@sammywright.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, school leader, lives and works in North East: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163/exam-nation-by-wright-sammy/9781847927521 #edusky #Teaching #UKEd http://substack.com/@sammywright
It’s so interesting to see people approaching essentially the same problem from such different perspectives. My own book looked at schools and exams in what I now see is a similar way too - just without having the theoretical framework to properly describe it.
26.01.2026 20:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@dsquareddigest.bsky.social i found the Unaccountability Machine fascinating - and wrote about schools, management cybernetics and games.
26.01.2026 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1@add-hawk.bsky.social really enjoyed your book - wrote about it in light of exams and school
26.01.2026 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“In education, the fear is always of the cost of change. And the risk we run is of never changing because the cost seems too high. “
18.01.2026 12:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That was a cracking Halloween costume by my youngest
04.11.2025 20:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The latest post in our series "What's in a Word" is out now.
@sammywright.bsky.social examines the phrase 'knowledge-rich' which has a proper meaning, but around which a lot of other more vague and unsubstantiated ideas have accrued... www.edge.co.uk/research/wha...
From 12 mins 30 secs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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@twinklresources.bsky.social are launching a new podcast series for leaders and teachers, and episode 1 is here! It was great to pick @sammywright.bsky.social's brain on the shape and texture of English schools. www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1hjk03
@twinklbeyond.bsky.social #twinklbeyondenglish
School trip to flamingoland
13.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Because society works better when people find fulfilment in life even when their jobs are meaningless and mundane.
27.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
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Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...
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Something new…
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Best book ever
25.08.2025 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Apparently they’re ‘flying’!
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Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!
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Out today in paperback!
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Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year.
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Going on holiday tomorrow. By the time I’m back, this will be out in paperback! Reviewed in every single broadsheet, the mail, new statesman when it was published last year - “brilliant”, “entertaining”, “insightful”, “essential” - please pre-order!
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Clark’s hands are together in his lap. “Me brother was born when I was 10. But he lived with me mam years before that.” He looks up. His eyes are wide, and he has that faint smile still. “Actually, I thought them having a child it might change, but it didn’t.”
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First look at the paperback - and I’m just blown away by seeing al the amazing quotes on the cover
19.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0It could follow the pattern of Just William - lots of iterations vainly clutching for relevance in a changing world. Ending with ‘Gatsby and the Rock Band’ - in which our hero seeks to recapture the elusive freedom of the summer of love, only to realise, yet again, that you can’t repeat the past.
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