the Taliban, mainly using the professional insurgent’s weapon of choice, the 107mm rocket. The 107 is a… Continue reading The Culture of Fear 2.0
Being in a small school has its own particularities compared to my old setting. Combining classes for things (all staff had a meeting with the HT, after an observation, last week) is fairly normal so we have to take a flexible approach to things. However this can be done without compromising educational outcomes in anyway… Continue reading Why we need to play more…
3 years ago I set of on this amazing journey to become a teacher. I left my comfortable life behind and decided that this was what I really wanted to do. Never before have I felt this sense of drive but I am now in a position to really focus what I want to achieve… Continue reading My New Year’s Revolution
