Detention Diaries
Exploring Education, building a community
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- “Context Matters”… Does It Though?
- Will All Schools Join a Trust? …Pull the Other One.
- When SEND Funding Gets “Swallowed”: Who Actually Sees the Money?
- Questions and more questions. The white paper after some digestion… or lack thereof.
- Every Child Achieving and Thriving – Vision, Reality, and the Gap Between the Two
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There is nothing wrong with having a break. Remember that, please! There is nothing wrong with having a break. Remember that, please! School life is full-on — we all know that. It’s relentless pressure from an industry (and often an employer) that just wants more, more, more. Some of us are staring at a glass…
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How can we create our own systems to lighten our workload? I have been reading ‘The 4 hour work week’ by Timothy Ferriss, the premise of the book is to automate a lot of what you do, eliminate distractions, say no to things that don’t interest or serve you and to start to think about…
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My name’s Dan. I’m a secondary school teacher in the North of England, and I’ve been doing this job for ten years. My wife is a teacher too, and together we have two young kids – they’re 6 and 4. Our eldest is autistic, but she’s in mainstream education and doing well – she has…