Follow these links to see some of my externally published pieces.
The Tuck Shop Diary | Vittles, 18 December 2023
Building Tomorrow’s Healthy, Confident and Productive Citizens | Public First, 11 December 2023
How children torment teachers with smartphones – by one who has been a victim | The Independent, 3 October 2023
Balancing Act: navigating the tensions in our school system | IPPR, 9 August 2023
Teaching state school kids to love cricket is hard. I know, I’ve tried. | The Guardian, 28 March 2023
Matt Hancock’s leaked messages prove what teachers like me suspected all along | The Independent, 2 March 2023
No teacher believes Rishi Sunak will transform education | New Statesman, 27 October 2022
I’m a high-school teacher. This is what parents should teach their kids before they get their first job. | Insider, 13 October 2022
This is what GCSE students really feel about this year’s tests | The Independent, 25 August 2022
The new pay award confirms my decision to leave | Schools Week, 20 July 2022
Why nobody wants to be a teacher any more | New Statesman, 4 July 2022
Britain’s Strictest Headmistress doesn’t speak for teachers like me – she’s out for herself | The Independent, 23 May 2022
Heartstopper review | Schools Week, 8 May 2022
The Trojan Horse Affair review | Schools Week, 27 February 2022
The seeds of the current teacher crisis were sown long before Covid arrived | Left Foot Forward, 13 January 2022
UCAS Applications: a month-by-month planner | TES, 13 January 2022
It’s time to rethink our monochrome school remembrance traditions | Schools Week, 10 November 2021
The promise to ‘level up’ state education looks utterly disingenuous | PEP Forum, 3 November 2021
Racism in grassroots cricket | Nightwatchman 35, Autumn 2021
How to support students with unlikely career dreams | TES, 20 September 2021
The perfect teacher pub | TES, 23 May 2021
Suhoor, Fast, Iftar, Repeat | Vittles, 10 May 2021
Rape culture at private schools isn’t about to change – parents are paying for this sense of entitlement | Independent Voices, 28 March 2021
Exclusions are never about an individual child | TES, 19 March 2021
How to prepare for Oxbridge like a private school | TES, 19 February 2021
Is Year 13 the ‘middle child’ of the pandemic? | TES, 27 January 2021
Will Yates Writing 