A school where EVERYONE can take time off—guilt-free? Build this.

This week, I took a Personal Day—a trust-wide initiative supporting staff well-being. But how do you ensure this works without disrupting learning?

A 🧵 on leadership, timetabling, AI, and protecting your team.

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Tomorrow is our House Competition: The Masked Reader! 📚🎭 Inspired by The Masked Singer, but with books! Which House will shine? A brilliant way to celebrate creativity, teamwork, and reading.

🧵 Timetabling to Remove Struggle & Maximise Impact 🧵

Timetabling isn’t just about scheduling classes. It’s about creating systems that save teacher energy, minimise movement, and maximise the wellbeing of our staff and their impact. How we do it: 👇

🧵 Virtual Reality Decisions Got Me Thinking About Real-World EdTech Choices 🧵

Today students had a Virtual Decisions workshop, exploring real-world scenarios through VR technology. Here’s what I think school leaders should consider when investing in tech-driven experiences.

🧵 Timetabling for Wellbeing 🧵

How we’re supporting teachers this year by offering flexible PPA sessions through Late Starts and Early Finishes. This means some PPA can be scheduled at the beginning or end of the day, giving staff the flexibility to work off-site.

#EduSky

Including more team based activities into our SLT meets this term. This week, The T&L Handbook Challenge!

👏 They nailed it! Almost every false positive spotted, and a sharp focus on what makes teaching and learning truly impactful at our school.

📰 Thrilled with our Nuneaton News team! 🗞️
Our first issue highlights student expression, innovation, and professionalism. While top-tier schools produce these regularly, we know we are celebrating milestones, and honing skills. Proud of the dedicated students and staff here.

🧵 Thread: Two amazing moments in this stadium, 15 years apart! 🧵

This is Stamford Bridge, home of @chelseafcn.bsky.social

A thread on how this iconic venue became a backdrop for supporting young people a generation apart. #EduSky

🧵 18 years of timetabling and why I'll soon stop 🧵

Timetabling is where school priorities and values come to life. Over the years, I’ve seen it evolve from manual grids to AI-driven potential. Here’s how we approach it now and why collaboration is at the heart of the process.

I've always found @fftedudatalab.bsky.social 'Schools Like Yours' tool so useful. We're using it to identify schools achieving great things in similar contexts and form links. 🎯

I'll be cold calling some schools in Lincolnshire soon!📶
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🚩✨ We’ve placed signposts around the site pointing students towards highly recognised universities – local, national, and international. These are more than just directions; they’re aspirational markers sparking conversations about futures full of potential. 🌍🎓

June 2023, I joined United Learning - lucky to have a talented team dedicated to improving our school, and they have! Upcoming reflections:
✅Wellbeing
✅Personal Days
✅Late Starts & Early Finishes
✅Bonus Time
✅Shared Language
✅Norms
✅Character
✅House System
✅Group Reading

Delivered branded coats to our amazing staff today.🧥❄️ Our team does a fantastic job supporting students across our vast outdoor spaces in all weathers—though we wish they’d arrived earlier this academic year.

Snowy drive into work: the magic of winter mornings vs. the chaos it brings! 🌨️ Great for building community spirit but tough for attendance, staff commutes, and site safety. We juggle it all, keeping people safe and school improvement work on track! ❄️

📣 New term awaits. Slide deck at the ready! 📈
Looking forward to welcoming staff back tomorrow - they make our school a place to belong and to excel. Milestones reached, standards risen, but always more to do. 🎯