Mike Murray

Mike Murray

@murraym965.bsky.social

Author Reframing Education John Catt 2019, teacher, Head, Research lead, historian married to Caroline, daughter Alice, son Tom

608 Followers 1,176 Following 18 Posts Joined Aug 2024
1 month ago

“Just don’t believe your eyes.”
@brucespringsteen.net on Minneapolis & how the Trump administration as responded.

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Excellent piece this

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Just 3 images: Remembrance don’t let the Far Right hijack the Poppy! Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy appeal can be easily hijacked by the far right in our current febrile atmosphere for jingoistic, xenophobic and nationalist reasons. It makes it all the more vital …

One for those doing Remembrance assemblies, tutor time or the history folk @morsecat.bsky.social @mrmountstevens.bsky.social @jdurran.bsky.social @bennewmark.bsky.social

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Just 3 images: Remembrance don’t let the Far Right hijack the Poppy! Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy appeal can be easily hijacked by the far right in our current febrile atmosphere for jingoistic, xenophobic and nationalist reasons. It makes it all the more vital …

A blog about ensuring the Far Right doesn’t exploit Remembrance

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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This was always going to be the direction given how little illegal immigration there is. This is going to do us all damage for years to come.

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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…

I wrote a blog about countering radicalisation. For KS2 to 5, history folk, PSHE and senior leaders.
Please use and share widely

mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...

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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…

One for the history community @bennewmark.bsky.social

mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...

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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…

I wrote a blog about countering radicalisation. For KS2 to 5, history folk, PSHE and senior leaders.
Please use and share widely

mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...

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Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain.

This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking!

Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt

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Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

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Review: American Candy at Northern Stage - Northern Arts Review Our new theatre review website is up! Please show some love and come over to see. Sign up if you're in the north and want to be kept informed what's on near you. And if your favourite theatre or produ...

Lovely review of Tom’s play

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6 months ago

Essex school leaders will see their students in every word Vic says here. @vicgoddard.bsky.social

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This is my flag.

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Toms new play dates and link It’s a comedy

linktr.ee/mangoensemble

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Women in school leadership I’ve recently read three articles in TES about women in educational leadership, which have made me thoughtful. On 20th May 2025, Manos Antoninis wrote a piece entitled ‘Female school leaders benefi…

"..in which they can be successful & feel fulfilled, is a significant driver for me." My latest blog post, on 'Women in school leadership': jillberry102.blog/2025/08/02/w... 2/2

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7 months ago

Honoured to write this.

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7 months ago

Had a chat with Billy Bragg at Latitude while we were both eating lunch. He told me that teachers and school leaders make more of a difference to the world than musicians ever can and he shook my hand. He made a difference to me today for sure. He is such a nice, humble bloke.

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AMERICAN CANDY to Tour UK This Autumn The Mango Ensemble, finalists for the 2025 National Diversity Awards, will launch a UK tour of American Candy, a new comedy-crime play by Tom Murray and directed by Francesca Hsieh. The production wil...

Toms next play on tour this Autumn

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Just a day to go now….

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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much

"36 years on, I am so grateful I chose teaching & that this morphed into school leadership & then trust leadership." Huge congratulations, @morsecat.bsky.social, on all you've achieved - & very best wishes for the next stage of the adventure! It can be rich & full! www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much

"One of the things I am most proud of is the talented women who have been able to follow in my wake as headteachers." @morsecat.bsky.social writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

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My close friend Jim Stewart has died, aged 67, after a rapid progression of Parkinson's. We taught English, organised @NATEfeed conferences & wrote books together. He taught me much about teaching, Shakespeare, music & the hills, and even more about laughter. He's deeply missed.

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In the latest post on our Substack I try to make sense of the mutual incomprehension between teachers & students about the role of AI.

Is it OK for students to use AI to write their assignments if that's the most efficient thing to do?

If not, why not?

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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should On process, inclusion, and the cost of convenience In a world of accelerating automation, we must ask not just what technology can do for us, but what it might take away. Technology and the interne…

Process, inclusion, and the cost of convenience.

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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much

www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

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8 months ago

Farage is of the far right. He went to an elite school where he admired the Nazis, is a millionaire and laughs about you behind your back because he has persuaded you that he ‘talks sense’ and is ordinary like you. He isn’t. He is very sinister.

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8 months ago

Congratulations Caroline- very well deserved recognition of an outstanding career and contribution to state education! 😊

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9 months ago

Pleased to see @counsellc.bsky.social in the Honours list for her influential work in education and our own Angela Dixon for being a magnificent Chief Exec for the inspiring place that is Saffron Hall. Congratulations! Both brilliant women!

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