This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

I get to see this guy speak tomorrow at Harris Federation conference! The question is, should I bring one of the books for him to sign?! #BambrickSantoyo #Legend #Inspiration #UKEd #EduSky 🍎🎓

This was my Sunday, how was yours?

Thoughts on this mess. 🧵👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We got the first Cambridge offer in our academy! 🎉

Chilling beyond belief #Iran

#IranMassacre : Don't stop talking about Iran. Don't stop talking about Iran. Don't stop talking about Iran. Don't stop talking about Iran. Don't stop talking about Iran. Don't stop talking about Iran. #DigitalBlackoutIran

Why is #Iran no longer on the front of the bbc website at all? amp.dw.com/en/protests-...

--Dreams by Langston Hughes​-- Hold fast to dreams​ For if dreams die​ Life is a broken-winged bird​ That cannot fly.​ Hold fast to dreams​ For when dreams go​ Life is a barren field​ Frozen with snow. #poemsky

The chairman of Reform UK recently pontificated that London has no sense of community (not like in the old days, etc). That wasn't my impression when attending this lovely multi-faith gathering earlier today in the Queens Park ward of Brent, complete with doves of peace. #london #truelondon

I love this headteacher and her creative approach to trying to behaviour manage the parents! 🍎🎓🚗🚙🅿️

Thank you, Parkrun; for making Xmas day and Boxing Day the only days I made it past 10k!

100 years ago, my great grandfather Mark met Sarah when he stopped over in Paris briefly on his way to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. While there, he received word that the ferry was cancelled due to a strike. He stayed longer, fell in love with Sarah, and married her, December 1925.

What a beautiful story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If anybody is going to be alone on Christmas Day and would like a quick call/zoom then I would be happy to do this - DM me if you want. I can talk about food, sport, tv or the weather. But most importantly I can talk/listen. 💕 If not me, I’m sure I can find somebody for you.

open.spotify.com/episode/2WzW... “Leadership isn’t about what you’ve got to do, it’s about what you get to do” Love this from @calmleadership.bsky.social @naht.org.uk

This description of an ‘experimental’ school from the Silver Chair is very interesting! “These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others.” 🍎🎓 #UKEd #EduSky

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How wonderful to have an episode with @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on #TheyBehaveForMe podcast with @amymayforrester.bsky.social and @adamboxereducation.bsky.social who did the whole interview with a tiny baby in a carrier. open.spotify.com/episode/3Wcj...

A little bit of theatrics for y10 ‘intro to Macbeth’ tomorrow, set to ‘O Fortuna’from Carmina Burana 🍎 🎓🗡️🩸

Three things I really liked about this blog. 1) The way @adamboxereducation.bsky.social frames hearing from every child as an ethical duty rather than because it will lead to good outcomes (although it will do that too). open.substack.com/pub/carousel...

My six year old has loved these books, which have cleverly progressed with her on her reading journey over year 1 and year 2 so far. She was very excited to progress to ‘Accelerated Reader’ and get to take this final instalment home! #BookSky #PrimaryRocks #UKEd #Literacy 📚 🎓🍎

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Amazing

Go Emma Sheppard @mtptproject.bsky.social on mother teachers and Jacinda Arden on mother PMs 💕 🎓🍎🤰🏻 #WomansHour www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

At the start of the year my year 9s were by far my worst class. On every level. They were rude, late; they’d scream and shout and not have a clue what was going on. It couldn’t continue. So I started selecting a few books at the end of each lesson to ‘mark’. 1/n

Most people have just left social media for work purposes There are lots of variables I find there are still a lot of people on Twitter, but engagement is hard work across platforms

That’s got to be an accolade worth sharing! They Behave For Me got my top spot.

This was a quite lovely listen 🎧 #CynthiaErivo #Wicked #SimplyMore #BookSky open.spotify.com/show/6yrhXK2...

Whenever I’ve tried to use AI to analyse or summarise data, it gives me results that couldn’t possibly be true.

"It makes me sad when I have experiences that are different now because the larger me deserved that same attention and love," www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is so beautiful <3 <3 <3 www.laretraite.co.uk/News/Alumni-...

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

First cold day of the year Playing football outside at night I could see my breath 💨 Booked summer holiday! 😎

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