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Heather K

@heatherkdp.bsky.social
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Deputy Principal 👩‍💻. Loves books 📚, travel 🌍, the outdoors 🏕️. Mum to one basketball 🏀 and golf 🏌🏼 obsessed boy.

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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just because!
A bottle of Moet and two champagne glasses.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Day 1 of arriving in the dark and leaving in the dark completed. 34 more to go before Christmas!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A walk up Coombe Hill with the school dog. As we reached the top the clouds descended and the described stunning view of the Chiltern Escarpment is still but a mystery!
A toadstool in woodlandA dog enjoying the woods - mainly beech trees with a layer of leaves on the ground.Our school dog - Jessie (A St. Bernardoodle) looking very proud on completing her longest walk yet.The Boar War Memorial at the top of Coombe Hill.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Happy Diwali! 🪔
A diya lamp
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our school dog is proving as good for staff wellbeing as she is for supporting the children!
Jessie, our school dog. She is a black and white St Bernadoodle.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Year 6 residential. The boys are performing a spider ritual before bed. 🕷️ 🕷️🕷️🕷️
A circle of conkers with a torch in the middleSame conkers manoeuvred into a spider shape with two torches in the middle.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Fuel to help with today’s task. Helping my wife find an outfit for our niece’s wedding. She hates shopping. She really hates clothes shopping. Wish us luck!
Americano and a mini donut.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A fitting scented candle for this evening… He claims he has cleaned today; we are unsure of which minuscule part of his bedroom he is referring to!
A burning candle with the caption my son’s bedroom smells like shit candle.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New DMs for a new academic year and no blisters after day one!
Pale pink Dr Martens.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I love autumn foraging. #autumn
Apples, plums and walnuts
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
2 down, 193 to go! (I do love my job really 😉 but today was a bit of a day!)
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Our last hurrah of the summer! #summerholiday #familyfun #food
Brixton Village - a maze of great food and little independents with traditional grocers and fishmongers. Windrush muralJerk chicken wings and cod fritters with lime and chilli aioliBrewdog Waterloo - bowling alley, bramble gin and tonic, Yellow Pale Ale and coke.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
An early start to beat the rain; a fabulous walk in the Surrey hills.
A view of Green fields, trees, hills beyond a blue sky with white fluffy clouds.Heather, fern and brambles in the forefront, hills in the distance and an increasingly dramatic sky (5 mins before the heavens opened!)Leith Tower at the top of Leith Hill. Box Hill stepping stones
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is what I’m trying to tell myself as I walk around school looking at 3 half finished building jobs. 😬
Post it notes with the words ‘Everything is absolutely, completely, totally under control.’
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I need this kind of positivity in my life!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It has really been a day of emotions. Awaiting GCSE results for my boy 🤢 Our boy sharing his GCSE results with us 🥰 Bad news on my Dad’s cancer 😢 Dropping my boy off at Reading festival 😬
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A trip to @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy to see the MI5 exhibition. Really interesting - would highly recommend.
National Archives building in Kew. A large concrete and glass building with an expanse of water at the front. A map of the potentially WW2 routes across the channel and a variety of documents regarding double agents. A wooden desk with two phones and documents with a chalkboard on the wall bearing the photos and code names of double agents.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Happy Left-Handed day to all my fellow left-handers! www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...
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Left-Handers Day: Amazing facts about lefties - CBBC Newsround
It's International Left-handers Day! It's a time to celebrate left-handed people and to raise awareness of some of the experiences many of them face in a world designed largely with right-handed peopl...
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A lovely afternoon with two of the best colleagues I’ve ever had to celebrate a retirement. #endofanera #ladiesthatlunch
Glass of champagne Three tier afternoon tea - sandwiches on bottom, fruit and plain scone on second layer and a selection of small cakes on the top.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Finishing off our holiday in Greece with a stunning full moon (the photo doesn’t really capture its full beauty).
A sandy beach with the full moon central and reflecting in the dark water.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Our son has described us (his parents) as being in a civilised partnership to someone we have met on holiday and we will now call it this for evermore! 💕
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Only we could arrive in Greece to rain!
A very grey sky, rain pouring, wet paths and people holding umbrellas.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I left my office for two minutes…
A very large teddy in my office chair!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The children are out, just an INSET tomorrow and we will be done!
Goodbye and good luck, reach for the stars banner. Always used at the gate to wish our year 6s goodbye.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Since the DfE's new writing framework seriously downplays the importance of emergent writing, I'm giving away a free copy of my book on mark making because it 100% *does* matter! ☺️ Like and repost to enter. Winner announced next Thursday. #EduSky #giveaway #freebie
The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years book by Sue Cowley
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Anyone remember the poem ‘dog in the playground’ from Please Mrs Butler? That happened in our school today at lunchtime! As lockdown was called, I couldn’t help but recite this in my mind!
The poetry book ‘Please Mrs Butler’ (a little old and worn)!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Tomorrow, I have a wellbeing day so I’m currently in South End on Sea for the night with my boy who turns 16 tomorrow. #feellikeimskiving
Adventure park at South End on Sea. Sea and blue skies ! The longest pier in the world. 1 mile marker, the train running alongside but my son made us walk!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@headteacherchat.bsky.social has kept me organised this year. Just received my new planner for the same again next year!
Two Deputy Headteacher planners - the old looking a little worn and the sparkly new!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Mammouth working day today. First set of reports complete ✅
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
First time ever I’ve successfully grown a cucumber and got sweet peas to flower.
Sweet peasA small cucumber hanging from a cucumber plant.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our new tuck shop did a roaring trade today for our whole school picnic.
A blue shed with three serving hatches and two smiley teachers faces after our ice cream sales.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Last governor meeting and a lovely gift. I’ll be glad to get some time back but it has been a privilege.
A card with a bunch of daffodils on it, a peace lily, a box of milk tray and a bottle of Prosecco .
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tents up…90 Year 5s camping…guess how much sleep I’ll be getting tonight! #10experiencesby10
A school field with 30 tents in a semicircle, thankfully on a sunny evening.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I’d quite like to be there right now.
A computer screen with a highland cow in the forefront. In the background is Heather covered hills and a slice of lake/coastline.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Gooseberry season has begun and my son is munching on them like they are sweets. Hoping there’ll be some left for a crumble!
A metal colander full of green gooseberries on top a wooden kitchen counter.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Today has been the kind of day that if you told someone not in education they would not believe you!
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Summer 2 is bonkers, isn’t it? 🤪
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A little routine of mine is always to have a hike to create calm the day before the madness of term begins. This was a route of many stiles!
A stile surrounded by brambles and leaves. A wheat field, white clouds and blue sky.A stile leading into woodland.A bright pink foxglove.
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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Michael Rosen's thoughts on this years KS2 grammar test are definitely worth reading. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/this...
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This year's grammar test for 10 and 11 year olds in England: my thoughts on the questions
The time’s come round again for my annual response to what used to be called the ‘SPaG’ test and is now the GPS.   Below are examples of m...
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Only we could take the scenic route on a day like today.
Foggy road Supposedly a sea view
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Coffee with a view to start the day.
A mug of Americano on a wooden table with the sea and beach as a backdrop.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
My view for the week. It’ll do!
A view of Sandown beach towards Shanklin from the top of the cliff.
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Prom shopping is exhausting! But I think we have it all… suit, tie, hankie, shoes, shirt, cufflinks and an empty bank account!
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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Grit”…”Grit!?!” Some of these young people who walk through our school doors deal with more and manage more than many of us will experience in our lives. Yet, to cover up years of failure supporting young people and our increasingly intransigent school systems the govt tell them to “toughen up”
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
✅ SATs ✅ 7 GCSE exams Cheers from this exhausted household!
A glass of gin and tonic
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Started today’s wellbeing day with ´Come and Read with Me’. Brilliantly attended and always so lovely to see parents sharing books with children. #edusky #books #story #parentalengagement
Come read with me sign and a selection of books. Question and sentence stems to support book talk.Story vote - which would you chose?
It’s ok to be different
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My friends and me
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We have had to muster up three scribes last minute after we’ve had three Yr6s break/twist their writing arms/wrists. I’m just grateful that the injuries have all occurred under the parents’ watch! 😬😂
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Heather K @heatherkdp.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I’m never the best sleeper in the lead up and during SATs week but add your son doing his GCSEs at the same time and I’m next level tiredness. Throw in a monitoring visit… and I think it might be wine o’clock soon! #SATs #GCSEs
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We have a privately-run care system that costs residents ca. £6000 per month yet only pays a minimum wage to its workers. Solve that problem with some proper regulation of the sector, and you won't need to ban hard-working immigrants, who are the only people stopping care from collapsing completely.
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