David Cotton

@gunsnrosesgirl3 This is why I am glad I still look at Twitter. I will get them for my grandchildren. Thank you @gunsnrosesgirl3

Hello again, friends! Just a quick note to say that four of my Surprised by Science books are out now in paperback, with the last two coming at the end of this month! Have your pick of hardback or paperback, whichever suits you and your children A link to them is in the next post below

@lifeatthenest @englishspecial I think that day can be a Saturday

@englishspecial You only have to take the day to avoid abatement if you intend to carry on working. If you’re retiring, then you just take your pension in what ever format suits you best.

Older teachers between 50 and 60. When are you intending to take your pension? Before 60: you would need a day’s break in contract, you would have to take all parts, you would avoid abatement At, or after, 60: you can just opt out and take FS80. If you wanted to take CA as well, you’d need a day’s break in contract. You would be subject to abatement

Any idea what these two things are under my oak leaf?

Who fancies a bit of Physics of a summer holiday morning? NEW VIDEO: F = BIL with the new BIL Coil Is This the Easiest Way to Do the Force on a Wire Practical? youtu.be/zMZSt34W4c8?si… via @YouTube #ITeachPhysics #Electromagnetism #ChatPhysics

Just a three-hour drive from #Gaza, food for 200,000 people, medicine for 1.6 million, blankets, hygiene kits and school supplies sit waiting. Meanwhile, people in Gaza are in need of everything. Supplies need to enter. Now.

Can anyone identify these mushrooms in my plant please

These are always great!

Modelling Electricity with Ben Rogers is live! Join Robin, Rosie and friend-of-the-Podcast-and-author @BenRogersEdu for a delectable selection of ways to teach electricity spanning from year 4 all the way through to some fun ideas for year 12 A-level classes. #iteachphysics

Alert...💥patients you need to check who's treating you, to ensure it's not a PA, masquerarading as a Dr, with just 2yrs training. You need to protect yourself, because the establishment certainly isn't. @gmcuk @NHSE_WTE @drcolinm @wesstreeting @NavinaEvans

As we welcome the news that the UK will support Ukraine with a £2.26bn loan… Here’s your reminder that the Conservatives wasted £9.9bn on unusable or defective PPE Never forget their staggering corruption and incompetence.

This case is utterly tragic. A patient experiencing abdominal pain and vomiting was seen by a physician associate and diagnosed with a nosebleed, and was discharged from hospital that same day. She died two days later after having a catastrophic bowel obstruction. The coroner concluded that the ‘physician associate’ title is misleading to the public and that ‘no steps’ had been taken by NHS staff to correct the family of the false impression that the PA was a doctor. The coroner also dismissed the hospital’s idea that PAs are equivalent to doctors on the medical rotas, and that ‘blurring roles’ puts lives at risk. Meanwhile the expansion of the role of PAs within the NHS continues, with the green light also being given to recruit PAs from WHO red list countries. Patient safety is paramount. @wesstreeting must act now to prevent further cases like this happening.

It's dishonest, reckless & nothing short of scandalous. A 2-year course with a 100% pass rate is simply no substitute for the breadth & depth of a medical degree. All I want is for patients who need to see a doctor to do so. Is that really too much to ask, @wesstreeting?

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You, me and everyone is now bailing out Thames Water… They paid a WHOPPING £195.8m in dividends in October 2023 and March 2024 And now we pay for their recklessness Always the same…. Privatise the (non)profits, socialise the losses When are we going to WAKE TF UP?!

@poppygibsonuk I reached for my supposedly warm tea in my classroom after the holidays and to my surprise it was already cold. It was then I realised it was an old cup left on my desk from before the holidays!

I hate when you reach for your cup of tea or coffee ..only to find you finished it already 💔

"I signed up for the SKPT residential because I wanted to strengthen my subject knowledge & physics teaching skills" 💥Book now for our residential in March Fully funded CPD for teachers teaching KS3/4 physics out of field 💡electricity 🔋energy ➡️ forces loom.ly/HjjrhK8

"Eight more water companies to be quizzed by MPs." Now this could start to get very interesting, well done @CommonsEFRA 👏👏👏 Although it does beg the question, yet again. Why is it that private individuals, community groups and now MPs are having to do the regulators' job for them? committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/e…

Why are life-saving air ambulances (helicopters) funded by charities... Yet the Royal's helicopter is funded by us, the taxpayer? #OurNHS

Did you know we have our biggest free event ever on the horizon? Teachers Talk Connect will be hitting Manchester 1st of March 2024 with English, Maths, Science, RS, MFL, History and Primary strands. Speaker preview and more information here: ttradio.org/so/16PFA57a0?l…

If only this from the Sunday Times were new - the truth is even worse: that trusts have been advertising for “corridor nurses” for several years. A horrendous illustration of how overwhelmed hospitals are. This isn’t “flu” - it’s flu + lack of beds + lack of social care 🧵