Michael Slavinsky

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The Sea Women of South Korea For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor.

For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. See Hyung S. Kim’s portraits of the sea women.

This is superb - very proud of The Brilliant Club and it’s enduring impact. This is a school that really gets it! 💪

Thanks, Michael! Being able to compile even more schools’ data to that of the 50+ in our trust will hopefully enable for better application of national distribution and give us a notion of potential grade boundaries.

Schools doing it for themselves: big fan!

May be a massive time saver?

Let a thousand assemblies / parents evening presentation slides bloom!

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DfE report on “The link between
attendance and
attainment in an
assessment year”

Schools are the fourth emergency service

Deputy Principal - Bedford Free School, Bedford, Bedfordshire Closing date: 8:00am, Mon 31st Mar, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.

Following the appointment of Tom Wood to the post of Principal at Bedford Free School, we are looking for a Deputy Principal from September 2025.

This is a brilliant school we want to take to even greater heights.

Please share:

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The Welsh word for squirrel is gwiwer, which is appropriately cute given the photo Sarah posted of her son dressed as one.

‘Russia’s Cartier-Bresson’: how Dmitry Markov captured beauty amidst the brutality of Putin’s regime The photographer, who has died aged 41, took the nation’s most vulnerable people as his subject, and his soulful images, shared on Instagram, earned him comparisons with the greats

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

@howardamos.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing these Peps!

Actually such a good point (pun intended).

I would far rather give salary scale a point bump that put money into the private sector for a finders fee.

Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide Estonia and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to schools nationwide. OpenAI will work with the Estonian Government to provide students and teachers in the secondary school system with access to ChatGPT Edu.

ChatGPT to be embedded in Estonian education

openai.com/index/estoni...

6 strategies for effective learning from the Learning Scientists & Oliver Caviglioli

📚short explainer with references: www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/8/...

📸⬇️ downloadable posters:
www.learningscientists.org/downloadable...

Dear Spanish teachers teaching El Laberinto Del Fauno at A Level. I had a few very productive lessons with Y13 last week describing all main characters and finding key words to enhance essay writing. Here are our findings, in case they are useful: #MFLBluesky

YouTube video by Scottish Gas Scottish Cup Sunshine On Leith | Hibs Fans Sing After The 2016 Scottish Cup Final

youtu.be/lt26StUVHoc?... this is a good rendition

Hugely energising day with over 60 school and trust leaders from across the country.

We’re thinking about how local clusters of schools can build great

System coherence
Educational coherence
Relational coherence

So that all children and families have a better journey from cradle to career.

Just came across this organisation that puts on theatre plays in modern languages for schools.

www.onatti.co.uk

Looks really interesting!

Which led me down a rabbit hole to the language which has the largest number of sounds: near Botswana & Namibia, welcome to the ǃXóõ language! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFE6...

YouTube video by World Language Movies Good News Rotokas People/Language Movie Trailer

I was today years old when I found out there's a language with only 12 letters AEGIKOPRSTUV

Rotokas is spoken by a few thousand people in Papua New Guinea.

Here's what I presume is the retelling the story of Christ in Rotokas so you can hear what it sounds like.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tq6...

Uh oh.

Does anyone have recent experience of taking a non-EU, non-UK passport holder student (under 18) on a school trip to Spain? They have a visa for residency in the UK, but passport from Asian country. French consulate permits entry with letter from school proving enrolment. Same for Spain?

Thank you - I really like this. Appeal to the good all-rounders.

Get her in blocks

Enjoying @neilgilbride.bsky.social’s “Self-Efficacy Theory In Action” while the kids go to swimming lesson. Really appreciate how complex ideas are being broken down into easy-to-follow reasoning. Trying to apply the ideas to better understand kids who give up on studying languages.

Principal - Bedford Free School, Bedford, Bedfordshire Closing date: 10:00am, Thu 20th Feb, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.

The exceptional Jane Herron is stepping down from her role as Bedford Free School Principal at the end of this academic year.

She will be a very hard act to follow. We are looking for someone to do so.

mynewterm.com/jobs/138228/...

Conversations & visits very welcome.

Please repost.

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