Reflections on a post I wrote last week while up in the North East. Yesterday was a day I met myself in so many ways. Being back in the North East, where I was born and spent my earliest formative years reconnects me to my earliest sense of being. I don’t always have the key…
I came across a poem and the extended metaphor just struck a chord with me today, on Key Stage 2 SATs results day.I was once told that my job rested on that one set of results , that if they weren’t better than the year before I was done. I cried with relief when I…
When I work with anyone I introduce myself , the who I am, in terms of my key values. Leading with love is an absolute must for me. Ultimately, we can consider if decisions we make are motivated by fear or love. In terms of love, this links with positive reinforcement, an intention to impact…
Arriving in Bangkok at the start of the 80s as a 13 year old British white girl, who had attended a selective all girls’ High School, suddenly finding myself in a co-educational International school I often describe as the set of Grease, populated by children and staff from every corner of the world. I was…
Boundless adjective unlimited or immense. Learning abstract noun the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet When I…
Last week in school, as a Chair of Governors I was lucky enough to spend some time with Year 6. We’re making closer links with pupil voice and leadership, but in order to do so, we’re building on how they come to understand the school vision and purpose. In terms of our own internal accountability,…
I was a Headteacher .. I was a midday manager .. a teaching assistant and a very committed teacher . I also stacked shelves at Wilkos.. and worked in banking.. and in the deep dark past I worked in a greengrocer’s and florist’s . I’m now Boundless- I’m a consultant , a coach and an…
My foundational purpose as an educator has been ensuring that emotional intelligence( EQ) and emotional literacy is embedded at the heart of everything and leading learning, so that effective cognition is facilitated, thus deep and connected learning develops, and that the whole ethos of a school , or classroom, is focused on balancing secure sense…
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust I spent an Inset day with an inspirational room full of support staff from across a Multi- academy trust. We dug into awareness, purpose and direction and how key learning theories impacted on their broad range…
‘Stories were different though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by torch light beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth,…