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This is the literal penalisation of free speech…

Just surveying my hall collection. Rescues for the win 😀

@lizireland.bsky.social to get you started why not follow Suzie 😉 love how her word for the day normally hits the nail on the head.
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An ordered list of objectives for teaching mental arithmetic strategies.

A screenshot of an automatically generated test using the selected objectives.

Cover page of "Teaching children to calculate mentally"

Sneak peek: Finally started work on turning this wonderful document into an automated set of questions.

mathsbot.com/unit?id=105

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So, nearly 400 people have done our Ofsted Grade Confusion quiz

The average score is 3 out of 5 - meaning people are on average getting TWO wrong!

Question 3 (below) is causing particular problems - just 37% got it right!!

I only know one person so far who has got full marks …

Well you stupid big head, I’d like to take you up on your generous offer. Thank you for doing this.

YouTube video by Peter Cook Rejoin the EU - Force a Parliamentary debate

We are aiming for 90k signatures by Tuesday PM - we could hit 82k by tonight.

The momentum from this week's team effort on pushing has been incredible with over 10,000 signatures in just a few days.

Keep sharing!

Sign here:

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The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom, book by Sue Cowley

I'm doing a free giveaway to celebrate the publication of my latest book! Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner announced on Sunday. See the link below to find out more about the book. #freebie #giveaway

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

If you haven’t taken a look at these yet … please do 👇🏼
#TasksNotTests at KS1

School- term Holidays!!

Just give all parents/carers the right to take one week, just one week, at any time of the year except exam time - let the school decide on that - and much of the problem would disappear overnight.

The kids would not suffer one jot.

RT, if you agree.

There's been a lot of talk about play recently in the #EarlyYears community especially given the @ofstednews.bsky.social quote that children's "hands and bodies are active, but their minds are not". Firstly, this is very obviously a misunderstanding of how play works based on poor observation. 🧵⬇️

New to BlueSky and looking for education folks to folllow? This list is a good starting point. Please share with others.
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If Henry VIII had six wives, how many did Henry III have?

Had to be done, first of the season and not feeling well and this really helps

A little mathematical fun with trainees, problem solving, reasoning and levels of proof. Some great discussions and who doesn’t want to build an attractive dinosaur.

I’ve been quiet on the subject of Ofsted recently, waiting for details to surface before commenting. So, we can see from TES and The Guardian that details have emerged about the ‘scorecard’ system set to replace the current inspection framework next September….

Yesterday attended a pets portrait workshop. First go with pastels and pretty chuffed with the outcome. Lovely session by @petportraitsbyanne even framed it for me.

Lara likes to take things easy and relax ( until it’s time for zoomies)

Duggie says he’s up for a game and likes working out

Last day before back to that 4 letter word. So took the dogs for a play. First time Lara took herself in the water. Duggie always in but couldn’t lower himself completely.
Can you upload video on here?

It was mad, trained up to do 2020, cancelled Covid, trained 2021 cancelled Covid trained 2022 rode 3 stages got Covid and sent home, finally managed it all in 2023. An Olympic cycle ( pun intent ended) 2024 put on lots of weight and start on 4 years worth of DIY and gardening 😂

Thank you but I’m more impressed with the inline skating and the terrain your skating on 😬

Got back on my bike at age 50 and then rode the whole of the Tour de France the week ahead of the actual race in 2023 aged 57.

I’ve met 3 of me, but Dave Gorman got a whole adventure and tv series out of meeting 52 Dave Gormans 😉 I was in awe of his PowerPoint skills in that 😂😂😂

Just got this

Love the ‘Rabbit Problem’ always good to have maths in ‘reading books ‘😀

It was downhill, backwind and on the wrong fairway but I’m taking it 😂😂😂

My OH needle felts and has just made this for someone’s birthday, you might like it 😀 #edupets #puglife
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