Teresa Heathcote

Go Tom Daley in the Olympics!! If you know … you know 🤣 #PriorityLit #FlyingHighTrust

This is a unique opportunity to help develop teacher subject knowledge around quantitative reasoning. The CPD is amazing and delivered online by Terezinha Nunes!

Had an amazing weekend swimming at lake Windermere - now back to planning maths workshops for the coming weeks …

Have a great holiday everyone - it’s been a busy and intense half term. Looking forward to seeing lots of you at the KS1 Teaching Sequence for Writing event - we’ll look closely at transcriptional fluency and how to make it work in the classroom. @PriorityLit @FlyingHighTrust

Happy Friday everyone - looking forward to returning to Bradway Primary School today to see their amazing Y6 writing using the Teaching Sequence for Writing. @Y1Bradway

There's still time to sign up for the Oxford University Y2 Mathematical Reasoning, EEF trial. The CPD is amazing with online modules delivered by Terezinha Nunes, and 12 weekly, resourced Reasoning lessons ... educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and-e…

@Suchmo83 I completely agree that we have been concentrating on writing text types in KS1 before the pupils have grasped the transcriptional fluency - we need to secure the basics while ensuring the highest level of oral composition

Ofsted have released their English subject report. Some brief thoughts on my first impressions... #main-findings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/pub…

What a wonderful day at the Flying High Trust Inset day! Over 1000 professionals thinking about inclusion and supporting our most vulnerable learners. Thanks to everyone who came to my workshop on EAL #weareflyinghigh #flyinghighpartnership # fhpinset24

Had a fabulous session on Wednesday with the Nottingham Priority Literacy English leads - a great bunch of committed professionals prepared to reflect on their practice and make positive changes. Bring on the TSfW! @PriorityLit @FlyingHighTrust @WayneNorrie @HertsEnglish

@lifeatthenest One size fits all does not work

If you’re a head of a school or CEO 🫤 of several and you’re asking people to make all their classrooms, PowerPoints, worksheets look exactly the same, then you are not just part of the problem. You ARE the problem. Stop it! You’re killing education. Go and manage a McDonalds.

@AcademyAston Just came across this interesting read regarding uniform . johncosgrove55.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/a-u…

Great day yesterday delivering ‘first day back’ INSET at Abercrombie Primary doing the Teaching Sequence for Writing. Always a pleasure to work with a reflective, passionate team. Thanks guys. @AbercrombiePS

@PaulKetchley @tes @educationgovuk Therefore they need to be properly prepared for - which was the criticism - we prepare too much for them and put pupils under stress. If it is ‘an exam’ then it should be treated as such. At the moment we have ‘an exam’ we shouldn’t revise for

@TreeHeathcote @tes @educationgovuk Because it's "an exam"? That's what normally happens "in exams". It's to ensure fairness and equity and create a level playing field. It has been like that for decades since I was in school.

Schools’ preparation for KS2 Sats should not come at the expense of pupils’ wellbeing, @educationgovuk has said in response to concerns about the difficulty of this week’s reading paper tes.com/magazine/news/…

Looking forward to this afternoon's session on Reading for Pleasure with the National Literacy Trust. The group were really engaged with Day 1 - promoting independent reading - today we are talking comprehension. @Literacy_Trust

Ofsted Review of English July 2022 - ‘…successful subject leadership depends on ‘autonomy and control over the curriculum… senior leaders need to give them this autonomy as part of a school’s shared vision ….’ Where do one size fits all trust wide schemes fit with this?

To all@those waiting for GCSE results today. Look at this picture and be immensely proud of everything you achieve.

So SATs results have gone down - who’d have thought it!! As long as this is not a stick to beat us with but a recognition of the lost learning during the pandemic. I wonder which way it will go …🤔