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This much I know about…loneliness, postal workers and the current industrial dispute

29/09/2022 5:06 pm27/11/2022By johntomsettIn Other stuff2 Comments

Uckfield Post Office, 1955Harry Tomsett, second row, centre But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling…

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This much I know about…Hannah Lowe’s “The Kids” and the sonnet form

25/07/2022 4:36 pm27/11/2022By johntomsettIn Other stuff, Uncategorized0 Comments

I have written about sonnets many times; Hannah Lowe’s “The Kids” is a striking volume written entirely in that particular poetic form. “The Art of Teaching II” will resonate with every teacher in the land. You can read it here….

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This much I know about…the time I was closest to my dad

06/02/2022 9:57 am12/02/2022By johntomsettIn Other stuff0 Comments

Some 37 years to the day since he died, this much I know about the time I was closest to my dad. I was closest to my dad for two days in the summer of 1978 when I was just…

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This much I know about…three very personal reasons why I think Boris Johnson has to go

31/01/2022 8:28 pm06/02/2022By johntomsettIn Other stuff0 Comments

I need to get this out of my system. My mother died of Covid-19 on 18 April 2020, in a care home 260 miles away, alone. I said my final goodbye to her via mobile ‘phone as I was not…

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This much I know about…reaching the same age as my dad when he died

17/11/2021 8:56 am17/11/2021By johntomsettIn Other stuff1 Comment

Uckfield Post Office, 1955Harry Tomsett, second row, centre My dad was a postman from the day he left school at the age of 14 until he died, 43 years later. I have written at length about him. His life story…

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This much I know about…how nothing needs to matter too much

08/08/2021 9:54 pm09/08/2021By johntomsettIn Other stuff, Uncategorized1 Comment

I turned 57 yesterday. It was no ordinary birthday. On the contrary, it was a landmark moment. I am now the same age as my Dad was when he died. When he was told he had weeks to live, Dad…

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This much I now about…the day I met Nicklaus, Jacklin and Seve Ballesteros

08/05/2021 2:16 pm14/05/2021By johntomsettIn Other stuff1 Comment

I always wanted to be a professional golfer. In 1979 I had a week off school to caddy for my brother’s mate, Trevor, at the British Open Golf Championship at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s, just outside Blackpool. Trevor was…

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This much I know about…why Les Britanniques are all anglers now!

02/04/2021 12:58 pm04/04/2021By johntomsettIn Fishing, Other stuff0 Comments

Last year I published An Angler’s Journal, my first foray into writing about fishing. You can buy a copy on Amazon by clicking the image below. A few weeks ago The Economist magazine advertised for a writer for their “Britain”…

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This much I know about…two sentences by John Steinbeck

01/04/2021 9:17 am12/12/2021By johntomsettIn Other stuff, Teaching and Learning0 Comments

I have just finished Professor Stanley Fish’s, How to write a sentence and how to read one. It was a delight. Whilst I was reading it, I thought of two John Steinbeck sentences which I have always admired. Now feeling sufficiently…

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This much I know about…why we must pay our NHS staff properly

07/03/2021 7:30 am07/03/2021By johntomsettIn Other stuff2 Comments

This much I know about why we must pay our NHS staff properly. ‘Tis now Spring, and all the pleasures of it displease me; every other tree blossoms, and I wither: I grow older, and not better; my strength diminisheth,…

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Great quote from @dylanwiliam @CharteredColl
'If we direct our energies not on evaluating teachers but on improving them, we are far more likely to improve the quality of education that our pupils receive'

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Things to remember about the Conservative Party’s new deputy chairman: from Eye 1584 last October. If you want to stay ahead of the news, subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk

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David Cameron holding an In/Out referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union has to count as the greatest political blunder ever made by a politician. It destroyed his political career, his legacy and slowly but surely, his party.

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Refining our approach to implementation led by @MikeCBrett focused on #settheday and front loading expectations. #excellence

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I made Lee Anderson Deputy Chairman because he represents the integrity and professionalism that I value so much. Like that time he lied to a journalist and got his mate to pretend he didn't know him.
Please don’t share. #Reshuffle

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John Tomsett is a nationally renowned school leader supporting schools to improve the quality of teaching and learning. He has 33 years of teaching experience, with 18 years as a headteacher. He led Huntington School in York, one of the country's leading Research Schools, for 14 years. He offers consultancy on school leadership with a clear focus upon improving teaching and learning and curriculum development.

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