Yet another town with a grammar school but no non-selective school. How can it be right that any school turns away local pupils and admits many from outside the area, all while youngsters without an 11+ pass need to travel miles to school? kentonline.co.uk/weald/news/my-…

Couldn’t have put it better myself…

#honk 😉

This piece by Emma Duncan would be great but for the fact it's wrong about everything.

1. labour pointedly has committed to maintaining external inspection
2. It has only committed to a review of curriculum- nowt as radical as being suggested here 1/2

thetimes.co.uk/article/7de42f…

Not sure anyone has been a greater force for good in education these last few years. Always had our backs & I don’t think we can ever say thank you enough for your support through Covid. Truly, a full time person of principle. It is a privilege to know you. Thank you, Geoff.

A Tory gossip site ⏬️ is claiming Sunak's wife Akshata Murty wants an early election so they can move to California immediately.

Well she's already closed her venture firm in the U.

What are chances of Sunak getting his green card back by Xmas?

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

Wow. This is quite something.

Andy Buck Nigel Whittle Leadership Matters Yes! I’ve got a load of books like yours that he bought me or I bought myself not knowing he had bought one too. We both annotate everything so I like looking at both of our annotations of the same book and seeing what he thought! 🙂

This looks great! And genuinely chuffed to see Leadership Matters is still in the summary catalogue eight years after we launched it #honk 🙏

With Keir Starmer, Labour’s commitment to NATO is unshakeable.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse…Trade groups have warned of higher food prices and empty supermarket shelves because of new post-Brexit border fees being introduced this month

news.sky.com/story/warnings…

Was this just late for April 1st? Unbelievable.

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With the kids at noisy soft play. Aiming to block out the mayhem and re visit the great Andy Buck for some inspiration for the summer term!

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