Monsieur Durrant 🦡 🦔 🐽

@LeeBraganza Oh mate 😪

I'm absolutely fuming. Some reckless driver has knocked and killed our cat. Just left poor Pakora in the middle of the road. Thankfully our neighbours came out and looked after him in his final moments. Fuck sake.

@llewelyn20 @Jan_Leeming This is turning into a Jeff&Elaine saga 😂

@Jan_Leeming Ha, very true. I've got a site manager with a motorbike, he can come and give you a lift..

Not that long ago I'd think nothing of getting in the car and driving long distances but age is catching up with me not to mention the price of petrol. But thank you for the invitation.

@kateowbridge @mrsbettysbooks Same here but 7PM

@mrsbettysbooks I used to work in my office in the dark in one school at that time, as if my light was off people assumed I wasn’t in yet!

This is why I like getting to school at 7am 🫩

@HalilMrT4Real @BGT Simon Cowell?

We celebrated the end of the #Sats in @BGT style. 🎶🥁💃🕺🏽 I might not be the headteacher anymore but I am blessed to be the schools improvement advisor! 🙏 We had a guest raver .... who do you think we should invite as our next Guest Raver? 💃 🕺🏽 @ them below

@DeputyGrocott Word.

I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and I’ve never met an educator who doesn’t want the very best for the children. Maybe it’s not more difficult than other jobs. Maybe other jobs are just as challenging. But my goodness, these people really care. Educators unite ❤️

Teachers make around 1,500 decisions a day. In a 10 hour day thats 150 decisions an hour. That’s a decision to make every 24 seconds. Nearly 300,000 decisions in 39 weeks of teaching. Such a mentally demanding job. Too many holidays, yeah right!

@TheWomanfredi 😂

One good GCSE exam and son now thinks he’s the bard himself. “Shakespeare’s so easy. You just describe something in a nonsense way. Like, see that can of Monster? That’s jealousy. That door? Ambition. That fat pug? Loyalty.”

@Miss_GJohnston @MollattMrs Yes PLEASE to some/any/all of those!!

To anyone planning on spending the last couple of weeks of their holidays planning KS4 units - if you can help it, DON’T. I have full schemes for R+J, ACC, AIC, P+C poetry, Unseen Poetry. Plus Language stuff! Easily accessible links ready to share. Just ask!!!

@llewelyn20 To be honest when I went in this week it was very relaxed, one class in the hall doing their exam, access arrangements in one classroom, rest of the school running as normal. Ofsted could have been there no problem. Not sure the HT would agree, but still.

If Ofsted are looking for a true understanding of a school, and want to allow leaders to present the school as honestly as possible, why on earth would you inspect in sats week (or indeed the last week of any term). Madness.

@mrs_denglish @Gwenelope Same

How do we stop students listening to nonsense advice from TikTok about exams. In some cases they are paying for this ridiculousness. Lots of use this word and you’ll get a 9. I’ve marked English Language papers, that’s not how it works. I’ve told students. I’ve shown examiners’

@ragefighthouse lol Innit though.

We don’t talk about Teacher Whiplash enough. Most intense I’ve ever had: P1: Bottom set Y7 P2: Y13 Lit P3: Bottom set Y10 P4: Top set Y11 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

@LeeBraganza No, you’re right, I’m sorry, I apologise. Apparently you did an excellent job.

@DHTDurrant Why are you laughing at my hard work????

Hi all, it was my first day working at the National Assessment Portal for KS2 SATS. Hope it went really smooth and not difficult at all for everyone.

@Mr_H1978 Because putting your bag in the bagging area almost always fucks it all up.

Supermarket self-checkouts don't rile me. But why do people scan the items from the basket & then put them in the bagging area and once finished put the items from the bagging area into a bag?!?!? Open you bags. Place in the bagging area. After scanning put straight into bag.

@fidsta77 That, my dear Rani, is not Fred or indeed Harriet but ratherHolly, the female Holly Blue butterfly 😘

Anyone ever seen these butterflies before 🦋

@ed_objective BA Baracus 😂😂

@DHTDurrant Pa Walton 44😮😮😮😂😂😂

Brilliant 😂

@0Beanie05923291 @greeborunner Agree agree agree!!

There’s nothing “culturally relevant” about this book, yet my students are spellbound by it. They know (and appreciate) a good story when they hear it, and this is one of the best. Read great books to and with children!

@MrLGeo Their parents are gonna go bloody bananas!!

Four of my year 7s came into class this afternoon with ripped blazers, and one even had his shirt pocket nearly ripped off - the result of over-enthusiastic lunchtime football. It's good that they're playing sport at break, and frankly it's silly they have to do it in suits.

@TheREPodcast1 Hear hear!

Today, I’m voting according to my conscience, not strategically. To me democracy means voting for the party that most closely represents my values and priorities. If I vote tactically (which I’ve done before), I’m trying to stop someone else’s vote count. #democracy