Hayley Simpkin
@pipkinzoo.bsky.social
Enjoying a return to KS3- KS5 science in the East Midlands after more years than I care to admit doing things like working in SEMH, setting up and running school farms, and teaching a myriad of vocational qualifications
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The Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee, MiSAC, announces its Annual Schools Competition. Find out about this and explore the fantastic microbiology resources at www.misac.org.uk
MiSAC – Promoting microbiology in schools since 1969
www.misac.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Microbiology in Schools Advisory Committee, MiSAC, announces its Annual Schools Competition. Find out about this and explore the fantastic microbiology resources at www.misac.org.uk
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OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OK hear me out. Celebrity Traitors but with the cast of Slow Horses, all in character.
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We've published our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report and the Government's response today. We'd welcome views from our members.
👉https://www.ase.org.uk/news/ase-response-publication-of-curriculum-and-assessment-review
👉https://www.ase.org.uk/news/ase-response-publication-of-curriculum-and-assessment-review
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We've published our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report and the Government's response today. We'd welcome views from our members.
👉https://www.ase.org.uk/news/ase-response-publication-of-curriculum-and-assessment-review
👉https://www.ase.org.uk/news/ase-response-publication-of-curriculum-and-assessment-review
This year's edition of Rings of Fire!
Students are given initial height and velocity of the launched marble. Each group has to calculate the height of their ring at their assigned horizontal distance.
#EduSky #iTeachPhysics
Students are given initial height and velocity of the launched marble. Each group has to calculate the height of their ring at their assigned horizontal distance.
#EduSky #iTeachPhysics
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I do think it’s so important that Times readers get to read about key curricular developments sooner than the people who’ll have to implement them.
November 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I do think it’s so important that Times readers get to read about key curricular developments sooner than the people who’ll have to implement them.
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8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified.
#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified.
#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified
cen.acs.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified.
#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified.
#DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
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Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today.
Probably not total indifference.
Probably not total indifference.
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today.
Probably not total indifference.
Probably not total indifference.
Yet more vocational qualification reform, yay 🙄
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If government are after parity of esteem for vocational quals, the process could be kickstarted by rebadging some A levels as V levels - for instance: Engineering, Business Studies, Law, Psychology, D&T, maybe some of the art subjects like Graphic Communication, etc
New V-level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs
Ministers say new vocational courses will simplify the
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Yet more vocational qualification reform, yay 🙄
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If government are after parity of esteem for vocational quals, the process could be kickstarted by rebadging some A levels as V levels - for instance: Engineering, Business Studies, Law, Psychology, D&T, maybe some of the art subjects like Graphic Communication, etc
New V-level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs
Ministers say new vocational courses will simplify the
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If government are after parity of esteem for vocational quals, the process could be kickstarted by rebadging some A levels as V levels - for instance: Engineering, Business Studies, Law, Psychology, D&T, maybe some of the art subjects like Graphic Communication, etc
Bookmarking this for the next go round at B6 AQA!
Once you get dengue fever, you're at a much greater risk of severe disease if you ever get it again due to something called antibody dependent enhancement.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
I was injected with dengue virus to learn about clinical trials
I became a test subject in a clinical trial for a new dengue treatment. Here’s what I discovered
cen.acs.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Bookmarking this for the next go round at B6 AQA!
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Once you get dengue fever, you're at a much greater risk of severe disease if you ever get it again due to something called antibody dependent enhancement.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
I was injected with dengue virus to learn about clinical trials
I became a test subject in a clinical trial for a new dengue treatment. Here’s what I discovered
cen.acs.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Once you get dengue fever, you're at a much greater risk of severe disease if you ever get it again due to something called antibody dependent enhancement.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
So why did I choose to purposely be infected with dengue?
Read my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social to find out. I'm quite proud of this one.
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Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts
Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
Very interesting read. Realised I've been doing a lot of (very useful) choral response for one word answers to do nows, by accident
Interesting from @dylanpkane.bsky.social on why he isn’t a fan of Cold Call. I agree with quite a bit of this (particularly praising elementary/ primary teachers!). You should try to use whole class response over Cold Call when you can. substack.com/@fivetwelvet...
Why I'm Not a Fan of Cold Call
It's done badly more often than it's done well
substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Very interesting read. Realised I've been doing a lot of (very useful) choral response for one word answers to do nows, by accident
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August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Monkeys?! Come on Newsround 🤦
July 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Monkeys?! Come on Newsround 🤦
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We are looking for a maths teacher! Please repost!
Come and work at our school in the heart of the national forest 🌳 🏡
We believe that every child is capable of achieving in maths and we use faculty time for talking about and exploring maths teaching
www.ashbyschool.org.uk/content/vaca...
Come and work at our school in the heart of the national forest 🌳 🏡
We believe that every child is capable of achieving in maths and we use faculty time for talking about and exploring maths teaching
www.ashbyschool.org.uk/content/vaca...
Teacher of Mathematics | Ashby School - Culture at the heart of learning for 11 – 19-year-olds
www.ashbyschool.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We are looking for a maths teacher! Please repost!
Come and work at our school in the heart of the national forest 🌳 🏡
We believe that every child is capable of achieving in maths and we use faculty time for talking about and exploring maths teaching
www.ashbyschool.org.uk/content/vaca...
Come and work at our school in the heart of the national forest 🌳 🏡
We believe that every child is capable of achieving in maths and we use faculty time for talking about and exploring maths teaching
www.ashbyschool.org.uk/content/vaca...
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New blog post ↓
Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
#UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
#UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
When teachers step into the classroom, we never act alone. There is no “I do”. Each of our actions is a response, a small arc, in a continual loop consisting of ourselves, our tools, and our students.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New blog post ↓
Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
#UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
Is "I do, we do, you do" the right vision of a lesson?
#UKEd #EduSky #iTeachBio #SciTeachUK
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Thinking very much about @johntomsett.bsky.social’s ‘Treat staff so well they don’t want to leave. Train them so well that they can.’ today.
We still stand to make only two main scale appointments this year in our school of 1800 and both are for retirements. Long may it continue.
We still stand to make only two main scale appointments this year in our school of 1800 and both are for retirements. Long may it continue.
March 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thinking very much about @johntomsett.bsky.social’s ‘Treat staff so well they don’t want to leave. Train them so well that they can.’ today.
We still stand to make only two main scale appointments this year in our school of 1800 and both are for retirements. Long may it continue.
We still stand to make only two main scale appointments this year in our school of 1800 and both are for retirements. Long may it continue.
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Why might we not see impact in schools when leaders work tirelessly to improve them? Are they in a Doom Loop?
Spot poor practice, leap to conclusions, launch a new initiative without build up and see poor results - then repeat.
Leaders must build momentum towards clear goals.
Spot poor practice, leap to conclusions, launch a new initiative without build up and see poor results - then repeat.
Leaders must build momentum towards clear goals.
March 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why might we not see impact in schools when leaders work tirelessly to improve them? Are they in a Doom Loop?
Spot poor practice, leap to conclusions, launch a new initiative without build up and see poor results - then repeat.
Leaders must build momentum towards clear goals.
Spot poor practice, leap to conclusions, launch a new initiative without build up and see poor results - then repeat.
Leaders must build momentum towards clear goals.
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🧵 Our 7th annual review of the Teacher Labour Market in England, published today, reveals that a combination of high teacher leaving rates and poor recruitment into initial teacher training (ITT) is leading to shortages of teachers and increasing class sizes.
#TLM2025 [1/11]
#TLM2025 [1/11]
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🧵 Our 7th annual review of the Teacher Labour Market in England, published today, reveals that a combination of high teacher leaving rates and poor recruitment into initial teacher training (ITT) is leading to shortages of teachers and increasing class sizes.
#TLM2025 [1/11]
#TLM2025 [1/11]
The anecdotal evidence of Taylorism in UK education is rising. This is terrible news for both students and teachers.
There is a crucial difference between:
•Teaching to students (linear and deterministic), and
•Teaching with them (circular and emergent).
#UKEd #EduSky #SciTeachUK
There is a crucial difference between:
•Teaching to students (linear and deterministic), and
•Teaching with them (circular and emergent).
#UKEd #EduSky #SciTeachUK
March 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I will die on the hill that teaching a full timetable is the hardest job in the system and everything leaders do should be about making this as manageable, effective and enjoyable as possible.
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I will die on the hill that teaching a full timetable is the hardest job in the system and everything leaders do should be about making this as manageable, effective and enjoyable as possible.
