What is going on in the South West?!

should be possible to share a link but you can print to pdf to get a version of it.

Thoughts on this quote?

That’s interesting, thanks

Agreed on shaping belief systems

This goes a bit further

I am… not convinced

Thoughts on this quote?

Most technological innovation, even the transformative stuff, has no good classroom use and the exceptions did not to be rushed, either.

There’s a bit in a Batman film where a doctor talks Bruce Wayne through the physical toll being batman has had on his body

Feel like I’m going through something similar after a weekend at Centre Parcs

Ofsted inspection as the nominee done

Breaking my midweek no drinking rule with a beer

What’s your solution to terrible coffee at school?

Coffee bags, aeropress, full on cafetiere, some kind of machine…?

Just finished The Book of Dust and I’m a bit… disappointed. Found things to enjoy about the series but for me it‘s detracted from not added to His Dark Materials

Anyone read it and feel similar/different?

Claim to fame of 2026 - I went to school with one of this year’s traitors contestants!

If you’re looking for a Christmas present for the new teacher in your life, do consider What do new teachers need to know?

Lots in there to support the development of new teachers

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If you’re looking for a Christmas present for the new teacher in your life, do consider What do new teachers need to know?

Lots in there to support the development of new teachers

Reviews here

Observed a teacher today and then gave feedback. All the way through thinking - this person looks familiar

Only afterwards I realised I think I taught them. Doh!

Absolutely - I was kind of taking those specific individual adjustments as a given. The classroom described here sounded like it was trying to engineer the whole space for the whole class. Which I think is a tricky thing to get right

Absolutely. agreed - struggled with how the classes could be the same with layout/training differences and all the potential knock ins/other factors

a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

I liked the new Frankenstein film (not sure why it changed so much) but at one point a character says, ‘You’re the monster, Victor’

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Almost every school I know has a list of Teaching and Learning or curriculum "non-negotiables." But is that a good term to use in schools?

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😂 I was reaching for a play on words and I didn't come up with anything this good

It's worse than that - we've just got a throws coach who we buy in a couple of days a month to cover all the types of throwing... heavy... maybe, light...

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Temperature really dropped over night...

Thanks Aurora. They are great

Urgh… school coffee is bad, isn’t it?!