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Sue Cowley

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UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers. Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 2d

I hope people will forgive me for posting a screenshot of this lovely feedback from elsewhere. ☺️ #EduSky

AHoward says 'Fantastic Primary Behaviour coaching session for ITT with @Sue_Cowley this evening! Monday motivation for sure! Confident communication. Flexible responses. Verbal & non verbal. Supporting self regulation & of course, take risks. #ITT #SCITT #EduTwitter @NASBTT'

Geoff Barton replies, 'Yes, Sue is a class act. No silly gimmickry or frothy rhetoric; Sue is about building the skill-set of every teacher.'

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so sorry to hear about that Ben. Awful.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

Reception class is counted as 'childcare' in the official statistics which surprised me when I found out.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

The term after they turn five they have to be in 'full time education' not necessarily school. But take up of funding at age 3 is over 95%.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

I should probably clarify that it's not a class teacher but more a teacher in a senior role in education. And it was quoting a Sun reporter so there you go. 😒🤷‍♀️

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

The funding is to adapt classrooms but the point is that it's part of the role. Unless they mean Year 1 which is technically the start of school but even then you can't legally ban them.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

Yes I absolutely do understand that it's very difficult for schools to have children who are not toilet trained in class but if you read the post that's my point. With schools taking younger and younger children it's just part of the role when you work with this age group. You adapt to meet needs.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

There's this thing where people think 'someone else has to do that' but who is the someone else? Early years colleagues.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

Reception isn't school though it's an EY setting. I mean they probably did mean Yr.R but my point still stands. Where does he want them to go? They're legally entitled to education.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

Block obviously.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

If you're going to follow me just in order to be rude I go straight to blick btw. So 👋🏼

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

What is meant then? Technically Year 1 is the start of school. But if they're in school at age two, when is it going to happen?

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

They're funding the expansion with millions of pounds.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 6h

Schools as in primaries opening provision for two year olds in 'spare classrooms' apparently.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

But also the assumption here is presumably that you either (illegally) ban them from their entitlement to an education or you assume that they just stay in an early years setting for practitioners to do it, as though our staff are 'less' than yours. 🤷‍♀️

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

I have just seen a teacher posting that children shouldn't be allowed to start school until they are toilet trained. The DfE wants more and more schools to take children from two years old. When and where do you think they are going to be toilet trained? 🤷‍♀️

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 7h

This digital guide I made to go together with my new Tree ID pin badge is available for free at canopyrobin.com/uktrees/ as a personal/educational resource.
Enjoy!
#SciArt🌳🧪🌍

Lots of illustrated labelled leaves of British trees

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 7h

FREE! BEAUTIFUL! A calming, meditative & beautiful space right in Central London, on Bedford Sq. Spend some time with Ursula's maps & words – there's a display of her books to browse & THE WORD FOR WORLD book is available to purchase (see the next post in the thread for details).

Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 7h

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

They gave testing kits to early years settings in schools. Just not PVI.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

Yes I'd agree. Bubble is going to pop.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

The way that early years settings were treated during the pandemic was unforgivable. All the staff that were working at preschool at the time have since left the profession.

Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 7h

The DfE told early years settings that we had to stay fully open to all children after the first lockdown *and they didn't even provide us with any tests*. I was literally taking spare ones that my kids got given at school and passing them onto our staff.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 7h

The permanent secretary of the DfE tells the Covid Inquiry she was 'confident' her team would have been able to deliver mass covid testing in schools to fend off a second round of closures in January 2021
schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-was-conf...

Covid Inquiry: DfE 'confident' it could rollout mass testing

Susan Acland-Hood, permanent secretary of the Department for Education, told the Covid Inquiry she was "confident" over plans to rollout testing in schools.

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social · 8h

I'm tired of seeing discredited metaphors like 'architecture' and 'computer' to describe how the brain works. This description of the human brain is so very limited and lacking in complexity, creativity or even accuracy, that the pedagogy that is claimed to serve it must be equally flawed.