Harriet Ward 🏰⚔️💀

Me @ Year 10. #distancelearning

Does anyone have any insight into if/how the upcoming curriculum review will affect GCSE history? As in, should I invest in new sets of textbooks or will they be obsolete soon?

Starting 2025 with a suspected case of mumps.

@missgeog92 😭

PSA; alarms back on my friends, alarms back on.

@MBDscience I told my KS3 classes that some of them will never study history after Year 8, so if I don’t teach them history now I’m wasting some of their valuable time learning history.

A lot of the replies to this are about giving children the opportunity for fun or "a break" to which I say they're getting a two-week break in which they can have as much fun as they like. I'm here to teach them science, and science I will teach.

@DennyTWright @Little_Less_Ego @Miss_Snuffy Loads of different factors are at play, parental buy in being one in some cases (and I don’t say that to blame parents, as you’ve said there are loads of different reasons why they may not buy in or may be less able to buy in).

Total schools in Progress 8: 3657 Fascinating how the spread works. Clearly +2 is rare. Visit those 3 top schools. What do they have in common? What ideas can you steal for your classroom or school? That’s what we have done at Michaela- take ideas from other schools.

@Little_Less_Ego @DennyTWright @Miss_Snuffy It’s calculated based on averages so some schools have to be below. The vast majority of those schools will be in deprived catchments with less parental buy in etc etc.

@DennyTWright @Miss_Snuffy Surely all those 2k schools with minus scores are doing their children a disservice?

@La_Biologuita Also in East Sussex and haven’t heard this

@DavidNautilus1 @profprofMFL At a previous school a child ran around setting off the fire alarm repeatedly. We all had to evacuate several times. Eventually stayed out. Police were called. A teacher was assaulted & it was in the papers. I’d say that one student affected the running of the school.

@profprofMFL From my experience, most other classes and children are unaware and so I'm not sure I agree. I've had days where one child has been extremely challenging, but it hasn't affected the running of the school.

'Behaviour is awful!' Who? 'That class!' All of them? 'No.' How many? '3' Out of 30? That's only 10%. And the rest? 'Lovely' Should we reframe this in the interests of staying positive and recognising the good stuff? 'Yes'

@missgeog92 this feels like a question for you (not because you’re boring, because your classroom is beautifully organised!)

Very boring question… what do you use to organise resources on student desks so you don’t constantly have to hand out glues etc?

Considering buying a new laptop as mine is long past its best. Recommendations for a cheap, quick, lightweight laptop with good battery life please! (And affordable) Needs to be able to record basic videos for exam technique etc.

…we already teach the Holocaust. It’s statutory on the national curriculum for history. I’m so confused by this announcement.

@greg_ashman Lower your voice like Margaret Thatcher.

Give me an example of some useless classroom behaviour advice you’ve been given.

@RevRichardColes I had two BA flights cancelled within three months, and my mum had one cancelled this week. I won’t use them ever again.

@jackm1934782 @gmpolice here’s one for you

@jackm1934782 @LilaTamea Here’s another one inciting racial hatred @sussex_police lock them up

@missgeog92 How much are you charging? 😂😂 I’ve always been so jealous of your display skills!

Well, that’s displays 24-25 ready for year 7 of teaching. ✅ This years theme; “be a world changer” 🌍 There’s always a lot of debate about displays, which is fine- you do you, but I like creating a space that’s inviting and shows off my love for my subject 🌍 💕

@xXMrsTeacherXx @bphillipsonMP Yep and I’ve got one of each 🙄

@MsHWard1 @bphillipsonMP I think depending what plan you’re on affects the amount you pay doesn’t it?

Hello @bphillipsonMP. Thank you so much for everything you’ve already done for teachers. As a retention strategy, have you considered cancelling student debt for teachers after a certain number of years of service? Monthly repayments are huge when you have 2 degrees to pay off.

@xtinexoop @MartinSLewis lol I wish it was £66k. It’s not even close to that. I think it’s because I have a plan 1 loan and a plan 2 loan?

@MsHWard1 @MartinSLewis and your income that month was? this figure would suggest you earned about £5500 that month - or equivalent of £66k - so a take home before student loan of about £4000 meaning you actually took home about £3700? is that right? if not check with the SLC and make sure it was right

@MarshallTitan1 @bphillipsonMP You’re still employed as a teacher when you’re on maternity leave or off sick so not sure why that would matter.