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2 months

A day like this 34 years ago I was crying inconsolably in my bedroom on a council estate in South London I had messed up my A- levels and lost my place for medical school. I needed 3 Cs I got 2 x N and a U!! (yes read that again) Family dreams of Diana becoming a doctor in

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3 years

This 🔥

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4 years

I just heard a booming voice downstairs in the living room, “Morning 10D... let’s get started”. My husband teaching computer science online. I’m filled with love for him and our great profession 💕. Well done everyone, just well done ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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3 years

I didn’t know this …

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4 months

@woofknight Wait.... You mean it didn't???, I'm 52 - I've just realised what was going on in that rhyme OH MY GOODNESS I get it now

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10 months

@rebeccajsmithw1 I'm 6ft, I've been this tall since I was 11 Now when random people say 'ooh you're tall' I say No I'm not That's it, then I wait for their next move 🤣

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5 years

It’s my birthday, hubby bought my present early so he would not forget, but left it in the car

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3 years

If this is how you made your calls during your teenage years - we are family 🤩

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3 years

I am 50 today, it’s the year of Jubilee🤩 Those that know- know ⭐️🎉🎉

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4 years

'To be a black, female headteacher is phenomenal'. 💕💕

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4 years

Don’t attempt leadership on your own. Take it from me, that’s a mugs game! Talk, get a decent coach, and sit at the feet of elders who have been there. 🌸

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4 months

This is the second Muslim woman appointed to the position of CEO of a MAT in the UK -Rahana Yasmin @leightrustb8 , Birmingham 1- we celebrate her achievement, 2- There are only 2 Muslim women in the COUNTRY who are in this position 2.

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4 years

Just finished reading Radical Candour by Kim Scott Oh my days..... Every leader needs to read this

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11 months

I'm on a flight back from working in Indonesia Got an upgrade to business 😌 They gave me a drinks menu - - are these included? - is there a limit? - I mean how does this work, do I get the whole bottle like in the picture? - a Cuba libre looks exactly like a rum & coke to

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5 years

I thrive when I’m loved. Today I felt the love from 500 middle leaders as they start their @Ambition_Inst leadership training. Our young people are in fantastic hands with leaders like these at the helm of our schools “middle”. #keynotespeaker

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@diana_osagie

1 year

En route to Vietnam for a keynote and to train senior leaders Shout out to @qatarairways 😊 Customer service just amazing I feel special 😌

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Twitter, I need you! Just had one of the most emotional phone calls with an ex-employee, tears and everything😢 He worked for me for 11 years as a groundskeeper and gardening man. He actually has a Masters degree in forestry and agriculture. He came to the UK to escape war 1/2

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2 years

You know when you are teaching the nuances of political astuteness to leaders - but you keep getting distracted by your very PRETTY SHOES ! 🤣 #shoesaddict

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4 years

I don’t really get nervous, but something big is happening today! From today, Academy of Women’s Leadership will exist. No homework, pre work, reading. Engaging with curriculum once a month that will change EVERYTHING. Ok... I’m a bit excited! (Very) DM me for details

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4 years

I’m recruiting an assistant to come and sort my life out 😊. 10 hours per week, work from home, do my admin. Must be willing to become an employee of my company (not self employed) and willing to indulge my Haribo habit. DM me if you know anyone? Pls RT 💕

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4 years

When a head teacher says ‘thank you for being there for me’. Sometimes I love what I do 💕

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4 months

When I coach you I got you D x

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2 years

Top tip for keynote speaking ? Make a paper bib at breakfast so you don’t get beans on your dress 🤣

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4 years

School leaders, I’m thinking of you. #leadership #WomenEd

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3 years

Before and after! We must never shut hairdressers again 😡.

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4 years

I will just say this. In everything you do as a leader, this one thing is central to it all Be a master of building relationships with all types of people. That’s it 🌸. #AcademyOfWomen #leadership #randomcatpic

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@diana_osagie

3 years

Oh yes 🤣🤣

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3 years

Will you do a keynote for us , we heard you are really good 😊? Ok ⭐️ We know your fee, but can we pay half as it will be an online event ? Only if you want me to be half as good 😡 Silence - crickets - tumbleweed

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@diana_osagie

5 years

My book is here, actually in my hand. Launching it at the Courageous Leadership Conference, October 17

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5 years

You’re a senior leader in any school in this great nation of ours and you are ready to start your MA Educational Leadership and management. What if I told you it’s already paid for? Would you DM me your name and school ? Course you would 😊. Go on then!

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Something new this way comes Courageous Leadership - The Podcast. October 31st 2020

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@diana_osagie

8 months

THIS is The Academy of Women's Leadership Conference 🔥 I'm still getting messages of how it changed and encouraged delegates lives. We are ready to go again Birmingham 22nd June 2024 I've stopped shopping on Facebook 🤣

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@diana_osagie

4 years

I rarely do video,my hair looks funny (but this is important)

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3 years

Hubby threw a surprise birthday party for me yesterday 💕 what do I do with all this leftover ??

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@diana_osagie

4 years

I’ve been busy making stuff for you .. launching in December - The Courageous Leadership Podcast 🎉 - The Courageous Leadership online course (for all leaders, in all sectors) December 🎉 - The ‘new Head teacher’ online support package, 🎉🎉🎉 -Leadership gift boxes.

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@diana_osagie

11 months

Coming soon- Sponsorships for Girls football teams in UK schools from The Academy of Women's Leadership 👏 Drop a yes below if you want to be tagged into the release post next week

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@diana_osagie

4 years

From October 2020- The Academy of Women’s Leadership Want to know more? Put a yes in the comments or DM me 🌸. And it’s all online ! This will change EVERYTHING

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@diana_osagie

5 years

Shed tears this morning, 😢 Got a text from mum. Delete the standing order of £250 I give her monthly for the past 5 years as support. “ You have nothing in the diary as schools cancel support, you need it more than I do” she says. Her love overwhelms me.

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@diana_osagie

9 months

Ok - I'm so jumping up and down like a demented 6ft rabbit 🤣 My 3rd book is out now on Amazon The Courageous Life & Leadership Planner 🔥 For leaders everywhere (Big writing, easy words, humour and truth- you know my style 😉)

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@diana_osagie

3 years

Something BIG this way comes 🤩 🎁 It’s free ⭐️ It’s fabulous 😉 It’s gonna change everything ✅13 September - 6.30pm GMT Put a YES in the comments and tag in every woman you know ! Get on the list 💕

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@diana_osagie

4 years

#ourncejourney is about to begin online with 240 leaders starting their MA today

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@diana_osagie

4 years

DHT( tall, built, young black woman). DHT (small build, older white woman) Duty together 5 days a week 11 years. Yr7 boys- Miss where’s your sister today? Huh? The other lady who stands here with you? You think we are sisters? Yeah, you’re both called deputy head aren't you? 😳

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@diana_osagie

1 year

I did this thing I wrote a second book 5 chapters - The book is a bit like me - lovely, but to the point and no faffing 😅 Chapter one – Why do you take it in? Mistake one – You internalise and take the negativity of the workplace personally, even when it’s nothing to

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Yep ... it’s that sort of Saturday 🌸

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@diana_osagie

3 years

I’m in a good mood 😁 Be one of the first 10 colleagues who are starting their headship in September to reply ,’ heck yeah’, and I’ll post you a free copy of my book. It’s like a bible of stupid mistakes you should avoid, ‘coz I did ‘em already 🤩🤩

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@diana_osagie

3 years

Just found out my neighbours husband committed suicide last week in the woodlands across from our houses. He was 47 married with 2 grown children. He felt he had nothing to live for 😞. Advice on how to be a good neighbour to her at this time ?

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4 years

You can do this ...

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Free WiFi connection vouchers for school to issue to pupils who need them. Pls claim for pupils in your schools and RT 🌸

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@diana_osagie

2 months

Yep 🤩 Today is the day the Lord has made I REJOICE and I'm glad in it I'm 53 🔥

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@diana_osagie

2 years

Are you courageous in your leadership to get the loud person to pipe down a minute? (Graphic not mine- if you know who made it, tag them please)

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@diana_osagie

4 months

Keynote by day Princess by night 🤣 Time for #REND @thePA_CT

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@diana_osagie

11 months

Twitter hive mind - I need you 😊 Putting together a free webinar on best practice for welcoming and supporting daily & short term supply colleagues in schools. If you do this well, would you share below what you do and why it works? I'll collate and the free webinar will be

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@diana_osagie

6 years

It took years to get comfortable with being me & come to terms with ‘stuff’. 6ft tall, black and bright. The80s were not ready for that! I want to go back and wipe the inward tears of my 15 year old self and tell her that it all comes together and that a life of influence awaits.

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@diana_osagie

4 years

in Bosnia and now redundant. Anything at all would be welcome, 1-2 days a week, anything. He is based in Wood Green North London. If you can offer employment I would take it as a huge personal favour.💓 Please DM me and retweet, I desperately want to ring and give good news

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@diana_osagie

5 years

Had 180 SLT respond, ‘heck yeah, gimme info on a free MA Educational Leadership and Management. Middle leaders it’s your turn 🤗. Wanna study for a level 5 diploma in Education Management? Yep, cost is sorted for you already! DM me your school, trust and an email. Dare you!

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@diana_osagie

1 year

About to keynote for @SevernAcademies The stairs up to the stage look precarious #faceplant 😱

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@diana_osagie

1 year

The authentic me is a messy & gobby You sure you are ready for authentic leadership? - maybe not messy so that you can tell, I like my environment tidy. But growing up in poverty means I still find it hard to resist a buffet 😆 I might be sat in a fine dining restaurant, but

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@diana_osagie

3 months

#REND Luton And the night begins ....

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Just woke up from a crazy, messed up, anxious dream I used to have as a head teacher😱. I’ve taken on an exec- headship and I feel the nonsense cycles trying to start in my mind. Gonna do some kicking to the kerb 😡

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@diana_osagie

9 months

Women in leadership up north .... Are in the UK and past the Watford Gap, I mean proper up north 👌 If I lay on a one day summer retreat in your territory (somewhere like Bolton or Manchester or Birmingham), would you attend? My events are always ' down South' coz that's my

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@diana_osagie

5 years

@MissLLewis @Teacherglitter Talking with a head teacher yesterday. We are both sick of hearing that Covid 19 is a leveller and does not discriminate. Self isolation in a 4 bed house with a garden is VERY different to doing it in a flat on the 16 floor with a family of 6 sharing two bedrooms.

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@diana_osagie

5 years

Sunday evening, I’m marking MEd essays. Other things on my mind and found myself having a mental ‘wobble’. Rang my coach, quick chat, will meet up next week to talk through. I am constantly reminded of how I foolishly attempted head ship on my own without a coach. DONT DO IT!

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Don’t lose sight of life ...

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3 years

One of my Coachee’s has just been appointed to head ship… I’m more excited than she is 🥳

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@diana_osagie

1 year

I'm speaking at a conference in Wales- On the agenda is @FloellaBenjamin I was so excited- had decided I was fully prepared to tackle security to the floor to get a selfie She's on the zoom I'm crushed 😔 I wanted to hug her so much I'm a Playschool baby

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@diana_osagie

4 years

I had a whole marketing strategy worked out.🤔 - All sorts of fanfare and shenanigans Then I thought, I am genuinely knackered and I just haven’t got the oomph for this 😬 The Courageous Leadership podcast is out now in loads of podcasty places. 🎉🎉 There we go. Job done

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@diana_osagie

3 years

Just this 💕

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8 months

The Courageous Life & Leadership Planner Month by month Provoke Challenge Love Encourage D x

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@diana_osagie

4 years

Courageous Leadership The Podcast! Catch up on the Mistakes, Mishaps & Triumphs of some great leaders . New episode out every Monday🤩

Courageous Leadership • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

You are leader? Then you are in the courageous business! Leadership demands so much and at the heart of this is COURAGE. Join Diana as she explores the courage (and other emotions) that effective...

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@diana_osagie

4 years

14 bitesize episodes of leadership learning, laughter and all sorts. Subscribe and let me download some gems to your phone every Monday 🌸

Courageous Leadership • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

You are leader? Then you are in the courageous business! Leadership demands so much and at the heart of this is COURAGE. Join Diana as she explores the courage (and other emotions) that effective...

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@diana_osagie

1 year

En route to Vietnam for a keynote and to train senior leaders 😊 Short lady next to me struggling to get her bag into the overhead locker I am 6ft tall I do nothing to help Why? Beacause on a flight to Bermuda my husband helped a short bloke put his bag up When we landed,

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1 year

Opened more spaces on the one day retreat experience from The Academy of Women's Leadership 🔥 Reset, Reaffirm, Release Come spend some time with me D x @Ethical_Leader

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@diana_osagie

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I just saw a pupil literally 'skipping' up the hill to school He was on his own Singing to himself Probably year 7 Skipping @StockwoodPk he was wearing your uniform 🤩 Clearly a school where it's joy to be a pupil @Mr_H1978 D

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@diana_osagie

5 years

SLT in a school in England? Your MA Educational Leadership and Management is paid for. Yeah I said it. Only a sceptical muppet wouldn’t DM me for more info!

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4 years

Look what has just landed on my desk, great weekend reading 🌸

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3 years

I told you last week 😳 ‘Something BIG this way comes’ 🎉🎉 Free 🎉 Fabulous 🎉 For every woman who is a leader in the workplace I am bursting just thinking about it 6.30pm GMT Monday 13th September You miss this, you will kick yourself 🔥 Drop a ‘ oh yeah’ or DM me💕

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@diana_osagie

4 years

@MissLongland I was a 6ft black woman in my 40’s, my colleague was a 5ft 2 white woman in her late 50’s. Year 7 pupils thought we were sisters as we were both called “deputy head” 🤪

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@diana_osagie

2 years

I am not shopping in Bangkok I have not spent a shed load on kashmir scarves I will not buy any shoes

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@diana_osagie

1 year

Just finishing this.... Beautifully written letters to the next generation of black school leaders. To every assistant head- you should be pushing for deputy headship To every deputy - you must push and step into headship The elders are here with support, challenge and love

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@diana_osagie

11 months

7 keynotes across the country in 2 weeks A very happy but tired Diana Thank you @COBISorg @ISBL_news @BEPvoice @CofE_EduLead @AleishiaLewis @son1bun @MyCafcass @WiganCouncil @HarperGreen

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@diana_osagie

3 years

A head teacher from Northern Ireland called me on Friday about 4.30pm, I was driving and didn’t take a number, it’s not showing on my calls on my phone and I have no email address for him 😱 I need him to get back in touch! Pls help RT (a long shot, but #edutwitter can do it!)

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4 years

We have just launched The Academy of Women’s Leadership 2nd cohort. If you wanted to join, missed the deadline lost the email the cat ate your application Don’t worry 😉 Another cohort will start in October 2021!

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@diana_osagie

5 years

Out with a group of great women, told them “Oh i think my book is out today” checked my phone on Amazon .... we all had cake !!

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4 years

You are all resting...right?

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4 years

Your boss is a muppet 🤪. How do you manage up? 10 best answers and I’ll post you a copy of my book Courageous Leadership!

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@diana_osagie

5 months

Poverty can rob you of the dignity of choice I heard a leader say this and I stopped. 🤔 I am not sure I agree, I am challenged, - the next moment I wholeheartedly agree. I grew up in relative poverty When I was young we never had enough My brother came along when I

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4 years

I’m normally bright, breezy, & lemon squeezy. Now I spent nearly a year in the house with hubby and I’m feel like a dragon on steroids. 😡 So I better take my own leadership advice... BEWARE of making permanent decisions based on negative temporary feelings. 🤔

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3 years

If leadership has been tough for you this year - breathe⭐️

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4 years

Don’t take the potential of your life to your grave. Leave it in the earth invested in the lives of others and the world around you. (Bit deep, but I can’t help it 🥴)

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3 years

These women teach and coach on The Academy of Women’s Leadership 🌸. They will change your life!

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3 years

@Doctob But they can pronounce Tchaikovsky in a heartbeat

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3 years

Quick, whilst it’s half time, I’m donating £250 of book tokens from @Bookishcrick to 4 primary schools to boost your library. To get one, tweet me a pic of your school dog and I’ll pick the 4 cutest. The 4 winners will be chosen on Monday noon. Pls RT 💕

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4 years

Vulnerability in leadership yes or no? Join me #SLTchat tomorrow 8pm. Let’s talk 🌸

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5 years

“Balloons don’t float because of their colour, balloon float because of their content” Focus on the content of your character. @Actionjackson said the morning. Encouragement for everyone 🤗

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It’s half term, you made it !

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