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01/04/23

Retweeted From SFET Teaching School Hub

Do you value all your staff equally? Are you a school that really wants to invest in TA professional development? Empower your TAs to support effective teaching and learning and see the impact on the children they support. Next cohort starts April 20th. https://t.co/dMu12PMY90 https://t.co/B2jeU4wU7q

01/04/23

Retweeted From George Abbot Music

Huge congratulations to everyone involved in The Spring Concert - it is an absolute honour to work with you as always and the talent is out of this world! Particular well done to this incredible tech crew who ran the concert entirely on their own. What professionalism and skill! https://t.co/Fe7G8GJoMe

31/03/23

Well done girls!!! https://t.co/tvctPZouq5

31/03/23

All going well for the students in Malaga. A wide range of visits and experiences…and a whole lot of fun! https://t.co/lNkHRZ4iFr

31/03/23

A very happy Easter break to all in our community. We are looking forward to an exciting summer term ahead! https://t.co/hIX1Z2ot6K

31/03/23

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 https://t.co/W8IScTXXFK

31/03/23

👏🏻 Well done to these four, and all involved! 👏🏻 https://t.co/6yOpIpa9fR

31/03/23

Retweeted From George Abbot Music

Hoping our fabulous students, team, parents and friends of the department have a wonderful Easter break! Looking forward to seeing you all in the Summer Term! ☀️

31/03/23

And that's a wrap on the Spring Term! We hope everyone in the Fullbrook family has a restful break. We look forward to welcoming students back to school on Monday 17th April. https://t.co/hF1JtigHbo

31/03/23

1GE have been busy making super Easter baskets using a net. Well done everyone! Happy Easter :) https://t.co/fBoBYGQphq

30/03/23

Putting our new sewing skills to the test, look at some of ’s wonderful mini beast hand puppets! https://t.co/oNBl6Vr1n0

30/03/23

In , we planned, made and evaluated moving pictures with the theme of Space. We definitely showed our Super 6 skill of Perseverance as it was very tricky but we think they look great! https://t.co/mW78CLL24W

30/03/23

Retweeted From George Abbot PE Dept

Yr 11 GCSE PE students are ready to climb the wall https://t.co/lWFWwBe9WI

30/03/23

We've also heard from the Hebrews team at St Paul's Addlestone who are running their Easter Lunch Project during the break for families who need additional support. https://t.co/oxZFYOqLWt

30/03/23

Heathervale Baptist Church are running Let's Do Lunch sessions over the Easter Break. For families who are struggling during these challenging times it's a fantastic service provided by an organisation within our community. https://t.co/xLxF8330Kw

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Progress may not always be apparent

27th January 2023

I have to confess to a slightly unusual hobby – building things in the garden. At the moment, I am spending my weekends constructing a large shed; as sheds go, it is robustly-built and will hopefully look well made.

I started the project with a vision of what I wanted to achieve, and a rough plan of how I might get there – at that point, it felt exciting and reasonably straight forward. And things initially went to plan – I ordered plenty of materials, roped in some help digging the foundations, and spent some enjoyable weekends laying concrete blocks and building the timber frame. There was lots of visual progress as it quickly started to take shape; some interest (hopefully positive?!) from the neighbours, and plenty of satisfaction at how much things had moved on each weekend.

But then things started to get difficult and frustrating. As the winter set in, there was less daylight so progress slowed. Trekking outside on a Saturday morning felt less appealing during the December rain than it had during the summer. I would increasingly find myself spending hours re-doing work that I had happily rushed through in the early stages, without thinking through exactly how it needed to be, or perhaps not having measured something quite as carefully as I might have done. At this stage, things feel frustrating – progress seems painfully slow (will it ever be finished?) and the whole process less enjoyable. It can be tempting to give in – though that would leave a rather bizarre half-finished ‘monument’ at the end of the garden.

Fortunately, friends visiting us often ask to see how I am getting on – and they are able to see things from a different perspective. As they have no idea of the setbacks encountered, they just comment on the progress that has been made, which of course is more visible if seen only every few weeks or months. It might sometimes feel that I’m not achieving anything, but that is largely due to my own perspective.

Working with young people can feel very much like this – when we are involved day-to-day, all we notice is the lesson that they were not interested in, the mess that they made, or the computer that was damaged. It can feel difficult, unrewarding and like we are not making any progress. But the reality is that we are. Every year, a cohort of children leaves each of our schools, with an incalculable difference having been made during the years that they are with us. The journey through all our schools, from nursery to Sixth Form is transformational – children requiring continual care develop into adults ready to give back to society. It can be hard to see this on a dreary January morning, but if we step back and look at the impact we are having on the children and community around us, we are able to see that we really are making a difference.

Patrick Overy, COO, Learning Partners

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