On Thursday 11 June 2020 I was pleased to be invited to give the closing keynote at Priory Witham’s annual … More

I have written elsewhere about the challenge of receiving feedback, but recently read Brene Brown’s excellent ‘Dare to Lead’, and … More

Kathryn Morgan and I led a Teacher Development Trust #CPDConnectUp session on this subject, using Zoom and ably hosted by … More

I recently read this piece by Alex Quigley, of the Education Endowment Fund, in tes magazine: ‘Try tinkering, rather than … More

I am a planner.  I like to be organised.  Friends laugh (fondly, I hope!) at my ’80s’ style filofax’ which … More

One of the things I’m doing at the moment is reading Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, the third … More

Some of you may know that we live in a village which floods.   The Trent, which is usually about a … More

When I posted my blog on Staff Training Days, in which I said, “A staff training day needs to be … More

Is it just me? Whenever I read or hear someone saying how important it is that the pupils in their … More

As many of you may know, I started teaching in 1980.  Over the next 30 years I taught in six … More