Feel free to connect to me-
www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine...
I also don’t quite know what one is supposed to do. I used to only connect to people I know/have met. But now I’m open to all edu folks. But not recruiters. (Even tho LinkedIn is at least partly about finding employment/employees!)
Love the debate here between @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @amymayforrester.bsky.social
On annotations in English,
open.spotify.com/episode/7L27...
Adam lays out a good challenge, to NOT let students annotate at the same
time as the teacher…
@teamenglish1.bsky.social
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Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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1/19
Paul Bambrick Santoyo books
I get to see this guy speak tomorrow at Harris Federation conference!
The question is, should I bring one of the books for him to sign?!
#BambrickSantoyo #Legend #Inspiration
#UKEd #EduSky
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Bertie botts beans in pots
Various Harry Potter themed snacks
Make a wand and house bean counters
Make a wand - choose your core
This was my Sunday, how was yours?
We got the first Cambridge offer in our academy! 🎉
Chilling beyond belief #Iran
#IranMassacre :
Don't stop talking about Iran.
Don't stop talking about Iran.
Don't stop talking about Iran.
Don't stop talking about Iran.
Don't stop talking about Iran.
Don't stop talking about Iran.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
Why is #Iran no longer on the front of the bbc website at all?
amp.dw.com/en/protests-...
--Dreams by Langston Hughes--
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
#poemsky
The chairman of Reform UK recently pontificated that London has no sense of community (not like in the old days, etc). That wasn't my impression when attending this lovely multi-faith gathering earlier today in the Queens Park ward of Brent, complete with doves of peace. #london #truelondon
I used my welcome back assembly to talk to the children about New Year Resolutions, explaining that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves. I have asked the children to join together with a shared purpose to: • Support each other • Be resilient when things are hard • Make a difference every day I know that by working together we can make 2026 a year to be proud of. Parents, I would now like to set you a challenge for your New Year Resolution. I appeal to you to make your resolution to follow the few simple car park rules to ensure the car park is safe, traffic flows and cars are able to park easily and leave promptly. The Security team have shared CCTV footage with us that shows a blatant flouting of the rules. We have seen cars driving the wrong way, overtaking other cars and dropping children not in designated safe spaces. I am aware it is a case of the few ruining it for the many, so please do think of your fellow car park users and use the car park safely and considerately.
I love this headteacher and her creative approach to trying to behaviour manage the parents!
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*Xmas day and New Year’s Day I mean!
Step counts for the holidays showing low step counts most days, above 10k on 25/12 and 01/01
Thank you, Parkrun; for making Xmas day and Boxing Day the only days I made it past 10k!
A photo of my great grandparents Sarah and Mark who settled in Paris in 1925.
100 years ago, my great grandfather Mark met Sarah when he stopped over in Paris briefly on his way to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. While there, he received word that the ferry was cancelled due to a strike. He stayed longer, fell in love with Sarah, and married her, December 1925.
If anybody is going to be alone on Christmas Day and would like a quick call/zoom then I would be happy to do this - DM me if you want. I can talk about food, sport, tv or the weather. But most importantly I can talk/listen. 💕 If not me, I’m sure I can find somebody for you.
open.spotify.com/episode/2WzW...
“Leadership isn’t about what you’ve got to do, it’s about what you get to do”
Love this from @calmleadership.bsky.social
@naht.org.uk
7 of 139 ChAPTER 1 Behind the Gym twas a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her. This is not going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill's school, which is not a pleasant subject. It was "Co-educational", a school for both boys and girls, what used to be called a "mixed" school; some said it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others. All sorts of things, horrid things, went on which at an ordinary school would have been found out and stopped in half a term; but at this school they weren't. Or even if they were, the people who did them were not expelled or punished. The Head said they were interesting psychological cases and sent for them and talked to them for hours. And if you knew the right sort of things to say to the Head, the main result was that you became rather a favourite than otherwise. That was why Jill Pole was crying on that dull autumn day on the damp little path which runs between the back of the gym and the shrubbery.
This description of an ‘experimental’ school from the Silver Chair is very interesting!
“These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others.”
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#UKEd #EduSky
What I enjoyed was finding out he basically wanted to be a rockstar in his youth. And how he has somehow achieved rockstar status in the education research world!
I love ‘the tick trick’ by @adamboxereducation.bsky.social - ensure students apply the feedback to their own work by ticking each part on MWB then explaining their misconceptions. Without this they often just don’t notice the feedback applies to them.
If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”
“If the maths test has a high reading demand, then conclusions about their mathematical ability will
Be valid for good readers but less valid for less good readers”
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social
Quote from podcast “Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”
I think this is a useful provocation from @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on the common models of DIRT time.
“Too often the purpose of feedback is seen as improving the work. The purpose of feedback is to improve the learner”
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News story from BBC: “I've just spoken to an eyewitness, Barry, who was attending the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach. He told me he was at the event with his kids when the sound of gunshots ran out. He said two men were on a bridge and they started shooting at the crowd. There were bodies on the ground, he said”
Oh.
How wonderful to have an episode with @dylanwiliam.bsky.social on #TheyBehaveForMe podcast with
@amymayforrester.bsky.social and
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social who did the whole interview with a tiny baby in a carrier.
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wcj...
A little bit of theatrics for y10 ‘intro to Macbeth’ tomorrow, set to ‘O Fortuna’from Carmina Burana
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