Margaret Newcombe
@MNewcs
mum of three, grandma (best job) and recently retired head teacher
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Forty-three percent of children in Scotland are now identified as having some sort of additional learning need – the Scottish term for what is called special educational needs (SEN) in England. If 43% of children have needs which are not met in the mainstream education system, I…
Maybe creating a cultures driven by test and testing has driven children away from the sheer joy of Reading. Also the increasing use of excerpts rather than whole books. No money in school budgets to update library stock in schools . Not enough teachers who know about books…
MPs have launched an inquiry into why fewer children are reading for pleasure – and what schools are doing to get pupils into books tes.com/magazine/news/…
Academy Trust CEO pay is out of control. 💷 Some are earning over £500,000 a year - in publicly funded education. This cannot be justified while schools struggle for resources. It’s time for a CEO pay spine and a pay cap. We need money spent on classrooms not boardrooms.
Government calls for 90% of children to be born in September. 🫣
Well done Ofsted for that utter pigs-ear of a new framework. The Big Listen was obviously a Big Ignore. It takes some doing to take something bad and make it worse.
One of my biggest disappointments with @KeirStarmer and this government is it's total timidity in dealing with press ownership in this country. In my view, this single factor is the greatest threat to our country's future.
Right wing media has had it in for @AngelaRayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers
👇👇👇 I'm going to keep posting this. The BBC should be screening this!!!!!!
Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe."
On your watch the system was instrumental in the death of a much loved head, according to the coroner. We haven’t forgotten, and we haven’t forgotten your hubris in the aftermath, even if you would like to re write history.
This assertion about the previous government is breathtakingly untrue. And on my watch the inspection framework majored on whether curriculum and teaching were effective for ALL children, especially those with any kind of disadvantage.
Underrated life skill: Listening without waiting to talk. You’ll be shocked how much people tell you—if you actually let them finish. What folks want isn’t advice. It’s your attention. You don’t win people over with your story. You win them over by letting them finish theirs.
If you lead a party and align with someone who led an institution blind to the harm it caused, deaf to every warning, and unmoved by a preventable death, what does that say of your fitness to lead? What do you value, if not accountability? Who won’t you step on, along the way?
Delighted to have appointed @amanda_spielman to the House of Lords. As former Ofsted Chief Inspector, she brings serious expertise. A formidable voice for standards and accountability and a strong addition to the high calibre of Conservative peers challenging Labour’s failures.
My jaw breaking down is frightening as I lost another tooth yesterday. I have just 2 teeth left on my left mandible and they are also loose. I cannot let jaw necrosis rob me of my smile! Please consider sharing my GoFundMe and thank you so much to all those that have done so and…
I was talking to a grandmother last week about schooling. ‘I can see the difference’ she said. ‘When my children were young, primary school was relaxed. If the weather was good, they went outside and ran around. If they were sick, they stayed at home. Now with my grandchildren…
Please do not ever minimise a child’s voice in any situation. Parents ARE the experts in their own children and young people - respect that & work with them to keep the best interests of the child / young person at the centre always. #SEND #Autism #ParentCarer
It amazes me just how common it is for primary schools to have countless reading for pleasure initiatives while at the same time teaching reading lessons that are little more than years and years of tedious SATs preparation. 🪡🧵
School Attendance and Illness 🧵 The biggest cause of pupil absence from UK schools is illness. (It's the biggest cause of staff absence too.) The biggest cause of persistent absenteeism is illness. The biggest cause of school absence internationally is also illness. 1/
Why has there been a tendency to privilege writing over speaking, listening, and reading? 🤔 While oracy is gaining attention, high-quality talk in classrooms is often viewed as optional rather than an essential entitlement for all pupils. Why do we believe that written…
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