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Cathy C

@graunaile.bsky.social

30+ years RE teacher and dept lead in Catholic education, Love books, genealogy, music and food.

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Can someone please make a Get into Teaching advert, using clips of the school in Netflix's Adolescence.
It's quite realistic.

14.03.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There’s a series of Lent Talks in March at Durham Cathedral with speakers from a range of different traditions. For more info, click here : www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/events/lent-...

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19.02.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good , they don't actually fly. πŸ˜‚

16.02.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This one.

16.02.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We did a group walking tour of Sophia Hagia and palace it was brilliant. Don't buy a carpet. πŸ™‚

16.02.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Rep of Ireland do 167 days at secondary, it's a well educated country. They're doing fine on less than us.

16.02.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I quite like the theory that Barabas was Jesus's son. Bar Abbas. Son of the father, and that's why the crowd shouted for him. Then this was reinvented to suit the gospel writers' theology of sacrificial death etc.

02.02.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want strategies for supporting a child who is one of 30 not one of 3 or 4.
Particularly if the child has social and emotional needs. Showing me 1 to 1 techniques is not a realistic help for a class teacher.

28.01.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, that's must.

26.01.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aid to the Church in Need have some resources.
All Catholic 6th Forms have stuff. We do medical ethics, social justice issues such as human trafficking, ethical issues linked to social media, sexism in religions

20.01.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it can be easier to ask controversial questions about your own religion. I can say as a Catholic that most of RC teaching on sexual ethics e.g. contraception, is disregarded by Catholics today and get the discussion going as to why etc. I love when they ask how I can question x and be RC

31.12.2024 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was a bit hmm that she is sent to a Catholic school not aware that they are Christians. But yes the happy thing is also intetesting. Mass can be joyful.

17.12.2024 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Church never burned anyone , weird people in villages who had grudges against individual women for random prejudiced reasons burned their neighbours. Like cancelling today.

05.12.2024 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I do too,but our kids don't . πŸ™‚

22.09.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also some of the Catholic content is difficult and not as engaging compared to Christianity content. Magisteruim, Vatican 2 for example.

21.09.2024 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In our diocese , it's eduqas, and we're the biggest RC diocese.
But no figures for eduqas B here.

21.09.2024 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dispiriting discussion with a Y7.
She couldn't understand how Catholics were Christians. She is Christian,but Catholics are not. Their view was that Christians are happy and have worship music,.but Catholics have hymns and are sad and Mass is quiet and sad. 😒

12.09.2024 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What are diocese doing to encourage /support Catholics to become RE teachers? How are they using theologians in Catholic universities/ seminaries to support A Level or GCSE students? How do they celebrate the input, passion and knowledge of our Catholic RE teachers ? Maybe ask those questions too.

04.09.2024 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which may be data that questions the argument that teachers don't push students from less affluent or educated backgrounds to go onto uni or to achieve top grades. Lots of teachers see ourselves in these students and are not biased against them.

01.09.2024 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, the Catholic content is solid and very boring.

23.08.2024 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weirdly though the grade boundaries for the 'Catholic Schools ' combination of papers for Edexcel have the lowest grade boundaries of all the combinations 139 /204 for a 9
What is going on with that?

23.08.2024 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, it's next up. Need more of the same.

18.08.2024 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This week I read Phoebe the woman mentionedby Paul, thoroughly recommend. Fiction based on the letters and research.

18.08.2024 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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