Duncan Spalding
@duncanspalding.bsky.social
Executive Headteacher, music lover, husband, father of 4, and consumer of alcohol-free beverages. Norfolk dweller. BA Hons, MEd, NPQH, NPQEL. Member of Headteachers’ Roundtable.
Then I put the letter back in the place where it was found in the pocket of a jacket on a train in town.
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Sally Cinnamon - 12" Single Mix
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November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Then I put the letter back in the place where it was found in the pocket of a jacket on a train in town.
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And I’m 18 again down the Student Union, dancing, spilling my snakebite. Every track a banger. RIP #Mani open.spotify.com/album/0um9FI...
The Stone Roses
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And I’m 18 again down the Student Union, dancing, spilling my snakebite. Every track a banger. RIP #Mani open.spotify.com/album/0um9FI...
Adios Mani
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I Am the Resurrection - Remastered 2009
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November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Adios Mani
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open.spotify.com/track/5ikdUU...
Got to love an independent record store that’s as old as you are.
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Got to love an independent record store that’s as old as you are.
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Such a welcome opportunity to be positive about the changes coming our way. Thank you to the #CAR Team and @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Why this curriculum review is a rare thing the sector should savour
After years of policy turbulence, we finally have an evidence-based blueprint for change that trusts teachers as the experts, writes MAT chief executive Dan Morrow
www.tes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Such a welcome opportunity to be positive about the changes coming our way. Thank you to the #CAR Team and @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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Congratulations to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and team for producing a curriculum and assessment review that's evolutionary rather than throwing all the achievements of the last few years overboard. Lots of sensible recommendations.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report
The conclusions and recommendations of the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England.
www.gov.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Congratulations to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and team for producing a curriculum and assessment review that's evolutionary rather than throwing all the achievements of the last few years overboard. Lots of sensible recommendations.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent
It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Famously exactly how good science is always done.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Famously exactly how good science is always done.
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I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
@octopus.energy I love my heat pump. Super efficient. Kinder to the environment and keeps us super toasty. Works a treat with solar panels and batteries. #heatpumplove
September 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@octopus.energy I love my heat pump. Super efficient. Kinder to the environment and keeps us super toasty. Works a treat with solar panels and batteries. #heatpumplove
Waiting for The Beta Band in Leeds. Very exciting.
September 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Waiting for The Beta Band in Leeds. Very exciting.
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Some much needed satire, spitting image nailing it.
Elon Musk starts a riot!!…New ep of The Rest Is Bulls*!t out now on YouTube!
YouTube video by Spitting Image
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September 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Some much needed satire, spitting image nailing it.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
Important reflections by @headsroundtable.bsky.social on the latest changes to the Inspection Framework.
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HTRT Statement on Ofsted’s New Inspection Handbook
Headteachers Roundtable welcome the revisions that have been made to the initial school inspection proposals. We are pleased that Ofsted have engaged with a range of stakeholders and that this enga…
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September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Important reflections by @headsroundtable.bsky.social on the latest changes to the Inspection Framework.
headteachersroundtable.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/h...
headteachersroundtable.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/h...
This rhetoric is so dangerous and divisive. It puts school staff and academics at real risk of violence and aggression. Amazing when politicians always score lowest in trust surveys and education staff amongst the highest.
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schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-gover...
Reform government would ‘root out teachers brainwashing kids’ says MP Lee Anderson
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has said the party would 'root out' teachers who 'are brainwashing our kids into their way of thinking'
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This rhetoric is so dangerous and divisive. It puts school staff and academics at real risk of violence and aggression. Amazing when politicians always score lowest in trust surveys and education staff amongst the highest.
schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-gover...
schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-gover...
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📱 Tes editor @jonsevers.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the debate over smartphones in schools, featuring an interview with The Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt – and some of his prominent critics…
Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?
In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that…
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September 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
📱 Tes editor @jonsevers.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the debate over smartphones in schools, featuring an interview with The Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt – and some of his prominent critics…
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Pleasing to see him getting his hoop handed to him on a plate though…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage called a ‘Putin-loving free speech impostor’ during bumpy US congressional hearing
Democrats accuse Reform leader of being a ‘Trump sycophant’ as he decries ‘awful authoritarian’ situation for free speech in the UK
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pleasing to see him getting his hoop handed to him on a plate though…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“He's done everything he could to break down this country - now he's gone off to America to tell everyone how broken we are.
"Well, thanks.”
Nigel Farage has been busy slagging off the UK in Congress… of course Britain is broken, he broke it.
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
"Well, thanks.”
Nigel Farage has been busy slagging off the UK in Congress… of course Britain is broken, he broke it.
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
The shameless hypocrisy of Nigel Farage | The News Agents
Nigel Farage has been branded a “Putin-loving free speech impostor and Trump sycophant” during his visit to the US to plead for help with Britain's so-called ‘free-speech problem.’ But will slagging…
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September 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“He's done everything he could to break down this country - now he's gone off to America to tell everyone how broken we are.
"Well, thanks.”
Nigel Farage has been busy slagging off the UK in Congress… of course Britain is broken, he broke it.
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
"Well, thanks.”
Nigel Farage has been busy slagging off the UK in Congress… of course Britain is broken, he broke it.
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him