@jameseldon.bsky.social
Principal Moss Side, Manchester. Chair Manchester Heads, Co-Chair GMAC Careers Group. Education and randomness. Views my own.
When your Vice Principal is the Allotment Queen of Yorkshire! Helping me kick the Haribo habit!
11.07.2025 07:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stole the festival. Jalen N’Gonda brilliant too.
01.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This parrot is a dead parrot.
Sadly true. Caused much sadness with Y7 on yard. Another new school leadership experience!
Ofsted’s impact
on Heads. From @financialtimes.com
Yesterday Lynda, one of the great legends of Manchester Academy died. Lynda retired last summer & her leaving speech had the whole staff laughing like it was a stand up special. Lynda was hugely loved as our cover manager - a tough balance. She looked after us all, a wonderful lady. Heartbreaking.
06.05.2025 19:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Tonight was our first ever Staff Book Club and it was a wonderful discussion. We read ‘Kala’ by Colin Walsh and it inspired great debate and reflection. Special mention to Mr Axenderrie who arrived later after a meeting and then threw in a theory which made us all rethink! Magic!
24.04.2025 15:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
In a glorious antidote to any doom, the famous MA Culture Day where we celebrate our global community. Wonderful energy and vibrant outfits everywhere. Fantastic send off to the Easter term. Thanks to everyone for making such a special day.
04.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Podcast is a joy - thank you!Kept me laughing through current daily apocalypses!
03.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@theweeklyshow.bsky.social John Stewart’s range of guests is challenging to all sides!
30.03.2025 21:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So proud that Manchester Academy came third in the national Debatemate Urban school competition. Really sharp team - wouldn’t want to debate them! Thanks to English team for coaching this success. Now to London for the final!
24.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0If you’re looking for optimism and joy, go work in a school. You will find laughter, determined ambition, mix with cultures you were previously ignorant about and scaffold the dreams of generations of children. Quit doom scrolling and reach forward to a brighter future. Teach.
02.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Superb as usual- so useful in times of so much disinformation.
23.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01. Quiet Storm. Smokey Robinson
2. I Wish It Would Rain. The Temptations
3. Rainy Night in Georgia. Brook Benton
4. Stormy Love. Rick James
5. In the Rain. The Dramatics
What I love about this video is that it is full of our graduates, people I was lucky enough to work with at the very start of their careers.
Seeing them thrive as teachers is a great reminder of why I love this job, especially after a half-term that was short but felt LONG!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone
Old and cold!! But always laughing
12.02.2025 06:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wind chill during lunch duty, minus 3.
Y11 football game shirts vs blazers, not a moan or question of the dress code.
Me:
Suit
Fleece
High-vis jacket
Ski gloves
Scarf
Barely able to feel my face!
The Mums who attend the English Language lessons we run for families have cooked a Somali and Libyan feast for our Parents’ Social Association and it smells incredible! Such an amazing reciprocal experience. Proper Manchester Magic @manchesteracademy.bsky.social
06.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really proud to share @manchesteracademy.bsky.social story at the Department for Education Senior Civil Servants Conference in Manchester. Was liberating to talk about complexity so openly, clearly a lot of energy in the room to keep improving education. Sorry if the seagull story scarred you!
06.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Restock for the thriving Uno community in the school!
04.02.2025 08:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spot on David.
04.02.2025 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was speaking to a community elder this morning and she was telling me about the ancient days before January.
27.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant United Learning Middle Leadership conference at Manchester Academy today. Absolute joy working with the lead team and the participants underline that our profession is in ver good hands. Hope everyone navigated UK travel casino and got home ok.
17.01.2025 20:15 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to host the first ever in-person conference as part of the United Learning Middle Leadership Programme. Colleagues arriving from across the country - hope the transport network holds up!!See you soon.
17.01.2025 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Huge thanks to our staff heroes and heroines in hi-vis for braving the ice blast & keeping students safe.
Highlights:
- subartic outdoors Uno
- chaos of Y11 ‘Slapball’ like a Nintendo volleyball
- 40 a-side KS3 football match on yard
- a Y9 asking to sign an accident indemnity to go onto ice!
It’s minus 3 outside and a lovely group of Y11 girls are playing Uno.
Please note an abundance of warm spaces are available indoors.
Love this job!
Sir, can we go outside?
No, it’s not safe.
Sir, the ice is fun, can we go skid on it?
No, it’s not safe.
Sir, is that snow?
Not anymore, it’s ice and it’s not safe.
Sir, if it gets to minus 6, will you close the school?
No, we’ll be open to keep you warm and learning.
Cold Snap Leadership!
Big whoop and cheer to school site staff teams dealing with the tundra of 2025. Grit, shovels, heavy boots and warm gloves much in use. Keeping schools warm and learning!
07.01.2025 10:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic return to the Academy today - great to see everyone and the students made a strong start. Received this letter to say thank you to our Community Hub team for our Senior Citizens Christmas party and it wasn’t the wind chill which brought a tear to my eye! Magic.
06.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Nice Work is absolutely wonderful. His book ‘The Art of Fiction’ was seminal when I taught English Literature A’Level. Brilliantly unassuming writer.
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