Paul O’Sullivan

The kids who used to play we these are now the adults that place them on window cills to deter spiders.

Night skies over Yosemite ✨

A really nice way to start the school year recognising the hard yards of all staff.

This is very very exciting. And we have so much work to do.

Forgot to get suits dry cleaned. Lucky that I used the blue light card discount on suits. BUT… now I have to be the guy in new suit on Inset… there is always one 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I am saying there are times to use data and times not to use data.

There is too much variance between KS2 and KS4 for a target to be the be all and end all of any one particular student, but it can give you some indications about the year group cohorts and what actions you may need to take.

It’s a bit like a tomato… there are right and wrong ways of using data.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato’s is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

Where to use and not use a target, goal, data, etc..

Agreed there are limits to data.

Maybe an indicator. Or a goal. A target can be a goal. A goal can be a target.

Agreed. Do the ‘data’ bit, but focus on the strategy and implementation of the strategy. You can triangulate and check back in on metrics at a later date if you want (probably wise to).

Lots of talk about target grades, but I think the conversation is more broadly about data.

Imagine a school without any “data”. No achievement, attendance, or behaviour data.

I think you would find a school with a whole lot of variance, persistent absences, and kids losing out on education.

My job title is AHT for standards, assessment and outcomes and a lot of what I do is data based. However, I do a lot of work with subjects on their curriculum and what their assessments tell them, not what it tells me if that makes sense?!

As @mrh1978.bsky.social has said, I am ‘the data guy’ but I think it’s the smallest part of my job. Yes I can build a spreadsheet, build a system, etc., but the most important part IMO is using data to inform strategic decisions; i.e Data informed decision making as opposed to data driven.

In the UK, Third Angle projection is used. So what is seen from the right is projected to the right elevation (vice versa for left), plan from above folded above… etc.

I think once you establish what view and what side you are drawing, the start with a known corner and go vertical / horizontal.

Plans and elevations are projections onto the the x, y and a planes, which are then folded out flat onto the same plane (a piece of paper in an architects case). DT can make you some folding planes to help understand how and why different projections appear where they do.

I think these conversations are important to have. My timetabler biases kick in but would like to see more posts about what others do. Particularly around PAN 300.

A chart showing activity from various countries on Bluesky. The UK, in blue, is experiencing a huge spike.

Oh hello Britain 😳

That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.

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Im no expert, but…

Leave the nest for now. Trim back branches once they have flown away. Spray some WD40 anywhere near nest (birds can’t handle smell of WD40). Put a wind chime / some reflective tape / old CDs, dangling in the tree.

They will likely try come back, but this will deter initially.

I just ordered two green moleskin notebooks yesterday.

Behavioural change (staff and students) will contribute to the culture; ‘how we do things here’. In some more challenging contexts, it can take a lot more time and effort and it’s not going to be a bad thing if it’s a leaders initial core focus, that’s not to say it won’t be the only focus.

“60% of the time it works every time”

Welcome!!

Ducks allowed…. BUT… Does your migration mean that we will have a standing agenda item on the number of followers you have?

@k8lw.bsky.social

Click on the three lines in the top left hand corner, slide menu comes in and then click on lists.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Has anyone come across a Secondary “timeline” (probably the wrong term) yet?