This week’s #EduBlogClub is brought to you by @sendmattersuk.bsky.social blog sendmatters.co.uk/2025/08/25/j... Question 3. Leaders should be “positive advocates for inclusion, in the context of great challenge”. What can we all do to support our leaders? Please tag #EduBlogClub in your reply

This week’s #EduBlogClub is brought to you by @sendmattersuk.bsky.social blog about joyous ownership sendmatters.co.uk/2025/08/25/j... Question 2. How does your school “embed a mindset of inclusion”? Please tag #EduBlogClub in your reply

Getting to know students and enjoy working with them, taking time to see the world from their perspective. I taught my first lesson in a few months this morning, with a high need class I know well - it was great fun, an unexpected first day back treat. #EduBlogClub

This week’s #EduBlogClub is brought to you by @sendmattersuk.bsky.social blog about joyous ownership sendmatters.co.uk/2025/08/25/j... Question 1. What does the phrase “to joyously own the education of pupils with SEND” mean to you? Please tag #EduBlogClub in your reply

Imagine joining a department and when you’re going through new timetables one of the overriding concerns is that everyone has the same lunch on a Thursday so we can have a chippy lunch 🙌🏼 #EduSky

Started rewatching The West Wing a while ago. Have just got to the episode ‘In This White House’ where Ainsley Hayes first appears. Blooming brilliant addition.

In case you missed it… #EduBlogClub is starting on Monday 5th January at 8pm UK time. If you can’t make it, please do drop in after the fact and keep the conversations going.

Another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Keep on keeping on, eh? 🏉🏉🏉 #SaleSharks

Really feeling today’s #FridayFive as I start to gear up for starting a new job 🤩

Anyone fancy buying a windmill? www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

#EduBlogClub in 2026 is going to start with the @teachertapp.bsky.social #1 blog from their Christmas countdown - Joyous Ownership Of Our Pupils With SEND. 8pm UK time. I’ll ask three questions over half an hour relating to the blog. Grab a brew and join the convo. sendmatters.co.uk/2025/08/25/j...

I’m making a New Year’s Resolution in response to @markgoodrich.bsky.social‘s call regarding getting more involved over here. I’m going to start #EduBlogClub on Mondays at 8pm (UK time). I’ll pick a blog, and ask three questions about it. Let’s try to get some conversations flowing.

What book(s) have you enjoyed in 2025?

@prisonjournalism.bsky.social came across my feed this morning. Can recommend giving it a look. There’s a recent article about cats too (I think you’ll enjoy it even if you’re not a cat person).

Unleashing my inner child for this weeks #FridayFive

It’s kicking off in the parental home, following a festive chippy tea. Mum decreed that she was too full to have trifle, so Dad has started peeling an orange for his pudding. She’s now decided on banana and custard, which is “delicious”. WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED!!! Trifle for breakfast, anyone?

I really don’t feel confident that a US tech giant has so much access to patient data. If this is the way forward, why can’t this be done by local tech? My husband works for one such firm, and there must be others. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Leaving the science department WhatsApp felt more final than handing in my keys and pass. End of a short era.

@teachertapp.bsky.social please could you add an option for questions regarding resignation to include ‘I have resigned’.

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If you like your #FirdayFive on a Saturday morning - there’s a great playlist to be created here. The housework is going to be accompanied by hairbrush karaoke this morning 🎙️

“Mariah likes … walking with the type confidence of that can only come from wearing a hi-vis vest” Get her a clipboard and a playground duty point. STAT!!! #EduSky

This week’s #FridayFive needs no introduction

I don’t understand the disparity of entry requirements to study A Levels compared with T levels. A level chemistry - 6 good passes at GCSE, including 2 at grade 6. T level in laboratory sciences - 5 GCSEs grade 4 and above including maths, English & science.

It's the first day of Advent, and Aldi have got the Stollen Cookies on sale again. It's the most Stollenful time of the year!

But it’ll be so much better when you see them again #FridayFive

Have been living my best life in this weekend. Nice to see some murals that summed up some of the best nights of my 1990s student life in Birmingham.

Science teachers of the North united in the face of Network Rail signal failures 💕

Train to Birmingham from Manchester are cancelled. So, having been rerouted, I am now standing on a platform in Sheffield. There’s a station announcer at Sheffield who is taking absolutely no BS from anyone this evening. I am convinced she must have taught my Year 10 class in a previous life 🤣

Open up the gin, and get choosing this week’s #FridayFive

17 of my tutor group did the 2025 BeeWell survey this week. Within the class, 4 didn’t understand the question on one occasion or more and asked me for help. Wonder how many others didn’t understand, but didn’t ask.

My NHS records are now all on MyMFT which seems to be part of My Chart. Really not sure how I feel about all of this data being in the hands of a developer, both from the data side of things, and also the turning into my (fabulously technophobic) mother side of things 😬

Head full of toothache so having a gentle morning. One of the cats is making the most of my jaw-clutching, incapacitated, state. #Caturday

Batten down the hatches, and get your #FridayFive fix here 👇🏼

Tonight’s #FridayFive is visiting from 🇦🇺

When you’re 30 minutes into a Zumba class, and the new tune is Dance Again by Jennifer Lopez. The last thing I’m going to answering in the affirmative to is the question “ARE YOU FEELING SEXY???”. No. No I am not. I’m absolutely cream crackered is what I am. #EduExercisers

Here’s hoping that Tom Curry doesn’t pick up any injuries while on international duty. Would be nice to see him playing in the prem after the QNS. Feels like an eternity since he was wearing a Sale shirt 🦈🦈🦈 #ENGvsAUS

Oooh-eeeeee-oooohhhhhh what are your #FridayFive?

Delighted to share another summary- a profoundly thought-provoking book. A must-read for those interested in the the bigger picture of transforming learning. Thanks to @P_A_Kirschner for his help with the summary. Download summary and book here: itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-...

I’m not crying, you’re crying to this week’s #FridayFive

For those of us who are of a certain age, you might find the lyrics to Snooker Loopy by Chas and Dave a help for one of the questions.

Enjoyed this post and would also add that having really felt as though I was stagnating a couple of years ago, it led to significant dissatisfaction. A new context made all the difference.

Day 38 Physics & Physical Sci - Did @cossettej.bsky.social newton block lab. Lots of setup so did it with both classes. My old set of blocks were beat up and missing pieces so adapted my set of a million go cars to do the same thing. Great lab to do each year! #iteachphysics #teach180

Been inspired by the Green Party lately? We've got a by-election in Hale and an opportunity to elect Orla as our next Green councillor. Elections don't come cheap so if you can chip in to make this happen please do. @traffordgreenparty.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lets-keep-...

My Dad and I share our Wordle scores every day, and today he got his in SIX-SEVAAAN. He’s 76 and I hope he appreciates the irony. In other news, he baked me a Christmas cake yesterday, and I’d better remember to bring my cake tin down to Suffolk next week.

Minute Cryptic - 22 October, 2025 More André Previn and less Andrew Preview 🎶🎶🎶 "Private investigator losing 50 from roulette spin" (9) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (36,920 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

This might be a nice trip down Memory Lane for anyone who studied Romeo and Juliet alongside Across the Barricades for their GCSE English exams back in the day #EduSkyUK When Kevin Met Sadie: The books that 'opened the way for a generation' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Enjoyed this one, in a “for goodness sake” kind of way. Minute Cryptic - 20 October, 2025 "Uproar from little brother texting you "LOL"" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (21,603 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Been a while since I've uploaded anything new to the site. I recently needed to make a new sheet on scalars on vectors, so have uploaded that here: sciencedoctor.school.blog/physics-ks4/...

Where am I? #FridayFive