Rob Newton is Associate Strategic Director at Huntington Research School and also works at City of York Council where he leads on a variety of improvement work across the diverse early years sectors.
‘Congratulations!’ beamed a dad of a child in my class.
‘Er, thanks…what for?’ I replied, bemused.
‘Your promotion’ he said with utmost sincerity, ‘we’ve always thought you were a great teacher.’
This exchange took place a couple of years into my teaching career – it was one of many that would happen after the school announced which teachers were going to be where the following year.
There was no promotion. I was simply moving from Year 3 to Year 5.
