Jude Enright
@judeenright.bsky.social
Headteacher, Queens Park Community School Academy Trust, @ASCL-UK Council member and Chair of Funding Committee
I like your piece but I think it’s a bit mean about motivation. In my view all OI s including HMCI have a missionary zeal that they are improving schools. The problem is working in a framework and political & regulatory structure, high stakes, that does the opposite.
June 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I like your piece but I think it’s a bit mean about motivation. In my view all OI s including HMCI have a missionary zeal that they are improving schools. The problem is working in a framework and political & regulatory structure, high stakes, that does the opposite.
Yes! This! But no one at our (English) inspectorate has ever appreciated this point. And for some reason, our DfE has not understood this either. Since 1992 and launch of Ofsted these two have been blurred though all the evidence shows they are incompatible. I wish they would listen.
June 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Yes! This! But no one at our (English) inspectorate has ever appreciated this point. And for some reason, our DfE has not understood this either. Since 1992 and launch of Ofsted these two have been blurred though all the evidence shows they are incompatible. I wish they would listen.
Thank you for writing this. We would of course love to shut up about children growing up in poverty. And we would be able to if our government addressed this at scale. But until we do, we need to keep shouting that this is NOT RIGHT and highlighting the impact of austerity on our children.
June 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Thank you for writing this. We would of course love to shut up about children growing up in poverty. And we would be able to if our government addressed this at scale. But until we do, we need to keep shouting that this is NOT RIGHT and highlighting the impact of austerity on our children.
But we are in school. Not away days. Also not Saturdays/holidays as lots of the team have small and teenage kids.
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
But we are in school. Not away days. Also not Saturdays/holidays as lots of the team have small and teenage kids.
When too tired to make a good decision, we agree to discuss it first next week. Avoid any big decisions in late Dec & mid May. We have a strategic planning and (later) an operational planning day every summer. Some of the really big decisions taken then. School days, middle leaders run the school.
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
When too tired to make a good decision, we agree to discuss it first next week. Avoid any big decisions in late Dec & mid May. We have a strategic planning and (later) an operational planning day every summer. Some of the really big decisions taken then. School days, middle leaders run the school.
Morning tea / coffee for day to day, breaking news & admin catch up. Then SLT starts at 2:45 (in final lesson of day), breaks 3:20-3:35 for end of day and reconvenes with any big thinking items at 3:35 for a proper discussion with fresh (ish) brains. We bring snacks for all on a rota.
June 13, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Morning tea / coffee for day to day, breaking news & admin catch up. Then SLT starts at 2:45 (in final lesson of day), breaks 3:20-3:35 for end of day and reconvenes with any big thinking items at 3:35 for a proper discussion with fresh (ish) brains. We bring snacks for all on a rota.
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May 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Walk over Brooklyn bridge. Book ahead to go up the Statue of Liberty. Combine highline & Chelsea Market with whitney.org