1/4 Teaching is a stressful job. Always has been. You're in performance mode all day, you're thinking on your feet, you're working with demanding children and young people who are still learning how to manage their emotions and their lives.

1/2 Perimenopause and menopause have very specific challenges if you work in a school. Hot flushes in classrooms built like greenhouses. Not being able to escape for a wee or a breather when you need it. All those names to remember when remembering your own is a challenge... #EduSky #EduskyUK

Serious question. How is humour helping or hindering you in what you are trying to achieve in surviving menopause or in communicating about menopause? Humour can be wonderful or terrible. Take a look! #Edusky #EduskyUK open.substack.com/pub/helencla...

1/3 The changes and shifts we experience in perimenopause can destabilise us to the core - and in a school we're often really exposed while that's happening. Whether it's losing our words, struggling with mood swings, hot flushes, needing the loo often and sometimes urgently... #Edusky #EduskyUK

1/3 Honestly, perimenopause and menopause can be a bit of a nuisance. They can be a nuisance (and more) to those experiencing the symptoms. It can be a nuisance when those symptoms show up in school and disrupt our work and it can feel like a nuisance..

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1/2 No school can do anything about menopause if members of staff feels that they cannot talk to senior leaders about it. You can have all the policies in the world. You can (and should) have great support groups. You can (and should) train your senior leaders. #Edusky #EduskyUK

Rage is the peri/menopausal superpower you need to get control of. It can drive you. It can guide you. But it can cause problems in the classroom - and damage relationships and your health. How do you manage your rage? #Edusky #EduskyUK

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This cannot be repeated enough we already have the lowest pension in Europe.

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Michelle Mone and her husband defrauded us all of 500 times the money that Peter Murrell did. He's locked up 23 hours a day in Edinburgh jail, her and her husband are banging it up on a Caribbean Island laughing at us all.

Just a reminder

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Choose yourself - it’s that simple!

🚨 Updates: 1) THE REJOIN PETITION is now over 91,700 signatures! 2) THE NATIONAL REJOIN MARCH CROWDFUNDER Is now at over £23,700 of a £24,000 goal A last push from everyone who has thought about it but hasn’t done one or both yet please!

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” Janis Joplin Looking after ourselves is not selfish. Rest, boundaries, saying no, choosing what matters, all of it counts. You matter too. 🧡 #SelfCare #kindness Art by anxiety.positive

💥 79,000💥 now! Well that IS fast progress. Let’s get it to 80,000 tonight people. Sign and share - you know the drill.

🛤️ Heading to Glasgow for #PedagooGhlaschu @asgghlaschu.bsky.social. Looking forward to connecting with a fab bunch of curious & creative educators. I’m sharing stories of primary-secondary transition, chameleons and bridges will feature 🤔 Happy Saturday all!

Pls share if u know of any parents with autistic children. This is a Pakistani lady doing her research on this important topic.

The final results are in. It's a pro-independence majority of 73. That's the largest number of pro-independence MSPs ever elected to the Scottish Parliament.

The Met’s refusal to investigate war crimes committed by British nationals in the IDF is an absolute disgrace. Meanwhile, over 3,000 people face action under terrorism laws for holding placards opposing genocide. The Met should serve the public, not their political masters.

We will be at #PedagooGhlaschu on Saturday 16th May. Sign up below. ⬇️

Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.

Going through a difficult perimenopause, unsupported, alongside all the restrictions and pressures of working in a school can be devastating. We need our school staff in school doing their jobs to the best of their considerable ability. I help make that happen. #Edusky #EduskyUk #WomenEd

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

Grossly incompetent or dishonest from the BBC here

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As do I

In a speech this week, former Nato Secretary General George Robertson called for more military spending. But war is never the answer. As a nation, let’s spend money on the things that make us all safer. @quaker.org.uk #WarCostsUsTheEarth #GDAMS youtube.com/shorts/3xro_...

We didn't deserve this day.

Any shares of the posts below very much appreciated! Thank you.

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Next Networking Event Saturday21st March at 10am. "Exploring Calm Leadership - Patrick Cozier's book about developing into our leadership roles." DM for link.

A message for International Women’s Day. We deserve better. 🌷

When Starmer says the Greens and Reform are equally extreme, just as when Labour make the same comparison between SNP and Reform, it causes a visceral reaction in me. Not just because it’s stupid. But because it shows a fundamental triviality about the existential threat posed by the far right.

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🎉 #PedagooGhlaschu returns! Tagging #Pedagoo pals @drewburrett.bsky.social @womenedscotland.bsky.social @cathtrac.bsky.social @jminelly27.bsky.social @stuartphysics.bsky.social @ccouser.bsky.social @catmac705.bsky.social @paulinemurray08.bsky.social @charlainesi.bsky.social Spread the word 🌳🦜🐟🔔

Going through perimenopause and menopause when you work in a school can be tough. It's the hot flushes when you've no control over your environment. It's needing the loo when you can't leave your class. It's brain fog when you've so much to remember. #Edusky #EduskyUk #WomenEd

Saturday 21st February at 10am our next networking event. We‘ll be exploring our value of connection. DM for the link.

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