Mrs B

@Mr_Husky1 Wackamoni cheese

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)

@Dorastar1 Oh my! Sending you fortitude and wine for later!

Friday, the 13th which adds a bit of joy if you're superstitious, it's very windy, cold, fairly damp so unlikely to get an outdoor play and it's an own clothes day with a maths lesson observation right after that indoor play. So that's fun

@sophiearumble @fluffy_scrawler Wow! The tokens (multiples of 6 I believe!) and the fact that my Dad would only fill up at Esso! I believe my parents still have a few in daily use!!!!! (Belated Happy Birthday to you too! 🥂🥳💐)

@sophiearumble @fluffy_scrawler How lovely! Esso glasses…that made me chuckle (and show my age!) 🍷

@nicolajharvey @MrBoothY6 Absolutely not! Medal and celebrations very deserved!

@MrBoothY6 Congrats! 🥳 I qualified in 1996. I wonder if it would be self indulgent to celebrate 30 years in July?

13 years ago today I got onto my PGCE to train to be a teacher. Mad that.

@crowmogh Omg soooo jealous! Bath was my uni city…many, many years ago now!! Have fun!

Off to Bath in the morning for a girls weekend with my uni pals. Cocktails ahoy 🍸🥂

Got the title for this from @tracyswinburne1 There is nothing in here that is new, or original, but if I had known this as a new teacher it would have helped me. philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/we-…

@llewelyn20 @tracyswinburne1 Share widely! Another spot on, easy but crucial read for all. IMHO best sentence: “If they think you are fair, and you care for them, they will thrive in your classroom.”

@Dorastar1 @llewelyn20 Yup

@llewelyn20 Also worried about the potential tipping point of re-doing everything before high school, like we already don't do this. But if it becomes a more formal thing you can bet it will down to primaries to do all the graft.

And if all Send plans are given some sort of legal status, the explosion in paperwork will be unmanageable. More admin means less time with children and decreased quality of provision. Also means less plans as people can’t physically do them all.

@llewelyn20 Thought the same…also that we’re going to need a lot more EPs for all the reassessing at end of primary

Been reading the early leaks, and speaking to a couple of people about the send white paper. I hope I’m wrong, and over simplifying things, but I have a horrible feeling that we are about to return to the days of ‘action’ and ‘action +’.

@llewelyn20 Hope you’re en route to the pub! It’ll be 6 by the time you get there - perfectly respectable!

I think we should go to the pub, I say. It’s a bit early to start drinking, says Claire. It’s not if you’re planning on being in bed at half eight, I reply. Claire needs to shift her thinking.

@LeeBraganza Result! Cheers!!

Waiting for the 13 to finish her climbing session and I've stumbled across a tiny pub which is playing live music and serves my fav white wine. What a Wednesday night!

@Scousebird Yes!!

I need an answer to this from my Gen X tribe. Birds trifle. Did you fight your siblings to the death for the privilege of putting the hundreds and thousands on or was that just our house?

@sophiearumble Cannot get enough! Beautiful

@BexBookaholic Say this regularly! 😳

A little plea . . . I've had a cancellation on Thurs 16th April. I'd booked 3 schools close to Portsmouth and was staying over, but the middle one has cancelled! 🙄 So if anyone near Portsmouth, S'hampton, Winchester area wants a day on April the 16th please get in touch. 👍🤞

I have written another blog, this time about Inclusion. Such a buzz word, but I have been getting annoyed with half baked theories and abstract language, so I hope this helps. Barely scratches the surface of the topic though, I think... philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/inc…

@llewelyn20 Absolutely spot on, IMHO, once again…and rather reminds me of exactly what I was trying to achieve in my classroom circa 1998! Please keep writing!

@Headteacherchat And this is why maths books should be blue 😂

Blast from the past: Do you remember the National Curriculum folders?

@BradfemlyWalsh 😂

The most historically inaccurate part of Call The Midwife being set in the early 70s is that none of the baby girls are being given Louise as a middle name.