@Samstricko181 I like a lot of what you do Sam but I think the idea that some or any SEND children are helpless is really damaging and at best a really poor choice of wording.
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Sam Gray
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Sam Gray
@SamGrayLCE
Headteacher of LCE Academy
Oldham, England Beigetreten Eylül 2015
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A huge issue with clumping children with SEND together under one broad brushstroke banner, i.e. SEND, is that it’s really quite clumsy and risks creating self fulfilling prophecies. Labels risk doing more harm than good. So many SEND children are highly capable & not helpless.
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A really fitting gesture from @ChaddertonFC well done to all involved 💔
Chadderton FC@ChaddertonFC
We reflect on what’s been a very tough week after our @FAVaseHQ game today. Heartfelt Tributes to Dale Harris, what a club…..His legacy will live on ❤️💔
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A huge fixture and an emotional occasion.
This Saturday, we are back on The Road to Wembley, as we host @NorthShieldsFC in The FA Vase round of 32.
The day will of course be our opportunity to remember Dale and pay our tributes.
We hope you can join us.
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@AnnMacGregor5 @PaulGarvey4 @TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove I think I’m keen to hear if becomes across better or more knowledgeable/empathetic out of office.
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@SamGrayLCE @PaulGarvey4 @TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove Normally, I would totally agree & think listening to different views is valuable, but having first hand experience as a teacher & headteacher during Mr Gove’s tenure as Education Secretary - the devastation and damage he caused to schools and our profession, I regret I can’t!
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@PaulGarvey4 @TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove Are you insinuating I’m a right wing give supporter without knowing anything about me? Assuming I’ve misunderstood that i don’t think hearing about his time in post and understanding his views out of office is a bad thing… I doubt I will agree with much but keen to hear.
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@SamGrayLCE @TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove I know his views. We all do. We suffered him as SoS for Education for over a decade.
Let him find his own right-wing supporters to platform his opinions about education.
Oh… hang on… it appears that he has. ☹️
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@PaulGarvey4 @TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove It’s important to listen and try to understand the views of people who are different to you, surely?
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@TTRadioOfficial @michaelgove Do NOT subscribe to people who give Gove a platform to justify the damage he did to the teaching profession.
Just don’t.
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@UnofficialOA @adam_voigt @HazleMitch @Strickomaster Have you tried understanding others points of view and accepting there are multiple ways of doing things? Everything seems so arbitrary and extreme on edutwitter. Surely you all get tired of arguing with each other like you are year 10 on Snapchat?!
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@adam_voigt @HazleMitch @Strickomaster It’s neither ‘authoritarian’ nor ‘absolutist’ for a teacher to tell a child what to do and expect them to comply.
Why do all proponents of RP always resort to emotive/extreme language?
Anyway. My points have been made. Thanks.
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40,000 teachers left the profession last year with student behaviour being a significant factor in their decision.
We need to explore the full extent of the damage done by restorative practice with minimal sanctions.
@Strickomaster and I discuss:
open.spotify.com/episode/608OiR…
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@sexalcove @alexhilltelly @AndyBurnhamGM @unitetheunion @BeeNetwork Trams? Walk? Just let the ones who don’t use buses come in?
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@mrgray_newman @alexhilltelly @AndyBurnhamGM @unitetheunion @BeeNetwork yeah just make students go in to college when they have no way to do that Good one pal
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I am pleased to report that, working with our bus operators and @unitetheunion, bus strikes planned over the coming days have been called off.
Most bus services will now run as normal this weekend.
Please check the TfGM website and @BeeNetwork App for further information. 👍🏻
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@alexhilltelly @AndyBurnhamGM @unitetheunion @BeeNetwork Poor that colleges shut for bus strikes in my opinion
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@AndyBurnhamGM @unitetheunion @BeeNetwork Colleges found out way too late, so are not opening. Very poor.
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In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
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I’m sure this is a tale replicated in schools across the country.
More need, not enough capacity but a desire to do more for those that need it most.
This is the reality of trying to keep high quality SEN provision going.
secretheadteacher.org/2025/08/18/sen…
open.substack.com/pub/secrethead…
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The most hard-hitting 2 sentences in all of talent development research:
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Ay look its Doovid Mayes.
EFC.Cain@efc_cain
Mate just sent me this for Lime Street… just got off a train from Glasgow
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This half term has been filled with incredible moments to celebrate and be proud of! Our young people have truly thrived. Here are just a few highlights of their amazing experiences during half term 1!
#Highlights #HT1
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Our first issue of the academic year is out and our students are reading their amazing work in form this week.
Want to join our team of journalists? Meet us in B1 every Monday lunch 📰
@NewmanRCEnglish #NewmanRCReads
Newman Catholic College@NewmanRCCollege
Read the first NSN of the year now! Click the link below. "Written by our students, for our students" buff.ly/40cstbt
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A great event to be a part of! Thank you to all involved.
Dale Harris@DSHarris_94
One of the key goals at @OfficialOAFC is to encourage more people from the local area to engage with the club. Turning ‘Latics’ from a matchday experience to an every day engagement. A vital element to that is working closely with the education landscape across the borough. So #NationalTeacherDay, not only allowed us to show our appreciation for the great work of teachers and educators across Oldham but to build relations with them as well. Thanks to the support of Chances Mentoring and @ipldab we were able to give out over 1500 tickets to teachers who applied for them to yesterday’s game. Taking our match day attendance in the 5th division of English football to over 7000!💥 Not only that, we held a networking event for a number of senior leaders in education, including Director of Education & Skills at @OldhamCouncil, Matt Bulmer. It was exciting to talk to a number of those in attendance about our plans to become a key part of the education jigsaw in Oldham and not just a supporter of it. This is growing on the already fantastic work being delivered by @OfficialOACT , working in almost 30 schools and engaging with many more across the town. It was brilliant to have Martin & Emily in attendance yesterday with a collaborative approach with Club & Trust. Whilst the result on the pitch wasn’t what we was hoping for, off the pitch we will take a win planting the seeds to grow new relations across the education landscape. Thanks again to @callumsiddall1 & Shaun Finnerty, without your support we wouldn’t have been able to celebrate National Teacher Day in the way we did. 🤝 📚 ⚽️ 🦉 ✏️ #OldhamAthletic #OAFC #NationalTeacherDay #Community #Education #RelationshipBuilding @BrianClarkeHT @mrgray_newman @gazneedle @mv4747 @NewmanRC_Head @craigbarratt111
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I entered the UK with no school certificate but an immigration stamp...
More than 20 years ago, I arrived in the UK as a teenager with no family support, not much formal education, and only $100.
I started studying English and then A-levels at Colleges. When I asked a tutor to help me with Cambridge University interview, he said:
"You are an Afghan refugee, not white, and not privately educated to go to Cambridge."
A few years later...
Studying at Cambridge and Harvard, I achieved my dream of becoming an NHS doctor and founder of a global humanitarian non-profit Teleheal, and also an innovative mental health service Arian Wellbeing to help everyone in need including hard to reach populations.
It's a lifetime of hardships and rejections that have taught me most in life.
Many young people's dreams have been ended by their school grades today.
My message to them or anyone else is - don't let grades or other people's opinions define who you are. Always believe in yourself and your dreams.
Please consider sharing this message with anyone who might need to hear this today.
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