Censored Head FCCT 🙋♂️ 🇺🇦💛💙 @CensoredHead
Primary Head Teacher. Plonker. Love talking about teaching and learning, reading, education networking and staff wellbeing. 🙋♂️ censoredhead.wixsite.com/website Joined June 2018-
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FFS, our system is beyond broken. This makes me so angry.
FFS, our system is beyond broken. This makes me so angry.
Bravo 👏👏👏
Primary schools: is the current climate making it harder for you to recruit? Do you have vacancies now or are you expecting some for next year?
Best handwriting pens for school? Ones that develop correct grip, pressure and do not bleed. Do they even exist?
Is this inflation or profiteering @Tesco? Surely, if you were keeping prices low and at the level of inflation, your pre-tax profits would broadly be in-line with previous years, but they have jumped from £882 million to £2.3 billion. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
We always knew how amazing Sure Start Centres were and we all argued about the short sighted nature of the government for closing them - but this impact of what they achieved cannot be understated. bbc.co.uk/news/education…
25% of my staff team off tomorrow... The first day of the summer term is going to be great! 😬
We’ve really enjoyed planning lessons for The Final Year. We think as many children as possible should be able to get their hands on it. So, we’re giving away a class set! Simply like this post, repost it and follow Literacy Shed on X. We’ll draw a winner at random on 13/2/24
I need a maternity cover teacher and there just aren't any teachers out there! Teaching full time as a head it will be for me at this rate!
Cricket is 100% Duncan from Blue #maskedsingeruk
Funerals aren't nice. Especially when your weird half brother makes up bizarre stories about your dad that aren't true and that the celebrant cringes when saying them. Not the funeral I would have planned for my dad, but I was kept out of the loop by my half brother. Sorry Dad!
So angry with my nephew's school. It's January and year 6 are being called in for morning SATs sessions and are being given 1 hr of English and maths homework per day. If you have to cram like this, for pointless tests, you have to question whats gone on in the previous years!
How to write a eulogy for a funeral... Where do you even begin?
I'm a member of my LAs school forum. High Needs funding is massively in crisis and needs significant government investment. This is also affecting school budgets as an additional 0.5% has been taken from the DSG to prop up the High Needs Budget.
Four months of carefully nurturing and growing a beard, back to a short beard in 5 minutes! So sad, because I loved it but nobody else did!
Small, rural school head, entering the inspection window = stress levels rising. I believe we are excellent in what we do and offer. Is that what the inspection framework is looking for? Probably not as it isn't designed for schools like mine. Poor inspection= end of my career.
Thank you all so much for your kind words. I will not be able to reply to everyone and I appreciate you all. ❤️
Secret Headteacher @secretHT1
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1K Followers 559 Following Assistant Head (Assessment, Curriculum, T&L). F2/Y1 teacher. NPQSL. Deputy DSL. Literacy Specialist. Vegan. 🏳️🌈 Personal account; all views my ownTake care of your headteachers! I've been speaking to lots of headteachers feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Headteachers have a challenging role. Make sure to support them!
If you're the headteacher in a small primary, curriculum aside, you're probably also the SEN Coordinator, the Designated Teacher, the health and safety lead, the data protection officer, the senior mental health lead, and now the security lead. You're gonna need a bigger badge.
*adds to list of "things that heads of smaller schools will have to add to their to do list while wondering how they'll ever get to teaching and learning"* tes.com/magazine/news/…
I need to get this off my chest. If I question a strict or zero tolerant behavioural regime in a school, I am NOT school shaming. In the majority of cases, I do not know which school is being pictured or discussed. I question it because I compare it with the bright, joyful 1/
@CensoredHead One application at my friends school in East Herts. Looking for ECT.
@CensoredHead We are struggling. Having to use supply/unqualified/short term contracts. Small primary in Bucks.
How to make children hate the subject 'English'! 🤬 @mreddtech Seriously, the point of knowing this is what?
Can’t quite believe how lucky we are to have had another incredible BGT experience. #daretodream🌟
Not my usual type of blog …cidentalbusinessmanager.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/on-…
@CensoredHead Basic bic gives best results imho !
@CensoredHead I always got so frustrated with handwriting pens & eventually just moved to biros. It sometimes took the kids longer to get really neat cursive, but saved so much stress with broken nibs & saved the school a small fortune so that we could spend the money on more important things
@CensoredHead @Tesco I heard the word “greedflation” for the first time recently. Lots of firms take advantage of crises to raise price and to lay the blame with them, when they’re not guilty.
@CensoredHead @Tesco I thought that exact same thing this morning when I saw it on the news!
@CensoredHead Always the problem with these grass roots investments- the time needed to see the improvement. Terrible short sighted cost cutting to get rid of them. See also libraries.
@CensoredHead I was involved with one in a poor area, despite efforts the problem was they were getting swamped with yummy mummies and childminders, pushing out the target parents.... the cost vs impact reflected this. A good idea but better implementation required to target need.
@CensoredHead It just goes to show doesn’t it, that a little investment and support in the early years pays dividends down the line. In terms of academic and social results, as well as ultimately being ‘cost effective’ long term.
@CensoredHead And you're back 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😘😘
@CensoredHead Ouch! It’s Eid and lots of people are poorly in our neck of the woods! The 9 week Xmas term and the 4 week spring term have just drained everyone 😱
@CensoredHead Just woken up and thought I should have done a weeks supply! Although today would have been a struggle landed back at 0255 this morning 🤦🏻♀️💀
Best wishes to all heading back into school today for the Summer Term. Hoping that pupils and staff remain fit and healthy throughout the term, making sure everyone can do amazing things! #schools
25% of my staff team off tomorrow... The first day of the summer term is going to be great! 😬