Pete Crockett
@moonrakerteacher.bsky.social
Retired special school headteacher. Football follower - Swindon Supermarine. Whisk(e)y lover. Centre left politics.
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I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.
March 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.
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Take a look at the @headrestuk.bsky.social blog. It contains all of our annual wellbeing reports as well as posts from a range of guest bloggers all focussing on wellbeing.
Welcome to the Headwell blog
Headrest is a free wellbeing telephone support service for headteachers and CEOs. As experienced ex-heads, we understand how challenging it is right now. We provide a sympathetic and confidential list...
www.headrestuk.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Take a look at the @headrestuk.bsky.social blog. It contains all of our annual wellbeing reports as well as posts from a range of guest bloggers all focussing on wellbeing.
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Brilliant this from fellow Headrestian and former special school head @moonrakerteacher.bsky.social.
We are not happy with Ofsted. Here’s the follow-up to our response yesterday to the unworkable report card proposals.
Report cards: an opportunity spurned
In this second of two posts, Headrest member Pete Crockett makes clear his disappointment with Ofsted's recent proposal to introduce report cards.
www.headrestuk.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Brilliant this from fellow Headrestian and former special school head @moonrakerteacher.bsky.social.
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If you want to explore humane and intelligent alternatives to a high stakes accountability system, then this book from @headrestuk.bsky.social is a good starting point.
Full of examples of how it could work, backed with international research, real examples and best practice.
Out now. ⤵️
Full of examples of how it could work, backed with international research, real examples and best practice.
Out now. ⤵️
Out this Friday.
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
February 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
If you want to explore humane and intelligent alternatives to a high stakes accountability system, then this book from @headrestuk.bsky.social is a good starting point.
Full of examples of how it could work, backed with international research, real examples and best practice.
Out now. ⤵️
Full of examples of how it could work, backed with international research, real examples and best practice.
Out now. ⤵️
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Yay. Now available on Kindle.
Beyond Belief: Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it
Beyond Belief: Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it eBook : Morrish, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yay. Now available on Kindle.
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I’m not sure I have the energy to go through another Ofsted framework change.
The training, the buzzwords, Ofsted goons strutting about the place using terminology no one has previously heard of as if we should all know the meaning of, the expense.
I might write my first ever blog about this.
The training, the buzzwords, Ofsted goons strutting about the place using terminology no one has previously heard of as if we should all know the meaning of, the expense.
I might write my first ever blog about this.
February 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m not sure I have the energy to go through another Ofsted framework change.
The training, the buzzwords, Ofsted goons strutting about the place using terminology no one has previously heard of as if we should all know the meaning of, the expense.
I might write my first ever blog about this.
The training, the buzzwords, Ofsted goons strutting about the place using terminology no one has previously heard of as if we should all know the meaning of, the expense.
I might write my first ever blog about this.
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Already amusing myself with the "guess which of the descriptors is meant to be better" game for the new Ofsted toolkits.
February 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Already amusing myself with the "guess which of the descriptors is meant to be better" game for the new Ofsted toolkits.
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#Ofsted has a new report card but Ofsted is still Ofsted and does nothing to change its awful impact on schools, teachers and children. It’s an antiquated system that needs to go.
February 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#Ofsted has a new report card but Ofsted is still Ofsted and does nothing to change its awful impact on schools, teachers and children. It’s an antiquated system that needs to go.
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We are not happy with Ofsted. Here’s the follow-up to our response yesterday to the unworkable report card proposals.
Report cards: an opportunity spurned
In this second of two posts, Headrest member Pete Crockett makes clear his disappointment with Ofsted's recent proposal to introduce report cards.
www.headrestuk.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are not happy with Ofsted. Here’s the follow-up to our response yesterday to the unworkable report card proposals.
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Reading the article in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on the unhappiness in OFSTED and whistleblower letter to press - let’s be honest about this - putting OFSTED in charge of designing the change was always going to be a total disaster.
January 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reading the article in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on the unhappiness in OFSTED and whistleblower letter to press - let’s be honest about this - putting OFSTED in charge of designing the change was always going to be a total disaster.
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Our book is out today 🎉
Out this Friday.
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
January 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Our book is out today 🎉
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Out this Friday.
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
January 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Out this Friday.
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
Beyond Belief. Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it.
Not my thoughts but those of 30 or so others.
Pre-order here. 🙏🏼
amzn.eu/d/0KmhHzA
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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The @HeadsRoundtable continues to be the public voice of the sensible, ethical majority in the profession. I know I am far from the only one who greatly appreciates their collective wisdom and leadership. 👏👏👏
We have written to the SoS Education in support of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We have summarised it here in a letter to The Times and the included in an article.
January 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The @HeadsRoundtable continues to be the public voice of the sensible, ethical majority in the profession. I know I am far from the only one who greatly appreciates their collective wisdom and leadership. 👏👏👏
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10 days to publication. Thank you @johncattedu.bsky.social for todays delivery. #BeyondBelief
January 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
10 days to publication. Thank you @johncattedu.bsky.social for todays delivery. #BeyondBelief
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All the royalties from this book go to education wellbeing charities.
We need to nominate one.
Any suggestions?
We need to nominate one.
Any suggestions?
10 days to publication. Thank you @johncattedu.bsky.social for todays delivery. #BeyondBelief
January 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
All the royalties from this book go to education wellbeing charities.
We need to nominate one.
Any suggestions?
We need to nominate one.
Any suggestions?
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Our 2025 Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is published today.
It summarises the key stressors and issues headteachers are facing.
We make a number of recommendations that are aimed at improving the wellbeing of headteachers.
Please share widely.
It summarises the key stressors and issues headteachers are facing.
We make a number of recommendations that are aimed at improving the wellbeing of headteachers.
Please share widely.
2025 Headrest Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report
Our latest annual headteacher wellbeing report is available to download. This is our fourth annual report based on the themes from the calls we have received throughout 2024. We make a number of recom...
www.headrestuk.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Our 2025 Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is published today.
It summarises the key stressors and issues headteachers are facing.
We make a number of recommendations that are aimed at improving the wellbeing of headteachers.
Please share widely.
It summarises the key stressors and issues headteachers are facing.
We make a number of recommendations that are aimed at improving the wellbeing of headteachers.
Please share widely.
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Absolutely superb stuff from the brilliant @headrestuk.bsky.social
This report draws from a huge range of experience & evidence & accurately describes the reality of school leadership in 2025
Essential reading.
Especially for senior leaders at Ofsted.
www.headrestuk.co.uk/blog/headtea...
This report draws from a huge range of experience & evidence & accurately describes the reality of school leadership in 2025
Essential reading.
Especially for senior leaders at Ofsted.
www.headrestuk.co.uk/blog/headtea...
2025 Headrest Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report
Our latest annual headteacher wellbeing report is available to download. This is our fourth annual report based on the themes from the calls we have received throughout 2024. We make a number of recom...
www.headrestuk.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Absolutely superb stuff from the brilliant @headrestuk.bsky.social
This report draws from a huge range of experience & evidence & accurately describes the reality of school leadership in 2025
Essential reading.
Especially for senior leaders at Ofsted.
www.headrestuk.co.uk/blog/headtea...
This report draws from a huge range of experience & evidence & accurately describes the reality of school leadership in 2025
Essential reading.
Especially for senior leaders at Ofsted.
www.headrestuk.co.uk/blog/headtea...
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Exclusive: The 2024 @headrestuk.bsky.social report reveals that the support service is still receiving "traumatic" calls from heads, leaving them "fearful" of further tragedies.
It calls for better inspector training on "most serious situations”, such as suicide risk.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
It calls for better inspector training on "most serious situations”, such as suicide risk.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Lack of trust in Ofsted ‘almost irreversible’
Headteachers’ support service warns that it is still receiving ‘traumatic’ calls from school leaders about Ofsted inspections
www.tes.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Exclusive: The 2024 @headrestuk.bsky.social report reveals that the support service is still receiving "traumatic" calls from heads, leaving them "fearful" of further tragedies.
It calls for better inspector training on "most serious situations”, such as suicide risk.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
It calls for better inspector training on "most serious situations”, such as suicide risk.
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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Pre-order the new book from the @headrestuk.bsky.social team, along with 30 other amazing contributors.
It’s all about how to fix our broken accountability system. We think you’ll like it.
Published 31st January by @johncattedu.bsky.social. All royalties to charity. 1/4
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It’s all about how to fix our broken accountability system. We think you’ll like it.
Published 31st January by @johncattedu.bsky.social. All royalties to charity. 1/4
amzn.eu/d/cGl2wSe
Beyond Belief: Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it
Buy Beyond Belief: Why school accountability is broken and how to fix it by Morrish, Andrew (ISBN: 9781036004620) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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January 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Pre-order the new book from the @headrestuk.bsky.social team, along with 30 other amazing contributors.
It’s all about how to fix our broken accountability system. We think you’ll like it.
Published 31st January by @johncattedu.bsky.social. All royalties to charity. 1/4
amzn.eu/d/cGl2wSe
It’s all about how to fix our broken accountability system. We think you’ll like it.
Published 31st January by @johncattedu.bsky.social. All royalties to charity. 1/4
amzn.eu/d/cGl2wSe
A Christmas present whisky from @rosmcm.bsky.social. Arran is one of my favourite distilleries - this is a very good and gently peaty wee dram.
December 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
A Christmas present whisky from @rosmcm.bsky.social. Arran is one of my favourite distilleries - this is a very good and gently peaty wee dram.