Lesley Collinson

“What is WES? . . . . Imagine Netflix meets Ted talks meets Eurovision and Glastonbury" read Anne-Marie Duguid's article on the origins of the #WorldEdSummit, the significance behind its evolution and why it still has an impact today. bit.ly/48F94Rg

Thrilled to be presenting at the 2024 World Education Summit with Verity Denman, headteacher. Find out how Breathwork and Movement improves the UK curriculum #innerlearner #worldedsummit @WorldEdSummit

Children and staff enjoyed a session of #breathwork #yoga with @Les_Collinson today. Continuing our school focus on #wellbeing #mental health.

@SouthNorwoodTPA Great day providing tools for good mental health and wellbeing for all

@RedHillTPA @thePioneerTPA It was great to deliver the Breathwork and Movement programme to all the children - amazing day - thank you for having me 🙏👏😀👍

Beauty in Birmingham

@CreativityMrs Looks great 😀👏👏👏

8 Reasons for abolishing OFSTED or at the very least stripping it of it’s powers…. 1.Unfair judgements - as inspections last for 2 days and are done by a small group of humans (sometimes 1), the chance for unreliable judgements is high 2.OFSTED doesn’t help schools to improve - following an inspection, OFSTED doesn’t help a school or it’s staff. For example ‘this school has bad behaviour in it’ - they walk away post inspection not to be seen until the next inspection. There is no school improvement arm to OFSTED. 3.Impact or a poor grade - this links to 1 and 2, but the community impact can be as follows: a) parents don’t want to send their kids to the school (each child is worth money to the school) b) some teachers don’t want to join the school as scared off by rating c) and prob the biggest - the psychological imprint of a poor grade is something I can’t imagine having to deal with as a school leader. But what I know is - it can be devastating for an individual and their family. 4.Pay and budgets - HMI pay is 72,000 a year, day inspection pay is £330. OFSTED budget is £150 million a year. Bonuses are awarded to OFSTED senior leaders usually between 5000 and 20000. OFSTED haven’t disclosed what these bonuses are for. In a school funding crisis, where teachers and TAs are having to battle for relatively small increases, surely this is wrong. 5.Impact of OFSTED pressure - it won’t take you long to find examples of leaders needing healthcare as a result of the pressure of upcoming inspection. Grades can be career defining but, as previously mentioned, are not reliable. The lottery of ‘who you get through the door’ and ‘what their lines of enquiry might be’ causes uncertainty, doubt and stress. 6.‘Doing it for OFSTED’ - OFSTED say no one should do anything for them which is easy for them to say when their own careers don’t rest on OFSTEDs judgements. Schools feel they need to ‘do’ all the time - new policies, new protocols, to ‘keep up’ with other schools and OFSTED themselves. The competition culture OFSTED inspires is damaging. 7.There are alternatives - the grading system doesn’t have to exist, neither does the OFSTED inspection system. Other countries do things very differently - take Italy, Ireland, Finland and Germany as just a few examples very close to home. It can’t possibly be argued that the English education system is better off than any of these by employing the system it does. 8.There is no evidence everything would fall apart without OFSTED - what’s the harm in giving it a try for a year or two? What’s the harm in a 5 year experiment - no OFSTED gradings whatsoever for 5 years and then survey schools, parents and children to find out about what’s changed for them positive or negative?

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@stephenheppell Great talk Stephen - always an inspiration

End of a lovely #BETT2023 which retains its huge global audience. This year numbers are up & COVID worries seemed down. This was the crowd assembling early for my Futures talk with SO many familiar faces! How good to see you all, friends

A reminder that, if you're coming to @Bett_show this week, I'll be giving this talk: "THE FUTURE OF LEARNING IS IN PLAIN SIGHT" 30 Mar 11:50 - 12:20 Futures Theatre I've found some bits & pieces for it & am looking forward to sharing it with you all. uk.bettshow.com/speakers/steph…

Join us for the World Education Summit 2024 - there's plenty of ways for you to get involved... bit.ly/42uMlpj

The future of education = Understanding the importance of wellbeing and how it impacts successful learning and school culture

Inspirational leader @AngieMurimirwa @Camfed talking through her leadership journey in our Thrills, Spills and Surprises series @WorldEdSummit is proud to support schools in Africa to be part of WES bit.ly/3FJYk8t as part of our pledges

Delighted to be speaking at the summit this year about the power of Breathwork in schools- providing mental health and wellbeing tools for the whole school community #worldedsummit@worldedsummit @mindmatters@the children’s society #Breathwork #wellbeing

Leadership for Learning first - everything else second. The amazing @AlmaHarris1 talks all things Leadership in our closing keynote on the World Headliners stage @WorldEdSummit #WorldEdSummit

Check out 👀 this line up for tomorrow ⁦@osirisedu⁩ ⁦@AnneMarieDuguid⁩ @WorldEdSummit⁩ very honoured to be hosting 11am - 3pm 🕒 GMT on the paradigm shifters stage. See you there I hope ready to put your questions to our esteemed speakers 🙌🏻 💬

Getting ready for my session! Virtually sharing with thousands of educators around the world. @WorldEdSummit see you soon!