Melanie Sanderson

'Pastoral care is the culture of the school: how it lives its relationships, how it teaches, how it listens and how it learns.' @WellingtonUK has long been considered at the forefront of pupil wellbeing. Deputy Head Pastoral Tom Wayman explains why 👇 ow.ly/rYUL50QvLjW

The big day is here! Do you know someone who is receiving their results today? RT to show them just how proud you are 🙌 #ALevelResultsDay2022 Images: Magdalen College School, Eastbourne College, Impington Village College, Tiffin School

@GoodSchoolsUK Excellent advice as always from @GoodSchoolsUK 👍🏻

Worried about your results? If you don’t get the grades, all is not lost. Our editor-in-chief, Ralph Lucas, says it’s the perfect opportunity to explore other aspects of yourself. Here are 5 ways to make the most of a year out - a thread 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/1…

Gunning for greyhounds #Crufts #aya

@lucyamarsh Me too

I love The Repair Shop. The team are so skilled and the stories so moving. My Dad loved watching it too and we would text each other about it #therepairshop

Wordle 229 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 beginners luck???

@LongCovidFight @JohnDoe247365 Yup

@JohnDoe247365 My kid never gets rewards. They turn up, comply quietly (answering questions when asked), go under the radar. The ones to get regards are those who are in the teacher’s face with their ‘amazing’ contributions and those whose behaviour is often bad, small positive steps rewarded.

@GoodSchoolsUK Apparently there were a few new Borises too 🙈

Looks like teachers are going to continue to see a lot of Olivers and Olivias in class. Both names top the list of popular baby names again! ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

@jonnyt19w So looking forward to this amazing event 😊

@WalhamptonHead @walhamptonprep @Lego Great initiative @WalhamptonHead

Beyond excited to launch this project @walhamptonprep Children, parents, staff and governors will be coming together to cocreate our values using @lego The principle on which it will be based is the concept of our common humanity 1/2

@GoodSchoolsUK *feigns shock*

Here we go again! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

@GoodSchoolsUK @nicolawoolcock Great idea! I also assume that the reason the highest GCSE grade is currently 9 is so that a 10 (A***) can be introduced in due course just to make sure everyone gets some kind of A. Remember when clever people got Bs?

We're already looking forward to the move to A*** in just a few years time. Or why not something a little more arbitrary. Farmyard animals perhaps? For my A levels, I got a pig, two hens and a goat...I don't talk about the goat 😢@nicolawoolcock thetimes.co.uk/article/top-a-…

@emmagoble2 @SianGriffiths6 @GoodSchoolsUK Yup 🤷🏼‍♀️

New top grade of A** could be introduced to help tackle A-level grade inflation @GoodSchoolsUK inews.co.uk/news/education…

@LangfordIEC @GoodSchoolsUK And bank holidays! Just finished a really productive call with a new client relocating to UK from Singapore 🇸🇬

Having a great #BankHolidayWeekend but folks should know that even today I have just helped a family with an @GoodSchoolsUK consultancy! @GoodSchoolsUK is there to help families - even on Saturdays!

@teachgratitude1 It took until year 10 for ONE teacher on parents evening to say to my son ‘being quiet works for you so keep going’ - it was a watershed moment for both of us

@GoodSchoolsUK Took mine on an outdoor only school visit to to meet @ShiplakeHM and this happened - does that count?

VERY excited it’s #InternationalDogDay today! Does your school have a dog in residence? Photos please!

@GoodSchoolsUK @thetimes Scratch cooking on a student budget?

As (re)introducing subjects to the curriculum is being contested, how about these from Hilary Rose @thetimes - compulsory typing, mandatory swimming and Bridgerton instead of Shakespeare. Any others you wish to add? thetimes.co.uk/article/forget…

@Kamal_Ganit @GoodSchoolsUK Yes and where are all the Latin teachers going to come from? 🤷🏼‍♀️

‘Dead as dead can be’ it may be, but Latin gives people a wide vocabulary in English, a leg-up to study other Romance languages and the clearest introduction to other inflected languages eg German and Russian. Then there’s Virgil and Catullus.... 😍. What’s not to like?