Pupil Referral Units: The children beyond mainstream education To view the full article from The Independent click the link above. In between various tasks from within my office I often glance at various newspapers and online articles relating to education. They are often filled with statistics, results, celebrations, budgets and new schools reforms…varying yet ironically repetitive. ...
Author Archives: Hannah Kennedy-Jackson
Teachers nationally have been celebrating their profession and TES released a great article compiling a list of their favourite responses to the questions ‘why did you became a teacher?’ and ‘why you have remained a teacher?’. The responses are inspiring! Take a look. Whilst teachers across the country have been commenting on why they became a teacher, ...
She give a simple instruction and got verbally abused, those displays she spent hours putting up on the walls got torn down in seconds, she asked me to leave and I became aggressive…so why did this particular teacher not give up trying? As a student whose behaviour and attainment was extremely poor throughout secondary school, ...
10 July 2015
Quick tip for Pastoral Conversations
Open your heart and share a little with them and they will share all with you.
Every time I find myself having a ‘difficult’ conversation with a student who is on the verge of disclosing something which is cause for concern it has always followed my keynote. I have just spent the past 45 minutes sharing my story and as a result created a sense of connection and common ground between ...