Catherine Hudson
cathudson.bsky.social
Catherine Hudson
@cathudson.bsky.social
Deputy head and SENDCo in a primary school. Teaching KS1
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New.
Has additional become the point?
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October 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
They've arrived. Thank you @jonhutchinson.bsky.social for running the giveaway. I'm looking forward to reading them both.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The School Checklist Series is ready to download now!
14 practical posters + 3 bonus checklists for teachers & leaders.
Quick prompts, clear focus, free to use!

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Please share and Repost!
September 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📣📚Back to school book giveaway!📚📣

To win a copy of these two fantastic new books for primary subject leads, simply repost & like.

Winner announced Friday 5th at 5pm. Uk only.

How to Lead it: English by @missis-scs.bsky.social and @triciamoss.bsky.social & Science by @kirstysimkin.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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On a cardboard curriculum

New post
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On a cardboard curriculum
Well hello there, and welcome to update #152!
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August 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #5

Win "The Classroom Management Handbook" by Ollie Lovell + the Steplab bundle (mug, notepad, pen)!

Ollie, Steplab Australia Director, shares 10 principles & 18 routines for calm, focused classrooms.

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🏆 Winner Tues!
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Look what arrived in the post @teacherhead.bsky.social @walkthrus.bsky.social @hlearningpd.bsky.social I can't wait to read it. Thank you for running the competition.
August 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Lovely seaside retirement house. All the benefits of a retirement complex (laundry room, extra visitor bedrooms to rent) in a separate house away from the main block. 5 mins walk from Cromers’s seafront.

It was my mum’s & is full of happy memories.

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Ashdown Court, Cromer NR27, 2 bed semi-detached house for sale, £180,000 - Zoopla
2 bed semi-detached house for sale in Ashdown Court, Cromer NR27, selling for £180,000 from William H Brown - Cromer. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of properties in Ashdown Co...
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August 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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🎉 Steplab Summer Reads #3 – Bonus Round!

We’ve got more authors on our team, than weeks of summer—so here’s a midweek treat!

📕 Win The Scaffolding Effect by Rachel Ball—released today!

Plus a Steplab bundle: mug, notepad & pen ☕ 📒 🖋️

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🏆 Winner announced Wed!
July 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, accessories and stationery.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Investigation: SENCos will be central to plans to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But is the role even sustainable now? Schools Week speaks to several current and former staff to find out

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‘Burnt out': The staff on the SEND crisis frontline
SENCos will be central to plans to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But they're burning out
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June 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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NEW - Why phonics is still our best bet
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The Dyslexia "miracle school" is no model for the masses
Why phonics - though no panacea - is still the best bet for disadvantaged children
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June 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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On #TDAPE this week with @kieran-m-ed.bsky.social talking about some of the leadership lessons I've learnt so far.

Hopefully, this interesting to anyone in leadership or aspiring to lead.

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Please share @headteacherchat.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @marymyatt.bsky.social
Three Lessons Learned from Three Years in Deputy Headship
Thinking Deeply about Primary Education · Episode
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May 17, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Come and work with me in our fantastic department!

Collaborative planning

Everybody coached

Great behaviour

www.trinitylewisham.org.uk/Vacancies

Maths Teacher

ECT/MPS Inner London (£38,766 - £50,288)

Fulltime and Permanent

Required September 2025
Vacancies
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May 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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We haven’t had any applications for this post as yet. We have extended the deadline by a week. Please share with any Geography teacher who you know might be looking for a change.
May 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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💸 'The current system's promise is an illusion, and the gargantuan efforts that go into sustaining this illusion are causing havoc'

@matthewhood.bsky.social

schoolsweek.co.uk/ditching-ehc...
How ditching EHCPs could mean SEND is better funded
The approach and the incentives that flow from it are ruinous. Here's what we should do instead
schoolsweek.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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'Changing the narrative on testing' by Katy Burgess.

"Testing yourself on information is more effective than trying to cram it... That is, you need to focus on trying to get information out of your head rather than focusing on getting information in."

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Changing the narrative on testing | BPS
Katy Burgess on why retrieval is key to learning.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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We're celebrating 5 years of @walkthrus.bsky.social with a giveaway. 50 books! 50 people selected randomly from people who fill in this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Closes May 2nd. Got to be in it to win it...
Reposts appreciated. With thanks to Alex at @johncattedu.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away.

Just **repost** this post to have a chance to win.

The winner will be selected 19th April.
April 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Two exciting #teaching vacancies @Benton_Park_PS from Sept 2025!

1️⃣ Class Teacher (1yr temp, ECTs welcome)

2️⃣ Class Teacher + Science Lead (perm + TLR)

Visits: 10 & 11 April
Deadline: 28 April

More info: www.bentonparkprimary.co.uk/Vacancies/
Vacancies
Vacancies
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March 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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There's is so much guff written about exclusion. A lot of people are desperate to prove schools at fault when they nearly all use permanent exclusion as a very last resort.
Not browsing Twitter has really cut down on the amount of truly terrible 'research' I am exposed to. Just went on there to post a colleague's piece and saw this:
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence
Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This was brought to my attention on ‘the other place’ by @susangodsland.bsky.social

Have a peek at her following links over there.

Here are my thoughts . . .

www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/news/curricu...
Curriculum and Assessment Review – Interim report 18 March 2025 - British Dyslexia Association
In July 2024, the Government commissioned Professor Becky Francis CBE to chair a panel of experts to conduct a Curriculum and Assessment Review. We…
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March 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM