CPD an exit pitfall?
What if I invest all this time and money to develop our teachers and then they leave? What if you don’t, and they stay? [qr_code_display]
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Wrestling crocodiles – challenges of school improvement
What is more important than the quality of teaching in schools? It is a difficult question to avoid when you are part of a school leadership team, not that you would want to avoid it any how. It is a …
Tutor and INSET planner
Too often this academic year my colleague has had to redraft the tutor plan. In my role as lead for CPD, too often I have created Professional Development lists, scrutinising the lists to make sure I have not forgotten someone, …
Shared SMSC Calendar
Right, so I have built SMSC calendar compiler in Excel. Simply add the dates, the category (SMSC) and the events in one worksheet… And it is compiled in the second worksheet as a calendar. Change the month, it updates. Here …
A rather RACI #Edfest
Look, I will be brutally honest with you, there was very little that was raci “racey” about my #Educationfest though there was a good deal that was of value and two, as yet, unanswered questions. RACI was just an acronym …
The final few minutes…
Leavers assembly… The final few minutes of twelve plus years in compulsory education. In this past seventeen months [the time I have been at The Academy], this is what I have observed? Here at The Wellington Academy, staff don’t want …
Office Mix – Take 2
So the Team keeping an eye on Office Mix dropped me a line. Thanks for sharing the mix! We’d love to work with you to get this into a featured mix. Sure, why not?! Admittedly the Powerpoint needed a little …
Final assembly 2014 thoughts
Is that time of year again. Preparing the Y11 leavers assembly. I’m thinking about the advice we have shared with students up until this point and the supportive words that would help them drive to the finish line. Words that …