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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

The people who think this is a real picture of my inset day are giving me life on this cold January evening.

Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Great inset day today. Lovely to catch up with everyone and get some work done.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

So, I had my last official teaching day before maternity leave. Two of my Y11 tutees made me a scrap book of my tweets. WHEN I SAY I DIED.🤣👏🏻 #Edutwitter

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

I can’t imagine what it must be like to deliver remote lessons and have kids at home at the same time. Teacher parents are super human.

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4 years

First week of term: Out of bed at 6.15. Outfit carefully selected that has been hung on the door the night before. Last week before half-term: Out of bed at 6.50. Outfit carefully selected from the floor based on what looks the least shit.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Do you remember when we were teaching kids in school, while delivering live lessons online and also providing work for those who couldn’t access any of the above? HOW ARE WE ALL STILL FUNCTIONING?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Getting ready to teach Y9 period 5 on a Friday:

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@H_Miss88

4 years

‘I wasn’t even talking, sir. You never told Boris off. Why do I always get shouted at?’ #PMQs

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@H_Miss88

2 years

How did someone get footage from my classroom during my NQT year?

Alex Andreou

@sturdyAlex

2 years

SCENES! #PMQs

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

If teachers are so inept, why are so many people losing it about young people potentially not being in school?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

If Twitter collapses in the next couple of days, how are we going to know which teachers are doing proper lessons right up until Christmas?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

They behave for me.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

I’ve had a busy week 💙

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but teaching both online and in the classroom is shite.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Boris Johnson giving major Year 9 vibes.

Sky News

@SkyNews

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Boris Johnson says 'nobody told me' No 10 lockdown garden party was against the rules

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Great inset day today. Lovely to catch up with everyone and get some work done.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

When a kid asks if this is going to be a fun lesson.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

‘It was really effective because it made the reader want to read on.’

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Modelling at the board with Y9 behind you:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Why do I have to read a person’s entire life story before I get to a recipe these days? I don’t need to hear about your divorce, your travels to Thailand, or the time you went into hospital with appendicitis, Julie. Just tell me how to make the bloody Biryani.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

He’s moving to year 6.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

So glad to be off for the half-term break. Found myself a great little place on Air BnB for a couple of days to really relax and unwind.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Three weeks into the new term:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

When you walk into a Y11 cover lesson with a class you don’t know.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Behaviour is one of the biggest factors that impacts my well-being as a teacher.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Putting a new seating plan together- My class:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Teaching.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

When you ask year 7 to come up an idea for their creative writing:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Session one of teacher training. How to address a class. Pay attention. You’ll perfect it over the years. #Teachertraining #edutwitter

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

9 months

When I teach a 5 period day, do a lunch duty, and have an after school meeting:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

I’ve had a tough week and get this message from my ma. What a gem 🥲

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Teaching 7 months before going into management. Thinks the kids would be better behaved if your lessons were more engaging.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Taught a 5 period day today and I genuinely feel like I’ve just completed an 8 week term.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Teaching: A job that you shouldn’t do for the holidays but a job that you couldn’t do without the holidays.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

New cover teacher this morning: ‘Are you a member of staff here or are you in 6th form?’ At 32, I’ll kindly take that as my boost for the day.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

This has killed me. Online learning. 😂

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

The teachers doing the ‘10 year challenge’ who were in secondary school in the first photo are the real villains of edutwitter.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 months

Teachers talking over people during staff meetings makes my toes curl.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

They call them live lessons but does it still count if you’re dead behind the eyes?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

1 year

SLT walking down the corridor pretending not to see you when you’re pulling up a pupil about their behaviour:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

In that particularly dangerous stage of the summer holidays. I know that I should start setting my alarm again to train my body to get up early. I also know that I don’t want to do that. Quite the pickle.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

@KaySocLearn Teachers typically have gone into the profession because they care about kids - start with the view that they have good intentions. We will recognise genuine cases. However, when you have dangerous behaviour in toilets during lessons, you can’t just have a revolving door.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Something different for June 🤍

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Shirts untucked, trainers, chewing gum doesn’t negatively impact my life. However, if a school has established rules/expectations surrounding these things and I ignore it, then I’m undermining the school. I make things difficult. Just be consistent - either way.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Do you think we could switch the government on and off again?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Can we put Boris on one of those ‘support plans’ we put struggling teachers on under the guise of helping, but with the actual goal of forcing him out?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

My thoughts on tomorrow: These results don’t ‘belong’ to us. We have done our job and given our pupils the best opportunity to succeed. We should be careful not to pat ourselves on the back too vigorously or berate ourselves either. #gcseresultsday2022

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

5 years

‘Schools must teach about arranging a mortgage.’ Mate, students have to be told every year not to write ‘it makes the reader want to read on.’ Forgive me if I don’t think they are going to jump at the chance to listen to me talking about mortgages.

Are schools producing 'A grade robots'? - BBC News

Schools should teach life skills like managing money and coping with grief, says Youth Parliament.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

I genuinely don’t know if I could take another school year impacted by Covid. This job is already just too hard without continuing to remove all of the heart of it.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

That new Charlotte Tilbury lipstick was a GREAT buy last week.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Kids these days will never know the simple pleasure of opening up a textbook, pointing at a picture and saying, ‘That’s you’ to their friend.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Eating this while waiting for an Indian takeaway because January doesn’t *officially* start until we go back to school. I don’t make the rules.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Baz Lurhman’s Capulet ball is just movie perfection. I mean, I know it was released in 96 but COME ON- Mercutio’s rendition of Young Hearts. Mercutio’s outfit. Just Mercutio. Des’ree ‘kissing you.’ Fish tanks. Young Leo’s BEAUTIFUL face when Paul Rudd dances with Claire Danes

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

‘Twas the night before the return to work…

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

So many education consultants assuming the worst of intentions by teachers and schools. Maybe, just maybe, we are all trying to do the best for our kids in the circumstances that we find ourselves in.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

One of the problems with this whole exam fiasco is that we are all too used to just ‘getting on’ and quietly accepting ridiculous requests. We have spent years doing it. WE ARE TOO NICE.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

@SteveStuWill

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

For a profession with a workload crisis, we don’t half do some arguing on the internet.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Boris Johnson is the teacher who is inconsistent with his behaviour management of one badly behaved child and then has all the other children around him shouting, ‘Well you didn’t tell him off. Why can’t I get out of my seat?!’ Classroom chaos.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Has anyone tried turning the country off and on again?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Waiting for news from my house move. My mum: ‘I’ve lit a candle every day for the last three weeks.’ ‘Your uncle Paul and aunt Elieen have said a rosary for you.’ ‘I went to your granny’s grave and put in a good word for you.’ Gotta love an Irish ma.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

When you’re out on lunch duty and ask a kid you’ve never taught before to put their phone away.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

10 months

People significantly underestimate the issue of behaviour in our schools. Joe Public wouldn’t last 5 minutes trying to manage it.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

The writer uses a variety of methods... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT METHODS?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

24 days

Do you know what I hate more than posters about rules and acronyms? Awful behaviour that makes me want to leave teaching.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Getting feedback after an observation:

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Laura📚

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9 months

I absolutely love all of our optimism at the start of a new year. Meal planning and ironing and journaling. Give us a week and a half and we will be sniffing a shirt to check if it’s clean and eating ready made noodles Monday - Friday.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

One of my Y7 girls is super quiet in lessons but she has the COOLEST personality on chat in Teams. That’s one positive of online lessons. Love it.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

You think that edutwitter is losing its appeal and then a PE teacher chasing a seagull comes along and reminds us all why we’re here. #edutwitter

Severn Vale PE

@SevernValePE

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Mr Rogers, full time PE teacher, part time seagull wrangler 🐦

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Laura📚

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4 years

Anyone grow up in the ‘90s and remember telling people to ‘take a chill pill’? I think we should bring the chill pill back.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

I have a teaching joke, but I’ll tell it in 3...2...1

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@danicquinn

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I have a teaching joke, but it‘s your own time you’d be wasting

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

*Does two days back at school*

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

Pupil responded to one of my requests yesterday with, ‘You ain’t my mother’. Took all my strength not to scream ‘YES I AM!’ Kat Slater style at him. #ifyouknowyouknow

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

My absolute favourite thing since becoming pregnant is all the people who already have kids telling me to ‘ENJOY X WHILE I STILL CAN - YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO DO X WITH A BABY.’ Super helpful and welcomed 👍🏻

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Laura📚

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3 years

While Edutwitter has been imploding, I’ve been living my absolute best Derry Girl life 👋🏻💚

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Laura📚

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2 years

AQA after ‘revealing’ the text types of English Language Paper 2 as a help to us all.

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Laura📚

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4 years

The reason teachers have trust issues.

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Laura📚

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4 years

Where did Lindsay Hoyle complete his teacher training?

PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

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"Sorry do you want to leave the chamber" Lindsay Hoyle threatens to kick Matt Hancock out of the commons in a fiery rebuke to the Health Secretary.

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Laura📚

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2 years

One of my Y10s was walking out of my room today and I heard him say it was a ‘banging lesson’. Here’s looking at you, kid.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 months

Just watched a video on TikTok of a teacher filming herself asking pupils why they are throwing things across the room. Advice for teachers coming into the profession: stop setting up cameras in your classroom for content. Behaviour is enough of an issue without this. 🤯

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Laura📚

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1 year

If Rishi Sunak isn’t visited by three ghosts, Rizzo the Rat, and Kermit the Frog tonight, there’s something badly wrong.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

2 years

@Scattymal Erm. You know this is a picture of the Conservatives at a Christmas party and was a joke tweet?

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Laura📚

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2 years

‘But miss, why do we ACTUALLY have to study English when we already speak it?’

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Laura📚

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3 years

The pandemic has been terrible,sure, but we completely forgot about the shit show that is teaching in a humid classroom.

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Laura📚

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1 year

Faith in humanity restored with my solo flight today with my 7 month old. - Guy at security holding baby while I took my carrier off. - Another man sorting all my stuff at the other end. - Another man carrying my bag on and off the plane. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Laura📚

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2 years

Did I make life easier for myself by doing school work at the start of the holiday? No. Did I, however, make life easier for myself by doing school work at the end of the holiday? Also, no.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Why does our dog look like she’s asked us to put the kettle on so she can tell us all about Sandra down the road?

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Saturday. Pizza at the beach. 👍🏻

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

My favourite non-verbal behaviour management:

Mark Roberts

@mr_englishteach

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Ok, as promised, here's a thread of my top 15 non-verbal gestures for effective behaviour management:

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

3 years

Twitter losing its mind over original sin while I lose my mind that half term is nearly over. That’s the real sin.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Just a little Sunday share. Another crib sheet based on a blog by @Xris32 Analytical sentence starters for approaching a text. #Litdrive #TeamEnglish #Resources #EnglishTeacher

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Today, we moved into our first house and I saw my parents and our dog for the first time in 8 months. Today has been a good day.

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Laura📚

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1 year

@SianGriffiths6 @amanda_spielman @TimesRadio @Ofstednews @teamsquarepeg Maybe we should invest some funding into different provisions rather than calling for zero exclusions and then berating schools for trying, at all costs, to keep things going in horrendous circumstances.

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Laura📚

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2 years

*Logs on* Sees trending topics: #Teachers #LeaveOurKidsAlone #NoMasksInClass #Ofsted *Logs back out to preserve sanity*

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Laura📚

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3 months

Science teachers being forced to participate in World Book Day.

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Laura📚

@H_Miss88

4 years

Dinner and drinks out to celebrate my new role as KS3 Coordinator 🤍

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Laura📚

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2 years

People talk about lessons needing to be ‘fun’ to ensure engagement and to build relationships. Thoughts: What makes a lesson ‘fun’? Does fun look the same to every pupil? Who determines what is or isn’t fun?

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Laura📚

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1 year

Do you know who taught me about mortgages? A mortgage advisor. I might’ve had a bit of trouble connecting what a teacher told me about mortgages in 2005 to my current position in 2022. Not saying don’t highlight life skills but let’s not pretend it’ll be universally welcomed.

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Laura📚

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4 years

My breakfast this morning. I regret nothing.