🎉 Today we celebrated Education Sunday: a special moment to give thanks for all who nurture, teach, and inspire. Past and present school staff were honoured and received a gift as a token of our gratitude. 🌟📚
#EducationSunday #CelebratingEducation #FaithAndLearning #Community #Gratitude #Inspiration
Promotional banner for a free conference by Waltham Forest NEU equalities officers titled 'Curriculum Without Borders: Educate, Include, Empower'. Focuses on LGBT+ inclusion, anti-racism, and disability. Scheduled for Wednesday, 2nd July 2025 from 10 AM to 4 PM at Orford Road, London E17 9QR. Supported by Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Hackney NEU. Includes breakfast and lunch. Invitation to sign up via a QR code linked to the event website.
Equalities conference: 'curriculum without borders: Educate, include, empower'
🗓️ 2 July
📍Orford House, E17 9QR
🕙 10am
Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Equalities2J...
#Equalities #CelebratingEducation #Education #Curriculum #edutwitter #ValueEducation @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social
Megan Quinn talks about working hard to create a space for students to think critically and are listened to and teachers also need the same. #celebratingeducation
People talking about how little time they have and how the curriculum is making life hard for many because it doesn't have the children at the heart of it. We seem to have a set idea about where you have to go rather than consider the children in front of us #celebratingeducation
@ST3AMCo showing a picture of @Oldprimaryhead1 because he never takes a day off. Such is his commitment to his children. Nick talks about needing to work together to make change real. And the people that have stepped up to do that. 👏👏 #celebratingeducation
@ST3AMCo Nick Corston discussing the need for creativity in our schools and talks highly of Ken Robinson and Seth Godin. The passion this man has for change and for us to see that art is #connection is HUGE! Talks about the amazing @chrisdysonHT #celebratingeducation
Will the new Ofsted framework change things? @RRwoi hopes so. A #SENCO across two primary settings explains how they are fully inclusive. They have 35% SEND in their settings and it is working. It is really hard she says but it can work and it does. #celebratingeducation
.@RRwoi questions how much is spent on the senior management posts versus the teachers and support staff - is the balance tipped to the management first which isn't solving the ground level issues. #inclusion #celebratingeducation
Teachers need a whole toolbag to include in the classroom. We used to have much more in terms of people support and budget. Now it is cut to the bone. This doesn't help school, teachers or students and widens the gap for #inclusion. @RRwoi #celebratingeducation
Differentiation and diversifying the curriculum should be happening in schools by default. Chdn shouldn't have to go elsewhere because they don't fit the current edu model. #celebratingeducation @RRwoi
A lady from Italy (where they closed all special schools in 1974) asks @RRwoi his view on special schools. He says ultimately it would be best if they weren't needed. The system has created them because it isn't fit for purpose for all. #celebratingeducation #flipthenarrative
'incl every single child so they had the best opps to achieve in the wider perspective of life' (HT) the children know there is a difference but there is no issue with the difference. @RRwoi shares video of a primary school achieving great #inclusion. #celebratingeducation
Mary thinks she and Ben have today made it clear that they would like this debate around edu and approaches to go forward more positively. They have differing views but can discuss as professionals and with kindness and politely. #celebratingeducation
.@dutaut raises the question how do we create an education system which has space for the differing interests. Mary believes there is more than one way to teach and do well. You need a smorgasbord of competencies and pedagogy to have success across edu. #celebratingeducation
Mary is worried we don't listen enough in schools and that we are seriously over testing our children. Mary thinks we have a lot of questions to ask ourselves around what we are doing and its consequences. #celebratingeducation @MaryBoustedNEU
.@MrEFinch poses the question - whose interest does it serve to keep the divide on skills and knowledge rich curriculum open? It seems there is a closer connection than sometimes appears. Ben think it was a process that had to be gone though. #celebratingeducation
Mary states there is a very big difference between how you perceive the curriculum and how you teach. Knowledge and skills are not the same thing she says @MaryBoustedNEU #celebratingeducation
Ben discusses the areas Mary raised and are perhaps also knowledge based. He feels there is a misunderstanding around what a knowledge curriculum is. Ben talks about giving people context and knowledge and this will give them the chance to be creative. #celebratingeducation
What makes us human? The successful education systems are remembering that the human part is key to sustaining our future - in view of AI and other developing concepts. @MaryBoustedNEU #celebratingeducation
.@OECDEduSkills highest perf countries have the co-creation of learning between peers and teachers. The skills of sorting, making, choosing & directing the knowledge they have is a huge skill. Mary challenges rote learning does not give deep learning. #celebratingeducation
.@MrEFinch introduces @MaryBoustedNEU and @bennewmark to discuss the knowledge rich curriculum. Ben discusses why we are interested in things - because we know about them. Curiosity comes from knowledge. #celebratingeducation
.@MaryBoustedNEU discusses our CYP being enabled to be innovative. Mary agrees knowledge is important and agrees the curriculum needs to be created to support this. But, she says we need CYP to acquire knowledge and have the skills to use it creatively. #celebratingeducation
Claire discusses strategies to show how the children feel about the stress they are experiencing. (Interoception is the sense linked to this.) Claire shares @2tubies approach to scaling where the feelings are. @Claire_R123 #celebratingeducation
Claire discusses Blanks Levels - the highest level 4. How many times we refer to these points during or after an event. It's about being preventative and positive and reframing our language so we are supportive and not an additional stress. #celebratingeducation @Claire_R123
Claire discussing strategies that work, that she has used in her professional role and also with her own children. #celebratingeducation @Claire_R123
Constant toxic stress will affect anyone and can cause cognitive impairment if left unsupported. Think about the 'Stress Bucket' and preventing overflow. Working with children to get through stressful situs and forming strategies is key #celebratingeducation @Claire_R123
Callum talks #ACES and the need to know about this for all children. You can add stress because provision isn't supportive of actual need - relationships are key to understanding the whole view. #celebratingeducation @Claire_R123
Callum talking about fight flight or freeze and the structure of the brain and our developmental pathway. Brilliant @BeaconHouseTeam resource
@Claire_R123 #celebratingeducation
It's all about the #brain and @Callum_SEND starts with a practical asking us to talk about when we are nervous.....#celebratingeducation #flipthenarrative
