Put a random Brian Bilston poem on YouTube without watching it first because I've followed him for years and never seen any poems be remotely rude or dodgy. About 30 secs in he says "crap" Cue pandemonium.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Someone has turned a Tom Brady inspirational team talk into a song. youtu.be/pF6NTTTA4MU?...

Today's Connections is good.

Both my grandfathers fought in the war and my grandmothers served too. Their parents would all have been deported under Reform's policies.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

This whole series has been really good.

I'm really enjoying watching Isak play shit.

The current situation in many schools where on-call members of staff rarely/never get a lunch break is not on.

I don't know if they've got anyone on the inquiry panel who was alive at the time of the pandemic, but as I recall it... "people thought they might die" probably answers lots of questions like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spare a thought for Year 6 teachers this week.

Today's Connections was rubbish.

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

My highlight of the day: Today, we finished tidying up and getting home stuff ready 2 minutes before I can let my class go so to fill the time I asked them what they're looking forward to this weekend and if they're happy to share it with the class. Every single child put their hand up.

Can I please ask for shares on this? My mother’s lovely retirement cottage on the North Norfolk coast at Cromer has just been reduced to £160k. It’s full of happy memories, has good storage for this type of property & guest bedrooms available to rent. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

This saddens me.

My class is mostly Ipswich fans and when we did a lesson on electrical circuits they wouldn't take the green or yellow wires.

Once someone is a relatively fluent reader (i.e. assuming no speech impediments, oral reading sounds like language rather than merely a string of words), their reading age on a standardised comprehension test is mostly a product of their knowledge of the world and the language connected to it. >>

Schools interpret this to mean that in secondary a Year 7 student with a reading age of six should be doing twelve subjects, encountering a range of disciplines they can't read in. A school in Birmingham with very strong P8 received an RI because a third of students were withdrawn from Spanish.

One of the things that continually irked me about the old Ofsted inspection framework, and is true in the new one too is an implied prioritisation of breadth of curriculum over literacy. In this one breadth of curriculum is the bullet point 1 and children being able to read is partway through 3.

ChatGPT is very good at offering suggestions on how to make dry lesson plans / schemes of work more engaging.

"What you permit you promote" is not just about pupil behaviour. It's about everything. It's about the way you allow other adults to speak to you and to each other in your prescence. It's about the responsibilities you take on, even though you blatantly don't have to.

Visited a great special school today, and it was a valuable use of my time. One thing that struck me, however, was that there are about 20 children in our school who would not be out of place in that setting. Many of our children are, in fact, in greater need.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

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Agreed

A big reason we're seeing the problems we are today with reading and mental health can be explained by the fact that most 10-year-olds now own a smartphone. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

If you were tasked with designing a fully inclusive curriculum, where would you start? What is absolutely key? Please repost for coverage. #send

I wish TeacherTapp was around a decade ago. School leaders lost their fucking minds about marking and teachers just went along with it.

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If you are into gambling, I reckon Newport and Gills to draw is a good bet. We're clear favourites but Newport are a bit of a bogey team and we'd take a draw to break our longest spell unbeaten record.

Your Party (feat. Pitbull)

Slim Chickens always bangs.

Imagine Jeremy Corbyn doing foreign policy lol

There's a guy on Instagram called Coach Jonny who teaches kids how to play football and he is brilliant at it. His tone and explanations are spot on.

the only good thing to happen online this year was when everyone watched conclave and then there was an actual conclave and the whole internet was just going this is just like in conclave

I have my favourite type of class this year.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Is there a term/phrase that describes the Glasgow approach to behaviour in schools?

I used to tweet in the early 2020s when people denied the existence of cancel culture that it is very much a real thing and the right are way more successful and better at it than the left, and now it's impossible to deny.

Is there a term/phrase that describes the Glasgow approach to behaviour in schools?

As @dylandifford.bsky.social was saying the other day it's very unusual to have a party leading the polls whose supporters are so different from the median voter.

One of the ways Reform voters differ most from the wider population (including Tory voters) is in their attitude towards Trump.

6 Twilights coming up about Trauma Perceptive Practice. Can't wait.

Lots of talk about radicalisation today. We've seen it in teaching with high-profile teaching figures on both sides of the political spectrum, and in each case I can think of, the signs were very much there for a long time.

I don't get why schools make it their responsibility to tell parents what they can and can't feed their kids.

What is being asked of this teacher is almost impossible to achieve without TA support.

West Ham's decline is almost as bad as Man Utd's.

This is bollocks. #Gills x.com/TheGillsFC/s...