Recent news stories of 60 hour weeks, Debra Kidd’s honest reflections on her experience and the subsequent debate on Twitter have led me...

I almost didn’t write a review post this year but prompted my @MartynReah and #teacher5aday I think it is important to pause and notice...

I’m not a massive fan of ‘I’m a celebrity’ but I do have a lot of respect for Mo Farah. From arriving in England from war torn Somalia...

credit https://biblepic.com/john/18-36/htm ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ said Jesus. Jesus was not interested in political power. Whether all his followers understood this is another matter. One of the disciples was Simon the Zealot - the zealots being a revolutionary band that wanted to overthrow the Romans - some theologians have suggested that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus having having become disillusioned with his master's lack of interest in political revolution. Je

'My People are destroyed from lack of knowledge.' (Hosea 4:6) I know that Facebook has not banned the Lord's Prayer, and that schools haven't banned the Bible. I am certain that coronavirus actually exists and is not part of a secret plot to close churches. I'm also very sure that a future coronavirus vaccine will not carry the mark of the beast, and that the EU is almost certainly not a secret 4th Reich. Yet each of these claims have been posted quite freely by Christians on

Sunday before the second half term. If the academic year was a fight round one ended a week ago and we look ahead knowing that rounds two...

Like many people our age we have been juggling between the generations raising teenage children and dealing with an elderly parent at the...

It is difficult to know where to start with the fall out from A level results and presumably a similar impending car crash course at...

I first wrote this in 2015 when I found myself reflecting on some of the non-fiction books I have read. Although I have read some books...

“To err is human but to make a real mess of things you need a computer.” (Anon) The Headteacher looked back at the school buildings one...

One of my favourite tools to check learning is Socrative. I prefer it to Kahoot as it takes out the speed element of Kahoot which causes...

(Abridged version of ch 24 of my ‘Elephant in the Staffroom’ book) According to the old joke, October is the month where the cricket fan...

As teachers marking work and providing feedback our aim is to ensure 2 things That we deliver good and useful feedback that helps...

I am not in the current ‘teacher transfer window’ ahead of the May deadline but I have had a lot of interviews over the years – good, bad...

In my book ‘ the elephant in the staffroom ’ I briefly mentioned dealing with email, citing one interesting statistic from John Freeman’s...

A few years ago I wrote an article for UkEdMag on lessons for teachers from the thinkers of Ancient Greece. Recently I have been thinking...

Change is all around us, some good, some bad. This prompts a lot of reflection and there is much to reflect upon. One reflection is...

Recently I re-read the story of Jonah in the Bible. (Yes, I am aware that the Bible uses the word 'fish' rather than whale but I'm going...

Recently I shared some thoughts on competent vs charismatic leadership. This is almost a footnote to that post addressing something a...

If you’re reading this in 2025 - you may remember that for most of 2020 there was a coronavirus pandemic and schools closed. Many...