Quite possibly the best day of my career to date. Colour run event to launch our houses! Could not feel any more proud to be headteacher of this magical place ♥️ What a team! 🤩
3 photos to sum up my first day of the children returning to school- including my own… Second year of headship underway and wondering how long I can class myself as a new head for?!
Beautiful couple of days in London ♥️💐 We shopped till we dropped, slept in past 6am, watched the incredible Matilda, ate our body weight in food and, most importantly, I got to spend quality time with my eldest 🥰
Macey is 13! 😱🥳 Where did those years go please?! Birthday celebrations in full swing yesterday and we even managed to get a photo of the 3 generations together ♥️
What a year it has been! 😅 Not enough ‘thankyous’ in the universe to those who’ve helped me survive this first year of headship- not least the kindest DHT wing woman I could ever wish for - dropping the sweetest end of term text ♥️
Thankyou @kateowbridge I have loved our coaching sessions together! ♥️ Equal parts wisdom, wit, humour, understanding and kindness- look forward to working together again next year!
From England shirts to SLT meal 🏴 Couldn’t have survived this year without this absolute dream team around me ♥️ Result tonight would top it off!
Beautiful new mural in our school entrance designed and painted by the incredibly talented local artist & children’s illustrator, Sarah Grateley, alongside some of our very own talented artists from Years 3-6. It captures our community perfectly! 🤩
My highlight from headteacher residential was seeing this legend in action @Andy__Buck
Infinite wisdom and infectious positivity with so many ideas that simply make sense. Lots of ‘pithy’ to take away! Thanks Andy (and good luck with the gardening) 🧑🌾
World Cup fever officially set in at school today, following the PTFA mufti day. My lunchtime football card swap club was a hit, so much so, I’ve now been talked into it being an every Friday lunchtime thing, until the end of term! 🙃⚽️🇸🇪
Turns out I’m pretty terrified of heights after giving it the biggun’ 🙃 Equal parts terrifying and fun, but what an incredible day at Go Ape treetop adventure with our wonderful Year 5’s!
Last sunset in this beautiful country 🇦🇱
What a half term it has been, celebrating mum’s 60th in style (minus our boat trip today- this was less style, more chaos)!
Can confirm that Albanian wine is as equally as stunning as the Albanian scenery… the same however, cannot be said for raki (imo) 🙃🤪 Half term bliss ♥️
What’s one way to end SATS week?…The ‘you are being moderated’ email.
What’s another way to end half term?… The ‘you are being moderated on the first Tuesday back’ email 🤪
How was your SLT meeting this week?… Mine resulted in a “I’m a headteacher, get me out of here!” moment, when a bat flew into the room🦇😅 (2 very different responses evident in this photo…)
I walked to London and ran the marathon without any sleep. We’ve raised £50822
I’m kind of lost for words
I am ok too! Just gonna have a soak
Thank you 🥹
@DementiaUKjustgiving.com/fundraising/m…
Was reminded of this ‘Titanium’ writing unit today whilst discussing planning with one of our y6 teachers. Remembered this tweet from years ago and was reminded of how much I love teaching writing and really miss it. Must try harder to do more of this!
Having not been class-based for a while, I’ve really missed that classroom ‘buzz’!🐝 I am absolutely loving being back in class temporarily and have been blown away by the incredibly high standard of writing this Year 6 class can produce! 😍All credit to their previous teachers!