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CEO’s Blog: December 2021: “The mind’s ear.”
I was recently reading a chapter from Martin Amis’ semi-autobiographical “Inside Story”, and found a particular section entitled “the mind’s ear” fascinating. We have all heard of “the mind’s eye”, an old and much-used phase that…
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CEO’s Blog: 12th November 2021: “Flanders and Glasgow”
This week sees our news broadcasts dominated by our history and our future. Yesterday our schools and our nation fell silent in an act of remembrance for the fallen of war. With the Armistice, and the…
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CEO’s Blog: October 2021: “The marble and the sculptor.”
For this month’s blog I wanted to recount a conversation that I had recently with a headteacher, working in a school outside our Trust, as part of a performance management review process I was invited to…
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CEO’s Blog: London Marathon 2021 (Part 2): Je ne regret rien!
My regular readers will know from the trail of breadcrumbs I have left in my past two blogs whether to read on or not. This blog is the second, and concluding, part of my marathon adventure…
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CEO’s Blog: London Marathon 2021 (Part 1): Better to live with remorse than regret?
One of the highlights of summer tends to be that I can get out a little more, especially during school holidays. However, it has still tended to be essentially leisurely: the occasional glance at the watch but nothing more, accompanied by an Amazon Music playlist or an Audible audiobook, and the thought of a nice cuppa at the end.
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CEO’s Blog: September 2021: The “thief of joy”?
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
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CEO’s Blog: August 2021: “But the light is better in here.”
Feynman attributes this in no small part to the greatest gift that the onset of The Age of Reason in the eighteenth century brought to us – the value of doubt. It is through the admission of uncertainty that we learn, we discover, we find out more and we grow.
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CEO’s Blog: “The Pale Blue Dot”
Regular readers will know that I am “late to the table” with regards to reading for pleasure, and also that I’m no scientist by any definition of the term. Yet, I enjoy reading the work of…
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CEO’s Blog: “Turn up. Work Hard. Be Nice.”
Many of you will be reading this having clicked on a link via Twitter. I don’t have a personal Twitter account but follow many colleagues who do. One such colleague tweeted recently about a large display-sized…
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CEO’s Blog: “Miles didn’t hear it as a mistake… He heard it as something that just happened: an event.”
For this blog, I want to relay a story that is well-known amongst afficionados of jazz music. I don’t claim to be amongst their number but, as with fine art, and literature “I know what I like”.
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Fradley Park Consultation Report
Section 10 Consultation Report Executive Summary Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School is a non-selective, non-denominational primary school in the pre- opening phase with a planned opening date of September 2022. The school will be part…
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CEO’s Blog: “You blow in one end, and move your fingers up and down the outside.”
It is probably far too late in the month to wish readers a ‘Happy New Year’, but somehow for this first blog of 2021 it would seem impolite not to, especially in the context that the closing words of my previous piece was to wish you all a good Christmas.
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Fradley Park Consultation
Statutory ConsultationFradley Park Primary and Nursery School, proposed to open in September 2022. Consultation Period: Closed Consultation Period: 12 noon Wednesday, 10th March 2021 – 12 noon Wednesday, 21st April 2021 Consultation Events We look forward…
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Rugeley John Taylor FAQ
.Below are some of the questions we have been asked about the new all-through free school Rugeley John Taylor. We will add to this list of FAQs over time, as we are committed to providing clear answers to your questions. You may also find useful information about John Taylor MAT and its schools on our website http://www.jtmat.co.uk (under the “Free School Applications” tab) and on Twitter @JohnTaylorMAT and about Rugeley John Taylor on Twitter @JTRugeley.
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John Taylor High School selected to provide high-quality professional development to teachers and leaders.
John Taylor High School is one the 81 schools in England selected to be designated as a new teaching school hub.
Teachers across the country will benefit from vital developmental support and expert advice, allowing them to improve a broad range of vital teaching skills, under plans announced by the Department for Education today.
The teaching workforce will get best-practice and expert advice on how best to engage with pupils, lesson planning, and classroom management, as the teaching school hubs programme is rolled out across the country.
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John Taylor MAT Successful in Further Free School Application
A new “All Through” free school planned for Rugeley will open in September 2023 as part of the John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust (JTMAT), the Department for Education has announced. This is the only “All-Through” school to…
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CEO’s Blog: “We’re cathedral builders – and we always have been.”
It is probably far too late in the month to wish readers a ‘Happy New Year’, but somehow for this first blog of 2021 it would seem impolite not to, especially in the context that the closing words of my previous piece was to wish you all a good Christmas.
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CEO’s Blog: “The Shape of the Spoon”
As we move toward the end of the term, and the end of the calendar year, we will all be taking some time to reflect on what 2020 has meant to us. Writing in a personal capacity, as I do for these blogs, there have certainly been many lows as well as highs as I am sure you, my reader, will have experienced also.
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Our vision for Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School
Fradley Park Primary & Nursery School Time Lapse John Taylor Multi-Academy Trust wishes to build on the success of the existing primary schools within its MAT and use their expertise and educational leadership in the area…
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CEO’s Blog: “We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
Readers of my blogs will recall that earlier in the year (March 2020) I drew my inspiration from Michael Palin’s “Pole to Pole”, a book I had chosen to read during the most restrictive phase of…
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