It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press. youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...

I just wrote this for a project I am working on and it basically sums up the last 4 years of my life working in school improvement

I'm gonna write a book set in a school from the perspective of a quiet kid whose chance of escape from his awful home life is ruined by badly behaved kids and the adults who do nothing about it.

Christmas is not easy for everyone 📱

Many of you may know that we recently had our third child. You probably don't know that we struggled with secondary infertility and went through IVF. Very grateful to @jewishchron.bsky.social for publishing my reflections on something we don't talk about enough. www.thejc.com/community/in...

'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2

What school leaders need to do is tie together their philosophy of Education with how it affects a lesson run by a cover teacher on a Friday afternoon. If you can get consistency of expectation running through that, then I call that leadership.

What's the one thing you've always wanted to know about Teaching? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?

STOIC - the acronym - very helpful!

we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions

Kids watching the Wallis and Gromit shows. Oh wow, they're absolute genius. Some of them must be 30 years old now and they hold up outstandingly well

Highlights from my school years. substack.com/@rufus292428...

My 13 year old only really reads History books. He's read some good ones by Dominic Sandbrook. Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.

Did they get the management consultants in or something?

I’m loving angles instead.

This, from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is absolutely the best thing you can read on Substack. Free to your inbox every Friday. New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

*** NEW POST *** 1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen. This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...

If you would like to know more about our new book, there's a useful thread here.

Going to see Belle & Sebastian doing Tigermilk ♥️♥️

My A Levels in Film & English gave me great opportunities like teaching A Level Film & English to get students A Levels in Film & English.

Red moon

Anyone who wants to do this with me (online support), please let me know #Teacherswhorun

Back into teacher-mode. I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.

Despite cycling to work, playing tennis and lifting weights, I have completely lost the ability to run. So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago. First walk/run today #Teacherswhorun

On the Lucy Letby case, MD writes: the conclusion of the UK’s most senior neonatologist on last weekend’s ITV documentary was clear. You don’t need to invent a murderer, or methods of murder, to explain how these babies died. MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

A must-watch documentary

Oh you absolutely useless wankers

Anyone else read Question 7 by Richard Flanagan? What an incredible read!

Anyone else read Question 7? 🤯

Back tomorrow and I'm desperate to make this summer count, getting in a good head space and in good habits

Happy for him. I hope a similar thing happens to me in the next hour 🤞 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Wow, this is SUPERB from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

I’ve kept every single one. I call it my “don’t quit teaching” folder. Give a card. Say something nice. Don’t lie.

Gonna write 500 words a day Love writing

Hi Bluesky people 👋 Here’s my latest post on school leadership birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/s...

Can some teachers be a bit like school kids? Working out who's cool and having cliques?

Success, for me, is having time to spend with my family, and time to think.

A real joy to receive every Friday. open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

Is it an inevitably that those kids who kick up the most fuss in schools get the most attention?

What's it like to have social phobia? open.substack.com/pub/rufus292...

Are people in favour of the high levels of centralisation in the schools bill going to continue to be in favour if the next government has Nigel Farage as PM?

This was sent out this afternoon (Should I send the email out that's in the next post?)

Last day of teaching for the year today

Interesting: a deep intake of breath just now from Andrew Marr on @LBC @AndrewMarr9 when I told him that the 1944 Educaton Act divided children into two groups: the 'educable' and the 'ineducable'. Made me think my book might just be helpful.