Year 2 Teacher in East London, Teach First participant '17, Uni of Southampton grad, I love theatre and art and am trying to put more of it in schools! 🤸🌈
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Joined August 2017
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Look at the replies to this, THIS IS WHY PRIDE STILL HAPPENS!
Parents! 📣 How do you support LGBTQ+ kids? 🏳️🌈
We had @Divinadecampo from @dragraceukbbc to discuss just that on the Bitesize Secondary Parents' Survival Guide podcast on @BBCSounds!
Listen now! 👉 bbc.in/ParentsSurvivalGuideS…
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Just a reminder that the same government who've just given everyone £10 off every meal they eat this summer also fought long and hard not to give our poorest children £15 to feed themselves FOR A WEEK.
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this thread is over 260 tweets long, filled almost exclusively with videos of unprovoked violence by police on peaceful protesters
2️⃣3️⃣1️⃣: Buffalo, NY: police arrest a man *while he's being interviewed by the press* *with his hands in the air*
Lawlessness
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3rd year of teaching, dreamy school, fab team, new class, IM SO EXCITED TO MEET MY 24 NEW SMOL BUG FRIENDS!!!!
Some say that the best part of travelling in Europe is absorbing the history, engaging with different cultures or discovering new perspectives and lifestyles, but it's crisps. We all know it's really the crisps.
While having 6 weeks off is obviously marvellous, it's doing nooooooothiinggg for my mental health 🙃🙃🙃
Having a democratic classroom is marvellous until the little cherubs organise a secret vote during breaktime to completley outvote your decision to do the maths assessment when they come back in.
We are with these kids all day long, we can already spot when something is wrong. Identitication is not the problem. We need funding for school based psychologists, counsellers and interventions.
OFFICIAL: All new teachers to be trained to spot signs of mental health issues👩🏫👨🏫💙
➡️ This will be backed up by updated statutory guidance to make clear schools' responsibilities to protect children’s mental wellbeing.
We're putting prevention top of the #MentalHealth agenda.
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I think this letter, that came home with an upset 9 year old girl today. Shows that as a country/society, we have not progressed one cm in 30 years. #quarterpenny lives and breathes design & technology and can't understand why she has to do cooking and drama
No. No they don't. Hence the reason we have to have welfare departments, safeguarding procedures and social services...
"Parents know best for their children."
When asked about protests over LGBT classes, Tory leadership candidate Esther McVey told #Sunrise parents should have "final say on what they want their children to know".
Teachers are in tears as the row worsens: po.st/7vsnwi
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Book Giveaway!!!
Not everyone can get to #HayFestival2019 so I’m going to give away this signed copy of Runaway Robot to someone who RT’s thus. I’ll pick after tomorrow afternoons event. Go!
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VOTE TODAY, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THE GODS VOTE TODAY. THAT CREEPY OLD GUY AT THE END OF YOUR STREET WILL AND GUESS WHO HES VOTING FOR... VOTE.
This makes my heart hurt a bit
Anti-LGBT school lessons protests spread nationwide bbc.in/2VE4ylk
Today I asked my class to get into groups and act out a Greek myth. 15 mins later I found one kid lying down behind my desk. He told me he was the river. I asked him to perform. (1/2)