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3 years

Whoever put this parody DFE email together about armed forces support for mass testing in schools is a genius 👏🏻🤣👏🏻

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Hearing about the amount of keyworker students still in schools nationally, together with the amount of traffic still on the roads, I’m not holding out too much hope that this lockdown is going to be as effective as some people think/hope 🤔

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3 years

Not a senior leader? Here’s what your Headteacher and Senior Leadership Team are having to deal with 🤯 This dropped into their inbox on the last day of term, with the expectation that it’s ready to go on Jan 4th! 😷

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3 years

The fact that it’s having to take unions to get their members to write to their Headteacher and refuse to return to school - bearing in mind Heads are the ones who have felt the brunt and burden of this ongoing fiasco the most - is the saddest possible outcome of this shambles.

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5 years

For those well wishers asking about my mam....we managed to get her out of the wheelchair & into the water in Paphos today! Don’t think I’ve ever seen her as happy as this! Beautiful to get her out of the chair & weightless in water 💦 Motor Neurone Disease has met its match 👊🏻

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3 years

Have you ever stood at the back of your classroom and looked towards your whiteboard to see what your students see? Is your front wall cluttered with posters that will be competing for your students’ attention, making their eyes wander and increasing their cognitive load? 🤔

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2 years

A perfect visual example from @Doug_Lemov @Inner_Drive @BradleyKBusch @geotayler of how combining ‘Cold Calling’ with ‘Wait Time’ can make questioning your classroom superpower 🦸‍♂️

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5 years

5 Yrs since diagnosis....5 yrs since we vowed to make the most of everything we have. You can’t take your money with you when you go, so let’s make some memories while we’re here 😎 #BreastCancerAwareness

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4 years

Lost my Mam this week after a 2yr brave battle with motor neurone disease. Never forget who helped build the platform that you stand on today....thanks Mam x 😘

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8 months

When a picture paints a thousand words and the dreams of so many 😍 This is what it’s all about 🙌🏻

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4 years

Very excited to announce that from September, I’ll be taking up the post of Director of School Improvement and Deputy CEO of the Areté Learning Trust in North Yorkshire (Northallerton, Richmond and Stokesley Schools and Sixth Forms in North Yorkshire) 1/4....

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4 years

The first politician I’ve enjoyed listening to and trusted in a long time 👍🏻 Real leadership, balls and empathy from Chancellor Rishi Sunak this evening 👊🏻 #WhateverItTakes

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3 years

Publishing this, so late in the afternoon on the day that many schools have finished for Christmas and staff will be on their way home to see their families is absolutely shocking 😤 Is there any thought about the impact this will have on school leaders?

Staggered rollout of coronavirus testing for secondary schools and colleges

Testing offered to schools and colleges to minimise cases and transmission of the virus with return of students after Christmas

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6 years

One parent summed up parenting perfectly this morning after she broke from hugging her daughter with tears of joy - ‘All the hard work has proved to be worth it. Reading at bedtime, supporting her with homework and sitting down as a family at teatime to talk about her day’ 👍🏻

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5 years

If Gove is the answer, then what on earth is the question??? 🤔

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3 years

Chuffed 😊 #Book5

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4 years

Does anybody, anywhere in a position of authority actually know what’s going on??? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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5 years

This absolutely broke me today 😭 Watching our students open letters of good luck from their parents and having parents describe how proud they are of them for growing into the young men and women they are today was beautiful......1/2

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5 years

Beautiful moment this morning when we handed out individual good luck letters, written by their parents and teachers to everyone of our Yr 11 students, ahead of their upcoming exams. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house 😭 #AGSpride

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6 months

@RogersHistory Wheeling in one of these bad boys 📺

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3 years

Great tips on gow to reduce cognitive load on your students during your lesson presentations from @PEgeekscorner 👌🏻

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3 years

One of the most important tools you can use as a teacher. Get a clicker and unchain yourself from your desk, enabling you to wander the room and develop your classroom presence whilst still being in control of the pace and flow of your lesson #TeacherHack #GetSeptemberReady

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2 years

Fantastic from Aston Villa and Danny Ings today…one of their young mascots attends their ‘Ability Counts’ disability sessions and needed to wear headphones to block out the noise when he walked out onto the pitch. Ings joined him in solidarity by doing the same 👊🏻😍 #Inclusion

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8 years

What a guy @Boro 's George Friend is! He made 2 of our students' night by driving them to @AcklamGrange prom! #hero

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3 years

Out tomorrow! 😊

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3 years

Something I learned from the previous lockdown and from EdTech experts...if you’re making home learning resources, make them as if they are only going to be viewed on a phone. Not everyone has a nice shiny laptop or big screen to view them on.📱Think text size, accessibility etc

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10 months

Teachers and parents of KS 1&2 children…here’s a bucket full of non screen writing and reading activities to keep kids engaged over the summer from the wonderful team at @HeyPobble 👌🏻

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4 years

As one chapter ends, another one begins 😊 #Day1

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4 years

Newbie to edu podcasts or experienced listener? 🎧 Here’s my ‘A to Z of Crowdsourced Edu Podcasts’ 🎙 View the image or click on the interactive pdf link which includes individual hyperlinks back to Apple Podcasts on every icon 👍🏻 Happy listening 🔊

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3 years

ECF question: Anyone else finding that the time you have allocated to your mentors isn’t anywhere close to being enough, now that you’ve realised what they actually have to do in order to be an effective mentor and do things by the book? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

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3 years

You should already be familiar with Ebbinghaus’s Forgetting Curve, but the addition of the annotations on this version from @Doug_Lemov doesn’t just tell you what may happen, but more importantly how you can prevent a significant amount of it from happening.

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4 years

Looks like the camera position was set up to demonstrate a safe and socially distanced classroom until the camera pans around at the end of the clip 🙈

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4 years

Reckless beyond the extreme.

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3 years

Forget multi-millionaires being given knighthoods, these 2 medics deserve the highest of all honours that can be bestowed on them. Having to do what they did at a seconds notice, in front of a live & terrified audience & the world watching at home is simply awesome 👏🏻🇩🇰👏🏻 #Heroes

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11 months

Think commentating on a football game is easy? The meticulous preparation, detail and craft that goes into Clive Tyldesley’s work is a joy to see. This is what we need to be developing in our kids…the fact that what looks effortless, usually takes hours & hours of dedication.

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3 years

Unconnected information is relatively meaningless to us and significantly more difficult to remember, unless we build mental models and schemata. Once we literally begin to join the dots, that’s when the magic happens 🤔 Image creds to @gapingvoid

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6 months

Visiting my boy at university 🍺 #StudentLife

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2 years

#WorldCancerDay Here is my amazing wife in 2014 during her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer…and here she is today, nearly 8 years later 😍 #OurHero #TeamTaitStrong 👊🏻

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9 months

Why is this so hard to work out when it pops up on your phone? 🤔😫🤯 It gives you brain freeze for a few seconds as your brain literally stops working 🤷🏼‍♂️😨🤦🏼‍♂️

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5 years

Ahead of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek this coming week, here is a great infographic from @BelievePHQ about building positive mental health in students 👍🏻

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2 years

Logistically more difficult due to Covid and having to do it all online, but big thanks to @Ambition_Inst for all their support and input during my NPQEL over the past 12-18 months. Very pleased and proud to find out that I passed after my assessment submission in Nov 👍🏻😊

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3 years

We’ve been doing parents’ evenings via Google Meet over the past couple of weeks in a few of our schools and the feedback from parents has been great. If you’re not doing it already, here’s a thread of 10 reasons why as a profession, we shouldn’t go back to traditional ways...

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6 years

@paulsoda36 @AwayDays_ Yes, I took that! I’ve got more where that came from if you’re interested @AwayDays_ ?

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9 months

Worst seasonal summer weather in living memory? 🌧️☔️☹️

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6 months

@RogersHistory Writing out detention slips on triplicate paper and having to put one copy in each of the following pigeon holes: Tutor, Head of Year, Main Office

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3 years

Attendance in secondary schools next week? Higher or lower than 50%? 🎲🃏

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3 years

As a C grade kid in Eng at school I’d have laughed if you’d said I’d become an author. But we’re not born with fixed abilities. If you open your mind to wanting to be better at something you can. Motivation, effort & commitment to continuous practice is all it takes #WorldBookDay

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5 years

When my mam was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, we weren’t sure whether or not she was going to be able to make it out here for her daughter’s big day, but in her true typical resilient fashion, she’s here to enjoy this most special day 😍

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5 years

Watching James Arthur walk out at the Radio 1 #BigWeekend in Middlesbrough wearing a retro @Boro Dickens shirt was a thing of beauty! #LocalBoyPlayingInHisLocalPark #Boro #WeAreMiddlesbrough #UTB

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7 years

Our 1018 poppies were hand crafted with clay by our students & represent the number of fallen men from Middlesbrough in WW1 #AGSremembers 🌺

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2 years

So glad to be able to share this publicly now 👀 Our school improvement work with Northallerton School in one graphic…and all this has happened against the backdrop of a global pandemic with unprecedented disruption to education.

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4 years

We certainly weren’t prepared for Robbie opening this letter from his Geography teacher at @HummersknottAcd this morning....it’s absolutely broken us 😢😪😭 Teaching is far more than just exam results 😍 What a star you are Mrs Bailey! 🌟

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4 years

Today was my last day at Acklam Grange before I start my new job tomorrow. It’s been an amazing 6 years that has developed me personally and professionally, helping to mould me into the leader I am today. It’s not buildings that you miss, it’s the people within them 1/2

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1 year

Every now and again a book arrives that gives me a ‘Wow’ moment…and this new book from @mrbartonmaths & @JohnCattEd certainly did that! An absolutely outstanding book of tips on how to take many of the teaching strategies we are familiar with, further and with more precision 👏🏻

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3 years

A Level results day today…I’ll never forget what my Mam did for me on that day 🙏🏻🙌🏻 When I look back, that day literally was the making of me. Although she sadly passed away to MND in Oct, the acknowledgments in my 1st book will always be a physical reminder for me. Thanks Mam x

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8 months

I can see the sea from my new trust offices! 😊 I presume the view is going to be this glorious and this bright blue all year isn’t it @NorthernLLT ??? ☀️🐋🐳🛳️

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5 years

30 Mins on Twitter now makes me increasingly feel like education is in total chaos and meltdown, rather than a treasure chest of golden nuggets that I used to enjoy sifting through.

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7 years

Aspiring senior leader? Use @TeacherToolkit 's '21 Leadership Habits' as a personal checklist ✔️ #ukedchat

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3 years

A knock at the door and this just happened 😍 @BloomsburyEd

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6 years

Amazing to see my photos of the old @Official_Darlo ground Feethams, printed in this month’s German football magazine from @11Freunde_de 📸 #Darlo

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8 months

First day in my new job as Director of Education at @NorthernLLT 👍🏻 A great trust PD day where all staff from all schools came together 👏🏻 Superb attention to detail with water, sweets, cupcakes, pens, paper and a brilliant staff band playing as we arrived 👌🏻🎤🎸

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5 years

Just realised I’ve got a cushion in my house that looks like it’s been stolen from the @EducEndowFoundn 😂 It’s making a good impact in my kitchen though 😉 #PlusEightMonths

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8 years

All research says that feedback has most impact of any teacher intervention....Nick Gibb comes out & says we should just give kids a grade 🙈

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4 years

When a knock at the door from a delivery man brings you so much joy!!! 😍 #TeachingRebooted

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8 years

An amazing set of notes taken by a student teacher during my Assessment & Feedback talk at @DurhamSCITT today!😳 #wow

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3 years

Fantastic summary of the benefits of low stakes testing/quizzing in the classroom from @ImpactWales 👍🏻

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6 years

Set aside 30 mins after school on a Friday to make positive phone calls home. Imagine getting a positive call home from school about your child right before the weekend....magic! Simple, but absolute gold dust 🌟 #BehaviourChat

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Q6. What are your top tips for engaging families ?

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4 years

Got your students using flashcards, but find they spend more time creating them rather than effectively using them? Check out this great sketch note from @ImpactWales 👍🏻

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7 years

Today, 3 Yrs after I wrote this & our world fell in, my wife has been discharged from her oncologist forever 😍 ❤️👫

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11 years

Want to get more of your staff on Twitter? Share my infographic guide on Twitter chats for UK teachers http://t.co/X8NR39PVzm

Want to get more of your staff on Twitter? Share my infographic guide on Twitter chats for UK...

Want to get more of your staff on Twitter? Share my infographic guide on Twitter chats for UK teachers

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5 years

Feedback should improve the student, not just that piece of work - Dylan Wiliam

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8 years

Even amid ridiculous political interference, it's little things like this that remind me why I love teaching 😃

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2 years

This has to stop. Disadvantaged children need the very best teachers and school leaders in order to ‘level up’….but what incentive is there for the best teachers and leaders to go and work in schools with the highest proportions of disadvantaged students when you see this?

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7 years

NPQH passed! 🎉🍾 #alwayslearning

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6 years

Take a sneak peek inside my new book from @BloomsburyEd 📚 It’s the essential guide to senior leadership for aspiring leaders and current leaders new to the role 👨🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍💼 Pre-order from Amazon right now ahead of its release on Sept 6th 🚚📦 #ukedchat #edchat #leadership

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2 years

Another weekend visiting potential universities for my son, this time it’s Chester University….but when did university accommodation become like a 5 star city apartment block??? 🤯 Wow! 🤯 A million miles away from what I remember student living being like!

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3 years

Finally got my Olympic Torch in a proper display case and up on the wall 🏃🏽🔥 A family heirloom for generations to come, sat proudly in our happy family place 😍

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4 years

Great to see my Mam today....the first thing she wanted me to do was to sign her book 😊 An opportunity to put down in words how thankful I am 😍

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3 years

Professor Chris Whitty 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I doubt he’d had any media training pre-Covid, now he’s bossing it on primetime TV with class, intelligence and integrity.

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4 years

What next Gavin? Back to blackboards and chalk??? 🙈 Really pleased that in this day and age of evidence informed practice that we still have unqualified politicians telling the professionals how to teach 😤

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2 years

When you find out on the tarmac that you have got into your first choice university!!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yes @robstait26 , yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉😍☺️ We are so, so proud of you! 😭😭😭😭😭 Now to drive from the airport to college to find out his exact results ✉️

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8 years

Great eg's of Emoji Exit Tickets from my lesson today....thanks to @ICTEvangelist & @87History for the inspiration 😉

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2 years

Once again, the disrespect & disregard to Headteachers by announcing this via the Sunday papers on a bank holiday weekend when many schools are back on Tuesday, is quite staggering but sadly unsurprising.

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3 years

Been for a asymptomatic community covid test today (presumably similar to the ones we’ve been asked to administer in schools from January), so I thought I’d share my experience on what it was like and how this might work (or not work) in schools. See thread 👇🏻

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9 years

Great prompts to ensure your questioning is probing & challenging. http://t.co/HicrSWCYvr

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4 years

Putting together a curated list of recommended edu podcasts. Please comment with your favourites or ‘go to’ podcasts 🎙

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4 years

A knock at my door from the postman....and this just happened 😍 Thank you @BloomsburyEd 📚 #Book3

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4 years

The view that greeted our Year 11 students as they left school this afternoon 👋🏻👏🏻👋🏻👏🏻 #AGSpride #StaffGuardOfHonour

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6 years

Are you aware of how the GDPR will affect your school? Check out this sketch note from @teacher_in_tech at @Aspire2Be1 👍🏻

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4 years

With GCSE results about to have the buttton pushed on Tuesday night to get to schools on Wednesday morning, realistically a big decision must be made today ⏳

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6 years

I saw this idea on Twitter a while ago (not sure who to credit) and I set @Quinn1Tracey a challenge to recreate it at @AcklamGrange 😉 What an amazing job @AGS_DT have done with it! The kids absolutely love it and are so proud of their work! 📸 #AGSpride

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5 months

Oh my word! 😳 My wife has only gone and been successful in the Wimbledon ballot! 🎟️ And we’ve been lucky enough to get weekend tickets too! 😍🎾🥂🍾🍓👔👗 #BucketList

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3 years

Liking the colour scheme? 💙💖💛

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3 years

Transitioning to online learning is one thing, but organising & knowing which key worker kids you’re expecting in, how you’re going to safely group them, who’s going to teach them & in which rooms is a completely different monster...and with no time to organise it??? #shambles

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4 years

What a legend....Maths teacher at @AcklamGrange Mr O’Donnell promotes neat & tidy work with his ‘Book on My Table’ strategy for the neatest book, but he’s now developed a rap to go with it! The kids absolutely loved it today! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #AGSpride

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10 years

Print these templates and get your students to 'tweet' or 'text' what they've learned in 140 charcters! http://t.co/rPLq6rUZTz

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3 years

Of all the disruption and tough times we’ve faced in schools since the first lockdown, I feel that this term could be the most difficult yet.

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11 months

An incredible keynote at @InspLdrshipConf from @jazampawfarr . Made me laugh, cry & look deep inside myself. Tears streaming down my face and belly laughing at the same time🤣😭Without doubt the best, most heartfelt & inspiring keynote I’ve ever seen…and I’ve seen a few #ilconf23

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2 years

My view from the sofa in Palm Springs this morning…the very definition of a picture window 😎🏜

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6 years

My ‘100 Ideas’ book is a finalist at the Education Resource Awards tonight! Black tie event and gala dinner awards ceremony courtesy of my publishers @BloomsburyEd #ERA2018

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8 years

Great tips on using 'wait time' with questioning via @LearningCurve_ #ukedchat 👍🏻

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