Thomas James
@ebithomasj.bsky.social
Principal • Astrea Ernulf Academy
🔔 BLOG POST. First I’ve written in about 5 years.
The post investigates how we’re implementing SLANT in a turnaround context.
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The post investigates how we’re implementing SLANT in a turnaround context.
open.substack.com/pub/ebithoma...
September 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🔔 BLOG POST. First I’ve written in about 5 years.
The post investigates how we’re implementing SLANT in a turnaround context.
open.substack.com/pub/ebithoma...
The post investigates how we’re implementing SLANT in a turnaround context.
open.substack.com/pub/ebithoma...
We have a number of FANTASTIC roles out.
🚀 Curriculum VP
🚀 Assistant Principal: English
🚀 Assistant Principal: Maths
These roles will drive our next phase of development!
Unsure about applying? DM if you would like an informal chat.
Links below👇
🚀 Curriculum VP
🚀 Assistant Principal: English
🚀 Assistant Principal: Maths
These roles will drive our next phase of development!
Unsure about applying? DM if you would like an informal chat.
Links below👇
April 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We have a number of FANTASTIC roles out.
🚀 Curriculum VP
🚀 Assistant Principal: English
🚀 Assistant Principal: Maths
These roles will drive our next phase of development!
Unsure about applying? DM if you would like an informal chat.
Links below👇
🚀 Curriculum VP
🚀 Assistant Principal: English
🚀 Assistant Principal: Maths
These roles will drive our next phase of development!
Unsure about applying? DM if you would like an informal chat.
Links below👇
Work side-by-side me as CURRICULUM VICE PRINCIPAL to turn @AstreaErnulf into one of BEST schools in the country!
✅ Boss corridors
✅ Drive outcomes
✅ Lead curriculum
✅ Refine systems
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ TLAC
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation
bit.ly/4ljPAce
✅ Boss corridors
✅ Drive outcomes
✅ Lead curriculum
✅ Refine systems
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ TLAC
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation
bit.ly/4ljPAce
Vice Principal - Curriculum & Quality of Education, Cambridgeshire - within 1 hour of N. London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby - Tes Jobs
Ernulf Academy, United Kingdom
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April 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Work side-by-side me as CURRICULUM VICE PRINCIPAL to turn @AstreaErnulf into one of BEST schools in the country!
✅ Boss corridors
✅ Drive outcomes
✅ Lead curriculum
✅ Refine systems
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ TLAC
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation
bit.ly/4ljPAce
✅ Boss corridors
✅ Drive outcomes
✅ Lead curriculum
✅ Refine systems
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ TLAC
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation
bit.ly/4ljPAce
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ICYMI 👇
*New post*
In case you’re not on the other platform and missed it, here’s my latest post from over the weekend on school leadership. Still exploring my thinking.
@bennewmark.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @isaacmoore7.bsky.social
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/e...
In case you’re not on the other platform and missed it, here’s my latest post from over the weekend on school leadership. Still exploring my thinking.
@bennewmark.bsky.social @mrsspalding.bsky.social @isaacmoore7.bsky.social
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/e...
Edu voices and luxury beliefs
I’ve heard it said many times that schools are like villages or towns. Cities, even. What is happening in our edu villages, towns and cities? We are losing teachers and school leaders at an alarmin…
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
ICYMI 👇
🌟 🚀 LEAD ENGLISH AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
AP position reflects status of role
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Feedback not marking
✅ Research-backed pedagogy
✅ Up to £71,694 on L Scale
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation.
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
AP position reflects status of role
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Feedback not marking
✅ Research-backed pedagogy
✅ Up to £71,694 on L Scale
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation.
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Assistant Principal: Director of English + Whole-School Literacy, Cambridgeshire - within 1 hour of N. London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby - Tes Jobs
Ernulf Academy, United Kingdom
www.tes.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🌟 🚀 LEAD ENGLISH AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
AP position reflects status of role
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Feedback not marking
✅ Research-backed pedagogy
✅ Up to £71,694 on L Scale
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation.
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
AP position reflects status of role
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Feedback not marking
✅ Research-backed pedagogy
✅ Up to £71,694 on L Scale
DM for informal chat & how we can support relocation.
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
🚨 VACANCY: HEAD OF ART
‼️ Exceptionally important role in school
You get:
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Centralised detentions
✅ No onorous marking
✅ Ipevo visualisers
✅ Research informed pedagogy
✅ Cog-sci
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
‼️ Exceptionally important role in school
You get:
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Centralised detentions
✅ No onorous marking
✅ Ipevo visualisers
✅ Research informed pedagogy
✅ Cog-sci
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Head of Art, Cambridgeshire - Tes Jobs
Ernulf Academy, United Kingdom
www.tes.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨 VACANCY: HEAD OF ART
‼️ Exceptionally important role in school
You get:
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Centralised detentions
✅ No onorous marking
✅ Ipevo visualisers
✅ Research informed pedagogy
✅ Cog-sci
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
‼️ Exceptionally important role in school
You get:
✅ Knowledge-rich
✅ Disruption-free learning
✅ Centralised detentions
✅ No onorous marking
✅ Ipevo visualisers
✅ Research informed pedagogy
✅ Cog-sci
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
✅ Knowledge-rich curriculum
✅ Research-backed pedagogy/TLAC
✅ Disruption-free lessons
✅ Centralised detention system
✅ Whole-class feedback
✅ Research-backed pedagogy/TLAC
✅ Disruption-free lessons
✅ Centralised detention system
✅ Whole-class feedback
🚀 Are you an EXPERT leader in ENGLISH or MATHS?
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
March 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
✅ Knowledge-rich curriculum
✅ Research-backed pedagogy/TLAC
✅ Disruption-free lessons
✅ Centralised detention system
✅ Whole-class feedback
✅ Research-backed pedagogy/TLAC
✅ Disruption-free lessons
✅ Centralised detention system
✅ Whole-class feedback
🚀 Are you an EXPERT leader in ENGLISH or MATHS?
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
March 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚀 Are you an EXPERT leader in ENGLISH or MATHS?
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
Looking for your first SLT role or perhaps a better fit?
We have PERFECT roles for you! Informal chats very welcome!
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: ENGLISH www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
📚 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: MATHS www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
We don’t do things for Ofsted, but in Jan, Ernulf Acadeny had only ever been rated as RI. It was important to our community that changed.
Now we’re GOOD in ALL categories. FIRST. TIME. EVER.
Join our mission to become one of the BEST schools in the country —> www.tes.com/jobs/employe...
Now we’re GOOD in ALL categories. FIRST. TIME. EVER.
Join our mission to become one of the BEST schools in the country —> www.tes.com/jobs/employe...
March 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We don’t do things for Ofsted, but in Jan, Ernulf Acadeny had only ever been rated as RI. It was important to our community that changed.
Now we’re GOOD in ALL categories. FIRST. TIME. EVER.
Join our mission to become one of the BEST schools in the country —> www.tes.com/jobs/employe...
Now we’re GOOD in ALL categories. FIRST. TIME. EVER.
Join our mission to become one of the BEST schools in the country —> www.tes.com/jobs/employe...
Why do children love life @ Astrea Academy Ernulf?
Let them tell you!
Let them tell you!
March 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Why do children love life @ Astrea Academy Ernulf?
Let them tell you!
Let them tell you!
Reposted by Thomas James
NEW BLOG: Spelling and word fluency
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#engchat #engchatuk
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#engchat #engchatuk
Spelling and word fluency
I have experience of working with students of all levels, but one of the biggest issues I find with writing fluency is not often related t...
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
NEW BLOG: Spelling and word fluency
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/03/spel...
#engchat #engchatuk
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/03/spel...
#engchat #engchatuk
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SUPERCHARGE YOUR QUESTIONING
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Supercharge your questioning
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March 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
SUPERCHARGE YOUR QUESTIONING
One week to go: tips, tricks, theories and more - all guaranteed to be nitty gritty, actionable and effective.
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I feel similar about booklets that are too prescriptive and people haven't been involved in the design. I'm happy for some admin tasks and some of the bigger thinking to sit away from class teachers but they need to know the why and have space to explore etc. Of course creating resources is thinking
August 30, 2024 at 8:22 AM
I feel similar about booklets that are too prescriptive and people haven't been involved in the design. I'm happy for some admin tasks and some of the bigger thinking to sit away from class teachers but they need to know the why and have space to explore etc. Of course creating resources is thinking
Reposted by Thomas James
Reposted by Thomas James
A not-at-all biased recommendation for this. Matt’s work is central to how we raise the bar for our young people.
November 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A not-at-all biased recommendation for this. Matt’s work is central to how we raise the bar for our young people.
Reposted by Thomas James
This is why we have strong, simple, centralised behaviour systems in Astrea secondaries, allowing teachers to teach, free from disruption and abuse, with no bureaucracy or blame.
✅SLT have staff's backs
✅centralised detentions run by SLT/HoY
✅teachers don't need to make phone calls home.
✅SLT have staff's backs
✅centralised detentions run by SLT/HoY
✅teachers don't need to make phone calls home.
Did you know behaviour is the #1 cause of additional workload in schools? 🤔
Our latest Behaviour Barometer Report dives into the data and uncovers key insights about behaviour challenges in classrooms. 🧵
Our latest Behaviour Barometer Report dives into the data and uncovers key insights about behaviour challenges in classrooms. 🧵
November 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This is why we have strong, simple, centralised behaviour systems in Astrea secondaries, allowing teachers to teach, free from disruption and abuse, with no bureaucracy or blame.
✅SLT have staff's backs
✅centralised detentions run by SLT/HoY
✅teachers don't need to make phone calls home.
✅SLT have staff's backs
✅centralised detentions run by SLT/HoY
✅teachers don't need to make phone calls home.
Reposted by Thomas James
I love Progress 8 day. Really shines a light on schools making a real difference, especially those in challenging circumstances making big gains. Cuts through all the noise, smoke and mirrors.
December 7, 2024 at 9:44 AM
I love Progress 8 day. Really shines a light on schools making a real difference, especially those in challenging circumstances making big gains. Cuts through all the noise, smoke and mirrors.