Wisdom from the book "The boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse" ✨ ------- "What's the bravest thing you ever said" asked the boy "HELP! --- Asking for help isn't giving up, it's refusing to give up" said the horse. -------

✨Still surreal to be holding my book in my hands! 🟣GIVEAWAY🟣 To celebrate, I'm giving away 2 copies to UK-based readers and 1 copy worldwide! To enter, retweet this post! Winners announced: 6th July. Good luck! #edutwitter #bookgiveaway #EAL #MLs

FAO: Every MAT CEO In 20/21, 28% of the school budget at Burgess Hill Academy was top sliced by UoBAT. In 22/23 it was 15%. There is a similar pattern across the MAT. Millions of £ taken from school budgets, centralised, with no explanation or transparency. This has had a

Educational makeup of the new cabinet: 90%+ state school educated. This is big (and very different)

Bridget Phillipson grew up in Gateshead and studied French and History at Oxford University. I know I'm nearly 24 hours late to the party but can just about see a chink of hope in this new cabinet.

I have has SO many folk asking me today ‘what can I do?’ about Wes Streeting and the puberty blocker ban. Well, you could send a copy of the attached to your MP and to WS and KS with your endorsement / comment. I’ll be in tribunal on another matter for the rest of this week.

School staff. Why are you STAYING in the profession/your school? There's huge emphasis (rightly) on why ppl leave, but my wonderful colleague Sarah Mijatovich took the time to ask her staff this question at the end of term - and the answers were powerful and affirming. #edutwitter

"I must go down to the seas again ..."

Just got verbally harassed by a whole group of barely adult men while I was en route to the toilet in a Budgens in a service station. 🤯🤯🤯

Michelle Obama saying she's been at every powerful table you could think of and quickly realizing "they're not that smart." I think about how many women feel that exact same way while in male-dominated rooms/fields.

Had to concentrate intensively on sight singing and taking 100s of very fast directions for three hours tonight with only a 5 minute break. My brain is not quite ready for la rentrée yet... Hope results go well all. 😬

Important. Progress 8 is set up so that value added in French, German and Spanish is negative compared to other subjects. Not just the raw results are lower. The actual VA is lower too. How is this not discrimination? ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2024/07/cautio…

Start of term: - new to teaching? - new classes and set lists? - new colleagues Getting a name right - for staff and students - matters. "If I can pronounce Daithí, Fiadh and Bloem correctly...." If you don't know, ask.

We’re celebrating the UK bank holiday with a BUMPER giveaway – in partnership with our friends over at Headline Eternal!📚 For your chance to #win this gorgeous book bundle: 🧡Like 🔁Retweet 👯‍♀️Follow us and Headline Eternal UK only/18+ Winner chosen @ 12pm, Thurs 29 Sept

📚Back to school giveaway📚 2024/25 is the perfect year to further develop your practice of supporting multilingual students! Retweet or like this post to win a copy of my book! The winner will be announced on 2nd September.

I forgot how to photocopy today. Took me three times to work out why the paper kept coming out blank!