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10/09/2026

Wishing all students taking the Kent Test today the very best of luck. 🍀🤞

03/09/2026

For all those starting back at school today and all those who started back yesterday- many starting their secondary school journey. I wish you well and every success for this year.
Go be the stars you are. 🌟

20/08/2026

Wishing everyone receiving their GCSE results today the best of luck. 🤞

13/08/2026

Good luck to all BTec and A level students receiving their results today. 🤞🍀

04/08/2026

Good luck to all Scottish students receiving their National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher results today. 🤞🍀

15/12/2025

Forty-three percent of children in Scotland are now identified as having some sort of additional learning need – the Scottish term for what is called special educational needs (SEN) in England.

If 43% of children have needs which are not met in the mainstream education system, I think it’s time to think about whether that mainstream system is fit for purpose.

We’ve created a system that does not consider the developmental needs of children, and which has an increasingly rigid focus on academics from an early age. We expect young children to sit when their bodies want to move, we expect them to focus on reading and writing when they are primed to learn through exploration and play. We send our teens to huge impersonal schools, where they move through the day without any connection with an adult who knows anything about them. We focus on test results at all costs, telling our children that if they don’t do well, a bleak future is all they can expect.

Then when our children show us that this doesn’t work for them, we say that the problem is them. We send them for assessments and get reports written on how they aren’t performing as we expect. We tell them that they are ‘badly behaved’ or ‘disruptive’. We identify them as ‘having ALN’ or ‘having SEND’. We behave as if the problem isn’t the system we’ve created, it’s the children who don’t fit it.

Unsurprisingly, the harder we look, the more children we identify who don’t fit the system. The more rigid the system becomes, the more children there will be who can't meet expectations. Children need flexibility, and our system doesn't provide it for them.

At what point will we realise that the problem isn’t our children, it’s that the system wasn’t built with their needs in mind?

22/09/2025

11/09/2025

Best of luck to all children sitting the Kent Test today.

To my students, I could not be prouder of the hard work and effort you’ve put in.

Go show the test just what you’re made of. 💪🤞🍀

02/09/2025

Good luck to all new students starting secondary school today.

Good luck to everyone going back to school today too.

You’ve got this. 🍀🤞

12/05/2025

Good luck to all those students taking their SATs this week. You’ve got this. 🤞🍀