🏴🇦🇪 Vice Principal | Curriculum Development | Inclusion | @GEMS_WSO | @SwanseaUni | BA, PGCE, MA, NPQH | @dubaicanes U13 manager | Dad
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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This is a fantastic way to bow out of Post-16 leadership. Pretty proud of these numbers. Hell of a team made this happen; it was a privilege to lead them for a few years.
schoolscompared.com/uae/news… #schoolscompared.com
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Every performance by Kobbie Mainoo, every game he plays for Michael Carrick, every involvement like that well-taken goal, makes Ruben Amorim’s treatment of him even more bizarre and counter-productive. Home-grown, hungry and talented. #MUNLIV
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O Gaerffili i ben y byd. 🏴
@aaronramsey ♥️
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Pwy ydym ni? Who are we?
A nation shaped by many identities, brought together under one flag.
Together We Are Stronger 🏴
🔗 fawales.co/TogetherWeAreStro…
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Italy beat England for the first time in their history. Scotland put 50 on the best French team we've ever seen. Rhys Carré is the fastest man alive.
The Six Nations is absolutely class.
‘Spirit Week’ in school at the moment and today’s theme is ‘decades’. I’ve lost count of the number of students who’ve dressed in 90s clothes and think it’s the same as dressing in Victorian garb!
The 90s were just a few years ago, right?!
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'6 strategies to support reading for students with SEND'
"Shared reading, done well, may just be one of the most important things that students with special needs do and learn in classrooms, so focusing on doing is effectively is well worth our time."
alexquigley.co.uk/6-strategi…
English teachers, assemble!
Watch the new trailer for Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne’s adaptation is coming to @BBCiPlayer and BBC One on Sunday 8 February
Trailer ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/l…
ALT Key art for Lord of the Flies. A young boy with broken glasses stares directly to the camera with a confused expression. A forest and broken plane engine are visible in the background.
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#OnThisDay in 1995: Eric Cantona took a stand against racism👊
If you never heard Jonathan Pearce's commentary of Eric Cantona's kicking the 𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 watch this.
I’ve watched Yellowstone and then 1883 and 1923. I’m watching Landman. I still need a Western fix.
This is it.
400 pages in and it’s got me hooked (lassoed?!)
When I finish this I might have to start watching John Wayne movies.
The 💣 defuser.
The man who started the greatest ever Lions test try.
From scaffolding to playing for Wales within twelve months.
Every Welsh kid’s dream. He’s lived it.
Hamnet is one of only three books to make me cry (‘Man and Boy’ and ‘Wonder’ are the other two). I absolutely cannot wait until the movie is released in the UAE.
Genuinely upset that I have to wear boring shirt and trousers today after yesterday’s annual outing of the kandura!
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“Contrary to popular belief, handwriting is not merely a motor skill; it is also a written language skill.…handwriting leads to better perception of letters in reading than does keyboarding. Forming letters by hand might help create the letter form in the mind’s eye better than does selecting them by key press.”
One of my favourite articles in support of explicit handwriting instruction that includes teaching letter formation, directionality, and correct pencil grip to support both decoding and spelling skill development.
In the Minds Eye link: openbooksopendoors.com/wp-co…
#SORticle #Handwriting #Printing
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It's been a while!
If you'd like links to each of the apps and a description of what each does too, then check out the post where you can also grab a PDF: ictevangelist.com/the-period… #ai #AiInEdu #AiInEducation #EdTech #PeriodicTable
