Might not have been England's finest hour, though :-(
07.03.2026 20:41
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Might not have been England's finest hour, though :-(
McGrath was born in England, I think.
If you can have Hilary and Tenzing...
Reap what you sow, I think, when it comes to refereeing football.
Much respect for @fryrsquared.bsky.social but I'm not convinced English Lang / Lit GCSE is a good analogy. Fair bit of hate out there for the nebulous nature of GCSE Lang.
Science has been struggling with this question for whole of the C21st. Might be a better comparator.
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Grammarly has very clearly pivoted. Used to support students who find fluent writing difficult. Now it's offering to boost content for minimal effort.
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Agree, but there's a long tradition of this in education. Not just EdTech, either. Plenty of academic and academic-adjacent folk have got their hands dirty, too, although I guess in most cases they started with the research and then marketed the commercial product as spin off.
Yes, I should think it'll take a generation to get past this.
Thursday 5th March Happy 71st Birthday to Penn Jillette (left) the vocal half of magical duo Penn & Teller. Penn was always interested in stage shows and magic tricks and had a juggling act with another student in high school. When he was 18 he saw a show by the illusionist James Randi who acknowledged that his show was deception and entertainment rather than authentic supernatural ‘magic’ and Penn carried this philosophy into his own career. He met ‘Teller’ in 1975 and by 1981 they toured as ‘Penn & Teller’ and have continued to work together for 40 years. Penn the fast-talking explainer and Teller the silent, yet somehow funny, side-kick. Penn & Teller turn magic into stunts, scepticism, and stagecraft. They became famous for their live shows (including the longest running Las Vegas headline show in history). Watch: Penn & Teller explain the Cup & Balls ‘Trick’ or Penn fool Rebel Wilson but show the audience how to do the rope trick. Have you ever tried to learn a ‘magic’ trick? Does Penn & Teller’s way of explaining some of the magic ruin it? Do you ever see magic, misdirection or outrageous claims on social media? How do you decide what to believe?
Thursday 5th March Happy 71st Birthday to Penn Jillette (left) the vocal half of magical duo Penn & Teller. Penn & Teller’s shows acknowledge that magic shows are deception and entertainment and show the audience how some tricks are done. The duo have worked together for more than 40 years with Penn being the fast-talking explainer and Teller the silent, yet somehow funny, side-kick. Watch: Their Cup & Balls ‘Trick’ explainer or the rope trick. Does Penn & Teller’s way of explaining some of the magic ruin it?
TGT on Thursday celebrates the birthday of Penn Jillette. The talkative half of Penn & Teller, Penn doesn't pretend their act is anything other than deception and sometimes, but not always, shows the audience how it's done. Discuss magic entertainment with your tutees.
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Nice!
Whilst there is obviously a lot of work needed to achieve a fully low carbon electricity supply, and here in the UK that might involve potentially vulnerable undersea cables, it's not like the last 10 years have shown us oil and gas are stable and secure options.
Grammarly has very quickly pivoted from better-than-Word proof-reading, to essay mill on speed.
Wednesday 4th March Rob Grant was born in Salford in 1955 and studied Psychology, but his passion was comedy writing. For years, Rob wrote comedy the most fun way possible; with a partner, lobbing silly half-ideas back and forward across a room until they came became their funniest form. Rob Grant first worked with Doug Grant on the political satire show Spitting Image in 1985. Their magnus opus was the Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf (first aired in 1988) which they wrote under a single pen-name ‘Grant Naylor’. The show’s premise was that Dave Lister is sent to sleep for smuggling a cat aboard a spaceship, then wakes up three million years later as the last human alive, stuck with a hologram bunkmate and a creature evolved from that cat (clip). Rob & Doug’s collaboration lasted until 1995 and saw them win an Emmy for season 6 episode Gunman Of The Apocalypse. The pair fell out (though kept their reasons private) and Naylor continued to write Red Dwarf alone, but Grant later found a second creative partnership with Andrew Marshall to write more TV shows and a Red Dwarf prequel novel Titan. Sadly Rob Grant died last Wednesday aged 70, just a week after the announcement of Titan’s release this summer. Why do you think comedy writing in particular is so often something done in pairs/teams? What would make a good comedy partnership? In what other areas (music, youtubers, sport etc) do you see “duos” working well together. Who’s your best school work partner?
Wednesday 4th March Rob Grant was born in Salford in 1955 and studied Psychology, but his passion was comedy writing. He is best known for his writing partnership with Doug Naylor. They first met writing for Spitting Image in 1985. Their magnus opus was the Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf which first aired in 1988, which they wrote under a single pen-name ‘Grant Naylor’. In the show, the last human alive, a cat evolved into a humanoid and a hologram are stuck 3 million years into deep space (clip). Rob & Doug’s collaboration lasted until 1995 and saw them win an Emmy for season 6 episode, Gunman Of The Apocalypse. Sadly Rob Grant died last week, just a week after the announcement of a Red Dwarf prequel novel, Titan to be released this summer. Who’s your best school work partner?
Wednesday's TGT remembers Rob Grant who died last week. Discuss comedy writing, working partnerships or just bask in the silly of some Red Dwarf clips.
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I'm very grateful a friend told me to get Lasting Power of Attorneys sorted many years before my parents needed them.
When the time came, we were all dealing with so much. We didn't have to do that as well.
Have the conversation early.
Another little reminder that being a headteacher is a pretty demanding job, often underappreciated outside education.
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Hockey this also works well.
Never understood why they didn't do this.
Would put players/managers under a bit of the same pressure the refs get, plus when the ref's getting abuse on field "are you calling for VAR?" would be a massive help.
I think it's just repackaged GPT, isn't it?
Happy to moderate the marking if you like.
No, no, just with a sense of mild professional satisfaction.
Don't know why I just saw this, but anyone who marks GCSE will be giving that answer a big, fat 0, without a moment's hesitation.
Significant chunk of my pension is invested in Thames Water.
Bet the person who made that call has done alright, though.
IDK about productivity or GDP/capita, but give me Europe any day.
... poorer people working ridiculous hours to get by, plenty of people not getting by at all, and professionals a complete mix from doing well on steady hours to ridiculous stress with massive hours.
Interesting post on Europe v USA productivity. sethackerman.substack.com/p/europes-pr...
I'm not even slightly an economist so have no idea what's right.
I do know that my experience of the US is...
And teachers and SLT don't even realise they're making that choice for "the school" and not for the individual children, who may be doing brilliantly, or badly, just as much as those who are solid EXS but not GD, or comfortably GD, etc.
Yes, my experience in primary is a lot more limited but my impression is, regardless of the excellent support for many children well behind ARE, the children in Y5/6 who are borderline EXS, particularly if it's just in one of RWM, get a lot of extra resource.
When I started teaching, the most experienced and senior teachers often got the top sets. Then harder accountability meant most schools genuinely tried to identify their most effective teachers and gave them all the borderline C/D students at KS4. I'm not so sure what's happened post-P8.
In STEM subjects, there are many, many exceptions but a lot of university lecturers might not even notice.
At least, that's been the case when GCSE and A-Level content has changed before.
Please don't underrate human beings' ability to produce uptight, lifeless prose on their own
Yep. Needs to point at some evidence that shows the decline happened earlier in places otherwise similar but early adopters v later adopters or a much more convincing take on the PISA data.
I'm struggling to remember some of what happened. Things like holidays and weddings got cancelled. Did we get reimbursed or allowed to postpone, or was it just a case of sucking it up or claiming on insurance?
They're paying for a service not goods, sure.
Argue the service is charged so far below the market rate (£25,500 for history and £31,000 for chem at my place) that even the poorer service they got during Covid was VfM, but it wasn't what was advertised, and it was very much 'sold' to them.