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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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Crown House Publishing @crownhousepub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We’re so pleased to be sponsoring 'Everybody Thriving: How can we promote wellbeing and a love of learning?' - a one-day event from Rethinking Ed, @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social and @edpolalliance.bsky.social. 📅 Saturday 11 October 📍 St Ambrose Barlow RC High School, Swinton 🎫 buff.ly/XP5WYQv

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Dr James Mannion @rethinkingjames.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This amazing event is both online and face-to-face, so wherever you are in the world, you will be most welcome! It's an 'unconference' designed to crowd-source ideas for how we might increase wellbeing within the constraints of the current system #wearethesystem Link 👇

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 12/09/2025

🎧 When we design for the most marginalised, everyone benefits. Too many children feel like square pegs in round holes, explains Ellie Costello of @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social. Listen to episode 8 of Talking Inclusion... with @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social now! open.spotify.com/episode/64dD...

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“Square pegs, round holes” with Ellie Costello

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I love hearing about schools that offer some curriculum flex. Carr Manor in Leeds timetables interest-based learning 1 day/wk for KS3 - described in this @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social book. Promotes inclusion & engagement. www.crownhouse.co.uk/square-pegs

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Square Pegs by Fran Morgan with Ellie Costello

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 01/09/2025

Hearing @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social talking to #jamesobrien was so refreshing. I couldn’t agree more.

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Dr James Mannion @rethinkingjames.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

And they say you shouldn't meet your heroes... Wonderful afternoon setting the world to rights with @audreyt.org and Gisele Chou, co-authors (among many others) of the uber-fascinating and inspiring Plurality Geeking out at the Ashmolean with @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social & the amazing Finn!

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We’ve created a new generation of kids who’ll grow up distrustful of services, wrestling mental illness and comorbid impact on health. Their stories will out and we will hang our heads in shame. 4.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They’re destroying our kids’ self esteem, stunting development, manifesting mental illness. The shadow cast coupled with years of failed interventions and intrusion into family life is decimating families’ lives. 3/

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They look reasonable and benign. They aren’t. They reward the most able and healthy, discriminate and stigmatise everyone else. 2/

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I ❤️ Carr Manor’s KS3 curriculum as described in Square Pegs: Inclusivity, compassion and fitting in by @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social, esp the Y9 pupils’ choice of specialised ‘study school’ learning every Monday ✨

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Kerry 🕊 @kezzasett.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Read no.3 of 2025 - It took me a long while to get through this one, but as a parent to 2 square pegs, it was an important one. I recommend that every head teacher in the UK read this @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social

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Andrew Cowley @andrewcowley23.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

There's an interview with Ellie Costello of @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social in my new book that you might find interesting.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I guess maybe something like the ‘consistent commitment to include every family, to give every child every chance’ approach outlined by Lucie Larkin of Carr Manor in Square Pegs: Inclusivity, compassion and fitting in, by @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social. Their ‘staff circles’ idea is awesome 💕

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Cliched explanations for the attendance crisis – such as shifting attitudes and the prevalence of working from home – ignore the real issues facing children across the country, says Ellie Costello from @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social

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Attendance crisis: cliched explanations help no one

Attendance was a growing concern before the pandemic, so let’s not resort to simple answers to explain what’s going on now, says Ellie Costello from Square Peg

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Well, truly humbled to have been asked to write about attendance for @tesmagazine.bsky.social by @jonsevers.bsky.social. Grateful to be given the opportunity to add some context re. narratives around what’s ‘motivating’ families. Often, the reasons are heartbreaking. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Attendance crisis: cliched explanations help no one

Attendance was a growing concern before the pandemic, so let’s not resort to simple answers to explain what’s going on now, says Ellie Costello from Square Peg

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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The opposite of 'inclusive design's is not 'normal design' - it's 'exclusionary design'. Or if, like me, you are feeling spicy 'hostile design'.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

‘While physical punishment is no longer allowed, mental punishment is’ - Dan Rosenberg, writing in Square Pegs: Inclusivity, compassion and fitting in (2023) 😔 @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Made it into a pretty awesome starter pack! How lovely is that? 🥰 Thank you @beckycarlzon.bsky.social

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And it’s exactly what we hoped our book would initiate - inspiration, intention, aspiration, ambition. A lever for change. And on this occasion, we’ve been invited along for the ride! amzn.eu/d/c1m2B7b

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It is rare to join a senior leadership, support staff, specialist teachers, parents & kids in the margins all aligned and ready to embed a legacy of belonging and inclusion. Together. What an honour and privilege for Team Square Peg.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Heart is brimming & brain buzzing after time w a courageous, determined HT who wants to work w SP after reading our book, buying 70 copies for staff, kids, parents to read & share, which has led to more collaborative convos & insights in last 6 mths than ever before for this HT & sch community.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yesterday was just wonderful. ASCL Pastoral Leadership conference is a pretty special space. Excellent to listen to @pepediiasio.bsky.social on ChWB Schs Bill; Tom Shaw Carr Manor; Soofia Amin Ken Primary Sch & join panel @nicoleponsford.bsky.social & fabulous colleagues chaired by Phil NAPCE.

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Aaron King @9000lives.org · 25/11/2024

Also, thanks to @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social and @nataliepacker.bsky.social for their helpful contributions. This isn't about criticism of schools - none are named. But it does ask "Surely we can do better?"

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Topics on the other place that have been hard to navigate this week: Isolating kids Restraining kids Vexatious parents Institutional harm In no other sector are these themes dismissed, denied, misunderstood quite so much as in schools and education.

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Adam Vasco @vascoadam.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The sector needs to stop, listen, and engage… forcing chn into schools that cannot support their needs, or worse, place them in a constant state of stress, is immoral. We are punishing chn and families for struggling within a system that was not built for them. www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-v...

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Adam Vasco on LinkedIn: Primary school pupil suspensions in England double in a decade

Square Pegs….The Rising Tide of Suspensions The doubling of primary school pupil suspensions in England over the last decade is shocking but, sadly, not…

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Good Golly Miss Molly! An absolute privilege to spk at today’s ARC conference. How do you follow the incredible @pauldixbehaviour.bsky.social & the utterly wonderful @floellabenjamin.bsky.social? By taking a deep breath, following their lead, sharing authentically & courageously. What an honour.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Have heard from so many parents who wanted to share their views independently. So many have found the call for evidence a draining behemoth to try to access or complete.

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Edmund Barnett-Ward @edmund-b-w.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

They have learned nothing from their own Independent Learning Review. This proposed 'reformed' system proves what Dame Christine Gilbert found - that Ofsted's leadership and management are still 'defensive and complacent'. Must do better.”

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Wish they wouldn’t say it’s ‘for’ parents. It isn’t. #NotInMyName

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

And there it is. Emboldened, empowered, mandated by the nation. Religious fanaticism laid bare in the Land of the ‘Free’.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🙋🏻‍♀️ Add please! Working across SEND, attendance, child & adolescent mental health policy, gaining consensus & effecting change. 🙌🏻 @beckymontacute.bsky.social please & thank you. 🤩

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Magic day yesterday delivering a days training with an exceptional group of co-operative settings. This week on the road talking attendance, belonging, dignity in edu, values, culture, finding Another Way. Together. Hope to see lots of SP friends & #InnovatorsinEducation 🥰 Cup is overflowing!

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Oh Lisa that’s huge! My followers stagnated after Musk take over. I refused blue tick (until last month). Hoping more news and front benchers come over to this space. It’s got great energy. Will be interested to see how some of the conduct plays out. Hopefully a fresh start and good vibes prevail!

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We’re encouraging parents to contribute and participate. Many are finding the process extremely inaccessible and arduous.

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well. Turns out (after grieving hard won base of 17k on the other place, which stagnated after refusing blue tick, regrettable panic buy last month), this space is rather exciting & soothing socials wounds w excellent starter packs. Huzzah. 🙌🏻

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you could add a small but mighty org thinking big and attempting to influence & inform, please add us. 👍🏻

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Been contacted by a co-operative of schools wanting some consultancy. It’s a really sensible solution and sits right in with SP’s value set of partnership, collaboration, shared endeavour, mutual benefit, strong community interest, place, space, voice & choice. 🥰

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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 09/11/2024

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Been contacted by a co-operative coalition of schools wanting some consultancy. Think it’s an outstanding initiative & right on the money (in every way). Cooperators uniting. Love it.

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

"That chase for a narrow shadow of excellence... that only succeeds by pushing problems on to others - that ends now" @jonnyuttley.bsky.social on why two sentences in a Bridget Phillipson speech last week are the most important of the past 15 years www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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This is the moment schools have been waiting 15 years for

Two sentences spoken by the education secretary in a speech last week will be critical to building a system in which every child can thrive, says trust leader Jonny Uttley

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Square Peg @teamsquarepeg.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

‘Moral purpose’ can be fraught with challenges and tensions tho. Beware of Doing To and Doing For. It isn’t always culturally competent or compatible. Co-creation is key. I explore this w @vascoadam.bsky.social on his podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... open.spotify.com/episode/6S5m...

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Square Pegs: Ellie Costello on Reimagining Education

Podcast Episode · D.I.I.verse Podcast: Will it make the boat go faster? · 18/09/2023 · 1h 9m

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