Helen Rogerson
@hrogerson.bsky.social
A science teacher/assistant head teacher in Gloucestershire. Interested in curriculum, assessment, timetabling and logistics. (Terrible golfer, occasional walker and bad photographer).
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Preparing for Senior Leadership - or know someone else who is? I'll be leading an online course on Thurs 27 Nov, 9.30am-12.30pm. The course is offered by HMC but is open to participants not in HMC schools. hmcpd.arlo.co/w/courses/10...
Please share with anyone you think may be interested? Thank you!
Please share with anyone you think may be interested? Thank you!
Preparing for Senior Leadership - Thursday 27 November 2025 (Online) - HMC Professional Development
hmcpd.arlo.co
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In case you missed it, & are interested. Thanks!
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For many teachers, silence after a question is anxiety‑triggering. Action Bias means we’d rather “do something” than wait. That might be why wait times stay short.
Read the four hidden reasons: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-teachers-rush-wait-times/
Read the four hidden reasons: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-teachers-rush-wait-times/
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
For many teachers, silence after a question is anxiety‑triggering. Action Bias means we’d rather “do something” than wait. That might be why wait times stay short.
Read the four hidden reasons: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-teachers-rush-wait-times/
Read the four hidden reasons: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/why-teachers-rush-wait-times/
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Hi #Edusky
How can we deal with those Sunday night blues? Often they are caused by things outside our control. New post with some practical advice.
open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...
How can we deal with those Sunday night blues? Often they are caused by things outside our control. New post with some practical advice.
open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...
Survivor Series 1: The Separation of Tasks
An irregular series of posts with advice on how to help leaders, particularly school leaders, survive and thrive in their roles.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hi #Edusky
How can we deal with those Sunday night blues? Often they are caused by things outside our control. New post with some practical advice.
open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...
How can we deal with those Sunday night blues? Often they are caused by things outside our control. New post with some practical advice.
open.substack.com/pub/mrarobbi...
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Show learners where each piece of equipment fits in the process of distillation and what changes of state take place 🧪 💧 ⬇️
Teaching distillation’s apparatus and stages
Walk your 14-16 learners through the process of distillation and the equipment needed
edu.rsc.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Show learners where each piece of equipment fits in the process of distillation and what changes of state take place 🧪 💧 ⬇️
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Happy anniversary to my most popular Reddit post ever: PRESENT IDEAS FOR MEN:
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy anniversary to my most popular Reddit post ever: PRESENT IDEAS FOR MEN:
It’s that time of year… Christmas present ideas when you get a kid in the secret Santa draw?
Why do I do it to myself?
(I am a VI form tutor. But any inspiration for any year group might be useful)
Why do I do it to myself?
(I am a VI form tutor. But any inspiration for any year group might be useful)
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s that time of year… Christmas present ideas when you get a kid in the secret Santa draw?
Why do I do it to myself?
(I am a VI form tutor. But any inspiration for any year group might be useful)
Why do I do it to myself?
(I am a VI form tutor. But any inspiration for any year group might be useful)
We went to see The Running Man yesterday. Good fun!
Although dystopian futures always seem a little more scary these days.
Although dystopian futures always seem a little more scary these days.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We went to see The Running Man yesterday. Good fun!
Although dystopian futures always seem a little more scary these days.
Although dystopian futures always seem a little more scary these days.
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We are hiring a Director of Education to join the Chartered College of Teaching team! 📢
Learn more about the role here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/hhjuixxbcx
#JobSearch #HiringNow #Jobs #CareerChat #Recruiting #Careers #Hiring #Teacher #Education #CareerProgression #ProfessionalDevelopment
Learn more about the role here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/hhjuixxbcx
#JobSearch #HiringNow #Jobs #CareerChat #Recruiting #Careers #Hiring #Teacher #Education #CareerProgression #ProfessionalDevelopment
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We are hiring a Director of Education to join the Chartered College of Teaching team! 📢
Learn more about the role here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/hhjuixxbcx
#JobSearch #HiringNow #Jobs #CareerChat #Recruiting #Careers #Hiring #Teacher #Education #CareerProgression #ProfessionalDevelopment
Learn more about the role here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/hhjuixxbcx
#JobSearch #HiringNow #Jobs #CareerChat #Recruiting #Careers #Hiring #Teacher #Education #CareerProgression #ProfessionalDevelopment
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The @EducEndowFoundn released updated guidance on metacognition & self-regulated learning. What’s new?
Updated examples & tools, explainer boxes on common misconceptions, & practical strategies to help teachers develop pupils’ metacognition. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...
Updated examples & tools, explainer boxes on common misconceptions, & practical strategies to help teachers develop pupils’ metacognition. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...
Metacognition and Self-regulated Learning
Apply metacognitive strategies in the classroom.
educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The @EducEndowFoundn released updated guidance on metacognition & self-regulated learning. What’s new?
Updated examples & tools, explainer boxes on common misconceptions, & practical strategies to help teachers develop pupils’ metacognition. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...
Updated examples & tools, explainer boxes on common misconceptions, & practical strategies to help teachers develop pupils’ metacognition. educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...
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Science teachers! I hope most of you will be familiar with this already, but if not, this is absolutely worth a few minutes of your time, especially if you teach Biology:
Look out for this later #histSTM
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
(And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Science teachers! I hope most of you will be familiar with this already, but if not, this is absolutely worth a few minutes of your time, especially if you teach Biology:
Sat down to read the curriculum and assessment review three times this week and haven’t got past the first page. I will hopefully have the time this weekend 🤞
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Sat down to read the curriculum and assessment review three times this week and haven’t got past the first page. I will hopefully have the time this weekend 🤞
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These are the brilliant questions.
Kindness and Scholarship in equilibrium.
Purposeful understanding as well as Mechanical ability.
Leadership is often tightrope walking.
Kindness and Scholarship in equilibrium.
Purposeful understanding as well as Mechanical ability.
Leadership is often tightrope walking.
The bigger questions for leaders:
Can we build a system that keeps rigour and wellbeing?
That judges learning by understanding, not exhaustion?
Can we build a system that keeps rigour and wellbeing?
That judges learning by understanding, not exhaustion?
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
These are the brilliant questions.
Kindness and Scholarship in equilibrium.
Purposeful understanding as well as Mechanical ability.
Leadership is often tightrope walking.
Kindness and Scholarship in equilibrium.
Purposeful understanding as well as Mechanical ability.
Leadership is often tightrope walking.
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Every picture tells a story.
Sadly no one is listening to the tale these two tell.
It’s been put in the box “too difficult”.
Sadly no one is listening to the tale these two tell.
It’s been put in the box “too difficult”.
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Every picture tells a story.
Sadly no one is listening to the tale these two tell.
It’s been put in the box “too difficult”.
Sadly no one is listening to the tale these two tell.
It’s been put in the box “too difficult”.
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We're offering 30 fully funded places on our Chartered Teacher (Leadership) Status: Increasing Diversity in Teacher Education cohort - designed specifically for experienced senior school leaders from global majority backgrounds.
Find out more: https://chartered.pulse.ly/0rnglbimyb
Find out more: https://chartered.pulse.ly/0rnglbimyb
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We're offering 30 fully funded places on our Chartered Teacher (Leadership) Status: Increasing Diversity in Teacher Education cohort - designed specifically for experienced senior school leaders from global majority backgrounds.
Find out more: https://chartered.pulse.ly/0rnglbimyb
Find out more: https://chartered.pulse.ly/0rnglbimyb
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Fantastic article from a perspective we generally never hear. #EduSky
I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fantastic article from a perspective we generally never hear. #EduSky
Sure triple science for all will backfire as we don’t have enough teachers. So the most disadvantaged will be taught by supply teachers and the middle classes will be taught by the physics teachers we do have.
November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sure triple science for all will backfire as we don’t have enough teachers. So the most disadvantaged will be taught by supply teachers and the middle classes will be taught by the physics teachers we do have.
Made it to a streak of 1000 on Teacher Tapp.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Made it to a streak of 1000 on Teacher Tapp.
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I would argue that the better improvement would be to offer single sciences rather than triple science.
This is based almost entirely on personal prejudice, having taken Physics and Chemistry at GCSE. I had zero interest in studying Biology.
This will help with the Physics teacher issue.
This is based almost entirely on personal prejudice, having taken Physics and Chemistry at GCSE. I had zero interest in studying Biology.
This will help with the Physics teacher issue.
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I would argue that the better improvement would be to offer single sciences rather than triple science.
This is based almost entirely on personal prejudice, having taken Physics and Chemistry at GCSE. I had zero interest in studying Biology.
This will help with the Physics teacher issue.
This is based almost entirely on personal prejudice, having taken Physics and Chemistry at GCSE. I had zero interest in studying Biology.
This will help with the Physics teacher issue.
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Don't forget to like, repost and reply as you pass through, even if you prefer to lurk. We are the algorithm on here. Share more the stuff you want to see more of! ☺️
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Don't forget to like, repost and reply as you pass through, even if you prefer to lurk. We are the algorithm on here. Share more the stuff you want to see more of! ☺️
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This drop off in school enjoyment in England graph is quite telling, isn't it?
It's from the DfE's RISE: Achieving and Thriving Conference - Raising Attainment: Success for Every Child events.
Is what happens in your school reflected in this graph or are you bucking the trend?
If so, how?
It's from the DfE's RISE: Achieving and Thriving Conference - Raising Attainment: Success for Every Child events.
Is what happens in your school reflected in this graph or are you bucking the trend?
If so, how?
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This drop off in school enjoyment in England graph is quite telling, isn't it?
It's from the DfE's RISE: Achieving and Thriving Conference - Raising Attainment: Success for Every Child events.
Is what happens in your school reflected in this graph or are you bucking the trend?
If so, how?
It's from the DfE's RISE: Achieving and Thriving Conference - Raising Attainment: Success for Every Child events.
Is what happens in your school reflected in this graph or are you bucking the trend?
If so, how?
Really irritating that OS maps has stopped working. 😞🤬
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Really irritating that OS maps has stopped working. 😞🤬
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King Harold exiled his brother.
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
King Harold exiled his brother.
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
William I imprisoned his brother
William II crushed his brother in battle
Henry I imprisoned his brother for life. In Cardiff.
Henry, Richard I, Geoffrey & John, well, did everything short of actually kill each other.
Edward IV executed his brother.
That’s the game
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New! My 193rd gems post.
Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma...
Hat tips to follow.
#mathstoday #ukmathschat
Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma...
Hat tips to follow.
#mathstoday #ukmathschat
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
New! My 193rd gems post.
Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma...
Hat tips to follow.
#mathstoday #ukmathschat
Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma...
Hat tips to follow.
#mathstoday #ukmathschat
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Delighted with this fantastic review of @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social’s new book, #HowDoTheyDoIt?, from @headteacherchat.bsky.social! 👉 buff.ly/RGtut95
Find out more about the book - full of insights & practical examples of what’s working well in our schools: buff.ly/RUOJ2sN
Find out more about the book - full of insights & practical examples of what’s working well in our schools: buff.ly/RUOJ2sN
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Delighted with this fantastic review of @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social’s new book, #HowDoTheyDoIt?, from @headteacherchat.bsky.social! 👉 buff.ly/RGtut95
Find out more about the book - full of insights & practical examples of what’s working well in our schools: buff.ly/RUOJ2sN
Find out more about the book - full of insights & practical examples of what’s working well in our schools: buff.ly/RUOJ2sN
‘The art of loving’ by Olivia Dean is even better than ‘messy’. Really enjoying it.
Glad I didn’t wait and put it on my Christmas list 😆.
Glad I didn’t wait and put it on my Christmas list 😆.
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
‘The art of loving’ by Olivia Dean is even better than ‘messy’. Really enjoying it.
Glad I didn’t wait and put it on my Christmas list 😆.
Glad I didn’t wait and put it on my Christmas list 😆.