Stuart Lock (@StuartLock) / X

Stuart Lock

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Stuart Lock

@StuartLock

Chief Executive, Advantage Schools

Joined February 2009

Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 29, 2024
Did anyone else’s Dad used to pretend to “steal” your nose and put their thumb through their fingers with their hand in a fist shape pretending it was your nose, but it just looked like a thumb? That was just my Dad, wasn’t it?
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 24, 2024
A story about tiredness. In 2002 I first became a head of year. 300 pupils. Year 9. Edmonton, North London. I was their third head of year, prob too inexperienced but was a tough school. Only applicant. I told them I’d see them to year 11 in my first assembly. They laughed.
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Stuart Lock
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Jul 24, 2024
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Got out the front door. It was pitch black. It was 10.45pm.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jan 5, 2024
Someone told me about Vinted. So I went to try it out. I managed to sort by my size and got a pair of BNWT (brand new with tags) size 12 brown shoes for just £6.50. Delighted they arrived today. Here is a picture of my first Vinted purchase. I haven’t tried them on yet.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Oct 19, 2023
Top secondary schools in the country by provisional Progress 8:
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Feb 13, 2024
If you’ve agreed with your partner not to do anything or buy anything for Valentine’s Day, and you don’t do anything or buy anything for Valentine’s Day, then that’s OK right?
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Sep 22, 2023
I am sick and tired of the press running stories about schools with standards. They don’t see the working lives they ruin and the stressload they create with non stories like this. “Journalists” who write them should be laughed at
Dad's fury as schoolgirl pulled out of class in row over ear stud
From edp24.co.uk
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 24, 2024
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This was such a massive jump up from my previous job. A team of ten tutors and an assistant HOY to manage. Dozens of behaviour incidents a day. CP huge. 60% timetable. Underperforming school. This was a hard job.
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Stuart Lock
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Jul 24, 2024
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I was young, no kids. I would regularly get home at 7 or 8, eat a sandwich and go to bed, to wake at 6. I didn’t drive so cycled a few miles to and from school.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Dec 23, 2023
My daughters are excited about a female referee in the Men’s premier league today. This matters.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 24, 2024
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Sadly tiredness got a hold of me. Woke at 10.30. All my flatmates had gone to work. House silent. Slept through it all. Panic. Did a star jump out of bed. No shower. Straight into suit, and didnt iron shirt.
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Stuart Lock
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Jul 24, 2024
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One day in my first term was particularly hard emotionally and I arrived home early as I was falling asleep at work - before 6pm. Exhausted. Went to bed before eating for a nap. Thought I’d wake in an hour or two. Obvs didn’t set an alarm.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 16, 2024
There are no schools in England where disadvantaged pupils do well and their peers do not. None. So our number 1 KPI should be the achievement of disadvantaged pupils.
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Stuart Lock
@StuartLock
Jul 24, 2024
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In the middle of tying my tie, very dishevelled I judged I needed to get to work and work things out. Very worried about the HT’s reaction I got my bike and opened the door ready to jump on it and get to school asap (I’d usually pedal not hard so wasn’t sweaty getting to sch).
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