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

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

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

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…