Phil McKane

Finished up almost six wonderful years at Brakenhale School. Learned a lot and was able to work with some great kids, colleagues and Headteachers along the way! Excited for the next chapter as Deputy Headteacher at Oakbank School within GLT.

Bring back parenting!

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THREAD.Great to see @tombennett71 back in a central role in the government's pursuit of improved behaviour in schools. As a Principal of 15 years who has led schools in non-selective and selective sectors, this is what I have learned about effective behaviour in schools. 1/10

GCSE results are OUT! First time we have achieved this! Congratulations to everyone! Social mobility at its best! 🥰

Join our protest against the Schools Bill on Sunday 18 May 2pm Whitehall ✊🏾 Why do school uniforms matter? Why does good behaviour in schools matter? This is the first in a series of videos where I explain what’s wrong with the Schools Bill.

Friday’s Brakenhale Easter egg hunt was a shell-ebration! 🎉 Our pupils had fun with speedy scavenging and clever clue-cracking across the school. Thank you to everyone who made it egg-cellent. We're already excited for next year! 🐰 💐 @GreenshawTrust

Fun Friday… but not for me 🤣

An amazing day with Andrew Hall, @GreenshawTrust DSLs, Governors & safeguarding teams - incredible training #alwayslearning #GLT #safeguarding

Thoroughly enjoyed my day at @JMAcademy1 today! It's been a week and already such incredible progress made. Really polite kids meeting sky high expectations. Great to see so many happy kids and happy staff on a Friday afternoon! 👏

Very excited to see this journey! This will be a transformative experience for the local community. Very happy for the kids and staff 👏👏

@JMAcademy1 joins @GreenshawTrust from 1st Jan 2025. This really is one of those opportunities to make a difference, to get really excited about and that really don't come along very often. We have a few initial roles to start asap, please message me directly for info.

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My Twitter account was hacked overnight. Apologies if you received any odd messages / likes / etc as they were not from me. 🤦‍♀️

We have some exciting roles out: ✅ Head of Design and Technology ✅ Head of Food Technology ✅ Teacher of PE ✅ Teacher of Science Get your application to work for the highest performing school in West Berkshire! ce0218li.webitrent.com/ce0218li_webre…

Incredible evening! Always proud of our amazing school!

@RogersHistory Of course the key is HOW it is done. Supportive and warm as opposed to critical and judgmental. If staff perceive the support as judging and criticism, that itself is a problem SLT need to sort.

@RogersHistory Respectfully disagree with your take here. It’s the responsibility of SLT to ensure that teachers can teach, free of disruption. If SLT aren’t present in lessons, how can they do this? New teachers in particular need lots of feedback. Regular feedback is what needs to be normal.

ECT was saying their school has a learning walk rota, meaning there is a member of SLT going round lessons every single day. Said SLT had been in their lessons twice in a day and that they weren’t liking it at all. They were asking is this normal or excessive? My thinking - if it’s ‘normal’, normal needs to change! (And it prob is)

Our students are so lucky to have such an amazing team of staff! Ice creams as a thank you for a great first week and ready and waiting for year 11 post P6!

Congratulations to all our students receiving GCSE results today! Lots of happy faces. Attainment has improved significantly, with students achieving an impressive set of results! We look forward to you starting 6th form. Jaden achieved an impressive 9 Grade 9s and an 8!