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Trust Leader for Safeguarding & Attendance | Husband | Father | NPQSL | Maths | Former @TTRadioOfficial host | Arsenal FC | views are my own | #PastoralCPD

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🎤🎶🎤🎶 SCHOOL TEACHER BY DAY...WEDDING CEREMONY SINGER BY NIGHT... Full version is on YouTube (see tweet below) Feel free to share 👍🏾 DM for bookings 😎 #WeddingSinger #WeddingSong Song: @iamjamiefoxx - Marrying An Angel (Cover) 🎤🎶🎤🎶

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2 months

Just looked at the voting split for my local area. 1) Labour 35% 2) Conservative 17% 3) Independent 14% 4) Reform 12% Going to have to start looking at every 12 in 100 strangers differently now #GeneralElection2024 #ElectionResults

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4 years

Teachers are very quick to judge and condemn disruptive or disengaged behaviour in their lessons, but have you SEEN teachers during a boring CPD session... #EduTwitter

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3 years

Guess who's making the step into Senior Leadership in September... 🎉THIS GUY!🎉 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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3 years

People booing the taking of the knee is even more reason why it needs to keep happening. Well done to those fans that applauded to drown out the boos. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #England #ENGAUS

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2 years

The inability of Year 7s to accurately type their login details that are PRINTED ON A STICKER IN FRONT OF them, is hilariously frustrating.

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8 months

I know a lot of teachers were initially thinking negatively about having to finish Autumn term so late, but have since realised one thing for sure: the January 8th/9th restart is GLORIOUS! #EduTwitter

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1 year

You know who I feel sorry for at this time of year? Option subject teachers that have year 9 classes comprised of students that have now done their end of year exam and know they are not taking that subject for GCSE. That sounds far from ideal. #EduTwitter

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3 years

In case you were unclear, an example of privilege is being able to miss a penalty in an international football final and NOT be subject to racist abuse.

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3 years

You have to agree to take a pen. You don't just get told to do it unilaterally - you have to step-up and agree to it. My brothers Rashford, Sancho and Saka stepped up for a nation full of so many that abuse them. Now we'll see who our allies truly are. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

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3 years

This will go down in my career history as the longest ever four day working week.

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3 months

25°C+ and we're still wearing suit trousers?! It's about time to normalise this summer attire for male teachers in secondary schools. #Edutwitter

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4 months

Attempting to teach (some) year 11s after they've had a GCSE exam that day. #Edutwitter

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11 months

Being sat in a room while someone delivers a PowerPoint presentation to you, is NOT training. If there isn't any participation, practice and assessment of knowledge obtained, it is, at most, an hour-long listening session. Sometimes "listening" is an overstatement! #EduTwitter

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4 years

One element of this full English breakfast needs to go. There IS a correct answer.

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1 year

Any DSLs out there having a nice, calm, tame and uneventful end to the school year? No? Didn't think so. #DSL     #EduTwitter

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2 years

Starting my NYE morning with some Andrew Tate research. I need to start the new school term armed, locked and loaded with anti-Tate eye-opening pearls of wisdom for these teenage boys.

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1 year

No matter your position in school, every now and again, when things get tough, all we need to be told is that we're doing a great job and our work is valued.

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1 year

Ofsted call on Tuesday, day 1 on Wednesday, day 2 on Thursday and then Open Evening on the same Thursday!! The hours we have worked these last 3 days have been outrageous. Looking forward to normality tomorrow and being able to see my wife and child lol.

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1 year

Dear Ofsted, It would be great if, after all the hours of work and heavy emotional labour that Safeguarding Leads put in, that you give a more thorough evaluation of Safeguarding in your official reports. This one-liner needs an upgrade, please. Thanks, DSLs #EduTwitter

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3 years

Does anyone work in a school where all the teaching assistants are respected and listened to by the kids in the same way as the teachers? If so, what's the secret? #EduTwitter

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3 years

@Actionjackson At this moment, no more messing about - it was about to go down. 😅

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3 years

Imagine calling yourself an "outstanding teacher". That sounds so cringe to me.

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1 year

It is impossible to teach a completely mixed prior attainment maths class effectively. Impossible. Anyone that says different, is lying to themselves. A group of pupils will always be inadequately supported. #EduTwitter

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7 months

There is nothing more adorable than a newborn practising their smiles when asleep.

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8 months

Pregnant women end up working way too far into their 3rd trimester and their maternity leave should be longer than a year to accommodate. Someone in government needs to sort this. The end.

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4 years

What people What it think teachers actually looks working from like: home looks like:

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3 years

Can we throw the use of "Kind regards" at the end of emails into Staff room 101 please @TTRadio2022 ?

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1 year

🎤🎶MY PAY'S NO HIGHER, RISHI SUNAK IS A LIAR!🎵🎤 @LewishamNeu definitely brought the party vibes to the #TeacherStrike this afternoon! @NEUnion #PayUp

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1 year

We've had the call.📞📞 Any DSLs out there that recently had their Ofsted visit and meeting? Would be great to hear how it went and any advice. Feeling confident and prepared at the moment 🙏🏾 #DSL #EduTwitter

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1 year

There is literally nothing like working in schools. Nothing! So often, I have a day where I'm like, 'this would NEVER happen anywhere else!' And breathe. #EduTwitter

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3 years

What's something that kids do in school that you find genuinely funny but you can't let them know you find it funny? For me it's when one of their friends is in isolation or detention and they call out "FREE MY GUY! FREE THE MANDEM!" #EduTwitter

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1 year

When you're a Safeguarding Lead going through your own mental health problems, you end up giving yourself the same advice you've been giving kids and then realising that it's definitely much easier said than done!

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3 years

I didn't need to see this on my 30th birthday 😭😭😭😭

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1 year

After all this great weather over the half-term, there are two things I know for certain: 1) These kids are going to come back on a hype. 2) A bunch of nonsense that took place over the break will find its way to Heads of Years and pastoral/safeguarding leads.

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4 years

This Covid-19 saga has truly been a tragedy of astronomical proportions. #coronavirus #CovidUK #BloodOnTheirHands

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3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when you eat an After Eight chocolate this Christmas, do not leave the empty wrapper in the box please and thanks.

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4 years

"I'm just going to share my screen..." must be the 2020 catchphrase for professionals this year.

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1 year

Why have I received an email beginning "hope you had a wonderful summer holiday"?! "Had"?! More like "are having"! Please come correct and patiently await my response after Notting Hill Carnival. Kind regards 😊

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3 years

Once you're over 30, scrolling through netflix after 9pm is essentially just picking the film or series you don't mind falling asleep to.

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2 months

When my parents brought me this colourful bow tie back from South Africa, I thought, "It's nice, but when will there ever be a suitable occasion for it?" And then #REND came along...

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1 year

In my previous school when I wasn't SLT, I used to always wonder why SLT felt the need to have their own exclusive nights out. But now I'm SLT...I get it.

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4 years

So...to clarify...as we know, not being at school can have a detrimental effect on children's mental health. So...in order to counteract this, we need to keep them in school for longer, shorten their holidays and constantly tell them they're falling further behind..? #EduTwitter

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1 year

My mum's summary of the DSL role this morning: "Well that just sounds like the hardest job in the world. You just get the ills of all society finding their way to your doorstep."

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3 years

Teachers going to bed at 10pm for the first time in over two weeks🤦🏾‍♂️: #EduTwitter

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3 months

I am a firm believer that pupils should first learn how to create/manipulate equations BEFORE being taught how to solve them using the balance method. However, I have had to resort to creating my own worksheets as I am yet to find anything like this anywhere #Edutwitter #Maths

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11 months

When you try to contribute to your toddler's imaginative play, but you get reprimanded by a 3 year-old for not having the correct imagination 😕

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4 years

😅🤦🏾‍♂️😅🤦🏾‍♂️Why are babies like this?!

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3 years

The gentrification is complete. #LoveIsland

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4 months

@SherzCapone00 I'll race you to the river bed

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8 months

From Easter, I'll be working for an Academy Trust's Central Team as a Safeguarding and Attendance Lead for 3 days a week and "just teaching" in a local school for 2 days. Not being on the front line as DSL will be strange, but hopefully better for my family and mental health.

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As DSL, it's very difficult to do any big picture strategic thinking within the hours directly before, during or after a full-on working day. DSLs NEED the occasional whole day conference/CPD away from school to finally get the headspace. #Safeguarding #PastoralCPD #EduTwitter

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3 years

@justjessting Surely it was obvious...

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2 years

Year 7s will be adamant that their username isn't working, and then you have to break the news that they've spelt their own name wrong...

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8 months

Mollie, why would a traitor have voted to banish again?! Unfortunately, you had no sense and now have no cents. #TheTraitors

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1 year

My summary from today: We'd benefit from some more Bank Holiday Mondays. The end.

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3 years

It was at this point I knew I had to mute the notifications to my tweet lol 😅🤦🏾‍♂️

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4 months

People in everyday life: "Where are you?" SLT on their walkie-talkies: "What's your location?" #edutwitter

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1 year

For anyone that was wondering how it went with Ofsted from a safeguarding standpoint, I'd describe the meeting as a very pleasant conversation. It felt like the inspector was inquiring rather than interrogating. #EduTwitter #DSL #Safeguarding #Ofsted

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1 year

We've had the call.📞📞 Any DSLs out there that recently had their Ofsted visit and meeting? Would be great to hear how it went and any advice. Feeling confident and prepared at the moment 🙏🏾 #DSL #EduTwitter

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1 year

Kevin and Mary: "We are going to vote soon!" "The vote is coming out this week!" "The vote is out!" "You should have received your voting card!" "Did you get your voting card?!" "Vote now!" "Here's a second reminder to vote!" *Did you vote?!" "Great, thank you!!!!"

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2 years

At 2pm, I was a maths teacher At 3pm, I was a street dance teacher At 4pm, I was a community support officer in a high-vis jacket At 4:30pm, I was a social worker/counsellor talking to a parent & child about their trauma 😅This wouldn't happen anywhere else except in a school

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Your newer teachers do learning walks to improve their practice. Your newer pastoral staff should also have opportunities to observe more experienced staff conducting restoratives, mediation, wellbeing check-ins and parental meetings. #PastoralCPD

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1 year

No, sorry, this country is disrespectful! You had the whole of August to bring us these temperatures, but instead you've waited for us to return to work?!?! I'm annoyed. #EduTwitter

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4 years

@Thegirlteee @__rnt91 If I walk into a Caribbean shop and get greeted with a cheery smile and a very pleasant welcome...

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4 years

@piersmorgan @JoeBiden

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1 year

A 6pm Zoom NEU meeting on Monday? Just send me an email please.

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2 years

@ScottPughsley Underlining? Adds nothing except a bit of neatness. Dates? Very useful if I want them to refer back to a previous lesson.

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11 months

I forgot how inspirational and uplifting it is to leave home for work in the pitch black morning darkness...

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4 years

@Unkle_K "if you man do it first, then I'll do it"

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2 years

"As you see there's a section A, B, C and D for you to complete" Year 7: "Sir (*waves arm and hand frantically*) I've finished section A, what shall I do now?"

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2 years

Kevin and Mary from the NEU message me more than my own friends and family. #EduTwitter

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3 years

@Mr_B_Morgan @MrsSmanwar I'd much prefer year 7s to arrive with extremely secure knowledge of fewer things, rather than thinking they know lots of things when really they don't, because it was never taught with sufficient depth/rigour.

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3 years

Now I'm not usually one to side with @Miss_Snuffy , but I don't think she was genuinely saying that if you get rid of uniforms or become lax with them, then kids actually bring in knives. She's just saying that not sweating the small stuff can often lead to larger problems.

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4 years

@MichaelDapaah Clink up

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4 years

Coming out of the bedroom/office/study after your last virtual lesson of the half-term 😂😂🙌🏾 #EduTwitter

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4 years

This is why, though I'm not able (can't be bothered) to plan/create really wizzbang/fun activities, I always make sure that the way I speak about the maths makes it sound like the most incredible thing ever.

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4 years

For a teacher to not even plan a mature discussion around the use of the N-word in Of Mice and Men BEFORE even thinking about saying it aloud nonchalantly, is both poor planning and offensive.

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3 years

@lifeofchristal They're rude for using so many exclamation marks 😅

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2 years

@QUAYSTER Reply by empowering her and say it's your favourite hairstyle and that you're sure it'll look great. Then find out where she's getting hers done and see if they can give you a nice teacher discount.

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1 year

These are my last hours of being a legally 'single' man...

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4 years

@afcstuff Too many arsenal compliments by Gary Neville recently

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1 year

@NEUnion A great union once said:

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1 year

It's not often that a disclosure stays at the front of my mind even as I arrive home in the evening. But this one today...this one has stuck with me. #DSL

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4 years

If only there were a period of time where kids already didn't have to be in school that we could have utilised and extended in order to maximise the effectiveness of a #NationalLockdown

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3 years

I might have to come off twitter from the 16th July. I don't think I can face seeing the tweets of teachers on summer holidays when I'll still have another week to go. Who finishes next Friday? I need to know who to block 😅 #EduTwitter

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3 years

Why do some adults tell parents that their cute sons are going to heartbreakers when they're older? I've always found it a very weird compliment.

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6 months

There is a staggering difference between how I feel at the end of a full day of teaching compared to a full day of pastoral/safeguarding responsibilities. #edutwitter

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7 months

Here's what an Here's what an 'all-nighter' used 'all-nighter' to mean. now means.

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3 years

@RogersHistory Boards get turned face down when they've written their answer. Everyone shows theirs at the same time. The correct answer is not revealed, but instead all the different answers are written on the board and students' misconceptions are teased out via questioning. Maths btw.

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4 years

@ActiveYouthUK Black pudding is the correct answer. How can you not like mushrooms???

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4 years

I'll be on my phone under the table if the session is dead. But it just reminds me that, if kids are messing about, we need to often look at our own teaching and delivery first.

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@overpractised Hi Sarah, this has made for a fascinating read but would likely make for an even more fascinating conversation. I'd love to be able to talk about this with you on Teachers Talk Radio ( @TTRADIO2022 ). If you're at all interested, follow me so I can DM please.😊

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2 years

I hope teachers are using today as an extra day of rest and not an extra opportunity for work. #EduTwitter

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4 years

@munyachawawa "Professional bumbaclart"🤣🤣🤣🤣

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4 years

@KbKev1977 @SkySportsNews Trolls don't drive.

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2 years

Will Hip-Hop and R&B ever surpass the early 2000s era? I don't think it's possible.

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2 years

32 degrees on Friday?! I think it's time...

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2 years

Not being able to strike for better pay because you can't afford to lose the days' pay, is a very sad irony.

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1 year

The @NEUnion set us our voting assignment and we got a Grade 9. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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2 years

Let's talk less about students not going to the toilet in lessons and more about the staff who often don't use the toilet during the working day at all 😅

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Joey watching the carnage ensue after being responsible for it all #loveIsland

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