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Do not always send suspended students home, government tells schools Changes to England's school system say on-site suspensions should be used for non-violent behaviour.

Thoughts on this mess.
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We got the first Cambridge offer in our academy! 🎉

Chilling beyond belief #Iran

#IranMassacre :

Don't stop talking about Iran.

Don't stop talking about Iran.

Don't stop talking about Iran.

Don't stop talking about Iran.

Don't stop talking about Iran.

Don't stop talking about Iran.

#DigitalBlackoutIran

Protests in Iran: Official casualty figures in doubt The number of people killed in the brutal suppression of protests in Iran remains unclear, with reports that the injured are avoiding medical assistance out of fear.

Why is #Iran no longer on the front of the bbc website at all?

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--Dreams by Langston Hughes​--

Hold fast to dreams​

For if dreams die​

Life is a broken-winged bird​

That cannot fly.​

Hold fast to dreams​

For when dreams go​

Life is a barren field​

Frozen with snow.

#poemsky

The chairman of Reform UK recently pontificated that London has no sense of community (not like in the old days, etc). That wasn't my impression when attending this lovely multi-faith gathering earlier today in the Queens Park ward of Brent, complete with doves of peace. #london #truelondon

I used my welcome back assembly to talk to the children about New Year Resolutions, explaining that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves. I have asked the children to join together with a shared purpose to: • Support each other • Be resilient when things are hard • Make a difference every day I know that by working together we can make 2026 a year to be proud of. Parents, I would now like to set you a challenge for your New Year Resolution. I appeal to you to make your resolution to follow the few simple car park rules to ensure the car park is safe, traffic flows and cars are able to park easily and leave promptly. The Security team have shared CCTV footage with us that shows a blatant flouting of the rules. We have seen cars driving the wrong way, overtaking other cars and dropping children not in designated safe spaces. I am aware it is a case of the few ruining it for the many, so please do think of your fellow car park users and use the car park safely and considerately.

I love this headteacher and her creative approach to trying to behaviour manage the parents!
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*Xmas day and New Year’s Day I mean!

Step counts for the holidays showing low step counts most days, above 10k on 25/12 and 01/01

Thank you, Parkrun; for making Xmas day and Boxing Day the only days I made it past 10k!

A photo of my great grandparents Sarah and Mark who settled in Paris in 1925.

100 years ago, my great grandfather Mark met Sarah when he stopped over in Paris briefly on his way to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. While there, he received word that the ferry was cancelled due to a strike. He stayed longer, fell in love with Sarah, and married her, December 1925.

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

What a beautiful story

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If anybody is going to be alone on Christmas Day and would like a quick call/zoom then I would be happy to do this - DM me if you want. I can talk about food, sport, tv or the weather. But most importantly I can talk/listen. 💕 If not me, I’m sure I can find somebody for you.

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“Leadership isn’t about what you’ve got to do, it’s about what you get to do”
Love this from @calmleadership.bsky.social
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7 of 139 ChAPTER 1 Behind the Gym twas a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her. This is not going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill's school, which is not a pleasant subject. It was "Co-educational", a school for both boys and girls, what used to be called a "mixed" school; some said it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others. All sorts of things, horrid things, went on which at an ordinary school would have been found out and stopped in half a term; but at this school they weren't. Or even if they were, the people who did them were not expelled or punished. The Head said they were interesting psychological cases and sent for them and talked to them for hours. And if you knew the right sort of things to say to the Head, the main result was that you became rather a favourite than otherwise. That was why Jill Pole was crying on that dull autumn day on the damp little path which runs between the back of the gym and the shrubbery.

This description of an ‘experimental’ school from the Silver Chair is very interesting!

“These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others.”
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What I enjoyed was finding out he basically wanted to be a rockstar in his youth. And how he has somehow achieved rockstar status in the education research world!

I love ‘the tick trick’ by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social - ensure students apply the feedback to their own work by ticking each part on MWB then explaining their misconceptions. Without this they often just don’t notice the feedback applies to them.

If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”

“If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will
Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social

Quote from podcast “Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”

I think this is a useful provocation from @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on the common models of DIRT time.
“Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”
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News story from BBC: “I've just spoken to an eyewitness, Barry, who was attending the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach. He told me he was at the event with his kids when the sound of gunshots ran out. He said two men were on a bridge and they started shooting at the crowd. There were bodies on the ground, he said”

Oh.

What is formative assessment, and why should anybody care? With professor Dylan Wiliam

How wonderful to have an episode with @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on #TheyBehaveForMe podcast with
@amymayforrester.bsky.social and
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social who did the whole interview with a tiny baby in a carrier.

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A little bit of theatrics for y10 ‘intro to Macbeth’ tomorrow, set to ‘O Fortuna’from Carmina Burana
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Every student, every lesson When we allow the loudest voices to dominate classroom conversation, we neglect to show respect and dignity to all our students, forgetting that every voice needs to be heard.

Three things I really liked about this blog.

1) The way @adamboxereducation.bsky.social frames hearing from every child as an ethical duty rather than because it will lead to good outcomes (although it will do that too).

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Return to Exis from the Alien Adventures series

My six year old has loved these books, which have cleverly progressed with her on her reading journey over year 1 and year 2 so far.
She was very excited to progress to ‘Accelerated Reader’ and get to take this final instalment home!
#BookSky
#PrimaryRocks
#UKEd
#Literacy
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Turner Prize 2025: Nnena Kalu earns 'historic' win Kalu wins for her sculptures and drawings, becoming the first learning disabled artist to scoop the award.

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Amazing

Woman's Hour - Jacinda Ardern, Women leaving teaching, Abuse in sport - BBC Sounds The former New Zealand PM on life, leadership and giving birth while in office.

Go Emma Sheppard @mtptproject.bsky.social on mother teachers and Jacinda Arden on mother PMs 💕
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#WomansHour
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Huh. Well that explains a lot…

At the start of the year my year 9s were by far my worst class. On every level.

They were rude, late; they’d scream and shout and not have a clue what was going on.

It couldn’t continue. So I started selecting a few books at the end of each lesson to ‘mark’. 1/n

Did They Not include Bluesky in the survey?

Most people have just left social media for work purposes

There are lots of variables

I find there are still a lot of people on Twitter, but engagement is hard work across platforms