Maureen Hunt

@LeeBraganza Looks lovely! Where’s the win?

The girls have smashed it! Lovely bit of statk, aspags and tmartos.

@LeeBraganza @MissEmmaTurner I love wine is top!

Just been handed my birthday menyoo.

@LeeBraganza Wow that’s a fabulous cake! Happy birthday 🥳 !

I've had the best birthday with my little crew. Amelia made me a coconut and mango cake!

@englishspecial Not just about resources. They are disadvantaged through circumstance - maybe parents who lack capacity to support, poverty, lack of sleep, caring duties, trauma, abuse, ill health etc. You can’t overcome these easily in school alone and family services are thin on the ground.

Children with disadvantage often don’t do as well as others because, overall, they have had fewer resources than those who are not disadvantaged. Schools are expected to provide additional resources to those children and indeed there is a PP payment to fund these extra resources. However, schools that serve such communities often have to spend considerable additional (to PP) resources over and above in the form of time, effort and emotional toil. And the end outcome will still be, overall, insufficient due to a myriad of factors - not least that it is impossible for schools to compete with parents who lavishly resource their children from birth to work and beyond to help them achieve. The way to help schools is to provide additional resources rather than pressure staff in them to spend more of their own personal time, effort and emotional toil over and above those whose schools serve more advantaged communities. If you do exert that pressure using gaslighting (‘you have low expectations’), many amazing and hard working staff will leave our wonderful profession or such schools and seek a fairer contractual relationship.

@magistrabeck You have a library!!!!???? 🤩🤩

I'm having surgery next week and I turned my library into a bedroom for my recovery. The view from my bed. #books

@MrHtheteacher @SwailesRuth @HelpfulTeacher_ Honestly- tell me that you have never taught young children without telling me you have never taught young children.

@HelpfulTeacher_ Particularly in EYFS - good luck teaching with silent provision!

The classroom default should be pin-drop silence 🔕 There is time for collaboration, think-pair-shares, discussion and debate When the teacher decides so But the default is silence. That's the only way education can work, and it's how students should enter the room 🚪 #Edchat

@MartinSLewis it would depend whether or not i was buying alcohol.

Today's Poll: With 15 items of supermarket shopping would you choose a self-service till or staffed till if the queue was of equal length?

@Kica333 I am small transistor and radio Luxembourg years old.

I am burned cd years old.

@ronsterd89 I can’t see anything wrong with that statement.

People that can make Gravy from scratch think they better than everybody 😂🤷🏾‍♀️🫵🏾

@Headteacherchat I still have my copy

Who remembers when ‘Every Child Matters’?

@DeputyGrocott So many discount cards and programmes now, I forget which ones I have!

Anyone ever used Blue light to buy kitchen products? Dishwashers, fridges etc. Best discounts??

@LeeBraganza Your mum is the best!

Holy moly Mum.

@DeputyGrocott Bit of custard and all will be good

Dropped the bloody Bakewell didn’t I?!

@SwailesRuth Ah yes! Free entertainment for a Saturday night.

I have to say I’m enjoying someone who doesn’t teach children to read telling a professor of children’s literature (and author of hundreds of books that children adore) that he’s not the person to comment on children’s reading for pleasure because he’s not a school teacher.

@DesTurner1 @GrandadWheels That was my thought!

@GrandadWheels Is it an Austin Princess?

Married 45 years ago today. 20 bonus points for recognising the car in the photo!

@Jo_Marney @lifeinpostcards @TheGreenParty This is nonsense. Surgeons wear scrubs for reasons of hygiene. In clinics I have seen a wide variety of clothing, it matters not as long as they are clean, although I don’t think I have ever seen a surgeon with a tie. Maybe we go to different hospitals. 🤣mind your own business.

If you wanna be pedantic: If a consultant comes to meet a patient prior to surgery for consultation, they will wear a suit. During surgery, they will wear ‘scrubs’ etc. Generally, the patient will not see them at this stage because the anaesthetist will have already sedated them. Still, they will be a wearing a ‘uniform’ which is practical and suitable to the job in a clinical setting. Whilst consulting with patients, a consultant will wear smart, formal attire. Reason being, if he turned up dressed like Andy Pandy, that gives a specific impression - to everyone. Whether they admit that or not. How you present yourself matters.

If your brain surgeon turned up to work wearing a tracksuit and a baseball cap, you would lose faith in his competence. Same when a national politician turns up to work dressed like Andy Pandy’s sister. #HannahSpencer @TheGreenParty

@kokeshimum @Free_ByTheSea @grok Your profile says ‘protect women’ a fine sentiment, but obviously doesn’t stretch to allowing women the freedom to dress as they please.

@Free_ByTheSea @grok So a person with a profile photos of a woman in a pink floral skirt and blue floaty blouse with long blond hair criticises woman with long blond hair for wearing a pink blouse and blue waistcoat. 🙄 Fucking moron.

Have you ever watched reality television show ‘Snog Marry Avoid’? I asked @grok to do a POD style makeunder, and dress Hannah Spencer in a simple white blouse and black pencil skirt, and smarten up her hair. Anyone who thinks her presentation is irrelevant should take a look. She dresses like a child for a reason. That concerns me.

@stellacreasy @johncosgrove405 So interesting that people who rage against countries that have regimes that control what women can and can’t wear, are perfectly happy to publicly shame women in this country for wearing what they like. 🤔

Horrified to see Hannah Spencer being subjected to this during her maiden speech - and sadly know its common place attack on women in public life. Attacking women for what they look like shows you fear what they say. Or that they can speak without your consent at all. It speaks more to your insecurities than them..

@rpondiscio Here we go with the binary arguments again. Literally no one has said just loving books is enough, you need to foster the love of books and teach reading.

Children learning to read "because they enjoy stories" echoes the fashionable ideas of Lucy Calkins, et. al., famously derided as "vibes-based literacy." How many kids never became good readers because we thought it was enough for them simply to "fall in love with stories?"

@LeeBraganza Good luck!🤣

If we weren't finding the behaviour tricky with gusty winds and heavy rain, tomorrow we are hosting a lady who is bringing in creepy crawlies. The tarantulas will definitely keep them calm.