Friday at 5

@TJiMTS #Raging!!!

£12,570. That's your tax-free allowance in 2021. And 2022. And 2023. And 2024. And 2025. And 2026. Inflation didn't get the memo 🤣

I would much rather live in a society where everyone has healthcare, housing, and food than a society where 3 billionaires own more wealth than half the country.

@NewbieSlt The Brady Bunch? The Tories?

Hi all, We have secured some funding for another group of our students. The Constantly Underachieving Needing Teacher Support group will have extra lessons during lunch and after school. Our Acronyms Department is struggling to come up with a name for them. Thanks x

@petergates3 Why don’t we just generalise thousands of teachers views?

Look at these two totally contrasting stances on children and consider which wound you prefer teaching your children…the teacher who understands children or the one who doesn’t.

@FixingEducation If only!

Did you know? Doctors can refuse service if they feel they cannot do so safely. Should teachers have the right to refuse services to students who are consistently violent and whom we believe are a threat to our safety, as well as the safety of other students?

@TheCinesthetic The Vanishing ( the original version).

What movie is 10/10, yet hardly anyone has heard of it?

@NewbieSlt I thought you had a surplus of these staff?

Hi all, As we look to expand our Leadership Team, we shall be advertising for an Assistant Secondary Senior Head Of Learning and Examinations. If you can see yourself as the next SLT ASSHOLE please contact HR for an application form. Thanks x

@oldandrewuk I’m fed up going to meetings where proposals are put left, right and centre. And we all go back to work and do what we have always done. Why? Because we are so busy and so many proposals are overwhelming. Then you go to the next meeting. Guess what?

“What is this instead of?” is the most useful question to ask of new policies, initiatives, and methods in education. Often, the answer reveals that a new idea is being used to remove something that works, without anyone saying so explicitly.

@BarryNSmith79 @oldandrewuk My dream!

@oldandrewuk what is being removed? We can’t be adding more without taking something off the list. Can we?’ Or ‘how does this contradict what we were told to do last week?’ Or ‘can ANYONE on SLT actually do this? Do they? Are they a role model? Or have they just heard it’s fashionable?

@NewbieSlt What about the snow?

Hi all, Many of you have contacted The Academy to ask whether we are returning to work tomorrow or on Tuesday. I can confirm that this information is on the VLE and was emailed to you on September 3rd 2025. Thanks x

My home insurance rate •Up 21% and I didn’t make a claim My auto insurance rate •Up 14% and I didn’t make a claim My health insurance premium •Up 24% and I only used it for my annual physical 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚 2% 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞. 🤔😐😔

@NewbieSlt What are ‘NCUTS’?

Hi all, We must apologise for the typo in today’s Staff Bulletin. The headline should say “Be prepared for CUTS in our staff”. We’ve no idea where the extra “N” came from. The response “We have enough of them on the SLT already” was a little extreme, even for you, Tina. Thanks x

@NewbieSlt We’ve had CRAP for quite a while now.

Hi all, Please be aware that we are no longer doing end of year reports but weekly reports to parents throughout the year. Continuous Reporting and Assessment of Pupils starts in January. We think CRAP is definitely the way forward for The Academy. Thanks x

@NewbieSlt What is TEAMS? Should I know about this?

Hi all, Our new Assistant Vice Assistant to the Assistant Vice Principal’s Assistant Head of Assisting in Improving Teaching and Learning has created a new pdf format for Schemes of Learning and Lesson Plans. They are to be used from Tuesday. They’re probably on TEAMS. Thanks x

@DrRosena And God bless all of you.

Working today on a very busy shift at St George's A&E. This Christmas and New Years there will be many NHS staff, doctors, nurses, porters and others, working tirelessly to save lives.

And this is what parents should really complain about.

@GunnerPuls Falkirk, Kilmarnock, Hull…

Name a football club without letter "E" Impossible

@GunnerPuls Fulham

@NewbieSlt This one?

Hi all, The police and RSPB have been in touch. The big Christmas tree in reception, donated by Jayden’s dad, was a listed tree and also contains a nest of one of the last breeding pairs of eagles in the UK. It will have to stay up until the chicks have fledged in June. Thanks x

The player of 2025. Scott McTominay.