Sean Smith

@TPExpressTrains Your rail replacement service from York to Darlington is shocking! Hundreds of people baking in the sun missing train connections. Not enpugh buses, not enough stewards.

Happy Friday everyone! Who’s ready for the bank holiday weekend? 🥳 We have major engineering works taking place over the weekend across our network. There are works between #Manchester #Huddersfield and #Leeds until Monday 25 May, between #York & #Northallerton from Saturday 23 until Monday 25 May and between #Marsden & #Mirfield from Saturday 23 until Monday 25 May. you can check for travel updates here: journeycheck.com/tpexpress/ Saturday 23 May 🎵BBC Radio 1s Big Weekend - Herrington Country Park, Durham 🎵Country Lovin Festival – Don Valley Grass Bowl, Sheffield 🎵Neighbourhood Weekender – Victoria Park, Warrington 🎵Doja Cat – Co-op Live, Manchester 🏡Ideal Home Show Scotland – SEC, Glasgow 🎵Pinkpantheress – SEC, Glasgow 🎵Kingfishr – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 🎵Kraftwerk – O2 Apollo, Manchester 🎵Back to the 80’s Summer Festival – Escape to Freight Island/Depot Mayfield, Manchester 🚙Classic Vehicle Rally – Hope Town, Darlington 🎵DayClubbers Festival – Zebedee’s Yard, Hull Sport Fixtures 🐴 York Racecourse Sunday 24 May 🎵BBC Radio 1s Big Weekend - Herrington Country Park, Durham 🎵K-Pop Universe / Sheffield Adored – Don Valley Grass Bowl, Sheffield 🎵Neighbourhood Weekender – Victoria Park, Warrington 🏡Ideal Home Show Scotland – SEC,Glasgow 🎵Pixies – Aviva Studios, Manchester 🎵Example – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 🎵Contained in Sheffield – Forge Warehouse, Sheffield 🎵Preston Caribbean Carnival 2026 – Moor Park, Preston Sport Fixtures ⚽ @LFC Vs @BrentfordFC – Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, 16:00 ⚽ @SunderlandAFC Vs @ChelseaFC – Stadium of Light, Sunderland, 16:00 ⚽ @ManCity Vs @AVFCOfficial – Etihad Stadium, Manchester, 16:00 For more information about your journey this weekend, please visit journeycheck.com/tpexpress/ We hope you enjoy your weekend! 🤟🏻

@CastlebraeCCC Congratulations Rueberta - very well deserved.

We are DELIGHTED to introduce our senior team over the next few days. First up is one of our 2 HEAD STUDENTS, Rueberta. ⚫️🔴

@GianTomkins @miss_mcinerney I don't know if it's still the case, but the Big 4 used to take on 3 times the graduates that they needed, paying them peanuts initially, then let them fight it out. Absolutely savage.

@miss_mcinerney Well what’s so bad about accounting? I left teaching last year after 25 years and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it as a career.

Oof, heck of a finding in the @TeacherTapp blog out today. The % of people who said they'd advise their 21 year old self to go into teaching has massively fallen. Where would they go instead? Accounting 🙁 teachertapp.co.uk/articles/would…

@RogersHistory It's the problem that no politician can afford to tackle, which is why it's come to this. It's not just more funding, higher taxes (for everyone), more immigration, a proper system for funding long-term care, more realistic expectations of what the state can do. It's everything!

My 98 year old nan had to go into hospital on Tuesday and was left in a corridor on a trolley with a large number of other (mostly) older people for nearly 16 hours before getting a bed in a ward, 1 nurse managing a lot of them. I do not blame doctors and nurses, at all. But the system isn't working. The whole thing is a disgrace. Needs a total rethink.

@pjcboro @greghove @GBNEWS A playful spin perhaps?

@greghove @GBNEWS I think it might not be a flag, but just some graphics loosely based on the Union flag design with similar colours and angles. There.

Can I ask @GBNEWS what country this is a flag of?

@hannahlindahl @adamboxer1 See also pencils. You give out a pencil, and 10 minutes later, you hear a pencil thrown across the room. You ask a pupil who you gave a pencil to if they still have it. Suddenly, someone's in trouble for not having a pencil.

@adamboxer1 So my kids say “miss I haven’t got a pen” so I give them one and then 25 mins later they intentionally snap the pen in half and demand to use the bathroom cos they are covered in ink. Answers on a postcard please. No detentions cos parents won’t back them up

Sticking my neck out here but to be honest I think this is pretty reasonable 🤷‍♂️ Students shouldn't be put in isolation for forgetting a pen

@adamboxer1 This is a great list. One thing that I've found as a mature ECT is that the non-exemplification is often very precise, but the exemplification is vague and principles-based. For example, differentiation is not about graded worksheets, but it is about inclusiveness accessibility

There is no educational idea that someone, somewhere, won't screw up. What we therefore need are: Precise definitions: if you can't easily define it, it's more likely to get screwed up Exemplification: to support the definition, what *exactly* does it look like in practice Non-exemplification: what could someone think it looks like, but isn't actually what it looks like Parameters: when does it work, and when should it not be used? Causative justification: what is the link between "doing the thing" and "educational outcome" Ease calculation: is it actually possible to implement by an average member of the workforce? Imo this applies at all levels. Sure, blogging and tweeting and stuff, but also in schools. Leaders shouldn't be asking staff to do things unless they've delineated the above.

@CastlebraeCCC @edinfoodsocial That food was lovely!

Amazing effort from the Food Truck Elective!!! Cauliflower cups, mini steak and cheese sandwiches and banana bread cake pops. Delicious!! ☺️ @edinfoodsocial #elective #newskills

@adamboxer1 @Mr_AlmondED I see your posts all the time (and that is a good thing). I don't really do Twitter that much though, so I don't follow many (any) with a Blue Tick. I need to find the time to do your blog, it looks great. Please don't stop.

@Mr_AlmondED is that how it works?

The MCA blogs are getting very few hits. Theories: 1. They aren't good 2. People are done with blogs 3. It's a series and people never read later instalments 4. All of the above Thoughts? They take a long time to write, not sure I can be bothered to keep going 🤣😭

@CastlebraeCCC Well done girls! . At one point in the fairly recent past, there were more investment managers in the UK called Dave or David, than there were women! #budgeupdave

Absolutely amazing to see some of our Castlebrae Young People receive certificates from their coach for their contribution in the Growing Future Assets Competition 👏👏👏 #GFAC #Inspiring #InvestmentManagement #TEAM

@cj_maths @mrallanmaths - could you send me the code for the Scottish Maths teachers team please?

@Hayo_luke No more than expecting me to behave for a bus driver that I don't know. I behave because I have to share a public space with other people. I also don't expect any input on the route, I know that before I get on the bus.

Is it draconian to expect students to behave for a teacher they’ve yet to establish a relationship with?

@VillageSchoolH1 Never did it, I think we might have one somewhere, but the kids were never bothered. When it started, people used to post it in social media. That got tired quickly!

It’s not often I’m pleased my children have grown up. But the thought of having to sort a ruddy elf out each night is one of the times I’m really thankful.

I was very lucky to spend the morning with these two superstars and lots of other inspiring young women at the launch of the 2023 Future Asset Competition #budgeupdave They represented @CastlebraeCCC impeccably and even won the fun stock picking competition!

@CurvaWanderlust @RadioForthNews There is a cyclist going through a red light at the end of this clip (coming the other way). Very surprised nobody noticed.

@RadioForthNews I am quite happy to send him dash-cam videos of bikes everyday going straight through red lights in Edinburgh at pedestrian crossings while using mobile phones.

🚲 An Edinburgh cyclist is urging drivers to be more careful when passing bikes. 🚳 The man - who doesn’t want to be named - wears a body camera every day and posts videos of near misses from cars.

@Mr_Mark_Brown What is happening at the end of the clip? A bike comes the other way on the wrong side of the road and the overtaking car has to cut in to avoid it.

Deary me. If only there was a dedicated cycle lane nearby that this ‘anonymous’ fella, who has form on this platform, could have utilised…

A fantastic inclusive project that has brought our curriculum to life.

@MrSlaterCDT @CastlebraeCHS They look amazing!

This is scandalous- and the natural consequence of a system that pretends behaviour is great, and looks the other way. Whistleblower teacher reveals 'management failings' causing turmoil in Glasgow school heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23…