B.L.A.M.E.

Black Labour MPs have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel. They told her she’s not black enough to speak for BAME people. Are you black enough […]

Teacher Unions

Teacher unions complain that government won’t involve them. The unions are open to ANY ideas, but this is their line in the sand, and they ARE […]

Changing Lives

Sam’s friends graduated with him and went into many different professions. Law, finance, business, design, advertising. Sam became a teacher. They all do their jobs. Sam […]

Competence or Charisma

Eric pondered. Does society want a teaching profession built on: Professional competence? Or Personal charisma?

OFSTED Time Wasting

OFSTED requires schools to create a curriculum from scratch. So Felix decided to waste even more time, and create the alphabet from scratch. Felix wonders when […]

Cognitive Science

For 4 million years humans have been teaching their children (successfully). In the past 5 years children stopped learning, if teachers didn’t have a Cognitive Science […]

OFSTED Listens

OFSTED’s claims to genuinely listen to criticism were dealt a blow when we visited their Head Office today. #CatTeachers

New BrainGym

How we laughed at Brain Gym! Things are so much better now. Cognitive Load Theory Pupils “building interconnecting schema in their heads”. No overloading of Working […]

OFSTED Truths

Exclude a pupil for 1 day = Cannot be “Outstanding”. Pupils cannot define Business vs Enterprise = “Requires Improvement”. 2 Year KS3 = “Special Measures” #CatTeachers […]