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Jo Payne

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4 years

Why did I think getting a puppy and starting a new job at the same time was a good idea?

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Jo Payne

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3 years

One of my daughters has been looking at course options for university and checking out the halls of residence. It’s all really exciting! Only one problem: she’s currently 10 years old.

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Jo Payne

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4 years

My husband bought multi-coloured lights for the outside of the house. I’m not sure our relationship can come back from this 🙄

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6 years

After some interest in the geography reading list to support post-16 students, here's the link to the completed version... Synopsis sourced from @Waterstones (credited in PDF version via the link). Thank you to everyone who has sent suggestions!

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Jo Payne

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2 years

Delighted to have been appointed as Assistant Headteacher yesterday, leading teaching & learning @StJamesSchool @TedWraggTrust . Excited for the term ahead and beyond. In the meantime, happy holidays!

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5 years

Last week, I was offered and accepted the role of Head of Geography 🌍 at St James School in Exeter. So excited to be working with @lindsayjskinner and @MsEmilyHarper as well as a new team of geographers!

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Two lessons for Year 7 for the start of the coasts topic. Using a five question retrieval quiz with Microsoft Forms to check for understanding of the processes of erosion between the two lessons #geographyteacher #onlinelearning

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2 years

Yesterday, we said a sad goodbye to our beautiful old labrador. Poppy was a gentle soul and had a wonderful life. Today has been strange. We will all miss her so much 💔 #NationalDogDay

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Growing up fast, though I completely underestimated how exhausting the puppy phase is! 🐾😩 #labrador

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Jo Payne

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7 years

Structure strips in action today with Year 7. Only got half way through, but good start #geographyteacher

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7 years

I am such a fan of these! Example from Year 10. Thanks for the idea @misswestbury_RE

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Jo Payne

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4 years

My new-found favourite 'Do Now' task taken from @MrsBallAP 's recent blog post

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Spent an impromptu day with my parents ahead of the lockdown. My dad broke out one of the tubs of Quality Street that he bought and stashed away for Christmas. There are clearly no rules any more. Anything goes.

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Jo Payne

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4 years

So tired this morning that I drove half the way to my old school before realising and turning around to head in the right direction 😴

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Jo Payne

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2 years

The lady in @Waterstones cafe asked if I wanted cream with my hot chocolate. Why not, I thought. Then this happened… 😳

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Jo Payne

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6 years

So easy to forget useful activities as you replace them with new shiny ones over time. Went back to an old favourite last month with mixed ability year 9. Hexagons for notetaking from @Jivespin

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7 years

Spent the afternoon planning learning on Cape Town’s water crisis for KS3. With thanks to @Jennnnnn_x and @geography_meg for the T&L ideas! #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Daughter gave us this picture earlier. I do wish she’d be clearer about what she wants 😂

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Jo Payne

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4 years

We are delighted to announce the safe arrival of Mabel Payne. She’s our long-awaited eight-week-old Labrador puppy 🐾💕 Poppy the 10-year-old Labrador is currently practising social distancing! #LabradorsOfTwitter

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Jo Payne

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4 years

I replied to a question from @kate_stockings yesterday with this resource. You can download a version to edit for your own case studies here

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Jo Payne

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4 years

My husband and I are both teachers and sat in the same room to listen to the same information from Gavin Williamson. We now discover that we have completely different interpretations of what he said! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤯

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Jo Payne

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4 years

I am completely in love with the visualiser! So much easier teaching Year 7 to draw a climate graph when you are able to model it at the same time 😅💛 #teacherlife #lovemyjob

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Jo Payne

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2 years

I hate it when videos you’ve used for years in those ‘tried and tested’ lessons are no longer available 😔

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Jo Payne

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2 years

A group of year 10 boys were playing the card game Exploding Kittens while I was on duty yesterday. Never heard of it before but they were having a great time. Added it to the Christmas games list (age 7+).

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Jo Payne

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6 years

No better feeling than waking up and realising it’s the first day of a school holiday! 🎉🐣😄

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4 years

The girls finished school for Christmas yesterday. They’re on their school website checking out the lunch menu for January. They are excited about every meal and have declared that they cannot wait to go back. I’m trying hard not to take this as a personal attack on my cooking.

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Enjoyed using the visualiser to revise our rivers topic with year 8. It has completely changed the way I teach this year. Teaching a lot of hybrid lessons at the moment so it is perfect for students in the room and for those at home to engage in the same lesson.

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Feeling a bit low this weekend so took myself off for a run/walk this morning. Look at this weather! ☀️

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Forgot how much I like this strategy! Used with Year 13 on causes of water insecurity today. Original idea from @SPBeale and @ploguey #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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2 years

Just one more dog wouldn’t hurt, surely. My friend’s dog has had a litter of nine fox red labradors. Totally fallen in love with this little boy! 💙 🐾

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Experimenting with @olicav advice on graphic organiser mind maps with the Boscastle flood case study. Yes, I know it is old, but always a memorable one. New OCR B textbook being updated with Storm Desmond, so I will enjoy this one for a little longer! #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Mabel arrived a week ago. After some initial reservations on Poppy’s part, Mabel has given an elderly Labrador a new lease of life 💓 #poppyandmabel #puppy #labrador #inseparable

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Still a couple of days to go, but I’ve removed the ‘Assistant Principal’ words from my profile. Two years in which I’ve learnt a lot, but it’s time to refocus on teaching my subject. It won’t be forever, I’ll be back ☺️

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Looking forward to using our KS3 core knowledge booklets for the first time next week 🌍 #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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2 years

@ianaddison @Benji_Davies I’ve been thinking about this all day. You must be so proud. I love the expression of the lady sat on the right.

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Jo Payne

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7 years

Imagine my shock and pride that the First Officer who flew us home from Menorca was an ex-student of mine!

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Ready for a bit of ‘Find and Fix’ tomorrow with Year 10 and Year 12! Seen the idea across Twitter but (I think) thanks to @KKNTeachLearn @ploguey @EduCaiti #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Two weeks ago, I digressed and told my Year 7 Beliefs & Values class about my turmoil over Nutella having palm oil in it. Challenged them to find me one without, but only in jest. Yesterday, a boy from the class gave me a jar of chocolate spread that didn’t contain palm oil! 😇

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Jo Payne

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5 years

To all my fellow nomadic teachers 😢 The impact that moving rooms every lesson has on the quality of teaching & learning is also huge. I am no longer the teacher I used to be.

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5 years

'Nomadic' teachers subject to additional stress #NASUWT19

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11 months

I am now lucky enough to be teaching at the same school as my own children. Today, Year 7 joined Year 8 in their assembly. This meant I was there with my new tutor group and was able to witness my daughters collect their gold scholar award. It was a special day 🌟 #proudmoment

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Jo Payne

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4 years

All ready for a bit of 'I, We, You' with Year 11 later in the week. Thanks to @MrThorntonTeach for the idea and the accompanying blog post😀

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Jo Payne

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8 years

Still ❤️ using hexagons for note taking. Students' extended writing is fab as a result! Original idea @Jivespin

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Jo Payne

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7 years

Did not plan to do this today, but I’ve seen a few examples on Twitter & ended up making one. For OCR B new spec! #questionaday

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Ran 10km for the first time this morning!! The furthest distance before today was 6km 🏃🏻‍♀️☀️😃🌟 #running #SundayMotivation

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Jo Payne

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7 years

Thank you @misswestbury_RE for your keyword template! Starter for a revision lesson sorted for tomorrow 👍

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Jo Payne

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1 year

I am excited to be moving to @ChulmleighAT as Head of Humanities from September. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity I have had to lead T&L and the geography department at St James. Watch this space for the advert of my AHT role later this week!

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Completed the #couch25k plan this morning! Never did I imagine I could do this. Feeling great. The challenge now is to keep it up during term time! 🏃🏻‍♀️

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Jo Payne

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6 years

And so it begins... 🤓 #ststioneryshopping

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Really enjoyed my lesson with Year 9 today on the journey of flip flops using this article #geographyteacher Used @geography_kes ‘journey of a t-shirt’ lesson for inspiration! 👣🌍

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Testing positive for Covid yesterday was not how I planned the half term holiday to begin, but we’ll make the most of the week with board games, reading, films, cross stitching, baking and puzzles.

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Jo Payne

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4 years

New to AQA GCSE Geography. Enjoyed researching Lagos. Spent far too long looking at houses in Banana Island! What are #geographyteacher ’s favourite resources for this case study? Here’s my Lesson 1 (thanks to a teacher on Schoology for one activity!)

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Busy typing up the Easter revision programme for the GCSE geographers! Presenting the plan at our curriculum leaders meeting tomorrow. It’s an eight day plan to complete at home that replaces our traditional two hour revision session in school.

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Experimenting with resource design @MrThorntonTeach style! Adapted resources from @The_GA & @RGS_IBGschools Resource itself needs more balance but will address that when I plan the lessons & know the next unit includes sustainable cities #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Finished putting together our KS3 common assessments for the final 'cycle' of the year. Just one knowledge organiser left to make for cycle 1 in September. Four weeks to go... #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Feels like we’ve been waiting forever to move here! 🏠 Fingers crossed for a move before Christmas! 📦🙏 #escapetothecountry

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Jo Payne

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4 years

5.24km run completed with a friend this morning before it got too hot! My first 5k run 🏃🏻‍♀️

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Realised how much our lessons and PPTs rely on our 'teaching'. Adapted two Year 10 lessons for next week into resources that students can hopefully use independently. One task from OCR B Schoology; unsure of owner. Let me know if it's you! Uploading as an assignment in MS Teams.

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Doing my usual half term activity. Looking to Masters courses and wondering if I can afford it 🤔

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Jo Payne

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4 years

The obsession with my visualiser continues. There isn’t a lesson that goes by when I don’t use it now. Activity inspired by @MrsAnde56302035 🌍

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Jo Payne

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4 years

First half term at my new school completed! Hasn’t been without its personal challenges (as someone who’s change-averse at the best of times) but I really love it. Such a caring school with great staff and students (I also think I can stop calling it my ‘new’ school now!)

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Jo Payne

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4 years

What are your favourite ‘do now’ /silent starters? #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Utterly exhausting first week in my new school after two days with my new Year 7 tutor group as well as a geography lesson this afternoon. Rounded off the day with four positive phone calls home. I have absolutely loved being back in the classroom!

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Jo Payne

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7 years

Giving the 'Structure Strips' idea by @MrsSpalding a go with my Year 7 class tomorrow #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Where did the last 10 years of our lives go? 😮 Happy birthday to our strong, intelligent, beautiful daughters @neiljpayne #proudparents

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Early morning reflections. Nobody’s leaving the humanities team of ten teachers next year! We’ll all finish this year and begin the next together. This is great for so many reasons. Wonderful team 💚

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Jo Payne

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10 years

Made a marking guide for #rag123 after reading blogs by @ListerKev @Benneypenyrheol Design inspired by @JamieClark85 http://t.co/wzhh900eDu

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Jo Payne

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7 years

First attempt at a ‘geog your memory’ resource for my year 11s. Adapted heavily from @Jennnnnn_x (including the fonts!) 😂

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Jo Payne

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3 years

Took my daughters out for brunch this morning. When did they become mini-grown ups?! 🥰

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Jo Payne

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3 years

The Christmas food tweets begin! #christmasfood

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Trying to come up with a model revision timetable to help students to see how they *could* manage their time. Not prescriptive, just a guide! Ideas from @Mr_Patel100 and @Geoisamazing

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4 years

Surprised myself today as I listened to a speech about me from a close colleague who I’ve worked with in the geography department for the duration of my time there and then I said a few words myself WITHOUT crying! Now for the summer holidays! ☀️ #endofanera #newbeginnings

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Busy writing up the reading suggestions that the #geographyteacher community shared over half term! 🤓🌍

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Moved on a stage from shortbread to caramel shortbread. I have frozen most pieces so we don’t eat them all today 😋 #lockdownbaking

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Yesterday included a visit to @LavaCentre before going to Seljalandsfoss, Skogafoss, Solheimajokull glacier and then Reynishverfi close to sunset #Iceland

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Jo Payne

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4 years

The new addition to our family at just two days old. She won’t be joining us until the middle of August. We are all very excited (perhaps our 10-year-old Labrador is less keen!). Welcome, Mabel 🥰🐾

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Planning our new weather topic and wanted to keep the early lessons UK-based before moving on to extreme weather, focusing on recent typhoons and bushfires. Came across this excellent resource from @MrsHumanities Thank you for sharing! #geographyteacher

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Jo Payne

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2 years

Fantastic weekend away with my family in Cornwall to celebrate my 40th birthday! Feeling very lucky indeed 🎈🎉

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Jo Payne

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2 years

To belatedly mark #nationalfieldworkweek , we are completing two whole days of fieldwork with year 7 and 8, both on the school site and in the immediate local area (adapted due to the weather). Lovely way to finish the year! #geographyteacher @MsRWalton @Morsey

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6 years

Photos being taken of our house by the estate agent today. We’ve found a wonderful house 🏡 that we’re desperate to buy! Very spontaneous, completely unplanned. We just took a drive along the lanes and discovered it in a tiny hamlet, now our hearts 💕 are set on it ☺️🤞

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Jo Payne

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6 years

Better start packing up the house ready for the move. Luckily, we’re getting good at it! Six houses in nine years 😩 No plans to ever leave this one though...🏡 #houserenovation #wheredowestart #foreverhome

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Eight years married to @neiljpayne Strange to have an anniversary that falls on Easter Sunday during a lockdown, but we’ll celebrate it nonetheless! #weddinganniversary

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3 years

How was that week only four days?! 😩

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Jo Payne

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4 years

I have spent the last four October half terms in Iceland 🇮🇸 with Year 11 students and @DTW_Education . Feels strange to be at home this year! Such an amazing country; I hope I get to visit again soon, perhaps with my own family 🌋

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Jo Payne

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4 years

Might have just undone the good work of my 5km run this morning. Worth it though! 😋

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Resource for consolidating fieldwork experience for Paper 1 Section B @OCR_Geography Hoping it will be useful next week as we prepare to practise some 8 mark fieldwork questions. It was our weakest section last summer

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7 years

You can see why children struggle with Tier 2 language. We wouldn’t sit around the table on Christmas Day and say ‘evaluate the extent to which this turkey has been cooked successfully’ Exam language seems to be a barrier for more Year 11s than ever this year!

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6 years

Three case studies to revise in tomorrow’s year 11 lessons. This should do it! Thanks to @KKNTeachLearn and @Jennnnnn_x for the idea! 👍

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4 years

The level of tiredness at the end of a half term in autumn is insane! Three...days...to...go...

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Jo Payne

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5 years

Lazy afternoon in the sun! ☀️ This is why we moved house (again!!) #sixhomesintenyears #nevermovinghouseagain #lovewhereyoulive #devonlife

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6 years

Today we are putting up the tree, reading The Christmasaurus as a family and we’re also booked on our annual trip with The Train to Christmas Town 🎅🏼 I’ve worked both days of the weekend since half term; today is for all of us 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

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6 years

Next year is exciting! Back in a classroom after two peripatetic years, still Head of Humanities & back to Geography Subject Leader too, plus 1.5 days of Teaching School work running the School Direct programme for the secondary phase. Just as busy but ALL my favourite things!

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3 years

I love a good parents evening. It doesn’t get better than a parent telling me they’ll give me a discount in their stationery shop because they’ve heard I’m quite obsessed with stationery 😌

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3 years

Sunny day in Padstow to celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary #april12th

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Jo Payne

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6 years

One of my favourite holiday moments was when we played I Spy and one of my 7-year-old daughters said ‘I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B’ The answer was BASALT! She’s been taught well 😊🌋 #daughterofageographyteacher #startthemyoung

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4 years

On the interview panel today for the new Head of Humanities to replace me in September. Delighted with the appointment. I will be leaving the team in safe hands.

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3 years

Apologies all, I cannot stop liking and retweeting scenes of the eruption in Iceland! Holding out until tomorrow evening before I put a few slides together to share next week 🌋🇮🇸🌍 #geographyteacher

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4 years

Any teachers in school over Easter with the children of key workers? What are you planning to do for activities? I’m in school over the next three days.

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2 years

Someone convince @neiljpayne that we need this little boy in our lives! 🐾

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3 years

Enjoyed putting together and editing another KS3 booklet for the summer term. Realised I’m Iceland obsessed. There’s a lesson in here about Iceland and one in the Resources booklet too. You can never learn too much about Iceland! 🌍🇮🇸 #geographyteacher

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