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Head Teacher | Author | Grammar Fiend | Eats cheese | Collects plants | Talks to cats | Views all own etc.

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Joined July 2009
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Zoë Paramour
1 year
📚🎉FREE BOOK ALERT🎉📚 Celebrate publication week with us and enter for a chance to win a copy of "The Writing Book" - packed with ideas and modelled texts to use with your class. Simply like & RT to enter. The winner will be announced Monday! #FreeBooks #Giveaway #Education
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I went to Paris yesterday. I took 26 photographs and 19 of them were of this cat.
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4 years
"If someone tells you to follow your passion, it means they're already rich."
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7 years
A child has been let loose on the Piccadilly Line with stickers and I think this should happen to every tube map.
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3 years
I wonder how many times this happened before they decided to make a sign.
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8 months
That sounds great, Neil but some of us have jobs and stuff.
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The Guardian
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100 tiny changes to transform your life: from the one-minute rule to pyjama yoga
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7 years
Excellent use of parentheses. Bravo caption writers.
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3 years
@IChangedSex @DocPhoenix Well there was this bookshop window cat…
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4 months
The rumours are right. It’s neck and neck. #LondonMayorElection
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4 years
Labour voters' opinion on Starmer as Labour leader: Approve: 77% Disapprove: 6% (Source: Opinium 25/07/2020) That 6% may be incredibly loud on Twitter but in reality they are a tiny minority.
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8 years
Reading to children: Obamas: 1 - Cameron: 0
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5 years
This is incredible. #PeoplesVoteMarch
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7 years
Things Theresa May hasn't condemned: - Trump's travel ban - Judges being called "enemies of the people" - Michael Howard's "war with Spain."
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#Breaking Theresa May has condemned as "absolutely ridiculous" a decision to drop the word Easter from a Cadbury and National Trust egg hunt
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Green Party: We need to invest in low-carbon transport. *Plans for HS2 are announced* Green Party: No - not that low-carbon transport. Green Party: We need to invest in renewable energy. *Plans for wind farm announced* Green Party: No - not that renewable energy.
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Sorry, I'm busy opposing the government.
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The Labour Party
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Big weekend plans? Why not join us on the #LabourDoorstep tomorrow? Find an event near you 👇 #RebuildingBritain
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5 years
Corbyn supporters: #CorbynGoesIGo Everyone else:
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4 years
*fewer
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4 years
Last night we applauded the NHS heroes. Tonight, I am raising a glass to teachers. I've always known we were a good bunch but the quick thinking, creativity, good humour and team work I have seen in the last few days has blown me away. You are amazing. Cheers. #Fridayfeeling
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3 years
Me trying to reach the word count in my first year of uni:
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3 years
@truthiness2010 Well - exactly.
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Me. I needed to hear this.
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2 years
Quantum physics for babies:
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3 years
Because you’re all as in love with Margaret* as I am - here are some more pictures. She lives at/owns the Hotel des Grandes Ecoles. *Margaret is the name I have given her. It may not be her actual name.
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3 years
I went to Paris yesterday. I took 26 photographs and 19 of them were of this cat.
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4 years
@mrlockyer Social distancing.
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5 years
Jamie Oliver is a lying bastard.
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5 months
@miss_mcinerney It’s currently £2.60 for the exact same jar in Asda (and it has jam inside.)
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4 years
How it started: How it’s going:
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4 years
Cauliflower cheese on a roast - yes or no?
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7 years
Britain you are marvellous. #EdBallsDay
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4 years
When the 6th child asks if they need to write the date.
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8 months
Friend: What are up to on New Year’s Eve? Me: Oh, I have big plans. My plans:
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7 years
"The EU is failing." It's not.
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7 years
Fellow Labour members/ when an activist bravely speaks out about being raped at a party event the response is not, “Yeah but the Tories...”
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6 years
Amber Rudd has resigned because she “was unable to reconcile the difference between what she had told Parliament and what was later revealed to be true.” The word you’re looking for Radio 4 is “lied.” Amber Rudd has resigned because she lied. #r4today #AmberRudd
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6 years
Says the man who won’t be poor.
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3 years
The meeting to decide plurals.
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1 year
Saving this video for the next time someone asks me for an example of British culture.
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4 years
Anyone other teacher folk remember going to pupil progress meetings and being told every child had to have made 2 sub-levels progress so every child just got put up 2 sub-levels at the end of the year?
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5 years
Next year, you'll go to your first interview for a teaching job. You won't get the job but pay close attention to the tall man on the panel because you'll be marrying him in a few years' time. #DearMeTenYearsAgo
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3 years
If I were a politician I would avoid photo ops of me struggling to sort things out in brewery.
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8 years
I don't know if we've ever seen a country take such a dramatic step down in quality of leader as the one we're about to see. #ObamaFarewell
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Note to self: you have been paid today. Yes - it is 9 days early - you’ve been paid early this month - as you are every December. This is your money to live off until January 31st. It is not, I repeat, not a “Christmas Holiday Allowance” to be spent on cheese and mulled drinks.
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4 years
Check in on your head teachers they basically haven't had a day off since the beginning of March. If they're doing well - tell them.
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3 years
We're going to need a bigger coat.
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4 years
My mistake, ASOS. I thought by searching for "workwear" I would find clothes suitable for work.
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3 years
Did people take annual trips to pumpkin patches before Instagram?
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8 years
Spent the last 3 minutes of #Sherlock like:
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3 years
Some man was in my face at Kings Cross station and then on the Met Line today and followed me every time I tried to move seats. I’m very grateful to the two other men who stepped in told him where to go and then sat with me until Finchley Road.
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4 years
Why do people hate teachers so much?
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8 years
They've had to amend the bus. #Brexit
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3 years
This website is free.
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8 months
Counterpoint: you should.
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6 years
Day 1 of report writing: No. of loads of laundry done: 2 Hours spent on Twitter: 1 Miles run: 3 Showers had: 2 Kitchen cupboards sorted: 4 Coffees made: 3 Plants watered: 6 Episodes of “Peep Show” watched: 2 Reports written: 0 It’s going well. #halfterm #reports #teacherlife
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7 years
@TRobinsonNewEra But you have a history of passport fraud...
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3 years
My mum’s wife hired a photographer to document the morning of her 60th birthday. Before you accuse them of being a bit extra, JUST LOOK AT THEM.
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Tell me you’re married to a teacher without telling me you’re married to a teacher - I’ll go first: This is how @timparamour plans our summer holidays.
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7 years
Sees David Attenborough is trending. Panics. Realise it's his birthday.
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4 years
The commas.
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Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP
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PM is absolutely right, we must protect the NHS and very important we keep schools and colleges open, as the Chief Medical Officer has said schools are the safest and best places to be, not just for children’s education, but for their wellbeing
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7 years
So that's Austria, The Netherlands and France who have rejected the far-right - excellent work! U.K. See me after class. #frenchelection2017
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4 years
Spelling matters.
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7 years
I eagerly await the article suggesting male politicians abandon the dark suit and tie look.
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jo ellison
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The red blazer brigade: and why female politicians need a makeover via @FT
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If you haven’t already watched ‘The Assembly’ you must - it is joyful. Michael Sheen is grilled by 35 neurodivergent adults - and they don’t hold back.
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Me most days: I don’t really agree with the monarchy. People shouldn’t have to be subservient to the royal family. Me, when Trump turns up late then doesn’t bow when meeting the Queen: Show some bloody respect you orange fucknugget. #TrumpVisit #TrumpProtets
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5 years
Everyone ready for the back-to-school chat? "My Easter was lovely, thank you. Went too quickly though! This lovely weather made it easier to get up this morning! Did you hear it's due to turn this week? Yep, rain on the way. Still, only 5 weeks until half term!" #Backtowork
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It may have been horrendous for the rest of us, but 2020 was a great year for these two. This time last year, they were strays found living on a wet mattress behind some bins. They were rescued by the wonderful people at @CatsProtection and we adopted them in January.
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7 years
Can't wait to get my unicorn! #BrexitDay
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1 year
Hi @marksandspencer sorry to moan as I am normally a HUGE fan. I bought these just under 2 months ago & the soles have split. I asked to exchange them in store & was told this was reasonable wear and tear. Surely we should we expect shoes from M&S to last longer than a few weeks?
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So losses for the Tories, Labour and Ukip and gains for the Lib Dems, Greens and Others. What could it possibly mean? #Brexit #Remain #LocalElection2019
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3 years
Annie are you OK?
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I could be being unfair, but I really think if you’re applying for a teaching job you should be able to put together a 30 minute maths lesson without asking Facebook what to teach.
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My husband: Are you going to post that Humpty Dumpty meme again like you do every autumn? Me:…
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4 years
A year today...
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I was well into adulthood before I learnt that this is not what the Channel Tunnel looks like. Still not over it.
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4 years
It was always a good day when this was the assembly hymn.
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4 years
Uyghur is not a place.
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Diane Abbott
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Both I and the Labour Party condemn the human rights violations in Uyghur. I apologise if my involvement in Saturdays event sent a different message. I continue to campaign against racism and for human rights internationally.
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2 years
Plate rack + command strips = a mini bedside table bookshelf.
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2 years
I was anti-exclusion until I experienced a situation where exclusion was the only way to guarantee the safety of the rest of the pupils and the staff. I can see why people who don’t work in education think that an anti-exclusion policy seems kinder but that is not the reality.
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5 years
The teacher covering my class next week is going to love me.
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4 years
The apostrophe really upsets me.
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Librarians must be protected at all costs.
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4 years
My heart goes out to teachers who were told they had to be in today and now have to set up remote learning overnight.
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3 years
About this outfit.
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2 years
BREAKING NEW: Boris and Carrie Johnson are delighted to announce to arrival of their new baby.
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3 years
This guy is incredible.
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3 years
I consider myself quite a decisive person but I find this particular decision torturous.
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3 years
I bought a new coat this weekend. So did my head. Whoops.
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3 years
Has anyone else noticed the cost of their food shop shooting up recently?
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3 years
A link for all the "Well, YouGov never asked me" people.
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A school Principal has replaced his office with a rolling cart so he can be more visible around the school.
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2 years
We’ve been doing some spring cleaning of all our school cupboards and storage spaces and we have uncovered this 25-year-old lesson plan.
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