Watching Tommy walk out rather than sit down at the end speaks volumes. He didn’t come to listen. He came to grandstand and left with his tail between his legs.

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5/n since you're still here, here's my proposal. We have two judgements. Pass and fail. This is on safeguarding and behaviour and we get way way tighter on this. Behaviour is safeguarding. If pupils behave badly they aren't safe. I can live with everything else as narrative within a framework..

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2/n. I have spent most of my career in cat 3 and 4 schools in areas of enormous challenge. It is very very hard. We need greater recognition of how hard it is and less fire and brimstone scorched earth responses to negative judgements. I've seen the hugely damaging effects of this first hand..

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First day back with students and I’m ready to break my 3.5 year sober streak.

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Beat my course PB last weekend by one second. Because it was 9 years ago, it was a 4% age grade improvement.

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