Miss Neary

I believe teachers are not entertainers. A teacher’s duty is to teach pupils their subjects & teach them to become better versions of themselves: harder working, more polite etc. When pupils learn lots & become better people they feel successful & fulfilled. This is true joy. 1/

@TPositiveTC will your 2025 weekly planners be coming back in stock? Thanks ☺️

So, I've just spent a bit of time looking into the debate on IHT and farming. I... got a shock. First, a note: I have a friend who runs a family farm. In his view, the whole thing is a something and nothing. 🧵

@highgatewood @danielcainreed Who’s that at the front 👀 feel like I’ve seen that pose before…

To cap off their first half term spent at HWS, the Year 7s enjoyed a fantastic evening at their Halloween Disco last night. They danced the night away and enjoyed bonding with their new friends!

I’m finding it increasingly concerning that English is being either macro focused to a set of insurmountable, somewhat nebulous claims or alternatively, micro focused to an overprescribed set of texts, content and processes. A 🧵:

Can Sunday evenings get any better? Taylor Swift pro dance on #Strictly 😍😍

@Headteacherchat Obviously purple!!

Can someone help settle an argument for us? We believe English books should be yellow!

@mrdavidwhitley The Big Pit!!

I will never emotionally ally recover from this

MSuperstars! It's an Olympic Bronze for @LinaFJNielsen & @Laviai in the women's 4X400m relay!! Both have MS. Both @QMUL grads @Laviai is taking home another Bronze from the mixed 4X400m relay.

@LinaFJNielsen Absolutely incredible & so inspirational 👏🏼👏🏼

The rest of that last sentence was gonna be “…and now I’m an Olympian” I can only be proud of how much I fought, both tonight and for the past 10 years of my life Forever an Olympian 🫶🏽✨

Paris Olympics open today! Even more special as twins @Laviai & @LinaFJNielsen are among Team GB's best Olympic gold medal hopes. Both have MS. They are running the 4x400m relay. Laviai is also going for gold in the 400m & Lina in the 400m hurdles. olympics.com/en/news/laviai…

@jenny_symmons Is this your strategy for my entire wedding weekend??

Sometimes there are gaps in conversation, and you can feel a little awkward … In these situations, may I recommend you say: “The nights are drawing in!” You will certainly elicit a response from your conversation partner with this factual but vaguely ominous statement!

@JoBullen1 Mine then go on google to try and find the spec that they believe I’m hiding from them 🙈

@MissMNeary I feel like it makes us look really evasive when we say it doesn't exist 😂 I swear colleagues think I'm making it up

You know what I increasingly think is mad about English Lit GCSE? The absolute lack of guiding content. Have you seen other subject specifications? They often have a list of 'these are the things to teach the students'. Eng Lit: here's a list of books to choose from

@Miff__ @JoBullen1 Just vibes 😂 completely agree!!! Can only mark Ques 5 if you read a lot a lot a lot and then makes it sooo tricky for students who don’t to internalise what ‘convincing’ or ‘compelling’ really means

@MissMNeary @JoBullen1 I’d say the context & literary terminology is the most vague, it’s bizarre and makes it really hard to mark. The lang is worse though: q5 and no specific content required in terms of typical features of form and genre just vibes of whether it meets the brief & uses good vocab….

Enjoyed Taylor Swift’s dancer worrying that he might be culturally appropriating tartan.

Why is ‘tax’ such a dirty word. It literally pays for our health care, social care, welfare state, police, safety, local services, education, roads, transport, military. We all rely on these to live and survive.

In my humble opinion, the disappointing thing about this #ITVDebate format is that it gives no space for proper exploration of ideas. It promotes soundbites over analysis, superficial responses over explanation. Not sure it gets us very far at a time of such national crisis.