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Catholic teacher in London EYFS/English Lead, DSL and Assistant Head NPQH
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🚨NEW VID Where I grill two of my biggest heroes—my mum and Professor Dylan Wiliam—on how education has changed over the last half-century ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLVx...

Taking the register with Reception this morning: Me: Good morning *child 1* Child 1: Good morning Miss Manzone! Me: What a beautiful loud and clear voice. You can have a house point! Me: Good morning *child 2* Child 2: Good morning beautiful Miss Manzone!

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

Have a great first day back everyone!

Happy New Year Bluesky

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Took Reception to see Rosie Robin and the Christmas Post at @littleangeltheatre.bsky.social . Magical and so Christmassy. The children loved it.

Yes, people will post pictures on social media of sleeping arrangements on Xmas Eve and I will once again attempt to leverage this to raise money for charity — just pinning this to my profile to head off the relentless (i.e. sporadic) enquiries

Nativity rehearsals ramp up today. Thursday is the big day.

One of these trees is Alexander McQueen. The other one is mine.

This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

That’s it. I deleted The Bad Place. I couldn’t stand it a moment longer. I feel cleansed.

If you are after a good read about teaching I highly recommend @hywelroberts.bsky.social Someone who just gets it.

“Why did the Hungry Caterpillar make a cocoon?” #EYFS child: “So no one bothers him.” “Sorry?” I ask. EYFS child: “He needs time to THINK himself INTO a butterfly.” “Wow!” I respond. EYFS child: “Well, he didn’t do it by magic.”