ASpall

In a world of Joey Barton’s, Nigel Farage’s and Tommy Robinson’s be a Gary Neville.

I must have spoken to well over 100 headteachers across the country recently and they're all saying the same things: Many, many more pupils with complex SEND needs. More challenging behaviour and at a younger age. Too little specialist provision. Frustrated families. Social Services bar too high. Public services skint and burnt out staff. No real Ofsted reform. Falling birth rates. People are angry. Communities in despair. Funding that’s nowhere near enough. Schools are holding the system together but it’s becoming unsustainable - they can't keep asking more and more of staff, with less and less. Something has to give. Without urgent reform and real investment, I'm worried that this could be the year we've all known was coming and education finally breaks.

My honour

@j_glazzard Well done 👏🏻 Choosing Saturday morning parkrun becomes completely addictive! Enjoy!

Following a lifetime of inactivity, I pushed myself to complete the Pontefract Parkrun yesterday. It was my first ever parkrun and I loved it. My Saturday’s will never be the same again. I could not have done this a year ago, but sometimes we have to choose the difficult path.

Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.

@dave_mcpartlin Let’s get @frankcottrell_b on the campaign!

I wish we could go back to how our country felt during Euro 96 and the London Olympics.

Oh his name is Diogo ✊🔴

Tony Bellow knocks the crap out of Tommy Robinson.

Forget the small boats. If the media wasn't banging on about it daily you wouldn't even notice. Focus on taxing the rich. If they paid there fair share - reducing wealth inequality - your life would get better immediately.

"The vast majority of sexual crimes are by British born people" ANDREA JENKINS "Well, I think the issue there.. I'll correct you" KGM, "That's a fact" REFORM keep falling apart. This is a masterpiece from @krishgm And it's probably his most simplistic interview 😂

❤️❤️❤️

It's the summer holidays, which means that I have **two copies** of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply **retweet** this tweet for your chance to win a copy. I will pick two winners on Sunday 17th August. Good luck!

@KirstieMAllsopp Read this!! Such a powerful read about the damage screens are doing to our younger generation.

Meal times are for talking. Kids cannot learn the skills they need to navigate the world via an iPad and if you can’t even get through a meal cooked by someone else, in a relaxed environment, then the challenges you face later are going to come as a big shock.

@Joey7Barton And you won??? Soo bitter 🙄

Well done to the Lioness winning the Nonsense Pottery Trophy. Those penalties were borderline embarrassing again. Don’t ever ask for equal pay again. Youse are miles off it. 🐕💨

Education will always evolve - through new standards, new strategies, and new tools. But one thing will never change: Relationships will always matter most. Lead with compassion. Extend grace generously. Offer each student a fresh start. Every single day. Because at the heart of great teaching is something profoundly simple: Connection.

If any heads or teachers are needing a last minute addition to the end of year assembly, here's "Leavers' Song" from Allan Ahlberg's "Heard it in the Playground". Goodbye, old school...

We’re sleepwalking into a crisis if we don’t wake up to the impact social media and digital devices are having on our kids. The systems meant to protect and support them aren’t/can't move fast enough. We need real change and we need it yesterday. Bureaucracy and politics can’t keep getting in the way of doing what’s right. The world’s changed but the system hasn’t and it's our young people, our communities and generations to come who will pay the price.

🩵🩵🩵🩵 True school readiness 👇