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01/04/23

We’ve braved the sea for some games and clambered up 200 steps to the top of the cathedral today. It’s been great fun in the ☀️ in Malaga! https://t.co/p1QF1J55Vz

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

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Teaching - one of the most important jobs in any society

3rd February 2023

As you may do, I enjoy listening to BBC Radio 4’s “thought for the day” on my way to work.

On Wednesday, the day on which many teaching colleagues were taking strike action to be heard, the Rt Rev Nick Baines (Anglican Bishop of Leeds) summed up eloquently just how critical teachers are to our society. He expressed many of the thoughts that have been on my mind this week, and because he put it so perfectly I’d like to quote him directly.

“I genuinely think teachers do one of the most important jobs in any society and we should value them accordingly. The main thing about teaching is that obviously it’s really about learning. We give our children into the hands of other adults for hours every day and expect them to be nurtured; body, mind and spirit.

…teaching is not about force-feeding information into soon-to-be-active ‘economic receptacles’, but rather about curating character, shaping a world view, forming a mind, opening up the world, stimulating curiosity.

…a society that sees the economy as an end rather than a means to an end - human flourishing - will never value the intangible work of shaping personality, character and community.

…teachers do important work on behalf of the rest of us.”

I can vividly remember certain teachers from my school days; adults who shaped my world view, nurtured my development, encouraged my interests and built my self-confidence to try new things.

I was very fortunate to meet great teachers at different points in my (state) education, and I am certain that without them I would not have had the life experiences and opportunities that I’ve been given. Mr Harris, the junior school teacher who nurtured my love of reading. Mr Torrance, the cello teacher who helped my early love of playing music. Mr Harris (the second one!), my secondary school maths teacher who never gave up on me despite my very obvious utter lack of natural ability in his subject! My A level teachers, who encouraged me to believe that I could make it to university (this was quite a leap for the grand-daughter of north-eastern coal miners), and then my university lecturers who really opened up the world for me, engendering my love of modern foreign languages as a way of building human connections and literature as a source of joy, support and mental challenge.

Thanks to these teachers, and many others, I remain a lover of learning; curious, interested and passionate about giving children the best possible opportunities to build happy, successful lives.

We need great teachers. Without them, we are sunk. I truly believe it is as simple as that.

Ashley Stapledon, Operations Coordinator, Learning Partners

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