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Finding the Sani- stat is frozen and you can’t empty cassette or pump out.
Had to go into the water to remove the lorry inner tube/bag of clothes/mooring rope from round the prop.
Change the gas bottle in dark and rain during dinner!

Rewarding good behaviour key to success, hubs evaluation finds The DfE's behaviour hubs programme saw schools shifting towards restorative rather than zero-tolerance behaviour management policies, says final evaluation report

Ummmmmm…. So it seems being responsive and compassionate is a better approach than punishment.

Who knew?

Only research from the last 30 years, rather than outdated behaviourism.

Why have children been subjected to these experiments?

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@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social how do you manage to hit the right spot every time? Thank you.

This is awful and the scariest part is that there are some people in this country who think it’s a good thing.

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed!
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One call I am so glad I no longer have to make!

a group of peanuts characters sit at their desks ALT: a group of peanuts characters sit at their desks

Can all the behaviour gurus out there do me a favour? Specify which sector of education you’re talking about. Because what’s called disruptive behaviours in high school is developmentally normal behaviour in lower primary. Pupils don’t magically stop doing them, primary teachers show them how.

Thank you for shining a light on those schools. They are invaluable yet so often under valued.

Part 1. My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi…

I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities

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Pivoting In November 2024, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. A nasty, sneaky, fast growing type of breast cancer: stage 3, grade 3, locally invasive triple negative breast cancer for those who know about …

I am writing - here is my first blog of 2026. This year will be the year where I write all those things I promised myself I would write, when I had the time.

Now I have the time.
meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/02/p...

Good thread.
It’s really hard to move the conversation forward if we don’t have agreement on the language used… bsky.app/profile/rlro...

Excellent blog.

My main take on Twitter was always: ‘If this was a pub, would I visit?’

I can put up with disagreement, rowdy evenings, occasional fights. But hard life rule: I don’t frequent hooligan pubs.

The waterways festival is at Moira on the detached section of the Ashby Canal - these boats are all trailable and arrived by road! The other picture is in France on the Canal des Vosges.

A view across a bay with boats on their moorings. Slight ripples on the water under a clear blue sky.

A rocky bay with a small fishing boat in the foreground.

Narrow Boat moored up on a very wooded section of canal on a beautiful late summer’s day.

A gathering of small trailable boats at a Waterways Festival on a canal. The boats are decorated with flags and in the foreground are some canoes waiting to be taken out onto the water.

A variety of boats from this year’s travels.
#Boat
#TopTravelPics
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@lovetwotravel.bsky.social

This evening I came home from work to find hundreds of comments on a picture I posted of kids who visited Parliament today - hundreds of comments by grown men and women who clearly decided they had nothing better to do than post a load of racist comments about school children. Just think about that for a moment: grown adults bullying kids. I’ve deleted the post because I don’t want the kids or their parents to see the comments. But tomorrow I will post it again - with comments turned off if necessary - because I’m proud of those kids and their school, proud to represent them in Parliament and because these flags 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 belong to them, too. Tomorrow we’ll mark Armistice Day when the guns fell silent. Never forget that the poppy we wear commemorates all those who fought, bled and died for this country - like my grandfather and great grandfather, as well as Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Jews, from these shores and from what was then the Empire and is now a Commonwealth of equals.

Absolutely disgusted to hear about the racism Wes Streeting mentions here directed at school children who were visiting Parliament.

He has taken the post down, rightly, to protect the children.

But it's wrong that he had to do it.

Disgusted with so many people in our country. Racism is never OK.

My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species

One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist

Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts

The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health

Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
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Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.

"The Wildlife Trusts and Northumberland Wildlife Trust are attempting to complete the purchase of the Rothbury Estate, a 15 sq miles (38.8 sq km) tract of former grouse moor, woodland and farmland, with plans to boost wildlife, restore bogs and promote nature-friendly farming." tinyurl.com/38yyvdju

Check out this 2 bedroom retirement property for sale on Rightmove 2 bedroom retirement property for sale in Ashdown Court, Cromer, NR27 for £160,000. Marketed by William H. Brown, Cromer

Anyone interested in down sizing and living in a retirement cottage minutes from the sea. It’s full of happy memories and recently reduced to £160K.

Please share 🙏

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An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.

Lack of special schools in DfE hubs ‘is an act of self-harm’ Sector leaders voice concerns that the government’s first wave of behaviour and attendance hubs includes only mainstream settings

🧵Thread: Oh dear… now, I am picking up signs of what I feared would come- incoherence of policy and practice, with a scattergun approach to doing stuff…

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

My understanding is that a half first cousin shares one rather than two grandparents with you. I think it would happen if your parent had half-siblings.

Many years ago I listened to @samfr.bsky.social at an edu conference. He was discussing what he described as the 4 levers of power that the DFE had to effect change.
1. To issue policy documents and directives and hope that schools took them up. Typically not really considered to be very effective.

I found it helpful to talk with our PSHCE LA advisor (if you still have one), who put me in touch with another school to chat through the practicalities from a school viewpoint. In order for this to be positive for the child and their classmates planning is key.

Why is it that no matter when in the holidays work is scheduled for it always comes down to a last weekend panic! Good luck and hope it get’s finished.

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM INEQUALITY IS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.

Of those a large number seem to be in Newfoundland although no matter what the size they are called ‘ponds’. Just back from a great trip - the coast line is amazing.

A Nursery child draws an elephant with wonderful succinctness.
A simple expressive line and perfectly judged areas of tone capture the imagination:

“I’ve drawn it for you…It’s sitting down and feeling sad because it’s the last day of school…and his trunk is crumpled up”

Utter Joy!

He obviously hasn’t spent any time in a nursery, reception or KS1 class…

Today is the #InternationalDayforCounteringHateSpeech always, it should be, but especially relevant just now.