Fantastic write up of an Ofsted new framework pilot 🍎🎓 open.substack.com/pub/benerski...

Just used a lime bike for first time. Exhilarating! 🍋‍🟩 🚲

I’ve got one of these: “The child who, after difficulty and struggle and poor behaviour, gets back on track.” He is a blessing. In fact I was telling my husband and friend about him just today, how he always helps me with the books and is a model student in class 🙏🏼 #UKEd #Transformations #Blessings

Having taken a look at the Curriculum and Assessment Review, I’m feeling more reassured than I was with the titbits leaked in advance to the press. I haven’t read every bit of it yet, but here are a few things I’m pleased about and a few things that worry me (definitely not comprehensive)…

This is TOO exciting. Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it! It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨ #HarryPotter #Pottermore #Audible

Good to be back, after a 2 week half term. Buzzing to be in school again. My y11s were totally shocked by the child prostitution in Blake’s London,. Nice genuine “reader response” moment. Also I used “6-7” in a lesson, to much hilarity. #TeamEnglish @teamenglish1.bsky.social #UKed #TeachingRocks 🍎🎓

Important things: AI is trained with all the negative aspects of society (like racism). AI isn't capable of the creativity or even intellectual lifting of human lesson planning. AI maybe can help with some efficiencies or proofing (although that's even questionable), but remember it's a robot.

Read all of this. Horrifying story and mortifying double standards in reporting. And an insult to ‘nerdy scientists’ everywhere!

Finally, a good article about 6-7 and about youth sociolect and social meaning in general. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thoughts on inclusion and ‘fun days’ www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Manchester in miniature #Photography #TiltShift

Thank you Manchester for the free bus ride! #MCR #FreeBus 🐝

My half term read has been ‘Annie John’ by Jamaica Kincaid (1985), since we have added it to our year 8 curriculum. A candid story not quite like anything I’ve read before… 🍎🎓 #UKEd

Today’s charity shop book haul: pic 1 for my kids age 6 & 8, pic 2 for the internal room at school. All for under a tenner 👍📚🍎🎓

Oh good, another new set of post 16 courses. We really needed some of them… 🍎🎓 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For Black History Month & culture day today I wore my Somali Baati, my Jewish ‘tichel’… and my high vis. I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh. 🍎 🎓 #BHM2025 #BestJobinTheWorld #2WeekHalfTerm

Save the environment is a bold back up afternoon activity. Aim high. Love this though

Very much a fan of a week bookended by 2 x "snuggle up parties"

If anyone is looking for ideas of half term activities - look no further… 🍎🎓 #8YearsOld

Friday was another great English CPD day from the Harris Federation, planned & executed by the brilliant English consultants with some guest speakers/presenters including @trythisteaching.bsky.social, Holly Macguire, @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social & @neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓

SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky

At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person! 🍎🎓

I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.

Hi Bluesky, reach out to your Jewish colleagues today please. 🙏🏼 #UKEd #UKTeaching

I started re watching Orphan Black on Netflix- that show is so darn good! Any other fans out there? 👁️ 👁️

This is a shocking bit of civil rights history I had never heard of before. Closing the pools…

In #MathsToday we introduced spreadsheets. Students who have never written a spreadsheet formula are always shocked to discover how powerful basic spreadsheets are... "Are you kidding me that's like actually low key sick" williams-bhs.github.io/spreadsheets/

I taught two year 11s how to read an analog clock today! ⏰ 🍎🎓

open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb... Interesting provocation on QLA here from Becky Allen: QLA is a bad way of telling what children know, especially individual children #Assessment #UKEd 🍎🎓

“Assessment is a learning process, not an event” @profbeckyallen.bsky.social @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social 🍎🎓 open.spotify.com/episode/3Nzb...

Target grades are one of my least favourite data points 🎯 🍎🎓 open.substack.com/pub/100asses...

Another cracking episode from @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social with Carl Hendrick. I think this one may have to go in the staff bulletin. Also good to hear how Adam has reformed his social media persona! #UKEd #UKTeaching 🍎🎓 open.spotify.com/episode/0JW7...

“A Helping Hand” by L, age 8 (title by her mother)

“Ribbons” by L, age 8.

6/ Real change takes years. Schools we studied transformed behaviour and attendance through long-term culture building: clarity of purpose, investment in staff, consistent follow-through.

Turns out Jacqueline Wilson writes for adults too - in almost exactly the same style as her children’s books! 📚 #BookSky

School experiences that are universal via bedtime conversations with my kids. 6 year old: “we had loads of different teaching assistants in year 1. They kept changing” 8 year old: “I didn’t enjoy PE today so I went to the toilet half way through and deliberately did everything really slowly” 🍎🎓

Really interesting episode with Nick Gibb open.spotify.com/episode/1cPe... 🍎🎓 @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social

Teachers, unions, education leaders: AI does not clearly do what it's being marketed and hyped as doing in education. It won't save time, solve inequality, raise achievement, and it's not inevitable. But it will line their wallets. Still time to call a pause on it nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai

Best line so far from this podcast “I remember my headmaster saying: ‘when you all leave, some of yous are gona be crooks. For yous that are gona be crooks, be good ones, cos it’s only the ones that are not good that get caught’” #Gangster www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Twas the night before training And all through the house Not a teacher was stirring Not even the Scouse The adults were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.

This blog is really interesting and worth reading, might make you think next time you go to use the word ‘idiot’ as an insult.

Cupboard clear out. Memories !

Finally finished this. It took me a long time to get through but I’m overall glad I persevered. Not as compelling as her others, but I actually preferred the second half. #Booksky 📚

This might be the best video I’ve seen all year

Good SLT day in school ‘dress rehearsing’ for INSET. Bring on Monday! 🍎🎓

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They’re *intended* to make you feel uneasy. Intimidation of the ‘out-group’ is part of the core intent. Divisiveness, at its kindest. Are you a patriot, or of ‘us’, or a traitor (I was called this to my face at a protest in Hull)? Whatever we show, it shouldn’t be fear.

1. The Flags have arrived in my area. They make me uneasy. It isn't I have a problem with them when we're celebrating something. Football. Olympics. Even a royal wedding. But right now they don't *feel* like a positive affirmation of stuff we like but more a protest against things people don't..

For the first lesson in #CoreMaths I like to get students to look at some recent news articles and do a bit of Fermi estimation using the figures. The news is a bit bleak at the moment, but here are a few articles I've spotted this week - feel free to add suggestions to the thread! #MathsToday