matildewarden.bsky.social
Old teacher | New Headteacher | Maths | NFFC
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#FridayFive
1. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
2. Coffee and TV - Blur
3. Arctic Monkeys - RU Mine
4. Single Ladies - Beyoncé
5. Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants
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And still awesome!
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Sgt. Pepper is such a good album!
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I like your short blogs!
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It would be my go to word for somewhere that was really busy!
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Ha ha! No. Have you had a bad experience with a white van?
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That the buses are full?
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Reasons at our school are:
1. It provides more flexibility in the whole school timetable.
2. although teachers can teach it all if required, they do have preferences .
3. A level can be shared between everyone.
4. Gives students the opportunity to work with a variety of teachers.
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Wish I’d seen this warning before I did.
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It is a thing
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Thank you!
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Thank you! We’re delighted!
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#FridayFive
1. Burning Up - Madonna
2. Fireball - Pitbull
3. Girl on Fire - Alicia Keys
4. Goodnight, Goodnight - Hot Hot Heat
5. Banquet - Bloc Party
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I don’t know if it is impossible though - I keep hearing of big secondary schools who have done similar. Maybe they aren’t concerned about the split classes 🤷♀️
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I’d love to be able to timetable everyone with a day off, even once a fortnight, but I haven’t been able to even get everyone a PPA at the end of the day without horrendous splits for the students. If any timetablers out there have done this well please let me know how. Would love to do this.
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Love all of these!
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In the same way we all did before social media? Made our own, talked to people, brought them from our old schools to our new schools… I still see teachers using my resources from early 2000’s now and then that were never shared on social media, but they got around somehow.
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Optimistic, because otherwise we’d all pack it in.
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a) reference books that I’ll need to return to
b) novels, particularly anything I’m going to read on holiday
c) anything that keeps my attention and is easy to listen to or that I’d like to hear in the author’s voice. This can be fiction or non-fiction.
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I have very vivid memories of Fletcher books.
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A P8 data dashboard won’t show you an individual’s track record unless you are going to search data dashboards from their entire career. And P8 hasn’t been around for that long either. Visiting their school would give a better idea, but who has time for that every time they want to share something?
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Oh my goodness. This is absolutely heartbreaking.
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I need this too!
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I taught some PE in my first three years. I also taught a few IT lessons for a couple of years. I enjoyed them both (my subject is maths)
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Yes, we have lots of those too!
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Absolutely ridiculous!
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Same! Such a feel good programme.
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My favourite series so far. All of them were great!
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Big smiles!!
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But you can tell who knows what to instruct AI to write and who doesn’t.
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I like the letters! We have particular headings that we ask people to write about and it’s really interesting to compare what people say. It also saves us wasting our time on obviously unsuitable candidates (there are many!)
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Waitrose?? How the other half lives!
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Yes! - ‘don’t work until you get it right, keeping working until you can’t get it wrong’ is what I always say to my kiddos.
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Graphs, graphs, graphs!