Hello and welcome to my blog.
Here you will find my musings on attendance and behaviour in our education system.
Dear Tom Congratulations on your appointment as the government’s new behaviour…um….er….chap. Since you don’t like the word ‘Tsar’ we’re going to need another word for you. ‘Guru’ appears in the title of your book but that moniker isn’t without its problems; since Cherie Blair hired
Read more →A friend of my daughter’s asked me for advice yesterday. She’s a primary teacher with her eye on a job that she’s seen advertised in another school. ‘Leader for Inclusion’ is the job title, with a TLR2 as bait. She’s popping over tomorrow to ‘pick my brain’.
Read more →Wilshaw to blame head teachers for poor behaviour According to the Sunday Times, Sir Michael Wilshaw will this week lay the blame for poor behaviour in our schools at the feet of head teachers. His forthcoming speech was reported yesterday under the headline ‘Ofsted Chief Slams Lax
Read more →So Michael Gove has been demoted to Chief Whip. Sack a bloke then make him responsible for party loyalty. Brilliant. What a shame the prime minister doesn’t behave so cleverly the rest of the time. A shiny new education secretary can do the red boxes until May
Read more →I sometimes find myself imitating a range of well-known characters when I am working in schools. One of my regular pursuits is to sit at the back of classrooms and then give feedback to teachers. We discuss the nuts and bolts of behaviour
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