Gutted the Underland film has a limited release. Both screenings near me are in the day next week

Beautiful 17km wander around Rue Nature Reserve today. The warm sun left like stepping out of an apocalypse bunker after months

Misdelivered parcel update: Seller won’t refund as there’s ’proof of delivery’ - to an address that isn’t mine. Have escalated complaint. On hold to #royalmail for over half an hour to be transferred to wrong department. Have been up to the flat every day and still no answer

Stagecoach are an appalling bus company. I don’t know how one bus, on a loop, has different start points and varying times.

My fave thing so far this holiday is watching people on FB lose their minds over food waste bins

Update: been up to the flats. No answer. No text/phone call. A neighbour doesn’t know where he is.

Royal Mail are quickly becoming the worst delivery service. Two separate parcels they’ve buggered up. Parcel 1 was meant to to go to local PO to collect. They’ve repeatedly tried to deliver with the PO collection sticker on. They even emailed to say it was ready for collection. It wasn’t 1/2

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Anyone else setting an alarm to watch the Artemis 2 launch?

Anyone watched-watching Paradise on Disney

Anyone watched-watching Paradise on Disney

We need to start talking about the retention crisis in education like we do when any NJS service is impacted by lack of staff www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Urg. Another holiday taken up with Things My Landlord Has Left Until He Gets In Trouble. This time the fuse box. Not sure why an electrician is scheduling a 4-6hr job with a window of 12-5pm 🤷🏻‍♀️

Project Hail Mary was phenomenal

OH. MY. GOD.

Well, @specsaversuk.bsky.social you have absolutely blown me out of the water. Recently diagnosed with a significant neuro-ophthalmological condition and first time seeing a regular optician since (last one failed massively. The kindness, compassion and science that was given today was 🥇

Off for a regular opticians appt this morning, post-partial wonky eye diagnosis. When I booked with them a couple of weeks ago, I explained what was wrong and they were mildly panicked so booked me in with most experienced person they had. Can’t wait to see what chaos I cause.

Not to brag or anything, but my year 9s can now work *truly* independently for 25 mins at a time. Periodically, they’ll bring books up for feedback. This means I can support pupils who need it one-to-one with ZERO disruption. No magic, no bribery. High expectations, firm, fair and warmth.

Controversial take, bit insojtsee the issue with this. In fact, I also think UK citizens could be charged a nominal fee. The experience of visiting a man London museum is awful now. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Finished helping Smells do a final edit on her dissertation. It’s a stunning piece of work centring around the impacts of socioeconomic disadvantage and metal health on pupils in secondary school. I had no idea her interests were so similar to mine. She’s kept it so quiet.

Proofreading Smells dissertation today. She needs a second pair of eyes. It’s really interesting how many of her references are authors I used in my MA

I had been diagnosed with a significant visual disability (I’m ok; not losing sight but eyes won’t play ball - pun intended). Whilst school are going above and beyond to ensure I am able to remain in class what’s become clear (pun also intended) is that SEND kids are being set up to fail 1/2

@royalmailchat.bsky.social can’t really rearrange delivery of parcels if you deliver it without notice.

Had to go home today after suffering from a nasty allergic reaction. No idea what triggered it; haven’t had a bad one for more than a decade

I forget that my teaching super power is making all the parents love me. Don’t know how, but I seem to charm the pants off them 🤣

Inclusion is all fine and well until you’ve got 9 SEND kids screaming at each other, wandering around, in and out of the class for time out and yelling at me, on top of 19 other kids waiting for teaching to happen.

Today my year 8s thought an image of some foxgloves was AI because they didn’t think plants came in that colour. They lost it when I showed them species of Acer with red leaves. Have they so little cultural/science capital now that this is where we’re at??

This is the kind of nonsense (from the US, where they don’t have a system like HMRC) that our parents get hold of and slam education over. At some point in time we have to reidentify and redraw the line that shows what is a parent’s role and a school’s role

I’m so glad he’s had ‘lovely pay rises’. He’s right about the funding being in every every areas, but the reality is I can’t afford any more rent or bill increases. Lots of workers can’t.

AQA science people. Food tests. Did I imagine them removing the test for lipids??

13 kids turned up for Biology Booster today. First time I’ve ran/offered it. Mix of my kids and some other from different classes. Very proud of them

The only odd take here is AK is here thinking parents have no place in monitoring their child’s internet use. There are, of course, much larger issues regarding the lack of accountability and regulation of social media overall. However accusing someone of not caring for the kids here is wild.

I have pictures around my smart board. They’ve been drawn for me over the year I’ve been at my new school. I teach secondary, mind you 🤣 Today, one of my year 9s said she found it all ‘too much’ and ‘she could never’ finishing with ‘over stimulating’. I fear we have overused another word.

US teacher commentary on edutainment. I told you it would make a comeback as we saw declining attention. Scaffolding disguised as support in a really interesting take, because actually he’s right. In too many instances it’s not because the pupils can’t 1/n

“I’ve told my child that when they need to look, just to go.” Look, I’ll always let a kid go. I’ve been at this long enough to know when they’re pulling a swifty. But please don’t tell your kids to ignore an adult’s instructions…then wonder why they won’t listen to you.

They’ve hit me with with “You can go to the loo whenever you want” line now. Pretty sure I can’t wander off to the loo mid-lesson and leave 25+ kids unattended. Also couldn’t wander off the till when I worked in the chemist, but ok.

Me, trying to explain to a mum on Another Social Media app that their child using their Time Out Card during independent work or a practical because it’s ’not an important part’ is actually them still missing out on learning and arguably the most important part,

Got into an argument on another social media platform about AI ‘saving teachers time’. I still maintain that the wider issues around workload are being ignored (deliberately or not) and pushing teachers to use AI to solve their workload issues is wilful ignorance. 1/n

I have 6 appointments in 4 days this week. • Regular opticians • Occ Health • Orthoptist • Blood test for contrast MRI • Carpet measuring (landlord replacing in Easter) • Electrical Safety Check I’ll need another week off thanks.

Oh blow it: let’s share a photo from the day that means everything to me. This girl is my world and my biggest cheerleader. It’s her turn this summer. Three degrees between us

Day off for a week celebration today

Applying for job with a degree (or more) is odd, because at what point will they stop asking for GCSE cert? You’ve got a degree in Maths and a MSc in More Maths? We’d still like to see you got a GCSE in it though.

Ignoring the environmental impact (I know, I know…but no space for *that* conversation) How do we feel about using AI to plan lessons?

Utterly convinced Letting Agents don’t think people renting work and we can just take calls whenever.

Pupil’s books, particularly at secondary, seem to have morphed into something meaningless to them. They know who the books are *really* for. They don’t ask to take them home to use for homework or revision , and, as Boxer points out, some leadership prefer a Journal of Prettiness.

Been listening to this, this week. I struggle with audiobooks unless they’re narrated by the author. This one is, and although the book was brilliant the narration ruined it. So monotone and sounded like AI. Was very hard to tell who was ‘talking’. Think I’ll stick to Alice Roberts

Facebook is an odd place. Whoever still touts this nonsense needs to give their head a wobble. Pathogicalising every behaviour is what got us into the mess in the first instance

Smells has landed an amazing graduate job. I am so incredibly proud of her. It was my biggest fear; that’s she’d have worked so hard and not ended up in the career she wanted

Simon thinks going to uni is for the lazy. Can’t wait until he needs a doctor

Here’s the thing about using AI to plan lessons; it doesn’t do anything that isn’t already in my head. It can’t preempt misconceptions (past general ones, but they’re easy to Google) and it certainly can’t pop the lesson into a MAT template. So…what’s the point??