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@NorthernSoul321 @MrBoothY6 Yes! It's somehow impossible to be an eyfs teacher and a DHT, I found! When I moved from R to N apparently I'd been demoted, according to the parents!! "Are you still the deputy?"

@MrBoothY6 I’m an AHT and also teach nursery and reception. Classic one for me is. When will you get promoted to high school? Ever fancy doing it?!!

One thing no one prepares you for with deputy headship is quite how often people ask you when/if you’re going to become a headteacher.

@MelbourneMacs @SwailesRuth I used to see travel agents...and gently asked when was the last time the team stepped foot in a travel agency... they usually got the point! In my experience, regardless of theme, children will play with most scenarios as a home, shop, school...!

@SwailesRuth All EY staff know that ‘themed’ roleplay areas are not purposeful if our children have no experience of that situation. Build on what they know with the right enhancements and quality interactions. All about context… Grrrr to those who just don’t get it!!!

Well, it looks like role play is next in the firing line. It seems that some Ofsted inspectors (and now some consultants and advisors) are expressing preferences which appear to be very ill informed. That’ll give me something to write about in the next few weeks !

@Dorastar1 @Headteacherchat Tricky with 36 nursery children and 2 adults... those pesky school 1:13 ratios...

@Headteacherchat Investigate if they're doing it at home & triggers? Communication issues? Issues with teeth? Sensory needs, struggling with over stimulation? Close adult shadowing/observation if possible to try to spot subtle signs & step in, offer sensory toys, breaks, quiet place to calm.

Anonymous post: Has anyone dealt with a nursery pupil who persistently bites others, without any clear pattern or provocation? Understandably, parents are becoming increasingly concerned. Any guidance or strategies would be greatly appreciated.

@englishspecial Also, no clarity from DfE re can dictated sentences alone count as meeting the writing ELG in yrR. Seems written composition is being removed as ambition for end of R? Would love an actual answer but it is fudged everyone I get to ask.

I published a paper on handwriting and I see handwriting and pen grip issues in every single class I observe. I think it’s a sticky wicket to say ‘needs attention’ when it’s a national issue.

School achieves outcomes in line with national outcomes and yet is told ‘needs attention’ because the writing and presentation isn’t good enough.

@englishspecial Currently see a very wide gap between the physical skills of reception children and their knowledge of phonics, which they grasp reasonably well. But this means they struggle with transcription because they just don't have the ability to manipulate pencils yet.

@DanielKebedeNEU I know teachers who work as EPs, and in LA education teams who still haven't been told their 2025 pay award. Who waited over a year for 2022 and 23. No effort from the unions that represent to take it seriously. Maybe you could be vocal about #soulbury tchrs too?

I know teachers who: - Have stopped drinking water during the day because the staff toilet next to them has been broken for months. - who have an hour added to their morning routine because all but one photocopiers are broken. - are struggling to manage because most Support Staff cut. The lack of funding is sending workloads sky high and making the average day gruelling. Education is running on empty. It needs correcting at the budget.

@SwailesRuth "I'll 'ave that" oft quoted when finding something you need. IYKYK

It’s highly likely there are adults in their 30s who can still recite this because they used to demand it on an almost daily basis. What a loss. What a legacy.

@Emmett_Cath Although it always irritated me that they had the Elves turning up, which wasn't in the book!

Re-watching Lord of the Rings and there really is no more epic battle than that of Helm’s Deep. It makes you want to write soaring epic fantasy adventures which will be read for generations!

@Headteacherchat Anyone who's been in teaching since the 80s, obvs.

Who remembers when every report had to be handwritten? One mistake meant starting over from scratch. Your handwriting needed to be both legible and flawlessly connected.

@NinaSimone2021 @DudeAdhd It's a school transfer not EHE. So you stay on roll until you start new school. Once started at new school she will be removed.

@DudeAdhd It's an instruction not a request unless a special school. It's effective immediately. There's a wonderful group on fb called home education for all with amazing legal advice

Email from my daughter’s former secondary academy. I have told them to remove her from the register in response to this email. Note: not a single word of concern about my daughter. We have applied for an in year move with LA & other school are happy to take her.

@josephinemarg @MrBoothY6 But how is this only noticed in year 6? What was going on in previous years to assess phonic competencies?

@MrBoothY6 I have just done them. Have produced some surprises. Realised one child has phonic gaps but having done the test she has great comprehension and maybe the gaps have not held her back. Reading lessons haven’t shown this to me. Also shown who independently struggle.

Making Year 6 children sit SATs papers at this point of the academic year is completely unnecessary and a waste of teaching time

@MrBoothY6 @JennyFredricks5 And what do you know from their end of yr 5 assessment info and transition discussion with previous teacher... testing children against stuff they haven't fully been taught yet or mastered, surely just tells you they haven't been taught it yet...!

@JennyFredricks5 No, but do you not already have a pretty good idea who it will be from teaching reading and hearing the children read? I would just go with that for now.

@lifeatthenest Whatever happened to the summer deep clean? In my day it was perfectly normal to go in around now after the deep clean. Every thing would be in the middle of the room and you would then work out your new room structure. No one complained. We just all got on with it!

On the train. NqT opposite is talking about her new job and what a mess her new classroom has been left in. Like they just “had a party and left” she said! It’s a thing! Be better

@Sarah_Y_Feeney @bphillipsonMP Needs to start within Early Years, where they are often the first contact for families within our education system. But have even less resource than the next step school. Support for settings needed and LA EYFS SEN teams.

@bphillipsonMP You need to look at Primary Schools. Front load the support for families and grant needs assessments without having to jump through multiple hoops

The Tories said the SEND system is “lose, lose, lose”. I agree. The difference is I’m gripping the issue. We have already restructured the Department to focus on improving inclusion in mainstream schools for children with SEND. A long way to go, but an important start.

@Janroweljmu @keysersozesbro I was saying this 40 years ago...pre social media. Always thought a bit of flexibility with 1wk of time to plan, work out curriculum etc would be the way.

@keysersozesbro Interesting suggestion. Wonder what others think?

Teacher retention strategy suggestion. Give teachers who request it a “Glastonbury day”. Makes me sad that no teachers can EVER go ( and was our daughter’s only regret about becoming a teacher)!

@DomGiles1 @RogersHistory 1984. I take your banda and raise you gestetner. No ICT. Handmade everything. We were creaters of content, not just the presenters. No PPA, we won that battle for the teachers of today.

@RogersHistory I started teaching in 1992, with a bander machine. Younger colleagues will never understand the changes I have seen.

Teacher starts teaching in 1996 and commits to that intense work every week, term, year. In 2024 someone who has never done it rocks up on this platform and constantly shames them because of professional decisions they’ve made that have always been perfectly reasonable. Wrong.

@WatchingBrief9 @EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy Knowing that self-regulation is implicit in the educational programme and a discrete Prime area ELG and therefore determines a child meeting the Good level of development outcome in the eyfsp. But you know this, I'm sure.

@CBee_writes @EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy So the curriculum is decided by the individual provider in accordance with the framework, then...

🚨Permanent Exclusion of 5 yr old🚨 When a school excludes an infant for non-compliance with their Behaviour Policy, because she was unable to self-regulate, because she has not successfully been taught to self-regulate by that school…no words😶

@WatchingBrief9 @EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy The statutory educational programmes form the basis of any curriculum for 0-5 settings. Self- regulation is part of the statutory early learning goals which children are assessed against in the statutory EYFS Profile.

@CBee_writes @EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy Is EYFS not a framework rather than a curriculum? Surely providers produce their own curriculum in accordance with the framework?

@rmlover31 @EdTangled Because it legally is.

@EdTangled Why would teaching her to self-regulate be the school’s responsibility?

@WatchingBrief9 @EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy No, but the EYFS curriculum does. And applies to all children in the 0-5 age range.

@EdTangled @pplmakemecrazy National Curriculum does not apply to academies