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Not bad considering the tiredness levels 😂

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Geddon. Only the video game character got me! Happy Friday 🎉

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Can we just have this sorted please. And then I can go back to posting teaching and learning stuff?

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Thanks, @spsmith45.bsky.social I couldn't have put it better myself!

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Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain - Series 1: 1. Barcelona and the Catalonia Region Eva samples Catalan vermouth, visits the capital of cava and meets Ferran Adrià, one of the most influential chefs in the world.

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Whilst there is still much work to do there are regions where girls’ sport is thriving, including rugby. Devon and Cornwall, pockets in the north and Wales too. My children attend a state school where sport is high on the agenda.

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Happy with my 7 today 😎

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Only 5 today 😬

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🤔….more meddling. Where is the evidence that this could work other than a vague reference to it being something similar to what happens in Europe? Just change the grading of MFL already!!

One thing that costs nothing which would revitalise languages in England. A sure-fire way, costing no money, to revitalise and reinvigorate take up of MFL at GCSE. Do you see what this is? It's anonymous targets fo...

We need to get past the MFL culture wars and look at the real problem.

The culture/communication versus grammar thing was nonsense. And in fact revealed the complexity and richness of our subject.

We need to tackle the system that undermines us:

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And the river was lovely. If I was going to give one bit of advice to teachers, whatever their role, it would be to get out and walk. It gives you time to think, put things into perspective, and you are then able to organise your thoughts. You see clearer, if that makes sense.

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Now with 2 jokes about pasta. One of them rude.

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Remember when they had us fighting each other in the MFL culture wars? Communication v Grammar, when of course it's both.

This is what they were trying to distract us from:

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Thanks for reminding me to revisit The Box this holiday 😎

Great petrol price analogy. It hadn’t dawned on me that grades were made even worse because of the change to 9-1 from A*-G

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The magic of speaking another language…having a lovely chat in a v small art exhibition in a small town in Mallorca with an 80+ yr old chap #mfl

The elephant in the room with this otherwise nice report is grading.

If you sell petrol for £1.40 a litre but the place over the road and everywhere else sells it for £1.30, it's no good wondering why no-one picks languages.

Not quite ‘wild’ but the Jubilee Pool in Penzance for ‘j’?

Ed in front of a wild pool on dartmoor.

Eds graphic for #SwimmingForPalestine #AlphabetOfSwims

Hey #Cornwall and #Wildswimming people.
I'm getting close to the end of my #AlphabetOfSwims raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians - and I need your help.
I still have to find locations for
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and Z.
'Z' for Zennor seems obvious, but can you think of somewhere for any of the others?

I’d like to see more of the cultural aspect but what I’d like most is to stop having to justify MFL. Is there any subject that has to defend itself so frequently and to such a degree? MFL will once again, alongside many of the arts, become the preserve of the elite.

Exactly this. Had a discussion with a DH on Friday evening at son’s cricket match. He reckons that there’s no point pushing MFL as AI will take over. Didn’t value language learning at all. A science teacher. Easier to have lower numbers as recruitment tricky. 😔

Not just the teachers, students too I imagine, although haven’t looked at the % of male/female for a while

For A level yes, but less so at GCSE bar computer science I think