Chris Regan

Reading a BBC report titled ‘students express anxiety over toilet breaks’. Apparently, a new survey found ‘65% of students were unable to access toilets at their school freely at any time’. I’ve worked in several schools, including my current one, where the culture is firmly set - students don’t go to the toilet during lessons. If this is normalised, students just don’t. Most don’t ask. They just go at break/lunch unless it’s an emergency. Personally I always let a student go if they insist they need to but 9/10 if I say ‘can you wait for 5/10/15 mins please as the lesson will end then’ they can and will no problem. Or they will just forget to ask again. Never had any sort of problem in nearly 20 years when it comes to this. If you allow blanket toilet breaks whenever you want, there will always be a proportion of students who will use this as a get out of lessons free card frequently, this will then spread to other students and suddenly major issue with large numbers of students roaming corridors. That’s not to mention reason many schools lock toilets - vandalism, vaping, fights, gatherings, truanting. This isn’t some vindictive thing. It’s a reaction to the realities.

@RogersHistory I’m sick of giving examples to students of times in life when you have to plan for not being able to go to the toilet and explaining that they have plenty of time at break and lunch

All of the above to #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime

The amount of planning and curriculum development that schools up and down the country are doing is a national travesty a colossally bad use of national infrastructure and resources

It's perhaps a nice thing to believe and encourage interest, but that's about it. It's the same with the other things people say like flower petals are always a Finonacci number, they aren't just look around in spring and you'll see plenty of 4 petal flowers.

@PhysInHistory It appears to match in the diagram, but the Fibonacci spiral is not a spiral it is a series of arcs. Meaning the curves abruptly change between parts. To get it to match to galaxies you have to mess with scale which then means it isn't the fibinacci spiral anyway.

The Fibonacci sequence isn’t just a math trick—it’s everywhere in nature. From sunflower seeds to galaxies, the universe has a secret love affair with spirals.

A rundown of the six most downloaded resources from the site this year douglaswise.co.uk/blog/six-most-… 📚

The most beautiful equations in Physics and Mathematics. ✍️

Hi all, Starting next term, we’ve paid some highly respected edu-celebrities to come into The Academy to provide some Ofsted Training CPD. They’ll tell us we’re doing great, sell us their latest book, cash the cheque and disappear leaving us requiring improvement again. Thanks x

See the recent report I wrote for @suttontrust on how the last few decades of education reform have seen improved outcomes, particularly in maths. (But that we're struggling much more with pastoral support and the disadvantage gap) suttontrust.com/our-research/l…

Come and visit us at our Open Evening on Thursday 24 October (5.30 - 7.30pm). Annually 30% of our students are New to Heathfield in Year 12. They contribute significantly to our Sixth Form Community and our induction programme supports them to settle in quickly. #community

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

"The sector’s shameful secret is that it wastes thousands of precious hours and effectively burns piles of cash year on year on professional development that doesn’t work." Fact

Amy is absolutely brilliant and speaks evidence based sense. Great to hear her on @BBCr4today

There is a massive chunk of the human population that purely runs on feelings, and possesses minimal critical, independent thinking skills. It's quite scary once you realise it.

@oldandrewuk “Evidence based” used in any context other than presenting a peer-reviewed paper with p-values of less than 0.05.

A simple revision booklet for A Christmas Carol. There are three parts to it: 1⃣ A summary of each stave 2⃣ Discussion questions 3⃣ A basic Cornell notes template douglaswise.co.uk/blog/a-christm… 👻

Very important for all @OUstudents to remember. I know it is hard, and I have taken things personally at times, but the tutors are doing this to help you and make your marks better.