Mr H
@MrHteaching
Co-headteacher of a wonderfully small primary school in Derbyshire. NPQH | LA Moderator | NPQLL| NPQLTD | ECT facilitator and Mentor | @OfficialRUFC fan 🔴|
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It’s really hard to give students generic advice about spotting misinformation. Almost any piece of general advice you can give requires context and background knowledge to be useful. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/can-we-teach…
Teachers sometimes assume that school leaders have an easier workload or face fewer pressures. In reality, until you’ve experienced the role yourself, it’s impossible to fully understand the demands and responsibilities it involves.
When middle-class children fail through discovery learning, their parents hire tutors who teach them explicitly. Working-class children just fail.
So many primaries & especially small primaries have a HT who is also a class teacher; a great number have deputies who have full class responsibility. Lots I support have the HT as the only leader & some HTs paid at L3-5. Where are the leadership savings in these scenarios?
The government believes schools can find savings through adjusting the make-up of leadership teams and deployment of support staff, as it prepares to leave them to foot the bill for future teacher pay rises... schoolsweek.co.uk/10-things-we-l…
Neurodivergents will be like ‘I’m so tired’ and then refuse to sleep because they haven’t had enough me time after surviving the day.
If a student doesn’t achieve automaticity on lower-level skills, it doesn’t even matter how well the teacher scaffolds a new skill – they won’t be able to do it.
Loved reading this. Such a true reflection.
I never thought I'd be able to cross from secondary school to primary school leadership - and yet here I am, 8 weeks into a primary headship and loving it. It's been very challenging... Here are some of my reflections... samcrome.com/2025/10/25/cro…
I don’t get this concept of us parents being ‘out of pocket’ by giving our own children breakfast. Isn’t feeding our own kids a basic premise of parenting responsibility, why would any parent regard themselves ‘out of pocket’ for doing so🤔
Parents shouldn’t be out of pocket by setting their children up for school. That’s why we are rolling out free breakfast clubs and from next September, schools will be required to limit branded items of uniform. Saving families £500 and giving kids the best start in life.
Small schools want clarity on how new Ofsted inspections will be adapted for their 'unique' circumstances - amid concerns they will continue to place 'unrealistic' demands on leaders schoolsweek.co.uk/small-schools-…
The ‘sentence’ is a written construct, not a spoken one. Making students talk ‘in full sentences’ can be stilted & impede thought. Hedges, filllers, backtracking etc all support thought. Better surely to say ‘tell me more!’ or ‘develop that idea a bit’. You could have students 1
And teachers rarely encourage full sentences in secondary school. Huge praise for one word answers very common. Parents often push back if school does insist on full sentences. Parents often cite ‘anxiety’. Schools often back down. Hoping to avoid negative pr.
Working in a school feels much like running on a treadmill that never slows down - and it gets harder by the day. Every cut and the speed increases. Every new demand and the incline rises - again and again. Exhaustion builds and, with no clear end in sight, confusion and…
Lowest / hardest period of my career in education. Leadership is an intense, lonely place.
I’ve noticed that student curiosity and questioning has grown because of explicit instruction. When students have a foundation of knowledge, they then have something meaningful to wonder about. Knowledge doesn’t suppress inquiry. It fuels it. We have to know before we can wonder.
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Remember doing this and cheered like I’d invented fire 🤣
Trust the process.
Systematic review on Maths anxiety show what most teachers already know: being better at a thing makes you less anxious about the thing. Forget about breathing exercises or mindfulness; confidence follows accuracy, not the other way round. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-72…
If they aren't listening, they aren't learning If they look like they're listening, they still might not be learning If they are definitelt listening, they still might not be learning If they look like they're not listening, they still might be listening and learning
Most teachers vastly underrate the importance of prior knowledge. Students with a lot can thrive in any classroom. Students with very little will flounder. This is why you need to explicitly teach all students what they need to know. That’s the equity everyone is searching for.
Students are, by and large, seeking the path of least resistance during their time in school. So, if you, as an educator (not just teachers), are providing them "outs" for various aspects of the class (due dates, level of rigor, practice opportunities), then they will take that…
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