The Primary Head

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Um... It was the SPAG test today, right? Asking for a friend.

@BohemiaStable And because Pacino says 'let's get a cup of coffee' before they have their chat.

is there a greater example of "Mandela effect" in cinema than the way the expensive-restaurant scene in HEAT is near-universally remembered as taking place in a "diner" solely because of the sauce-bottle?

@adamboxer1 @Headteacherchat I cannot think of anything more pointless than a mock Ofsted. If you want to inject more stress into your school, do an invacuation into full lockdown into full site evacuation drill... all whilst hosting a local school writing moderation. Twice the stress for equal value.

Leaders: if you are still doing or planning a "mocksted" or mock inspection of any kind, you should not do that. I get that ofsted anxiety is high and legitimate. Genuinely. But this isnt the way. It's totally toxic, and I 100% guarantee staff will not see it the way you do, however much you say "don't do anything differently" or "this isn't for ofsted, it's developmental." Trust me. Other routes to school improvement are available.

We're all thinking the sleeping guy is @jonstewart right ?

The problem with these illustrations is that no teacher has hands that big and all teachers have necks. It's this sort of unscientific dumbing down of teaching and learning which is ruining the profession.

@HFletcherWood @oldandrewuk Ah, it was a special time.

The importance of the blogging revolution, and in particular @oldandrewuk

In Chalk & Change 6, we speak to @michaelgove, Secretary of State from 2010-2014. We discussed: - His diagnosis of the issues schools faced in 2010 - Driving reform at the Department for Education - Balancing autonomy & prescription - His reflections on the process

They'll be having a pop at knowledge organisers next.

@fesshole The Irish Parliament?

I can recite every ruddy word of the original BBC Radio 4 series of Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. All six episodes, 18 interviews in total. This is a useless ability, so I hope that it will at least generate Partridge memes and gifs in the replies.

Well then I can't retrieve you either!

@grok animate this lovely Easter image.

@Mr_AlmondED @dylanwiliam @greg_ashman Ah, I am shelling out a lot per month to get this bulk of work done. Ridiculously quick and high limits. (But £££)

@theprimaryhead @dylanwiliam @greg_ashman Its limits are rubbish though.

I prompted the main LLMs with “Write me a multi part VCE maths methods exam 1 question” and Claude easily won on quality. Is this a fluke or is Claude generally better for this stuff?

@dylanwiliam @greg_ashman I've spent 3 months using Claude to develop writing planning resources. It's head and shoulders above any other AI for that kind of task.

@greg_ashman At the moment, I think Claude is better on a lot of things to do with education (writing success criteria in student friendly language, writing school policies) but things are changing so rapidly, I wouldn't be surprised if that changes...

@simon_schama @hotspurstudio That episode of Bernini was simply brilliant. Loved that series.

@hotspurstudio thank you Victoria - Clare Beavan and I loved making it - 20 years ago ! And were very happy to win an Emmy for Bernini. So many tremendous memories

Dafoe ok; Andy Serkis in our VG episode of @bbc2 Power of Art MUCH better, closer to the true voice of the letters - not least because Andy also a painter!

@smithsmm Thank you. That's a birthday sorted.

@theprimaryhead It’s a Black and Blum flask.

Gosh I’m at the age where I’m really excited by how utterly cool our new flask looks.

@techxutkarsh Prompt

An unlucky one, mainly.

@teacherhead @MissDSays Yeah, but think of the school gate banners!

The whole nonsense of inspection needs ripping down. Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s all horseshit - reaching valid/reliable high stakes judgements about a school based on a short visit by strangers who couldn’t do a better job but presume to judge. What a job .. demoralise a community of professionals with zero responsibility for the fallout and then leave, spouting crap about being champions of disadvantaged children. The delusion of it. 😡

@smithsmm @mrjimBob Why can't they find jackets that fit?

@mrjimBob For men with apparently so much money why do they dress so badly?

“Yeah, that’s looking really good, guys. Just a couple of steps back. Lovely. One more step.”

The genius of school financial forecasting... Allowed to assume funding increase of 2.6% teachers pay rise for next year. Followed by assumptions of 0% ad infinitum. That'll sort the deficit out.