Dr Sara Fance

It’s the end of an era in Suffolk P&TS! @SuffolkPTS 🥺🥺🥺

@Siya_mnz Just watched the first episode after seeing this tweet 😨

Any EPs out there watched #adolescence on Netflix? We need to talk! The themes have sobering resonance for our work

@JoannaStanbrid1 Yes please ☺️💓

@JoannaStanbrid1 I have this one?

Fascinating opening keynote speech on reintegration from ward to school - thank you @SaraEdPsy

@HHELCNottingham Thank you so much ☺️

@CathCathkitchen @NAHEUK Thank you so much for having me ☺️

Thank you @SaraEdPsy for an inspiring talk this morning representing the voice of children reintegrating back to school from a tier 4 unit at @NAHEUK Units United conference

@keziah70 @JoannaStanbrid1 @AndyKeay @EPonSea We’re on it! 😉

You can read the letter in full here and share widely in your communities to demand a SEND revolution 🙌🏼 #TwitterEPs shorturl.at/5g93E

A drastically different approach is needed to tackle SEND crisis. Today, with 16 organisations we deliver this very important message to @bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk to demand change. #SENDreform #SENDrevolution @DECPOfficial

Are you an Assistant EP? Or are you a qualified EP who works with Assistant EPs / oversees their work? Research participants needed for my thesis study exploring the role and impact of Assistant EPs! Please see flyer below and link. tinyurl.com/3a52rz39 #twittereps

A lovely day celebrating yesterday alongside some of my wonderful @SuffolkPTS EP colleagues #ueagrad @UeaEDU

@elycambs Thank you Anna ❤️ Missing you, your positivity and your wise words xxx

@SaraEdPsy Well done you and congratulations on your achievements x

A/L for my birthday starts after tomorrow, marking the end of the Summer Term of my NQEP year! I survived! This term has been my absolute favourite, the highlight being 6 WOWW (Working on What Works) sessions in an awesome Year 5 class, in between those EHCNAs! 🥹💖 #twittereps

@JoannaStanbrid1 Got it and forwarded it to my team! 🤘🏼

Today I talked to a young person who stopped going to school in Year 7. He told me, when we looked around the school they said that detentions were only for when you did something really wrong and most people didn’t get them. Then, when I got there, I found out that in nearly every lesson someone got a detention. The teachers were always giving us detentions and I was scared. He said, they really pack things into your head. You get into the class and there’s a ‘First do this’ on the board and you have to sit down and do it immediately. Then the teacher gives you more to do and it doesn’t matter if you can’t do it all, it just keeps moving on. You can’t ask your friend how they are doing it because you can’t talk. You’re always worrying about what happens next and whether you might get a detention. He said, I couldn’t do it. It made my head hurt and by lunchtime I couldn’t go on. I know I was learning a lot but I couldn’t keep going. He’s out of school now and at an alternative setting. He said, I can stay all day there, because they don’t pressure us. I couldn’t believe how relaxed they were when I started. They don’t give us detentions and I didn’t think that would really happen. I’m learning things. There’s no way for this to be fed back to the system. No one asks those of us who work in mental health what the side effects are of our local school. No one measures mental health as a key outcome of educational and behavioural policy. No one looks at children’s behaviour and attendance as feedback on the system. He’s not an isolated case. I hear stories like his all the time. Kids who cannot cope with high pressure and high control environments and who start not attending school as a result. Kids who tell me that they are constantly fearful of getting it wrong. You won’t solve that by fining or threatening their parents. We have to ask what is happening in our schools, and whether many of them are becoming environments in which children cannot thrive. Exam results aren’t enough. We have to ask about the side effects of the system.

So my friend @Toby_Wells is kind of a big deal now! 💚 well done buddy!!