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Secret Headteacher

@secretheadteacher.bsky.social

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Primary HT. Speak honestly about life as a HT and teaching in general. Blogging about life as an HT. www.secretheadteacher.org

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Is there anything harder in the primary maths curriculum than trying to convince children that a rectangle does not have 4 lines of symmetry?

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Feeling a bit guilty about all the to-do list bits I didn’t get round to this holiday. Homes Under the Hammer Die Hard Christmas Only Connect Doctor Who Maltesers Naps Need to try harder.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ofsted working hard at writing their new framework. #exemplary

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

My little lad was trying to use the word ambidextrous today. Instead he said my wife was ambitrocious. And, I very much like this new word.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

This is how I’ve spent my summer. 25lbs/11.3kg lost. Still a long way to go, but yes, I’m bragging.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Obama said that decisions he faced as POTUS were never easy decisions. 80/20 or 70/30 decisions were made by others and never reached him. His were all 60/40 at best and 51/49 at worst. Not the same scale at all, but similarities and why headteachering is so knackering.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

No Apple Fitness. Music tracks from the 2010s are not “throwback hits”.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Labour want to change Ofsted. How can they go into a school year with a system they know isn’t right and causes distress and anxiety? Pause inspections for a year, reflect on Big Listen, consult, rewrite, and pilot. Launch in Sept 2025. Safeguarding inspections only this year.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Lots of new heads will be starting in September. Here’s 10 things I wish I’d known before I started. secretheadteacher.org/2020/01/02/1...

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10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Became A Head

1. You are responsible for more than you could ever imagine. The list is never-ending. My neck is on the line for things I never even knew existed. I am still surprised by things that come at me that ...

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

One of my favourite things I did with my class was 30-45 minutes a week of Current Affairs. No plan, no agenda, just ask the children what they’d seen in the news. As time went on, they bring things to share they’d seen, or fun facts. Hard in a packed timetable, but it was very valuable.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I have a feeling this next academic year will be different. Less of a battle, less of a struggle, less of feeling under appreciated and more of having an undercurrent of support. Let’s hope so anyway.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

I know primary’s get all hung up on SATs results, but I can’t even begin to imagine the pressure of GCSE and A-level results for secondaries.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Only Connect and Race Across the World are both back. Life is good.

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Secret Headteacher @secretheadteacher.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Well, hello Bluesky.

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