This much I know about, what it feels like when you are criticised about your remote teaching
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John Tomsett Remote teaching
  • Feb 6, 2021
Kate Green is wrong about the curriculum being joyless
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John Tomsett Curriculum reforms Narrow curriculum Kate Green
  • Nov 21, 2020
This much I know about what students remember most about their school days
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John Tomsett
  • Oct 4, 2020
This much I know about why now, more than ever, teachers need their headteachers to teach
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John Tomsett
  • Sep 27, 2020
Why teachers need to have interests away from work
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John Tomsett
  • Aug 2, 2020
This much I know about…providing direction for my Subject Leader colleagues for September
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John Tomsett
  • Jun 13, 2020
Why Tom Bennett is right - teaching is a wonderful job!
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Teaching Tom Bennett John Tomsett
  • Dec 22, 2019
Three funding facts which illustrate why school budgets are a General Election issue for all parties
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Election John Tomsett School funding Budgets
  • Dec 8, 2019
This much I know about the challenges for early career headteachers: coping with the loneliness
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John Tomsett Headteacher
  • Nov 24, 2019
The challenges for early career headteachers: establishing a position on teaching and learning
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John Tomsett Headteachers
  • Nov 9, 2019
The challenges for early career headteachers: establishing a core purpose
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John Tomsett Headteachers
  • Oct 26, 2019
John Tomsett: why a teacher's job is more important than ever
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John Tomsett
  • Jun 29, 2019
Why Ofsted should stop making 1-4 judgments of schools
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John Tomsett Ofsted
  • May 6, 2019
How to model the answer to an AQA English Language Paper Two, Question 5, 40 marker
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John Tomsett AQA English
  • May 4, 2019
Tomsett returning to headship after escaping ban over affair with ex-pupil
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John Tomsett Teacher bans Misconduct Teaching Regulation Agency Headteachers' Roundtable Sixth forms
  • Dec 7, 2018
John Tomsett will return to Huntington School after misconduct inquiry
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John Tomsett Teacher Regulation Agency Misconduct Unacceptable professional conduct
  • Dec 7, 2018
Leading head John Tomsett spared teaching ban
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John Tomsett
  • Nov 12, 2018
Tomsett: My affair with ex pupil would be 'wrong' today
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John Tomsett Teaching Regulation Agency Sexual misconduct Unacceptable professional conduct
  • Oct 24, 2018
Kiss with pupil only 'a peck', says leading head
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John Tomsett Teaching Regulation Agency Misconduct Disciplinary hearings
  • Oct 24, 2018
Head’s book led to probe into affair with former pupil
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John Tomsett Misconduct Teaching Regulation Agency
  • Oct 23, 2018
Head’s book led to probe into affair with former pupil
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John Tomsett Teaching Regulation Agency Misconduct
  • Oct 23, 2018
Headteacher admits sexual relationship with former pupil, but denies unprofessional conduct
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John Tomsett Sexual misconduct
  • Oct 22, 2018
John Tomsett accused of ‘inappropriate relationship’ with former A-level student
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John Tomsett Sexual misconduct Secondary schools
  • Oct 22, 2018
Leading head John Tomsett to face conduct panel
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John Tomsett Disciplinary hearings Headteachers' Roundtable Research schools
  • Oct 16, 2018
Metacognition and self-regulation
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Metacognition Regulation John Tomsett
  • Apr 15, 2018
This much I know about…what the new GCSEs tell us about our students’ attainment
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John Tomsett GCSEs Attainment Standards Grading
  • Oct 8, 2017
This much I know about…the importance of teaching students the skills to broaden their vocabulary
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John Tomsett Blogs Teaching Students Skills Schools
  • Oct 3, 2017
Why job satisfaction matters
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John Tomsett
  • Sep 24, 2017
Why, more surely than ever, I think it is essential for school leaders to teach
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John Tomsett Headteachers
  • Sep 9, 2017
This much I know about…the folly of valuing effort over outcomes
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John Tomsett Teachers Outcomes Workload
  • Aug 31, 2017
This much I know about…writing, language and catching a sea trout
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John Tomsett Writing Language Literacy
  • Aug 21, 2017
This much I know about…how our colleagues are first and foremost people
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John Tomsett Teachers Teaching
  • Jul 6, 2017
This much I know about...how curriculum, assessment and teaching & learning are so inextricably linked
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John Tomsett Curriculum Assessment Teaching
  • Jun 24, 2017
This much I know about…how for the first 25 years of my teaching career I didn’t really understand what I was doing
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John Tomsett Teaching Teachers Teacher training
  • Jun 17, 2017
The speech Theresa May should have made yesterday
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John Tomsett Politics Funding
  • Jun 10, 2017
John Tomsett: resources for teaching how to write a short story for the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1
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John Tomsett AQA GCSEs English Exams Teaching Resources
  • May 31, 2017
John Tomsett:a step-by-step guide to the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2
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John Tomsett English Exams GCSEs AQA Secondary schools
  • May 30, 2017
John Tomsett: a step-by-step guide to the writing question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1
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John Tomsett English literature AQA Writing GCSEs
  • May 30, 2017
John Tomsett: how, despite our best efforts, we are failing the students who need us most
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John Tomsett Disadvantaged pupils
  • May 29, 2017
John Tomsett: how not to recruit, thanks to fellow headteacher Stuart Simmonds (video clip)
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John Tomsett Teacher recruitment
  • Mar 12, 2017
This much I know about ... the importance of having a vision for your school, high expectations, an anonymous note and feeling discontented
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John Tomsett
  • Mar 5, 2017
John Tomsett: how best to support our most disadvantaged students
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John Tomsett Disadvantaged pupils
  • Feb 26, 2017
This much I know about…modelling deliberate writing to a hall full of more than one hundred Year 13 students
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John Tomsett Literacy Exams
  • Feb 14, 2017
Improving mental health in our schools: conference and the MYRIAD research project
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John Tomsett Mental health Wellbeing Secondary schools
  • Feb 11, 2017
This much I know about…teaching Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “War Photographer
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John Tomsett Teaching Literacy
  • Feb 10, 2017
This much I know about: a simple way to monitor our pupils' mental health.
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John Tomsett Mental health
  • Feb 5, 2017
This much I know about: why subject specific key words are not enough for academic success
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John Tomsett Primary schools Handwriting Spelling Vocabulary
  • Jan 21, 2017
This much I know about...the School Funding Crisis and the National Funding Formula.
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John Tomsett Funding National funding formula Budgets
  • Jan 16, 2017
This much I know about ...why Geoff Barton should be ASCL's new General Secretary
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John Tomsett Geoff Barton ASCL
  • Jan 2, 2017
This much I know about…’The Ladybird Book of Edu-Twitter’ (with apologies to @primarypercival)
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John Tomsett Headteachers
  • Dec 19, 2016
This much I know ... about a new concept of headship in a MAT-centric school-led system
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John Tomsett MAT Headteachers
  • Dec 18, 2016
This much I know ... about improving the impact of Teaching Assistants during a budget crisis
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John Tomsett Teaching assistants Budgets
  • Nov 12, 2016
This much I know about... not publishing data targets to students and parents
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John Tomsett Headteachers A-levels Data targets
  • Oct 26, 2016
This much I know about... a teacher's most valuable legacy
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Schools John Tomsett
  • Oct 15, 2016
This much I know about…an eloquent, authentic argument against the reintroduction of Grammar Schools
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Schools John Tomsett
  • Sep 25, 2016
This much I know about…an eloquent, authentic argument against the reintroduction of Grammar Schools
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Schools John Tomsett
  • Sep 25, 2016
This much I know about whether stopping extra revision sessions after school works (and why we don’t need Grammar Schools)
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Schools John Tomsett
  • Sep 17, 2016