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⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
Talisker Bay is a scenic coastal destination featuring a dark sand-and-stone beach, towering cliffs, a dramatic sea stack, and a high waterfall on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland 🏴💙🌊
This.
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
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Listen to me talk about 'Women in Intelligence Services across both world wars.
Wednesday, 28th October 2026.
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⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
The choice is not between Ofsted and no Ofsted, writes former HMI Adrian Lyons, it is between high-stakes judgement imposed upon schools and intelligent external accountability carried out with schools
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⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
One of those rare photos that makes you stop in your tracks and whisper, "Wow..."
"Lochaber at Night" - wintery scene of Loch Linnhe, Caol Shore and Ben Nevis, taken from Corpach Pier by Mark Gillies.
Simon, my good man, you have hit a nail here with this line “. And with our CEO a very experienced inspector themself, it allows inspector-to inspector-conversations which can avoid any misunderstandings or misdiagnosis of school issues.” If only we all had one on hand!
NEW BLOG: A TALE OF 4 INSPECTIONS. Reflections on the new @Ofstednews toolkit. @Headteacherchat @TeacherToolkit @TeacherTapp @teacherhead @HeadteacherNews @SchoolsWeek @tes Pls RT headteachering.uk/2026/10/17…
⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
This week we are looking at the career of Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne, one of the hero’s of Rorke’s Drift.
The film Zulu made him a grizzled old Veteran, when in reality he was just 24 years old and his story continued far beyond his heroic leadership in 1879.
Sunday work prep ahead of what could be our Ofsted week -
Woke early (3:52) and suddenly thought, we may not be able to do what we planned on Tuesday and Wednesday next week 🤦🏼♀️ we nee a contingency now for each week until inspection…
With my poor deputy still off recovering 1/n
poor @SLiversey is anxious on our behalf as she is unlikely to be in school when we get the call … anxiety all round, really! That said, we have done our usual start of the year things, policy updates, website compliance, PP report, I’ve even done the Inclusion report! 4/n
⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
I’m all for evidence-informed practice in schools. It’s important that what we do is backed by research.
But I do think we need to ask more questions about the evidence itself.
How many schools were involved? How many children? What was the context? How long was the research carried out for? And how relevant is it to our own classrooms?
Evidence should inform professional judgement, not replace it.
Just because something is ‘research-backed’ doesn’t automatically mean it’s right for every school or every child.
⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
📅Excl: Public consultation on the national curriculum has been delayed until the end of the year.
The DfE committed to publishing draft subject plans this September - but we can now reveal that proposals have been pushed back by several months.
tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
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⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ retweeted
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