Proud dad to 2 brilliant children and husband to Zöe! Headteacher @COBSPRU and exec board member of @PRUSAP all views here are my own - RT isn't an endorsement!
Jul 14, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Attendance and picking children up for school - a thread 🧵
Whilst I totally buy into the mindset of getting children to school at almost any cost, there is a stark reality to this that the people suggesting extreme measures (head teachers collecting) simply do not understand.
At our school @COBSPRU we have long undertaken the role of getting children to school. We collect them, we fund taxis, we bang on doors to wake families up and we have some successes in this. Some children will come to school this way.
Jun 2, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
A little thread 🧵 on #AP#PRU and the strains on the current system. This is really aimed at commissioners such as schools and LAs I think. But it may stray elsewhere….
Across the country I hear that PRUs and APs are at capacity. That systems are stretched beyond capacity as we come out of the pandemic, see the impact of a decade of austerity, a cost of living crisis and a general increase in complexity of young people.
Apr 24, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A thread in response to @thomasbowell and his views on PRU education- leaving aside his sweeping generalisation about a whole sector of education and the fact that I disagree with almost everything he’s said, one thing merits a further look….
I’ve been in my school, I think it’s largest PRU in England, for 15 years, nearly 5 of those as Head. If @thomasbowell was excluded a decade ago, then it’s possible he had a very different experience of PRU life to that which exists now.
