My heart sank when my 14 year old asked me to help him analyse poetry. I struggled with English lit when I was at school. Helping a neurodivergent child try to tackle this is so hard. Poetry and ASD is a very challenging expectation. Why do all children have to study this?

It's Friday. I've been battling a grotty cold, we had governors in visiting, wet lunchtime and the Internet went down at lunchtime! Very glad to have a weekend of relaxation ahead and a very positive looking week next week!

Sat Feb 8th, 10am to 12noon, free webinar on Diversifying Coaching from @hannahwilson.bsky.social & #DiverseEd associates: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diversifyi... Please share with anyone you think may be interested? Thanks.

Reading The Long Game by @pnjfoster.bsky.social and very much enjoying the structure of the book: listing problems and solutions so that I can choose where to begin. A very similar approach to selecting a specific goal in #coaching.

Very much looking forward to reading this, delivered this morning! 25 years in with, I hope, many more years yet to come in my teaching career. Coaching teachers to help retention of staff also builds my love of teaching and creates new ideas. #EduSky

Having a planning/work day today. The time saved by using AI to write model texts at different levels is brilliant. #EduSky

Year 5 teaching...need fresh ideas with big impact on improving varied sentence structure. Any ideas out there? #EduSky

Coaching...normally I coach within my school, occasionally colleagues from other schools.
I've just agreed to coach someone not in education and I'm not sure if I'm excited or terrified! #EduSky #coaching

Very glad to have my PPA day today, working from home. Lots of planning and prep, kittens distracting me and hopefully feeling ready for next week by 5pm...