Primary teacher of 25 years, mainly in year 6. Coordinator for maths, computing and RE. All views are my own.
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What a ridiculous comment by Nasser. Saying that girls take longer to get helmets and gear on because of their hair. I coach girl's U11s cricket and they are often far quicker than the boys!
@SkyCricket
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What the .... is this? Please spend the money on children's education not PR exercises...
Gemma Collins is in the building and she's got questions.
Coming soon📷
@bphillipsonMP
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Back pain is horrendous, can't sit, can't lie down and can't walk. Already on superstong painkillers with no effect.Any tips and tricks out there?
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Update my games for the classroom for wet playtimes. Promote cooperation and communication instead of just sticking a video on the whiteboard! #TwinklCommunityCollection
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A much better suggestion. Let them see the results of their decisions. Come into our school and see what we are dealing with on a daily basis.
Maybe, instead of National Service for 18 year olds they should introduce national service for MPs.
They all have to do several weeks volunteering in a school, GP, hospital, care home, social care and police within their first 12 months in office.
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Clueless doesn't even come close. Our education secretary really is a joke.
Emma Barnett: Can you give us an example of inappropriate content taught in some schools... how wide spread is that issue?
Gillian Keegan: I don't know
EB: You don't know?
GK: We've listened to reports
EB: That's staggering you don't know how widespread the issue is
#r4today
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Spot on. We spend all year trying to develop a love and understanding of maths. Helping pupils build their confidence. This paper was set up to make children struggle. "Borderline" children who struggle with reading found this so hard.
Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths.
There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems.
But that’s not the same thing at all as questions that seek to confuse, mislead or hide meaning in meaningless, tiresome contexts.
Show a real mathematician a problem written by someone who is deliberately communicating badly or poking fun by being disingenuous and that mathematician will tell you to bugger off.
We’re in the business of grappling with and resolving genuinely interesting and important questions. We have no interest in silly, dull and ill conceived questions that lack meaning and intend to trip up.
So, an opportunity to show pupils what mathematics is and can be has been utterly wasted and instead we’ve just made it a lot less likely a nascent interest in becoming a mathematician will flourish for many, many pupils who will, quite rightly, reject the subject as tedious sleight of hand.
To those writing, signing off and publishing national exam papers: be better at your job or do something else.
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When our daughter was two, it seemed a good idea to hide the eggs in the garden saying the Easter bunny had been.
Now she's 7, appearing at half five to find the eggs... It is a decision I may be regretting!
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Strange, I didn't know she was an expert on the subject. I must have missed that in her CV.
If the party in power had followed the guidelines from exercise Cygnus, instead of looking to enrich their friends, perhaps long lockdowns and deaths could have been avoided.
4 years since the first Covid lockdown, we need to learn lessons to better manage the next pandemic.
How can we strike a better balance, so that lives are saved & personal freedoms protected?
We need to improve the modelling & protect scientific debate.
Me in @Telegraph 1/2
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Trying to pick some brains. I'm teaching the audio unit for Teach computing but we are using Chromebooks so no Audacity. Does anyone have a recommendation for free editing software for podcasts? Thanks. @TsuiAllen any ideas?
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@whatSFSaid Thank you so much for the book and postcard (my daughter is now desperate to start Varjak).
My class will be very jealous when they discover I've had the chance to read it over Christmas! Have a great holiday season and thank you.
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Levelling up - Tory style.
"It comes after the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that pupil premium funding had eroded in real-terms by 14 per cent since 2015," schoolsweek.co.uk/pupil-prem…
British values:
1. The rule of law - Would this involve following the judgements of Britain's supreme court or European court?
2. Individual liberty - I'm guessing disapplying the European convention on human rights probably goes against this?
3. Democracy...
This is ridiculous.
Universities should stand up for our British values and stop giving in to woke ideology.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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"And this hole cost the tax payer £1,000,000 because I gave the contract to a Tory donor..." #ToryCorruption
Following today’s announcement, this could be the last photo of a politician pointing at a pothole.
We’re investing £8 billion to improve your local roads and fix potholes for the long term.
ALT The Prime Minister and others point at a pothole in Darlington.
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What a surprise. We reach the end of a half term and sickness is high in schools. The government will talk about persistent absence but ignore one of the main reasons behind it. schoolsweek.co.uk/almost-1-i…
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