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Harvesting the last of the #allotment parsnips before the ground goes back to frozen solid again! 🌱

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I was reading the new inspection toolkit yesterday and I think we need to stop believing that trying to match 'what Ofsted wants' is always a valuable use of our time. It's quite incredible how much detail there is in there given that inspections in early years settings can be as short as 4 hours.

These dreadful, despicable people are trying to see how far they can go before others push back. They are classic bullies testing the limits of their power. We need our governments to push back because we can only do so much as individuals. This applies as much to Musk as it does to Trump.

My daughter’s primary school, for example, sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms. It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives. But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.

A bit of self promotion. My chocolate shop’s Winter Sale is now live, with chocolate bars, treats, and hot chocolates included. Details are on the website if you’re curious. jenkinsemporium.co.uk

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YA sci-fi and fantasy writers, a children's fiction competition with a 10,000 GBP prize & publishing contract - deadline June 2026. For a "completed full-length novel for readers aged 7-18" written in English. #writingcommunity #SFF #YA #YoungAdult www.chickenhousebooks.com/submissions/

Free books! No catch at all. Every Wednesday @biggreenbooks.bsky.social does a # BuyAStrangerABook giveaway. Kind folks buy books for other people and support an indy bookshop. What’s not to love? Lots of unclaimed offers today, just tap on the hashtag 😁 Yes I have claimed one 😊

Over the last 3 days we’ve been virtual learning because of the snow. It’s been snowing since New Year’s Day. The videos and photos I’ve been sent of children enjoying the show has brought me so much joy. A lot of learning and creativity can happen in the snow!

Stop making generalised and unevidenced claims about parents and children in a format where the actual parents and children attending the schools you work at can see you doing it. Honestly if this was our staff I'd be having a serious word.

Splendid thread to uplift your timeline and for mental refreshment amid the ongoing everything.

Presumably in response to X enabling non-consensual porn and paedophilia - The Women & Equalities Committee has just announced it has left the platform! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 All of the remaining Parliamentary Committees need to follow suit (go challenge them to do so!)

Watching some videos currently being shared online and begging the teachers involved to read and enact the teacher professional standards. They're not exactly long. Wanting to be 'big' on social media doesn't outweigh your professional and legal duties. 😒

📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎 Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...

To the people still defending Starmer, this is the problem. Are you really okay with this mealy mouthed response to CSAM?

I do think eventually @ofstednews.bsky.social or @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social are going to have to say something about the risks around safeguarding that schools, the DfE and Ofsted themselves are running by remaining on Twitter when it is generating CSAM.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Starlings in their fleecy slippers #Shetland #snow

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Hi, Many on this platform, are disturbed that to see any official gov communications, they have to go back onto the #CessPit of X. Could you please ask the media department to include @bsky.app and the growing Labour presence on here to give us representation and a voice.

I'm doing research for a session next week and I came across this Ofsted review of outdoor learning from 2008. It's *fascinating* to consider how different the attitude to CYP's learning (particularly around agency and engagement) is in this, compared to how it is now. ltl.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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I've had some lovely feedback via email that the training I did yesterday was 'the best morning of CPD I've ever had'. Great start to 2026! #EduSky ☺️♥️

Anyone else immediately close any article that says you can only read it without paying if you don't reject cookies? 🙄

This is very good advice and along with the detach quote option it keeps my notifications stress free.

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Dear @darrenpjones.bsky.social please make the PM aware that his voters are here not on twitter & we do not understand why we're being ignored or why official comms are posted on a platform that churns out CSAM. This appears to be a massive comms oversight, please rectify it.

Doesn't this mean he's banning Twitter? Grok clearly creates deep fakes.

I'm doing research for a session next week and I came across this Ofsted review of outdoor learning from 2008. It's *fascinating* to consider how different the attitude to CYP's learning (particularly around agency and engagement) is in this, compared to how it is now. ltl.org.uk/wp-content/u...

I've had some lovely feedback via email that the training I did yesterday was 'the best morning of CPD I've ever had'. Great start to 2026! #EduSky ☺️♥️

Sexualised AI generated images of *children* only sparked Ofcom's concern with Elon Musk's Grok AI on Twitter/X. But an AI image of the Princess of Wales results in urgent contact. The image of Kate is clearly wrong, but why wasn't CSAM imagery not enough for urgent action?

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

No, not a chance. Have these people not read The Monkey's Paw? 😒

I had a fabulous first day back today, working with 30 very enthusiastic staff from two Southampton schools. They threw themselves into every aspect and hardly stopped all day. Here’s just a snapshot of what they created. 🙂👍 www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #UKEd

If I would criticise something if the Tories did it, I will criticise it when Labour does it too. The alternative is the hypocrisy that we see way too much of these days. When the Tories are agreeing with Labour and vice versa, we have a quasi Tory government anyway.

I mean, what would you hope Starmer would say if Trump takes over Greenland? Presumably even his fans and apologists would expect him to speak up at that point, so 'not upsetting Trump' has its limits. In which case, why not speak up now?

It makes my blood boil to see such a pathetic, mealy mouthed response. The lengths we go to in education to protect children and the actual government is like, 'yeah, nah, whatever'.

I have said this before and will say it again: European members of NATO should send a small (token) multinational force to Greenland, to create a speed bump to what Trump might otherwise imagine could be a fait accompli.

I used to waste time deliberating over whether someone’s commment was *maybe* well-intentioned and I was just interpreting it wrong, do they really *deserve* a block? Now I just block right away and stop thinking about it immediately. Much better

Why is anyone still defending Starmer? This is pathetic. It's CSAM ffs.

This morning staff from AGS will join staff from other Three Rivers Alliance schools to focus on Adaptive Teaching - with a key note speech from @suecowley.bsky.social. We are excited for the day ahead! #collaboration @kes-headmaster.bsky.social @alcesteracademy.bsky.social @sggs-life.bsky.social

Interesting to see two constituencies close to me in Bristol on the 'bottom' list. This very clearly demonstrates how London benefits from political focus and especially resources such as transport and cultural opportunities.

Perhaps it is time to move policy making out of London? Maybe the DFE should move up north? And have policy advisors and round tables that are populated by school leaders from schools in the north? There is plenty of research around that they could draw upon to help them.

Good morning folks! It's a snowy one here. Good thing I travelled up yesterday! 🥶

I’m here to ask you to add a little something extra to your list of goals and intentions for the next 12 months: prioritise accessibility and inclusion. I’ve shared 10 ways how you can do exactly that in my first blog post of 2026 👇 lifeofablindgirl.com/2026/01/04/1...

Honestly sometimes I look at the fervent way in which some edu gurus describe what should be happening in classrooms and I'm exhausted just thinking about it. We will burn out the workforce if we make people think that they can never have a down moment. #EduSky

Free workshops for chicago teens this month at different libraries! Extra dimensional embroidery. I made these little samples this weekend to help get their creative juices flowing and I am giddy. Still time to register. www.badasscrossstitch.com/calendarofev...

I'm in Stratford-upon-Avon ready to run some CPD on adaptive teaching for a group of schools tomorrow. If you'd like something similar please get in touch. Hope everyone has a great start to the new term! #inclusion #EduSky

"But what did you expect Starmer to say?"