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Pack it up, pack it in; let me begin. Former teacher/school leader/SENDCo currently exploring Schrödinger’s retirement.
ECP (Early Career Pensioner). If you’re climbing to the top of the ladder, make sure it’s leaning against the right wall.
ECP (Early Career Pensioner). If you’re climbing to the top of the ladder, make sure it’s leaning against the right wall.
Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025
"Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5)
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November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025
"Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5)
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"Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5)
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To those companies whose websites allow me to type a lower case email address without constantly trying to capitalise, I salute you.
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
To those companies whose websites allow me to type a lower case email address without constantly trying to capitalise, I salute you.
Minute Cryptic - 23 November, 2025
"“Out-of-control carousel catapults you” declared fortune tellers" (7)
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November 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Minute Cryptic - 23 November, 2025
"“Out-of-control carousel catapults you” declared fortune tellers" (7)
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Minute Cryptic - 22 November, 2025
"Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5)
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"Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5)
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November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Minute Cryptic - 22 November, 2025
"Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5)
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www.facebook.com/share/v/1G5o... Charming.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
www.facebook.com/share/v/1G5o... Charming.
Anyone watched The Ridge? It’s weird as.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Anyone watched The Ridge? It’s weird as.
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This clip from the marvellous Two Doors Down is becoming the soundtrack to my life in education lately...
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This clip from the marvellous Two Doors Down is becoming the soundtrack to my life in education lately...
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This statements seems to lack the "how", because there's plenty of schools nationally where there's not sufficient staff capacity for all those who need one-to-one. To imply that it's as simple as that is crass at best.
![How SEND is supported
The school guarantees the needs of pupils with SEND by ensuring that:
*all breakfast club teaching assistants (TAs) are trained to support children with additional needs
*the hall where the club is delivered is zoned to provide a quiet space and a zone of regulation
*[highlighted]there is always sufficient staff capacity should a child require one-to-one support[end highlighting]
*a SENCo is on site](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kor4lj2xji5kf6ybjfimd2vs/bafkreicols522txnzmjcpr2mll3egz2g3ngojwhooepr5sr3my4oe6wuz4@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This statements seems to lack the "how", because there's plenty of schools nationally where there's not sufficient staff capacity for all those who need one-to-one. To imply that it's as simple as that is crass at best.
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In the week when @edsupportuk.bsky.social have released the teacher well-being index identifying how time poor senior leaders already are this is further evidence of how detached policy is from reality.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In the week when @edsupportuk.bsky.social have released the teacher well-being index identifying how time poor senior leaders already are this is further evidence of how detached policy is from reality.
Lazy terminology from DFE here. ‘SEND’ classes? Cc @bennewmark.bsky.social
This is baffling. In pretty much every primary school now, *every* class is a SEND class. Do I need a TA from every class to agree to staff breakfast club. Do they get a choice? What about their own morning responsibilities?
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Lazy terminology from DFE here. ‘SEND’ classes? Cc @bennewmark.bsky.social
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My first Substack post.
With nods to @rlrossi64.bsky.social, @bennewmark.bsky.social, @douglemov.bsky.social & @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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With nods to @rlrossi64.bsky.social, @bennewmark.bsky.social, @douglemov.bsky.social & @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My first Substack post.
With nods to @rlrossi64.bsky.social, @bennewmark.bsky.social, @douglemov.bsky.social & @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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With nods to @rlrossi64.bsky.social, @bennewmark.bsky.social, @douglemov.bsky.social & @adamboxereducation.bsky.social
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I’ve written my first post on Substack. It’s about ‘meeting the needs of pupils with SEND’.
(Well, it is & it isn’t):
open.substack.com/pub/ldonaghy...
(Well, it is & it isn’t):
open.substack.com/pub/ldonaghy...
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I’ve written my first post on Substack. It’s about ‘meeting the needs of pupils with SEND’.
(Well, it is & it isn’t):
open.substack.com/pub/ldonaghy...
(Well, it is & it isn’t):
open.substack.com/pub/ldonaghy...
Minute Cryptic - 20 November, 2025
"Ancestors of polar, grizzly, panda and teddy counted out loud" (9)
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"Ancestors of polar, grizzly, panda and teddy counted out loud" (9)
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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Minute Cryptic - 20 November, 2025
"Ancestors of polar, grizzly, panda and teddy counted out loud" (9)
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"Ancestors of polar, grizzly, panda and teddy counted out loud" (9)
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
Minute Cryptic - 19 November, 2025
"Splatter half-baked waffles" (8)
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November 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Minute Cryptic - 19 November, 2025
"Splatter half-baked waffles" (8)
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I always found it impossible to take part in surveys that asked me to stipulate what was ‘ SENDCo time’. Ear- marking set time doesn’t work in practice. If a colleague needs support, you can’t just ask them to come back on Wednesday when it’s your SENDCo time. Same with urgent calls from families.
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I always found it impossible to take part in surveys that asked me to stipulate what was ‘ SENDCo time’. Ear- marking set time doesn’t work in practice. If a colleague needs support, you can’t just ask them to come back on Wednesday when it’s your SENDCo time. Same with urgent calls from families.
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I'm becoming really worried about our SENCOs.
I think their job is becoming systemically impossible.
They're being ground down by impossible workloads and now huge numbers of complaints, which makes it all but impossible for them to be strategic.
I'm worried we're going to lose them,
I think their job is becoming systemically impossible.
They're being ground down by impossible workloads and now huge numbers of complaints, which makes it all but impossible for them to be strategic.
I'm worried we're going to lose them,
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I'm becoming really worried about our SENCOs.
I think their job is becoming systemically impossible.
They're being ground down by impossible workloads and now huge numbers of complaints, which makes it all but impossible for them to be strategic.
I'm worried we're going to lose them,
I think their job is becoming systemically impossible.
They're being ground down by impossible workloads and now huge numbers of complaints, which makes it all but impossible for them to be strategic.
I'm worried we're going to lose them,
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The book police can get in the bin. Anyone making value judgements on how other people engage with books, or their choice of reading material - fuck ALL the way off and take your supercilious wankery with you.
I ran a reading group at work for 10 years for blind/visually impaired using audiobooks - would be a brave person to tell them what they were doing wasn't "reading."
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The book police can get in the bin. Anyone making value judgements on how other people engage with books, or their choice of reading material - fuck ALL the way off and take your supercilious wankery with you.
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I ran a reading group at work for 10 years for blind/visually impaired using audiobooks - would be a brave person to tell them what they were doing wasn't "reading."
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I ran a reading group at work for 10 years for blind/visually impaired using audiobooks - would be a brave person to tell them what they were doing wasn't "reading."
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
Comics, audio, e-format, whatever, from Mills n Boon to Tolstoy, ALL reading is valid and de facto A Good Thing
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Jaw-dropping update about our leasehold investigation detailing the lengths to which my colleague @djstimms.bsky.social has gone to track down Andrew Milne.
Particularly enjoyed the fact that colleagues from Liverpool and London were also involved. Mill Media is now more than the sum of its parts.
Particularly enjoyed the fact that colleagues from Liverpool and London were also involved. Mill Media is now more than the sum of its parts.
Horrified, Becky read Milne’s words. “I accordingly am entitled to vacant possession of the property”, he asserted. “I am writing to give you 7 days notice that I will have a locksmith and agent attend to recover possession for me and change the locks”.
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
Latest update in our Andrew Milne story 👇
After Becky’s mum died, it was time to sell her childhood home. Then Andrew Milne got in touch
Plus: As the search for answers continues, The Tribune takes to the road
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November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Jaw-dropping update about our leasehold investigation detailing the lengths to which my colleague @djstimms.bsky.social has gone to track down Andrew Milne.
Particularly enjoyed the fact that colleagues from Liverpool and London were also involved. Mill Media is now more than the sum of its parts.
Particularly enjoyed the fact that colleagues from Liverpool and London were also involved. Mill Media is now more than the sum of its parts.
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Minute Cryptic - 18 November, 2025
"Shape of _ountain" (4)
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November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Minute Cryptic - 18 November, 2025
"Shape of _ountain" (4)
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'Rather than viewing this as another burden, this is an opportunity for the sector to shape a policy that reflects what schools and colleges already do best'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-enrichment-benchmarks-will-be-a-boost-not-a-burden/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-enrichment-benchmarks-will-be-a-boost-not-a-burden/
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
'Rather than viewing this as another burden, this is an opportunity for the sector to shape a policy that reflects what schools and colleges already do best'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-enrichment-benchmarks-will-be-a-boost-not-a-burden/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/new-enrichment-benchmarks-will-be-a-boost-not-a-burden/
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Are they going to investigate it in the same way The Carter Review investigated it ten years ago? Spoiler : nothing has changed
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Are they going to investigate it in the same way The Carter Review investigated it ten years ago? Spoiler : nothing has changed