After a summer of discontent, and with a timeline riddled with hate, how do we help our young people to see the bigger picture? It has to be more long-term and substantial than an assembly. It has to be all about who we are Let's talk about belonging Here's my recent

As a headteacher, it's important to remember how much your team love their jobs. On the first day back, just listen to the chatter in the staff room. Take a minute to notice this. This will grease the wheels for everything else to happen.

David@Nautilus Brilliant advice and I agree x

Looking forwards to this one. A great session sharing some solutions for the new year. It’s entirely possible to move from ‘observations’ to lighter drop-ins without compromising.

Are you looking to move away from 'observations' but unsure how to do this without feeling like your compromising on being thorough? In our free school leadership webinar on Friday, we'll be covering the perfect '10 Minute Learning Snapshot'. Important to remember that being

Nearly 200 registered for this free webinar David Mitchell 💪

We've been busy over the summer adding new features. The new dashboard is more meaningful, but not too data heavy. Good for seeing things quick rather than having to infinitely filter and find.

The start of the new school year is the perfect time to secure a sense of belonging. How do you do it?

Friday morning at #NautilusHQ Beautiful late summer sun. Looking forwards to this morning’s school leadership webinar! #yorkshire #nextdoortoNora

A big shout out for all of those early years staff at the start of the year. For most children it’s their first day back. For some children, it’s their first day ever. Big, big difference.

As a head, I’d interrupt the staff to get the inset moving and welcome everyone on the first day back. And then I stopped to notice what was happening. Everyone getting back together. The laughter and the chatter. Nothing gives you more confidence than that little moment.

**Headteachers and SLT** Are writing standards below where they should be in your school? I'm running a project from late Sept to June specifically for disengaged writers. You can enrol anything from a single class to a whole Key Stage. Details: clusterblogging.net/blog/2024/05/0…

📲 Quickly capture and evaluate your daily teaching and learning, by performing learning walks, book studies and surveys with your iPad or tablet. With our powerful photo-capture feature, you can simultaneously tag, annotate and share the best practice in your curriculum

📖A very short story... After 12 years as a headteacher, and 30 years in education starting life as a TA, I left to create an online leadership platform. It's designed to help busy leaders to capture and evaluate with an iPad, rather than relying on time-consuming, standalone

Boy tries really hard to get things right at the start of the new school year After a few days, he messes things up. Struggling with his work, losing his cool And now he thinks he's back to square one, despite promising himself and his Mum more After trying his best Keep an

📺Our Next FREE School Leadership Webinar - Fri 13 Sept 10am ‘Don’t Observe, Capture!’ Using your iPad or tablet to perform learning walks and book studies With our two former headteachers, David@Nautilus and David Mitchell +video link More/Book my.demio.com/ref/va50dkLlx5…

This week there'll be tired. And there'll be early years tired. 🙌