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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Sunday 12th January 2020, the wonderful Caroline Spalding led an #SLTchat discussion on the subject of Motivation, and this…

I have written these #nurture posts for the last few years, reflecting on the year which is ending and looking…

I enjoyed writing ‘Making the Leap – Moving from Deputy to Head’ in 2016, and found writing for a professional…