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Madeleine F-B
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Secondary Vice Principal T&L in London; teacher of English; TF 2011; mum of 2; GSOH 🍎🎓 #UKTeaching
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I love this headteacher and her creative approach to trying to behaviour manage the parents!
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I used my welcome back assembly to talk to the children about New Year Resolutions, explaining that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves. I have asked the children to join together with a shared purpose to: • Support each other • Be resilient when things are hard • Make a difference every day I know that by working together we can make 2026 a year to be proud of. Parents, I would now like to set you a challenge for your New Year Resolution. I appeal to you to make your resolution to follow the few simple car park rules to ensure the car park is safe, traffic flows and cars are able to park easily and leave promptly. The Security team have shared CCTV footage with us that shows a blatant flouting of the rules. We have seen cars driving the wrong way, overtaking other cars and dropping children not in designated safe spaces. I am aware it is a case of the few ruining it for the many, so please do think of your fellow car park users and use the car park safely and considerately.
January 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Thank you, Parkrun; for making Xmas day and Boxing Day the only days I made it past 10k!
Step counts for the holidays showing low step counts most days, above 10k on 25/12 and 01/01
January 1, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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100 years ago, my great grandfather Mark met Sarah when he stopped over in Paris briefly on his way to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. While there, he received word that the ferry was cancelled due to a strike. He stayed longer, fell in love with Sarah, and married her, December 1925.
A photo of my great grandparents Sarah and Mark who settled in Paris in 1925.
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This description of an ‘experimental’ school from the Silver Chair is very interesting!

“These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others.”
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#UKEd #EduSky
7 of 139 ChAPTER 1 Behind the Gym twas a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her. This is not going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill's school, which is not a pleasant subject. It was "Co-educational", a school for both boys and girls, what used to be called a "mixed" school; some said it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others. All sorts of things, horrid things, went on which at an ordinary school would have been found out and stopped in half a term; but at this school they weren't. Or even if they were, the people who did them were not expelled or punished. The Head said they were interesting psychological cases and sent for them and talked to them for hours. And if you knew the right sort of things to say to the Head, the main result was that you became rather a favourite than otherwise. That was why Jill Pole was crying on that dull autumn day on the damp little path which runs between the back of the gym and the shrubbery.
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will
Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”
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If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”
December 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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I think this is a useful provocation from @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on the common models of DIRT time.
“Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”
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Quote from podcast “Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Oh.
News story from BBC: “I've just spoken to an eyewitness, Barry, who was attending the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach. He told me he was at the event with his kids when the sound of gunshots ran out. He said two men were on a bridge and they started shooting at the crowd. There were bodies on the ground, he said”
December 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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A little bit of theatrics for y10 ‘intro to Macbeth’ tomorrow, set to ‘O Fortuna’from Carmina Burana
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December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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My six year old has loved these books, which have cleverly progressed with her on her reading journey over year 1 and year 2 so far.
She was very excited to progress to ‘Accelerated Reader’ and get to take this final instalment home!
#BookSky
#PrimaryRocks
#UKEd
#Literacy
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Return to Exis from the Alien Adventures series
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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That’s got to be an accolade worth sharing! They Behave For Me got my top spot.
They behave for me podcast
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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This is TOO exciting.
Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it!
It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨
#HarryPotter
#Pottermore
#Audible
Screenshot of audible with new fully cast Harry Potter audiobook
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Thoughts on inclusion and ‘fun days’

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October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Manchester in miniature
#Photography
#TiltShift
Photograph from high angle of a busy station with a piano in the centre. Only the piano is in focus. This makes everything look somewhat miniature Photograph from high angle of works on an escalator. Only the works are in focus. Photograph from high angle of a shiny pyramid with people walking past. Only the pyramid is in focus.
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Thank you Manchester for the free bus ride! #MCR #FreeBus
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Picture showing yellow Free Bus in Manchester City centre Picture showing free bus 1 route in Manchester City centre
October 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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I appreciate the comments by Jackie Kay and Henry Louis Gates here in the introduction - on not writing about race or racism explicitly, as Kincaid does not write ‘for the white gaze.’
I look forward to visiting some y8 lessons and seeing how they are getting on with some quite challenging themes 🍎🎓
Text from Jackie Kay’s introduction to the 2022 edition
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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My half term read has been ‘Annie John’ by Jamaica Kincaid (1985), since we have added it to our year 8 curriculum. A candid story not quite like anything I’ve read before…
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#UKEd
Cover of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John Back cover of Annie John
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Today’s charity shop book haul: pic 1 for my kids age 6 & 8, pic 2 for the internal room at school. All for under a tenner 👍📚🍎🎓
12 children’s books 7 teen books.
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Oh good, another new set of post 16 courses.
We really needed some of them…
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC article: New V level courses to be brought in for students after GCSEs
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For Black History Month & culture day today I wore my Somali Baati, my Jewish ‘tichel’… and my high vis.
I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh.
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#BHM2025
#BestJobinTheWorld
#2WeekHalfTerm
Wearing purple/ pink/ blue coloured head wrap, Somali baati and pink high vis jacket Smiling with a colleague wearing a Pharaoh costume
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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If anyone is looking for ideas of half term activities - look no further…
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld
A calendar of activities written by an 8 year old, including: Drawing Jimnastics Snuggle up party Toy tea party Chatting in room Among other activities. The Friday afternoon back up activity is “save the environment”
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I’ve been teaching English for 15 years now, but subject CPD never feels boring or irrelevant. I think we all came away with things we’d like to do better.
All #Harris Academies closed for the day to make this possible, so it’s no small thing! 🍎🎓
Whiteboard with transactional writing eg. Wall of teacher shout outs and thank you cards at Harris Academy Falconwood Guiding principles of inclusive teaching Pages of notes
October 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Friday was another great English CPD day from the Harris Federation, planned & executed by the brilliant English consultants with some guest speakers/presenters including @trythisteaching.bsky.social, Holly Macguire, @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social &
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓
Notes and a whiteboard from English cpd A whiteboard with a Margaret Atwood quote “a word after a word after a word is power” Notes from English CPD Notes from English CPD
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Guiding principles of inclusive teaching (via recent @steplab.bsky.social report)
1. Clarity & explicit structure for all.
2. Make lessons accessible by default.
3. Effective teacher assessment - what are the actual barriers for the student(s) in front of you?
4. Adapt Minimally & appropriately
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Guiding principles of inclusive teaching
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I always appreciate it when CPD delivers model delivery based on good pedagogy.

Amjad says his audience should do these 3 things in lessons with strategies:

Try
Refine
Ditch

-and promises he will suggest what teachers can do ‘instead of’ xyz.

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Slide containing aims and ‘so that’
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“A Helping Hand” by L, age 8 (title by her mother)
Colourful Child’s drawing of lots of hands overlapping with different colours at every point of overlap
September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM