My painting TROUT WATER

🐟🐟🐟 #sketchbook

Macbeth in a 14-19 SEMH school. ‘Miss, I think he is a power-hungry weirdo … Lady Macbeth is the one with main character energy.’

Salmon nigiri, salmon hosomaki and black sesame maki. 🍣💕

Drawing in winter when seasonal affective disorder hits. Fine. I’ll use my hobby for cathartic release.

#3goodthings 1. Bubble tea 2. William Lewis. What’s in your surname? Medieval society. Lineage. Patronymic surnames. 3. Chess

I am so thoroughly sick of people making excuses for powerful men. Just bloody stop it and take them to court.

Watercolour painting of an otter. Done from a photo a few years ago. #art #watercolours #painting #saturday

'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-strategies...

January lasts for a whole year and February lasts for one week. Those are the month rules.

have a little rest, little bee. 🐝 💤 | #Art #Illustration #bee #cute |

A look back at a collection of my hand-drawn fountain pen ink drawings & artwork from January ✍️🍂❄️ #art #fountainpen #penandink #drawing

SEMH supply teacher. ECT in a YOI. It doesn’t feel real. Truth is stranger than fiction? It’s my dream job.

Happy Friday everyone! Not long til half term now. 😂 #EduSky

We had a few of these last year in the UK, but this is a fine example of the form. bsky.app/profile/wash...

OH NO!!! This is so upsetting — what a brilliant career, what an extraordinary talent we have lost www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

#teamenglish What general things would you say a modern UK English department is looking for in a demo lesson? Please RT

#FridayFive is nostalgic. 1. Nightswimming. REM. 2. Grand Canyon. The Drive by Truckers. 3. Life in a Northern Town. The Dream Academy. 4. The Little Pot Stove. Nic Jones. 5. River. Joni Mitchell.

Four errors. Children don’t get diagnosed with SEND. Children get diagnosed with ASD/ADHD/dyslexia/DLD etc which MAY lead to them having SEND. Loose language and a lack of understanding over shared terminology is really not helping things.

From my understanding of alternative provision settings, miscellaneous students can be in the same class. That is a spectrum. A learner with PMLD and SEMH is not the pupil with a PDA profile and SEMH. It makes me question what specialist support means in practice.

I have written another blog, this time about Inclusion. Such a buzz word, but I have been getting annoyed with half baked theories and abstract language, so I hope this helps. Barely scratches the surface of the topic though, I think... philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...

Please can someone help/direct? Does anyone have any youth recidivism/multi-agency intervention journal articles? I’m in a secondary SEMH setting but I know that is not rehabilitative education. #education #AP #SEMH

Poetry on Thursday's TGT with anniversary of first publication of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'. You could discuss Poe and the jaw-dropping achievement to be influencing culture 180 years later. Or you could just listen to Sir Christopher Lee's reading. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Help still needed. Now reduced to £150k We still haven’t found a buyer for Mum’s lovely retirement house near the sea in Cromer on Norfolk coast. It really is time someone else was making happy memories there. I’d really appreciate everyone sharing it widely 😁 www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Listen to our free podcast - with bookpost reviews, topic book features, new and classic children's and YA books, shoutouts & more. podcasts.apple.com/podcast/scho... #booktwitter #teachertwitter

Finished today! FFX Logo Cross Stitch I've been working on for a few months. Happy with how this turned out.

Meeting a new friend #art #sketchbook #scifi #bird

#3goodthings 1. Work 2. Daim bars 3. Smoked salmon

I'd not included disabled people who were 'euthanized' and so I've now edited the image and I'm resharing. #HolocaustMemorialDay

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

My Hunter is a sassy void. Mother, I am ravenous. This meagre portion will not satiate. Do not forsake me! It is time to sing the song of my people. Do you like the querulous mewl? No? Well, this is not me ow. It is you ow.

Whenever I teach a history topic, we talk about the fact that it’s important to know history so we can learn from it. And in most cases, not repeat it.

Time flies when you’re having fun but January is more like trudging through molasses.

🪿🦆🪿🦆🪿 #art #sketchbook #gouache

I love the effort our pupils put into their class Reading Scrapbooks. The reading-related conversations they lead to are fantastic, with lots of intertextual links, peer recommendations and debate about favourite characters.

Rachel and Stephen sticking together right to the end has restored my faith in humanity a bit #TheTraitors

I can't help but love two traitors being faithful to each other. #TheTraitors

#FridayFive Literature. 1. Scentless Apprentice. Nirvana. 2. Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush. 3. Dignity. Deacon Blue. 4. Romeo and Juliet. Dire Straights (The Killers version is gorgeous too). 5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Elton John.

When the coffee machine broke this morning it was brouhaha. Some customers liked the brew-haha element though.

If you see this, post your painting/drawing of a dragon 🐉 I'll share a recent Liam sketch.

NEW POST: “We are living on a knife-edge” @sharonlsmith.bsky.social reviews new #SENCo research that sounds the alarm about the high cost of under-funded and under-resourced mainstream inclusion www.specialneedsjungle.com/k... #SENCo#SENDCo #Disability #SENDSky #SaveOurChildrensRights

It’s one of those high bg nights so I’m rewatching Doctor Who episodes. Incarnations of the Doctor say they would be able to detect Timelords. Really? The Master is good at hiding in plain sight because the Doctor fails every time.

A better fit when I look at where I was last week. I want to add that I know someone with full Makaton training is the best fit for preverbal and nonverbal students.

I used basic Makaton signs today. Hello, thank you, food, eat, drink and toilet. Some conversations are beyond my level of understanding but I was a better fit for the students. Being able to communicate also means de-escalation.

With HODs we have discussed reflection + lang of reflection + consistency of use. Using CAS learning outcomes, we have established key words + focus areas to aid reflection, creating sentence stems that will help ppls, across all yr groups, to produce quality reflections.

Schools must be supported by an ‘ecosystem of multi-agency specialists’ if the government’s drive for education to be more inclusive is to be successful, DfE told

My painting AUTUMN BARN

In my experience, adapting positively to a health condition involves engaging with the reality of what’s happening, including making space for the frustrating, annoying bits. Making room for the difficult stuff isnt ‘negative’, it’s an important part of understanding, connection, & working together.

🐤 🐤 "quack" 🐤 🐤