Adie Durrant

First day as a Headteacher done! 💪

@DeputyGrocott Leicestershire - follow @leicestershiremummies on Insta (my wife’s account) for ideas in the Leicestershire/East Mids area 👍

HELP BUILD A UK FAMILY DAYS OUT GUIDE! I’m putting together a list of affordable family days out this summer,hopefully for every UK county (with your help):from hidden gems to big attractions with offers. I’ll start with Suffolk–please reply with your area and suggestions! REPOST

@kimturner70 @SEN_advice @EastSussexCC What’s this got to do with school leaders? It’s the council’s process

@SEN_advice @EastSussexCC If only school leaders know the absolute basics 🙄

and it was with no surprise whatsoever that I spot this on the East Sussex CC's template to request an EHC needs assessment. A requirement to complete an "Additional Needs Plan" before requesting an assessment. Totally unlawful #ehcp #send #sen @EastSussexCC

@Rory_Gribbell @peterjmansfield I have to say how refreshing it is to see a genuine discussion on here with both sides actually listening to each other rather than the usual toxic nonsense! I agree with you @peterjmansfield but it’s also not something that had occurred to me either @Rory_Gribbell

@peterjmansfield Thanks Peter - my pleasure

No school leader should feel they need to waste precious funding on “Ofsted consultants” We are publishing all our training via the Ofsted Academy: gov.uk/guidance/ofste… And we are busy planning events for autumn term 1, so tell us what you need - and we’ll improve our plans

I’ve spent a bit of time over the holidays creating a step by step ‘how to’ guide to using AI (specifically ChatGPT as it’s free) for primary teachers. Going into the new term, some of these will save you masses of time! Drop me a dm with your email address and I’ll send it on!

Reading fans sent an advertising van around London today, including past the Houses of Parliament and the EFL offices, calling for controversial owner Dai Yongge to sell the club. The chaos has already cost them an exceptional head coach in Ruben Selles. The uncertainty and financial woes may lead to players leaving in January. “All Reading fans want for Christmas is our football club to survive via a sale. Football clubs are for life – we cannot allow this to be Reading's last Christmas.” Becky Trotman @SellBeforeWeDai. #ReadingFC

@frogbikes Please contact me immediately regard order number 2177730 - I have received several contradictory messages from you and the delivery company and now it appears the bike has not been delivered.

Although the deadline for guaranteed pre-Christmas delivery has passed, you can still get a Frog bike from one of our amazing local stockists. 🥳 🛍️Find your nearest store here: ow.ly/VZI750UqFpO #FrogBikes #HoponaFrog #KidsBikes #ShopLocal

@AlisonKriel @Sue_Cowley The ‘most noise’ point is particularly pertinent - there are shared characteristics between Big Time educators regardless of gender which usually centre around a need for attention. I think the first two points you make are a little unfair for the majority of male teachers though

@Sue_Cowley Women teach and do the doing Men suit up. Speak up. And often fuck up. Men are allowed to do this. Women who dare to ‘speak up’ open themselves to abuse, often from said men in their pack There are some really good men in education too but who’s making the most noise?

I'm going to phrase this very carefully so my notifications don't end up a bin fire. There is something a bit odd in seeing a profession that has a workforce with a majority of women so often being told how to do their job by high profile men.

The Lord Mayor of Leicester has unveiled commemorative paving at a new open space commemorating the journey of Ugandan Asians and celebrating all of #Leicester's diverse communities. Read the full story here: ow.ly/uQon50TwuRc

@KentWomble @KieranMaguire Glad @ReadingFC have donated, even though we’re on the brink of extinction 👏

Earlier today, this was the list of clubs whose supporters have donated to the Plough Lane fundraiser. Quite humbling to see so many there. #FootballFamily

@son1bun @StMattResearch @hydeh_rose It really was - the only problem now is how to resist the temptation of rushing through implementation of magpied ideas! Thanks again

@AdieDurrant1 @StMattResearch @hydeh_rose Thank you so much Adie! So glad it was a useful visit! 👍🏽 @StMattResearch

Really inspiring day at @StMattResearch today with lots of valuable insight from @hydeh_rose and the team at St Matthews. @son1bun has built something amazing and they are incredibly generous with their knowledge and expertise. Plenty of food for thought! 🤔

Dispiriting events at Reading should concern everyone in English football. Fans are lied to, players and an impressive manager are let down, and so are staff. A thoughtless, heartless owner damages a historic club. It’s another warning to all in football. If we tolerate this, then your club could be next. Fans at some other clubs fear similar pain or just feel relief to have escaped danger. Many will simply focus on their own form and fortunes. Football’s tribal. Most headlines revolve around the big names, the big games like Manchester City versus Arsenal. But Reading embody the pyramid, a local beacon and hub for nurturing talent. Neil Webb started there. The windfall from the Michael Olise deal helps sustain the club currently. Ted Drake learned his managerial trade at Reading before guiding Chelsea to their first title. Football clubs are community assets and have to be protected from individuals like Dai Yongge wreaking such misery at Reading. He has his motives and his methods but none seem aligned to the club’s future wellbeing. He doesn’t communicate with fans. Reading FC Women withdrew from the Championship because of financial difficulties. Sustained mismanagement of the club has seen a failure to pay men’s players and HMRC lead to points deductions. A proposed takeover by Rob Couhig, an American businessman welcomed by the fanbase, collapsed, leaving Yongge still in charge and supporters still in torment and again asking questions. Does Yongge really want to sell? If the club goes under is it then all about valuable real estate? Would administration and another points deduction actually be better than this shambles? And so Reading fans rally again, fighting for their club’s life. But Yongge doesn’t listen. He doesn’t appear to care about the negativity his ownership brings to the door of the dressing-room. Ruben Selles and his whole-hearted squad give everything they can on the field, and sit a defiant 12th in League One, but they aren’t detached from the mess. It must be dismaying and distracting. Losing Selles would be a disaster. He’s doing a good job in trying circumstances. If he left, Selles would be picked up swiftly by a better run club. Reading fans post messages of support to Selles and his squad. They will back them loudly at Bolton Wanderers today. It’s about finding the balance between demonstrating support for the team while demonstrating against the owner. Much is right about Reading: committed fanbase, stadium, training ground, the attitude of manager, squad and club staff. It’s just the owner. It’s a nightmare that Reading are living through. And it’s a cautionary tale all football needs to heed. #ReadingFC #EFL

Pre-Southgate 2010: last 16 2012: quarter-finals 2014: group stage 2016: last 16 Southgate 2018: semi-final 2020: final 2022: quarter-final 2024: final But sure Southgate is the problem

@DeputyGrocott This worries me so much - not the sentiment (which I support), but the risk. DV post-football is known to increase significantly and this provides a crack through which vulnerable children could fall. By all means give allowances for tired kids, but get them in the building first

Well @thekillers just did the coolest thing ever on stage as England won the semi final... #ENGNED #ItsComingHome

Child rapist, Steven dan de Velde is in this years Olympics - he wants to put his side of the story out there? 🤔 But he did that when he pled guilty in court to 3 counts of rape of a child. I think that was enough of the other side of that story that any of us can stomach...kick him out of the @Paris2024 @Olympics

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game. 2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England! #PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.