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1 year

Front door photos from Reception to Year 11. Photo complete.

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8 months

Champagne on a school night? Must mean I got the job! New Headteacher of Belper School from September! Woo Hoo!

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This is very cool… I was taught Maths by Mr Mosley when I was at 6th form in 1990. I then taught Mr Mosley’s son A level maths several years later. Today I’ve found out that Mr Mosley is my son’s 6th Form tutor and A level maths teacher!

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3 years

As a Forest fan, I have to say ‘Save Derby’. This is terrible.

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3 years

Now is the time to be heard. #dcfc #dcfcfans @EFL

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2 months

First day of Sixth Form…

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1 year

Went to put an advert out for an Art teacher today and was told our TES account has expired and would cost (sorry, what????) £17000 to renew. Hahahahahahahahahaha

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1 month

First week as Headteacher has been brilliant. I love my school!

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3 years

Come on #nffc fans- sign this. Next week can’t be the last Forest Derby match. Cloughie will be turning in his grave. #dcfc #SaveDerby Sports minister to look into the ongoing situation between the EFL & Derby County - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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Sports minister to look into the ongoing situation between the EFL & Derby County

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1 year

@scuba_dooba_doo It annoys me beyond belief.

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2 months

First day of my 30th year and first as a headteacher! Happy New Year to everyone who is starting back today.

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8 months

When I got to my office the morning! I have the best colleagues!

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5 months

Sports fixtures at local private schools: ‘you’re on cricket pitch number 6’. How we all laugh as we lament our cricket strip that the local authority lawn mower drove through 20 years ago and we haven’t had the funds to replace. Politics of envy? No, it’s politics of equity.

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“I'm sorry but your going to have to cut your cloth accordingly like state schools have had to for 14 years” Labour’s Wes Streeting defends plans to charge VAT on private schools fees to pay for state school teachers #bbcqt

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4 years

Is it just me? I just can’t see them being organised enough to deliver all the tests to every school in time for the start of the new term. They couldn’t even deliver the laptops six months after they were promised.

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4 years

@debrakidd @educationgovuk Apparently standardising to a lower grade isn’t downgrading. Who knew? And in bold type they boast that 96% were the same as the CAG or within one grade, as if the ‘within one grade’ bit isn’t the part that screwed over thousands of students.

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2 years

@AutisticCallum_ @Sara_Rose_G Don’t know if I’m autistic (v. high probability) but this happens to me regularly! This week at Zumba someone asked why one of the others wasn’t there. I said ‘it’s her husband’s birthday’. I went to school with him 35 years ago. Haven’t seen him since. Quickly added ‘I think’.

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3 years

@Nick_Pettigrew @miss_mcinerney Sense of duty is something no one in the cabinet seems to understand. Too busy with their sense of entitlement.

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2 months

Social media showing me that students from my first tutor group are celebrating their 40th birthdays this year. I know I’m getting on, but this one hit hard!

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4 years

@Samfr Some of the data-obsessed seem to forget that students are human beings who don’t perform uniformly on the day for a myriad of reasons. Would love to see anyone in any profession predict human performance with 100% accuracy. It’s not possible.

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2 years

Can you learn how to do remote learning, like tomorrow? Sure. Test and Trace? Sure. CAGs? TAGs? Yep, no worries. Can you recover from 2 yrs of disrupted routines/learning - quickly now…? We’re on it. Can you change your exam system? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, LEAVE US ALONE FOR 5 MINS

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2 years

"Our current pen-and-paper exam system is hopelessly outdated": so here at @ASCL_UK we welcome @ofqual 's ambition to consider the use of technology in exams: @tes

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3 years

@AQA Remember that schools are PAYING for this shoddy service.

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1 year

An update… They offered to lower it to £11K or single ad to £1500, which begs the question - why were you trying to rob an extra £6K off us in the first place? They know this is tax payers’ money. It’s just not on.

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@matildewarden

1 year

Went to put an advert out for an Art teacher today and was told our TES account has expired and would cost (sorry, what????) £17000 to renew. Hahahahahahahahahaha

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4 years

@laura_shoe_lady @SchoolsWeek Also shout SCHOOLS STILL HAVE TO PAY EXAM BOARDS LOTS OF MONEY WHILE WE DO ALL THE WORK.

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1 year

@lwtboi @scuba_dooba_doo Thank you so much! How lovely of you to take the time to do that 😊

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4 years

@BBCBreakfast @SimonJonesNews “Simon explains what happens next”. If the next tweet isn’t that Simon helped them out of their boat into a safe boat rather than continuing to film then he should be utterly ashamed of himself.

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1 year

@RobGBelt I have no idea how old it is. It was here 20 years ago when we moved in!

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4 years

@andrealeadsom Love how all the MPs are pretending they care about the children again. Remember last week, when you didn’t care if they had enough food?

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2 months

@englishspecial Somebody I know coloured the stitching in with a Sharpie pen when they were told they weren’t uniform!

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3 years

@mattlewis73 @peterrowlett Why aren’t jokes in base 8 funny? Because 7 10 11.

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4 years

@kateowbridge Also, people don’t say to the parents that their child with the broken leg will lose £x of future earnings because they’ve missed learning time.

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3 years

@BarryNSmith79 @StuartLock Men making comments about skirt length is really something that should have been left in the last century.

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1 year

@jshmtn At one school my head said he couldn’t ‘allow’ me to go to a good friend’s husband’s funeral paid or unpaid as he wasn’t immediate family (the policy). I told him I would be going and he could deal with me afterwards. Imagine not being there for a friend on a day like that.

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4 years

@Miss_Snuffy Girls from our Trust did similar in Nottingham: Black Lives Matter: Nottingham protesters clean up graffiti

Black Lives Matter: Nottingham protesters clean up graffiti

A group of teenagers spent hours cleaning up, saying they did not want the "true meaning" to be lost.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@matildewarden

2 years

@lewis_goodall Let’s have the commentators boycotting now please. They can’t play the matches without commentary.

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4 years

@jemrileyy Never. Walked past someone I recognised in the park the other day. Said to my husband ‘she was in the year above’. I’m 47.

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1 year

@PolitlcsUK @FT And she has the cheek to talk about ‘hate’ marches. Can’t think of anyone more hate-filled than Suella Braverman. This is truly vile.

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@matildewarden

10 months

A bit rushed to get it made in the last lesson of the term today, and a bit wonky in places, but here is our fractal Christmas tree. We finally break up this afternoon! Merry Christmas!

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1 year

@RealGeoffBarton @guardian Pretty sure it was the first thing they did when they got into office. The school where I was working at the time had just been given the go ahead to start the build!

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@matildewarden

7 years

2 of our AQA Eng Lang remarks have come back 10 marks higher in one paper - 2 grades higher. 5 kids grades changed so far. Not good enough.

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4 years

@adamboxer1 Why do a job once when you can do it three or four times?

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2 months

“Three questions on South East Asia in the 11th Century” Warner - “Let’s Goooo” #UniversityChallenge

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1 month

No school uniform at our secondary school. It doesn’t cause the problems you think it does. It removes so many unnecessary negative interactions too.

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Would it be better for UK schools do just ditch school uniforms completely? Stories almost daily now about how parents are disgusted with one uniform rule or another, then you have the cost issue etc. is it worth it? Other countries don’t have them and seem to do ok?

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1 year

@SchoolsWeek Maybe those at the DfE who are asking for this should volunteer their children to be taught by those who were initially rejected.

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3 years

Prime Minister: I didn’t know I was breaking laws I created. 7 year olds all over the country:

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@LocksHeathCC

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@10DowningStreet @BorisJohnson @piersmorgan #belikejosephine

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2 years

@jshmtn @Miss_M_Maths Been teaching 27 years and have absolutely no idea what this Pirate Game is! #confessiontime

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2 years

@miss_mcinerney They’re also forgetting how many staff were very ill and that we were already having to send year groups home as there weren’t enough staff. On the day before the government announced the closure I was the only member of SLT left in school. We only had two year groups in.

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2 years

The first Sunday night of the summer holidays is hands down the best night of the year. Happy holidays to all my teacher friends! (apologies to my Nottm/Notts friends who unbelievably still haven’t broken up yet) #summerholidays #teacherlife

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2 years

The stone with 12 angles! Love finding a dodecagon in the wild. Inca building in Cusco.

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7 years

@jonsnowC4 'I'm losing the argument - quick! Talk about immigration'. - Michael Gove.

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4 months

Last night @belperschool went to London for the Just Like Us Award Ceremony and we won The Secondary School Diversity Week Award! @JustLikeUsUK

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4 years

Meanwhile, in Nottingham (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) #ClaphamCommon

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1 year

Was just having a coffee at an event in London when another delegate came up to me and said ‘I’m not sure if you remember me but you used to teach me’. I do remember - it was 28 years ago! She was year 7 when I started in 1995!

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1 year

A happy ending… we put our ad on the free DfE site and were very grateful for lots of reposts on here. Yesterday we interviewed two teachers who were both great. Delighted to have employed a great Art teacher for January. Phew!

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1 year

Went to put an advert out for an Art teacher today and was told our TES account has expired and would cost (sorry, what????) £17000 to renew. Hahahahahahahahahaha

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2 months

In stationery heaven as my son asked me to help him file away his new A level notes. However, he reached for a red folder for maths. Surely, maths is blue??

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1 year

This is just incredible. What strength 💔 #NottinghamTogether

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“This evil person is just that. He is just a person. Please hold no hate that relates to any colour, sex or religion”. Barnaby Webber’s mother delivers a powerful tribute to her late son. #TalkTV | #Nottingham

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4 years

Today was vaccine day! #COVIDVaccination #Pfizer

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4 years

@miss_mcinerney If someone is messing around like this on a remote lesson at school, we remove them from the call. I think they need some stricter protocols for remote #PMQs

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1 year

I’ve been to more than 30 proms over the years, but tonight was the first time I’ve seen anyone arrive in a helicopter!

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4 years

@EmathsUK “Makes no sense as a strategic move” can be applied to most moves made since last March.

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4 years

@DanielBundred As behaviour lead, the amount of times I’ve seen an incident escalate into something huge because a teacher has triggered a reaction that was completely avoidable, if only they had read the child’s profile on what not to say/do to avoid said situation is ridiculous.

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@TabitaSurge I have been there (not a stroke but severe brain illness) and was sent home multiple times. Ended up completely deaf, almost blind and unable to walk before I was taken seriously. Thankfully caught in time for all to be reversible, but shouldn’t have got so far before being seen

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@Strickomaster At another school I asked if I could arrive 1/2 hr late so I could take my son to first day of school. They said no because ‘then everyone would ask’. So? As it happened I was working at a different school in September and they said ‘of course! Why wouldn’t we let you go?’

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For #tshirtday today I thought I’d wear one from the year I started teaching - 1995 Blur at Mile End. This makes this tshirt older than lots of the staff at school. I need new clothes! @BBC6Music @blurofficial

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4 years

@gideonrachman It already is. We often use government graphs to teach about how to manipulate data to say whatever you want it to say.

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6 months

We’re now in the purgatory between filling all our teacher vacancies and resignation deadline day…

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4 months

Did my first Yr6 induction evening for parents as Head (even though I don’t start until September!). What wonderful, supportive parents we have. It’s all getting very exciting.

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1 year

What a great summer that was! Excited to start the new year now though. 29th year of teaching - HERE WE GO. Happy New Year everyone!

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3 years

@edsouthall My maiden name was Miss Aad (pronounced Add). Lots of people call me Tilde. My uni tutor used to write my name as ~+

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4 years

@KirstieMAllsopp Schools are allowing vulnerable children to attend school as before. Please don’t use them as an excuse to reopen schools prematurely. However if you do want to help in the future, please vote for a government who don’t decimate the very services that help these children.

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@lyratulips Doormat, door, house…

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1 year

On what was the last day of GCSEs for many of our students, one of our invigilators came to find me to show me a message a student had written on the Physics formula sheet. My heart sank as I wondered what had been written, and then I saw this… we have the best exams team!

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@matildewarden

2 years

I’ve been employing maths teachers from @UoN_ITE for many years now and am delighted to say we have employed another excellent PGCE student from there again today. Excellent training shone through in both the lesson and interview today.

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1 year

@RogersHistory Trust Central Teams (saying that as someone who has been on one)

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2 months

Happy results day everyone! For the first time in 29 years, I won’t be with my students while they pick up their results. This year I’ll be on the other side with my boy as he picks up his.

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@RogersHistory If the teacher is genuinely ‘not up to it’ and it is already known by your boss, then a strong support package should already have been put in place. If not, they are shirking their responsibility and just indulging in toxic gossip.

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3 years

Forgot to switch my alarm off for the first day of the holidays but I don’t even care because now I can lie here and revel in the fact that there is no school today.

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4 years

@adamboxer1 Those on SLT without significant HOD experience can sometimes make the HOD role far more difficult/pressurised than it needs to be for others (especially in a core subject) by making decisions without the benefit of a HOD lens.

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6 years

A classroom full of observers watching the lesson and my kids smashed it! I told them that if we’d paid a million pounds, we couldn’t have had a better advert for our school. I was so proud of them.

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Saw fantastic (mixed ability) lesson yesterday on forming and solving quadratics! Well done @matildewarden and thanks!

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Have mixed attmnt in yrs 7/8 after being vehemently against it for past 20 yrs. Must admit I was wrong. Won't go back to sets. #mathscpdchat

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@ScottPughsley Another one… kids were making 2-minute timers for a project. Some had made water-based timers and were asking how they would bring water into school. I said ‘don’t worry about bringing in water because I’ve got two massive jugs’. Thought the TA was going to die.

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@DrDavidBoyce It’s a tool. It’s OK to understand things AND also use a tool. I don’t think they were around when I was at school, but as an adult I always visualise the SDT triangle when calculating (usually on a long road trip) even though I have a maths degree with a heavy physics content.

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3 years

Wordle 265 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Woo hoo!

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4 years

@Samfr Love how we find everything out from the front pages after 10pm.

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@ScottPughsley Might try it out on Monday. See how that pans out.

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1 year

@bennewmark It was all a show. We knew when they were coming so spent weeks perfecting and practising our ‘Ofsted lessons’. A specialist saw an A level lesson of mine & said it was the ‘best he’d ever seen’ -we’d practised it 4 times. Students had even planned which q’s they’d ask and when!

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@WiggumCharm @Nottinghasm Knock the whole thing down and make a beautiful city park with bars and restaurants. Great views of the castle too. The city isn’t big enough for two shopping centres. (I know this is not something that can happen in reality because money)

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We used this as our teaching and learning framework at BBA and at BMA after I got back from IMPULS in Japan with Alan Shoenfeld. It’s a great framework for all subjects, not just maths @FrearsonRachael @BuffhamClare @Bluecoat_B_dale @Meres_Academy @geoffwake1

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This really helps to bring it alive too.

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@LKMco @Miss_Snuffy @Policy_Exchange I don’t recognise this as my experience pre-Gove. The whole ‘not allowed’ thing just depended on who your Headteacher was and whether they were a hoop jumper or not.

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3 years

@Kirsty_H220 @RaeSnape Buttermere. But the weather isn’t always this nice!

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@matildewarden

8 months

School trips can sometimes be pretty stressful to organise, but I’m really having the best time with our year 11’s skiing in Andorra. Makes all the planning worthwhile. If you’ve never been on a school residential, have a go!

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@matildewarden

7 years

We have now had 8 Eng Lang marks move up a grade. There were only 84 in the cohort! Maybe a 10% discount on entries next year to match?

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1 year

@Mouhssin_Ismail Students still achieve the highest grades in mixed attainment groups, so not really sure what ‘sacrifice’ you’re talking about here.

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@matildewarden

9 months

Feels like this is the kind of thing we could have done with knowing before we did our sixth form open evenings/applications/interviews and curriculum planning for next year 🙄

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@Just_Maths

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This could have staffing & timetabling implications for September if you have resits …

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This is so true. Attempting to ‘fix behaviour’ is like applying a tiny sticking plaster on a huge gaping wound. Any incoming government must address the criminal lack of funding and provision for complex needs and SEMH.

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@MrT39476291 @Gwenelope A year 7 project was to make a 2-min timer at home and bring in to test. Some of them had made water based ones and were asking what to do. I said ‘don’t worry about bringing water in as I’ve got two massive jugs’. Thought my TA was going to die laughing.

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2 years

@Strickomaster Some of us from non-English backgrounds have families that do no fit the very narrow definition of ‘close family’. We may also come from cultures where non-attendance at a funeral is deeply disrespectful. Not only is it archaic, it is discriminatory.

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1 year

@BBradley_Mans @splootman Any chance of a title, labelled axes and a scale? Asking for our year 7 maths classes.

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1 year

Well that was a day! So much rain that parts of the ceiling gave way in a couple of areas - luckily nowhere near the students! Thank goodness we closed early. The roads now are impassable in many areas now. Just one week to go!

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@Just_Maths Trying to calculate the full answer when it clearly said ‘estimate’.

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