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Julie Price Grimshaw
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Julie Price Grimshaw
@Julespg
Teacher, school development adviser, former HMI, Gàidhlig learner, church organist. Fond of dogs, cats and horses. Lifelong MCFC fan. https://t.co/B00g338AU2
Wester Ross, Scotland Katılım Haziran 2009
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@CarmelOHagan1 I agree!
I’m not saying that there isn’t challenging behaviour from some, but every time I go into a school I meet incredible & inspirational pupils- often succeeding against the odds.
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@AmbridgeMassive Who the heck would call an emergency vet to a budgie that they didn't want and don't intend to keep - because it was 'pecking its feathers'?
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This budgie palava is painful listening. Fletcher is able to have an appointment with a vet within minutes & the local GP appears to have become demented over him. Make this STOP!!!!#TheArchers
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@TheCiderShedPod @AmbridgeMassive Agreed! I cannot wait to hear what my favourite podcast will do with the budgie storyline. It will make it all worthwhile!
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@AmbridgeMassive My best advice is to listen to The Cider Shed podcast to help you through the trying times 😆
#TheArchers
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‘The editor is Jeremy Howe.’
Well, Jeremy did not edit enough out of this week’s content.
#TheArchers
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@TheCiderShedPod I never thought I'd say this, but Parcours in the Bull Car Park was a more plausible storyline than members of the cast pouring their hearts out to a budgie.
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I literally hate this.
It’s given me a rage headache.
Properly.
#TheArchers
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@TheCiderShedPod And that apology…kids are usually made to apologise for stuff like breaking a window with a football, not buying someone a budgie as a gift!
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Imagine writing this budgie stuff.
Then imagine acting this budgie stuff.
Then imagine listening to this budgie stuff. Oh. That’s us. Right now.
#TheArchers
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@TheCiderShedPod Given that a budgie & cage setup can cost around £50 - £100, is no-one involved curious about how this gift was funded?
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@Yorkshire_Steve @JohnBaldLangLit @BarkerLeadershp Quite. And I have always been dubious about the extent to which evidence can be collected against a large number of statements in such a short space of time. 'Best fit' allowed for much more flexibility - & there were times when this was needed!
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@Julespg @JohnBaldLangLit @BarkerLeadershp With 'best fit' you could do that, to an extent. Know when enough is enough.
Where it was hard was when considering outstanding as every good and outstanding bullet needed to be met.
Secure fit requires suitably robust evidence against each and every bullet point.
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Personally I would like the new framework judgement on Inclusion to take account how inclusive the school is in its admission arrangements. Far too many schools subtly but surely turn children away. Those that welcome all have to overcome challenges of inclusion every day!
Tony Harwood@sciantificnew
No one in a disadvantaged school is saying outcomes don’t matter. What we’re saying is this approach to improving them won’t work as it just creates more fear, more reputational damage, and deepens recruitment issues, hence making things worse for disadvantaged kids, not better.
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@Yorkshire_Steve @JohnBaldLangLit @BarkerLeadershp 'Not expecting everything to be looked at' is essential for two-day inspections - this was made very clear to us with the introduction of S5. We used the SEF as a starting point & HMCI said that we should never aim to 'cram everything' into two days.
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@JohnBaldLangLit @BarkerLeadershp I suppose there is a 3rd -
Do away with grades, let inspectors follow their noses and report on what they dem most important in an individual school and not expect everything to be looked at.
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@sciantificnew National data on KS4 outcomes becomes out of date very quickly. It should be possible to synthesise & evaluate all current evidence to come up with a more accurate judgement on the school’s work. A great deal can change over just a couple of years.
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No one in a disadvantaged school is saying outcomes don’t matter. What we’re saying is this approach to improving them won’t work as it just creates more fear, more reputational damage, and deepens recruitment issues, hence making things worse for disadvantaged kids, not better.
Rory Gribbell@Rory_Gribbell
First, it’s worth being clear: we think outcomes matter. We aren’t trying to create a pseudo-contextual valued added measure. We think that bakes in low expectations. Holding the opposite view to us is entirely legitimate. We just don’t agree. As Martyn said:
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@sciantificnew It’s incredibly disrespectful to teachers & leaders. And I never met a single person who thought that report cards were an ‘end to assessment’ - rather they hoped that the new framework would be fairer & the process less damaging.
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This is the most appallingly patronising and tone deaf couple of paragraphs out of the entire rant. Suggesting staff working in the most challenging contexts want to ‘dodge the difficult’ is mind blowingly ignorant. Who is really doing the dodging here?
Rory Gribbell@Rory_Gribbell
ASCL 2025:
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@kennygfrederick I worked with a wonderful Catholic secondary school that was 80% Muslim. The pupils attended weekly Mass and many went forward for the Blessing. My Muslim friend brought his children to our church when me & my husband were baptised!
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Every school I know has visits to a local church as part of their curriculum & for other events. Children are not frightened of difference & are accepting of others beliefs. They are not filled with hate. You should try to be more like them.
Lindy-Lou@LindyLo08277677
@elaineac122 @kennygfrederick Show me a picture of Muslim school children visiting a church.
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@Yorkshire_Steve @FrankWNorris Quite - so it could be argued that a judgement is being made on quality of teaching & curriculum 3-5 years ago! A lot can change in that time but it can take time for impact to show in national data
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@FrankWNorris And the most recent progress measures will have been from 2 years ago!
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Just looking ahead to the early autumn when inspectors will be using ISDRs reflecting attainment levels of pupils left the school up to 14 months ago. Using 'secure fit' methodology: Reliable evidence, probably not. Sustainable when challenged, probably not.
Yorkshire Steve@Yorkshire_Steve
@sciantificnew I would have been interested .... but I'll be on my way back from doing some work in London. Another time, perhaps.
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@SecretBusMgr @SwailesRuth And the off-loaded pupils end up at another school and the process re-starts...
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@Julespg @SwailesRuth have the potential opposite effect if becomes a purely tick box exercise.
HT cannot get a secure fit, so moves on
School cannot get a HT, or even a HoS
So the deputy acts up, just holding the fort
School gets rebrokered
But unless grass flattened no 'progress'
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After leading 41 training sessions, visiting 27 schools and working with thousands of teachers since January, I think I’ve got a fairly good handle on the mood in the profession. Here’s what I’ve observed.
Everyone is working flat out. Harder than they’ve ever worked before.
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@SwailesRuth This is all consistent with what I'm finding, Ruth. 'Secure fit' is a curse and it's impossible for inspection to be anything other than a tick-box exercise while they insist on this approach. We have staff & leaders turning themselves inside out to be told 'not good enough,'
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Significant and relevant experience in the key stage they’re inspecting and have also led a school. Not a department, a school.
End.
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@SwailesRuth Exactly. The default position under this framework is that lack of evidence - simply due to time - means 'not good enough'. And have all inspectors got the same understanding of 'recent'?
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This phrase, which would put a school into the "needs attention" category, is causing huge alarm. In schools where leaders know things aren't quite right, they're reluctant to make any changes because they're "In the window" and unsure how recent a change needs to be to fit!
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@FrankWNorris Same here. Is anyone at Ofsted even slightly interested?
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I have had similar calls. It is what drives me in trying to achieve reform in Ofsted's work.
Edmund Barnett-Ward@Edmund_B_W
@moonrakerteach Pete, we have already come far far too close to a tragedy already. People do not reach out to Julia and myself lightly. It takes an extraordinary amount of courage to tell a stranger that you're in the darkest possible place and it is already happening under this 'new' framework.
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@kennygfrederick And there’s always some people who are keen to tell everyone that they came out of the process OK. But instead of bragging, they need to see the damage that inspection is causing to their colleagues in other schools.
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That’s the problem and also the fact that Ofsted are allowed by law to enter or schools… However…. If schools & heads, teachers, governors & parents and unions don’t take action the rot will continue. Time to
#RiseUpAndTakeAction
Rae@ragefighthouse
The one thing that is uniting everyone in education right now is the rage at Ofsted. Will this finally be the point where everyone—teachers, heads, CEOs—finally rise up against the tyranny set on destroying schools? lol no. Can’t risk a paycheque or student learning time!!! 🦶🏻🔫
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Just spoken with a HT I respect enormously. He said that Ofsted’s supposed emphasis on inclusion was just a big con. There is currently no mechanism for measuring ’average progress’ so it’s all down to attainment & those working in the toughest schools will get hit.
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