Many years in education. Director of Education in a MAT. Also have a lovely wife & 4 kids. Views here are my own
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She was only four when Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Just turned six when Musk decided to join Trump on Putin’s side and help the Kremlin killers murder her
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I think we need to start talking about the impossible challenges that teachers are facing.
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Pearson has just confirmed that the SATs results are currently being uploaded to the portal.
Absolutely shambles. First they messed up in the Monday of SATs week with headteachers unable to access the online registers, then many schools had issues with collection of papers (one sch had no papers collected for 3 wks!!) and now this. schoolsweek.co.uk/sats-resul…
Wow! A a whole 15 years I’ve been on this platform. Learnt lots of things, occasionally engage and frequently get frustrated. But sticking with it 👍🏻
I appreciate this is a first world problem, but @ODEONCinemas how have you sold out of Mandalorian merch before the film is released? Taking my son tomorrow to see the film and he is going to be upset!
In our primary schools this morning - all had issues logging into the new assessment portal. Did nobody think to consider 17k primary schools all trying to log in at the same time?
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For balance, LAs also charge a “top slice” to schools for central services. Last year, Leeds charged 9%. A large MAT, on average, charges 5%. This year, 25 councils also essentially “GAG pooled” by not paying within 2.5 per cent of the NFF value across at least one factor.
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Thousands of Coventry City fans are packing the streets for the open top bus parade, followed by the “We Are Back” festival at 3pm, where 50k tickets were sold!
Great to see Coventry enjoy some good times again, they’ve had it rough for far too long… 🩵
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So much joy on the streets of Coventry on Monday.
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Your 2025/26 Golden Glove winner. ✨
ALT Carl Rushworth receives his EFL Sky Bet Championship Golden Glove award.
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We already know that top performing state schools admit fewer children eligible for free school meals and fewer children with SEND - even when they live in the catchment area.
Schools that make efforts to be more inclusive should be supported, not penalised.
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"Disingenuous" doesn't even begin to cover this which just went out on @SkyNews 👇even by Braverman's already stratospheric standards
Ridge : Why didn't Farage declare the £5 million donation ? Parliamentary rules say new MPs have to declare 𝐚𝐥𝐥 registrable benefits in the 12 months before being elected
Braverman : Are you suggesting Farage should go around without security - do you want to get him killed ? (basically)
👏@SophyRidgeSky for keeping cool (despite hay fever and said disingenuousness) and repeatedly not letting her get away with it
Be careful if you vote Reform in your local elections next moth. Muppets in our area voted them in last year (not me!) and they are ruining our council.
Residents across West Northamptonshire are beginning to feel the impact of the Reform administration who have only been elected for one year. After the budget was pushed through last month, the impact of the budget is now coming to fruition.
Here are some of the things they've introduced through West Northants Council 👇:
🔶️ Reform are charging people to use our Country Parks, including in West Hunsbury in my ward.🌳
🔶️ Removed free parking on the weekends in out Town Centre, whilst increasing parking charges. ❌️
🔶️ Are charging blue badge holders to park at WNC car parks 😳
🔶️ Increased Council Tax, but failed to collect the bins on the same day (you couldn't make it up). ♻️
🔶️Increased green waste bins charges. 🚮
What they haven't done is cut waste, stop the boats or reduced Council Tax, as they promised in their LOCAL election leaflets in May 2025.
Welcome to a Reform run administration 🙄😤