This fantastic team lead the United Learning Middle Leadership programme! Thanks to Hartshill Academy for hospitality! Sign up for this great CPD programme or our Senior Leader course for only £300 for 5 places. A few places left. Plus you visit Manchester unitedlearning.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
Today begins the wild challenge of taming a new pair of Dr Martens. There will be tears, pain and blood but then utter loyalty and devotion. Need to break them in before the leaves fall and the rains sweep in…. Ahh too late!
I am lucky to be Programme Director for United Learning’s Middle Leadership Programme. The enthusiasm & skill of last year’s participants was amazing. The quality of delivery was inspiring from great leaders. So we have opened programme to everyone for minimal costs. Exciting! ow.ly/CwFu50Tq4q7
The teacher recruitment challenge is still there but we host the superb United Teaching SCITT in the North and at their session on Friday the energy and quality in the room was inspiring. We need more teachers but this wonderful job is attracting brilliant talent. Sign up for 2025!!
This term we launched our ‘Golden Tickets’ strategy and it has demonstrated the amazing talent in Manchester Academy. Period 5 was the first prize drop and the whole Academy was tuned in as we launched with a very special prize. Remember- we start again for the next fortnight! Magic Start Rewarded!
5 degrees this morning! Trying to explain to one of our new Iraqi students yesterday that this is unusual weather for September as he shivered in the rain. Another student pipes in ‘wait until you see November!’ And a premonition of 6 months of winter flashed before me.
Reading novels in the summer: this is great, skipping through them and constantly looking forward to the next one. Reading novel in the Autumn evening … ‘have I read this paragraph?’. ‘Who’s this character?’ ‘How can I read 500 pages by Christmas?’ ‘Are there any pictures?’ Term time hibernation 💤