1. "Yeah, Ben AI might well be awful but it's coming and we can't stop it so we have to find ways it works for us."
No. Actually we don't.
We could quite easily say AI is an age inappropriate and developmentally dangerous technology and schools should lock it out.
11.06.2025 04:51 — 👍 66 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 3
Exceptionally pleased to welcome @arithmaticks.bsky.social to the Astrea Team on our shared mission to disrupt disadvantage. Welcome!!!
31.05.2025 09:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am so sorry. This is awful news. Thoughts are with you
08.04.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#LitdriveCPD25#
Session One is 9.50 - 10.30am. All the speakers' rooms are on the second floor. Who are you going to see? 🐝
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish
29.03.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Such a brilliant night with Lemn Sissay in Norwich last night. Witty, clever and funny. The poetry was good too!
19.02.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great opportunity here for a member of #TeamRE at Astrea Academies with @mrcarnaby.bsky.social.
Having worked with Matt, he values RE and helped me find my confidence as a subject lead. If I wasn't so happy here in Norfolk, I would be tempted!
02.02.2025 08:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
National Lead for Teaching & Learning, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
👀 👀 👀 A vanishingly rare opportunity to be a National Lead for T&L!
✅ Shared approaches informed by TLAC & Cog. sci?
✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage?
✅ Support a vibrant community of leaders?
✅ Lead on the implementation of T&L across 9 schools?
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
02.02.2025 08:06 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
National Lead for History, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
👀👀👀 Massive role! We are recruiting a new National Lead for History!
✅ Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum?
✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage?
✅ Lead a vibrant history subject community?
✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries?
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
02.02.2025 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ebacc-reform-and-avoiding-distortions-what-to-do-about-ks4/
We think RE is vital. It is a critical part of our schools' curriculum and you could play your part in shaping it! Read more about why we think RE is important here:
t.co/roLvcBop8d
02.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
National Lead for RE, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
🌟🌟🌟 We're recruiting a National Lead for RE!!
✅Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum?
✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage?
✅ Lead a vibrant history subject community?
✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries?
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
02.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
🔥🔥🔥 We're recruiting for a National Lead for MFL!
✅Passionate about a knowledge-rich curriculum?
✅ Want to disrupt disadvantage?
✅ Lead a vibrant languages subject community?
✅ Co-design a common curriculum across our secondaries?
02.02.2025 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
National Lead for RE, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Astrea Academy Trust, United Kingdom
We think RE is really important at Astrea Academy Trust. Check out this exciting national role. An opportunity to be part of the design of a trust-wide curriculum, perhaps responding to the Francis review in the process. www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
02.02.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed this by @thewayofkueh.bsky.social. Well worth a read!
02.02.2025 07:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A dimension often missed in the discussion around whether children should enjoy lessons is that there are 30 in a class. Not everything appeals to everyone. A lot of top-level education discussions see schooling as individual, but it’s not: it’s collective.
04.01.2025 09:40 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1
a man wearing glasses is holding a piece of paper in his hand .
ALT: a man wearing glasses is holding a piece of paper in his hand .
Excellent blog by J A Maxwell on a whole-school approach to flashcard use. A focused approach to a small number of teaching (& study) strategies is likely to be implemented & sustained better because it allows a focus on quality & adaptation.
niprincipal.blogspot.com/p/this-much-...
01.01.2025 20:13 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
🫵New data on allegations against teachers🫵
@edaptuk.bsky.social recently carried out some research with our friends @teachertapp.bsky.social to find out what is really going on in schools and whether the problem is as serious as our casework data suggests...a🧵1/8
#ukedchat
09.12.2024 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Anybody else an Einaudi fan? There’s probably a fine line between enjoyment and obsession.
07.12.2024 09:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christopher Such is one of my heroes. He is extraordinarily generous with his time and expertise and always thinks and communicates with extraordinary clarity.
If you have questions or worries about the teaching of reading - he's the man to ask.
Also, buy his excellent books.
02.12.2024 23:23 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
I think we need to move every conversation about what is best for adults quickly onto what is best for kids. Without trying to twist the conclusions of that to what we already think.
30.11.2024 12:05 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We have fully engaged in Christmas mode… tree is up — 4 and 7 year old have decorated it and the muppets is on!
30.11.2024 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Love a cheese plant! But really love a Christmas cheese plant!!
30.11.2024 12:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations, Adam! How very exciting!
26.11.2024 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Help me find a new Vice Principal!
Our current pastoral VP is off to be a headteacher.
It’s a big role in a big school. You’d be line managing Assistant Principals and have significant responsibility for the day-to-day running of the school.
DM me: I’d be very happy to talk to discuss details.
22.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 21 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2
MAT curriculum (and maths) lead, MA Council, PhD student, writing for teachers and pupils. Also: music and language.
jemmasherwood.com
Regional Lead Practitioner for Maths at Astrea Academy Trust.
Executive Princess of Maths & Queen of the Ratio Table 👸🏼 Mum to Albie 🐕🦺 Very amateur pianist 🎹 Swiftie 💖
All views my own. #UKMathsChat #UKEd #UKTeaching #EduSky
Head of Mathematics. Handy with a Calculator. Sheffield United Sufferer. Terrible Football player 😅
Primary Maths specialist with a love of curriculum and mathematical language. NCETM PD Lead. Worked on Oak Academy maths project, now working for Ark Mathematics Mastery.
CEO at the Cam Academy Trust, chair at Active Learning Trust, trustee at The Difference. Passionate about educational equity
Perennial edu nerd. Now exec director at AQA, previously a mixed bag of assorted items: policy wonk, strategy head, teacher.
Director of Strategy & Improvement at CAM Academy Trust | Visiting Scholar, CCCU | Board RE Council of England | Trustee, Culham St Gabriel’s | Once upon a time… Senior Civil Servant and Deputy Director at Ofsted who also served as HMI national lead for RE
GL Assessment is a leading provider of assessments for schools, and proud to be part of Renaissance.
Vice Principal and History teacher. Occasionally write about curriculum and school leadership here - https://mrvallanceteach.wordpress.com
Former Teacher, Headteacher, Trust CEO and Schools Commissioner. Now loving life outdoors, playing golf and listening to music, supporting Cardiff City FC and all things Wales
Professor of Psychology, researching language and reading, using science to improve children's reading
Same old same old
Substack: daviddidau.substack.com/
Director of Behaviour| @tes Behaviour Columnist| English Teacher| ELE| MA T+L| EdSec Gove fan | author of The Complete Guide to Pastoral Leadership 💗
Professor of Education, Queen’s University Belfast
School Week’s deputy and political editor. Organiser of Hack Drinks. Education, politics, sad indie, the final frontier
Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
https://carlhendrick.substack.com
Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
Ex-HMI and national geography lead
Once a teacher
Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
Director of R&D at Evidence Based Education; Senior Associate at Education Endowment Foundation; Visiting Professor at Loughborough University.
Former maths teacher and professor of education
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning at Western University. Opinions are my own (he/him/his) 🇨🇦
