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Ollie Bray

Wednesday 12 July 2006

In school today. Tidying, packing, sorting and marking! At first even I thought it was a little sad to be in school during the holidays. But when I looked at the signing in book and all of the other members of staff that had been in school since the end of term, I realised that a couple of ‘holiday days’ was probably a reality for most staff.

I don’t believe that teacher get enough quality time. In-service days are often cluttered with meetings or CPD and free periods are often disturbed by please takes, marking, conversation and even pupils!

As I was driving home tonight I started to wonder how much attainment would suffer with a couple more days off a year for pupils (probably not very much?). But how much benefit would occur with a couple of extra day’s development time for staff? Development time free from meetings and CPD. Structured development time just to improve courses and concentrate on reflection, review, learning and teaching.

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