Pascale Vassie 🧡💙

@gheezrite @WestwayTrust @RBKC @JohnLyonCharity @WestwayLearning That looks like a wonderful day. Love to see so much swimming and so much sunshine 🌞 congratulations on a wonderful 23/24 @gheezri

What a successful academic year! We had a beautiful outing to #seaside to celebrate our children’s success; wishing all our students, staff, and parents a peaceful and sunny summer. @WestwayTrust @RBKC @JohnLyonCharity @WestwayLearning

Inspiring national conference with many YPFs LYNs around England. So much brilliant and real place-based partnership taking place. Building to ensure young people are heard, get respect, finance they deserve @YPFtrust @ErikMesel1 @Young_MCR @LancasterCVS #SunderlandRuth and all

Cruelty is the most expensive aspect of our society. Poverty & destitution costs us so much, direct & long term financial costs & catastrophic human costs. Invest in people. Good healthcare, housing & income for everyone. Remove NRPF, Asylum poverty & warehousing.

@pamelafitz4HW @KenLoachSixteen I too endorse you Pamela, a candidate of integrity and passionate commitment for the people of Harrow

I can’t express how proud I am to be endorsed by ⁦@KenLoachSixteen⁩ . Ken Loach is one of the few Directors to genuinely understand and expose the devastating impact of poverty and injustice. He does this with empathy and respect and holds a mirror up to those responsible.

Day of tasting mints and deterring slugs; we saved five strawberries 🍓 and the wool slug pellets seem to be working 🤞 @STGPSCamberwell

We're composting, we're exploring creature, we're learning about soul structure and composition, we're eating fresh vegetables and growing more @STGPSCamberwell We're learning, we're co-producing. All in our #ChelseaBeeGarden @RHSSchools @sfmtweet @Capital_Growth

:) It’s so lovely seeing how excited children are when you invite them to use all their languages. Literally, all this is is a length of sugar paper with speech bubbles, and it’s a super-popular part of the stall! #multilingual

It didn't happen. It happened but they did it to themselves. We did it, serves them right. We did it, sorry, but it was necessary at the time. We did it, we're not sorry. We did it, why do you keep on about it? We didn't do it. If you go on about it, that proves you hate us.

The peace of gardening is for everyone @STGPSCamberwell for pollinators, for plants, for people. @RHSSchools #ChelseaBeeGarden @SouthwarkCofE

@BethanAngharadL A genuine sense of malice - that is spot on. And how do we shift away from that. Infiltrating society.

This summer, parents & educators across the country are joining the #FreeSchoolMealsForAll National Tour via @NoChildBehindUK. We’re engaging our communities and dialling up the pressure for a hot school dinner for every child, every day. Join us: actionnetwork.org/forms/schoolme…

🚨NEW CAMPAIGN ALERT 🚨 Give An X is a YOUTH movement from across the four nations, LED by young people FOR young people. We are on a mission to get every single young person REGISTERED TO VOTE. We #GiveAnX, do you?

Green alkanet, a weed? Not in (literally) my book. Not 'weedy' enough & too sensitive to 'pressure'. It makes good compost once flowering is done, being transferred by spade to the compost bin. Smaller ones will remain to support wildlife next year.

@StephenLoWatson @GuyBarter I didn't know alkanet flowers were edible 💙 they'll be on everything now, got so many

Seems to be that some people are interested in languages but not in plants. To me each is as much about communication and understanding as the other. So here is a treat for those who agree 💚🪱🐝🌿🎶 Stevie Wonder ~ The Secret Life Of Plants youtu.be/PveWXfUZEJg?fe… via @YouTube

Trees being planted, compost being donated @lb_southwark @VeoliaUK @Slug_Unit trees springing back to life when it looked like they'd perished in the dry summer 2023 @mark_landform Growth happening @STGPSCamberwell children and plants💚@SouthwarkCofE @RHSSchools @Capital_Growth

Loved showing @YorkCityCentre to wonderful @YPFtrust colleagues + meeting with youth network leads from across England. Hvn't forgotten supplementary-education @NRCSE_Quality with support of YPFs and LYNs info about these vital community settings is spreading across the country✊

@crawley_mick wow!!!!!!

Many of the oaks will loose 100% of this year’s (small) acorn crop to the gall wasps. Competition between female wasps for access to acorns means that many of the acorns are attacked by multiple galls. The record at Silwood is 10 galls on a single acorn cup.

There’s an interesting bit of insect ecology on display at the moment. I’m sure you remember the massive acorn crop last year (autumn 2022, below). Because Quercus robur is alternate-bearing (big crops are always followed by little crops) we predicted a very low crop this year