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Joel Kenyon @joel120193.bsky.social · 2h

Heads of Department/SLT

What do you do for pupils who have missed lessons due to being absent?

Do you give extra work, catch up work, direct them somewhere etc? What does it look like?

Would appreciate RTs for a wider range 👍

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 2d

Went to Hathersage, which is in the middle of the Derbyshire Peak District, at the weekend.

Didn’t see any Black or brown faces.

Is that a failure of integration? 🤔

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 1d

Woke up the to the news on TV while I was at university in Manchester (where there was no storm, or at least nothing that caused any damage) ... first thought when seeing the BBC broadcasting by emergency lights was that there'd been a nuclear strike.

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 1d

though i did get it fairly quickly (1 hint)

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. I thought the definition was the exact opposite of it's true meaning.

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(...

Elite (video game) - Wikipedia

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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 3d

That little blue dot is a young exoplanet!
#iTeachPhysics
#Science 🧪
#Astronomy 🔭

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 3d

"But observing others is critically important work, and giving feedback is a privilege. We have a professional and ethical duty to take it seriously, and the least we can do for our colleagues is to put in the hard yards to be ready to deliver it."

Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 3d

NEW POST

The Radiologist

Hope you enjoy it and please share if you can 🙏🙏

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 3d

What five events defined your childhood? that's a tough question. Here's an attempt…

1. the 1974 power cuts (cards by paraffin lamp)
2. the 1976 drought (longest, hottest childhood summer)
3. the 'winter of discontent' strikes in 1978-79
4. the Falklands conflict 1982
5. the miners' strike 1984

Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 4d

What five events defined your childhood?
Mine, in order…

1. Lockerbie Bombing
2. Berlin Wall Falling
3. David Platt’s last minute winner v Belgium
4. 1997 General Election
5. 1999 Division One Play Off Final

Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 4d

What five events defined your childhood?

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Italia 90 (marginally, over Mexico 86 and Euro 96)
Election of New Labour
1st Gulf War
Chernobyl

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed ...

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6d

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6d

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 4d

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

Nigel Farage says Britain's
eachers 'poisoning our kids' and
predicts a teachers' strike as PM
GlAean

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Sam Strickland @strickomaster.bsky.social · 5d

New blog on inclusion

samstrickland384843542.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/i...

Inclusion, Inclusion, Inclusion

Let’s cut through the noise. There is a lot of sabre rattling about inclusion. There are organisations, think tanks, consultants, local authorities and even educators in schools pushing an agenda t…

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 6d

the actual people in charge ... omg

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 6d

Famously exactly how good science is always done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 6d

Science on Friday's TGT. Henry Cavendish was one of the most brilliant scientists of all time. Described as shy, or eccentric at the time, his communication difficulties today may have led to an autism diagnosis. Discuss his amazing science or how ND has always been around.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Friday 10th October
Scientist Henry Cavendish was born on this day 1731. He is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant but eccentric minds of all time. Born into a wealthy family his mother died when he was two, and he and his brother were raised by their father. He attended Cambridge University, but left without taking his degree exams (a relatively common practice at the time).
He had the means to build a private laboratory in his home in Clapham including an extensive library. He carried out hundreds of experiments at his home. He discovered Hydrogen gas, which he called ‘inflammable air’. He measured the composition of the gases in the atmosphere and famously used lead balls and a torsion balance in a specially build shed in his garden to measure the size of the gravitational force and the mass of the earth. (short reel or extended physics teacher recreation)
Cavendish wore the same clothes every day, took the same daily walk after dark, never married and found socialising difficult. He only ever spoke to one person at a time, finding conversations with women particularly difficult. He communicated with the servants at his home by leaving written notes. Visiting scientists to his home were always cooked the same meal. He was described as shy and eccentric, but perhaps today he may be diagnosed as autistic. However, no-one diagnosed autism until 1943 and it wasn’t routinely recognised until 1980.
Questions:
Autistic or not, there is no doubt that he was one of the greatest scientists that has ever lived.
Would you like a laboratory in your own home?
What difference might a diagnosis of neurodiversity had to Henry during is life?

Friday 10th October
Henry Cavendish, one of the greatest scientists ever, was born on this day 1731.
Cavendish had a lab built in his home in Clapham where he conducted hundreds of experiments including famously measuring the weight of the world.
At the time he was described as “shy and eccentric”. Today his social differences may have led to an autism diagnosis, but autism wasn’t widely recognised until 1980.
What difference might a neurodiversity diagnosis have made to Henry during his life?
Watch: A Reel explaining how Cavendish weighed the world.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 10d

anyone can (mostly accidentally it would appear) send them - I wish they were vetted!

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 10d

TGT on Monday celebrates the life of Jane Goodall who passed away last week. Discuss breaking new ground in male dominated fields, or anthropology and primatology. What does it really mean to be human, are we simply a species and nothing more?
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

Monday 6th October
Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934. In her 20s she travelled to Africa to study wild Chimpanzees under the anthropologist Louis Leakey and his wife. Goodall studied the wild Chimpanzees in the Gombe Reserve in Tanzania for 5 years. Controversially she gave them names instead of numbers. She observed behaviours that had never been seen before in any wild animals. She observed chimps strip leaves off twigs then insert it into a termite mound to “fish” for termites. This simple act shattered the long-held belief that tool-making was a uniquely human trait.
Leakey was so impressed with Goodall’s work that he arranged funding for her to attend Cambridge University and complete a PhD on her findings. She was only the 8th person ever to complete a PhD at Cambridge having not studied completed an undergraduate degree. She returned to Gombe to study the chimp families many times over the following decades; documenting their familial relationships, hunting behaviors (including killing other monkeys in packs) and their social and emotional lives. She wrote more than 30 books, half of which were for children.
In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees and promote conservation. She also launched the Roots & Shoots youth program, inspiring new generations around the world to care for nature. Later in her life she travelled the world speaking on environmental issues and was on a speaking tour of the US when she died last week at the age of 91.
What do you think of Goodall naming the Chimps, should scientific research be so personal or should she have been more objective?
What do you think the differences are between humans and primates?
Would you like to study animals?

Monday 6th October
Before Jane Goodall’s ground-breaking observation of chimpanzees in Tanzania using sticks stripped of leaves to “fish” for termites it was assumed that humans were the only animals to make and use tools.
Goodall studied chimpanzees for decades changing our understanding of primates and what it means to be human.
Watch: Goodall explain how Chimps learn
Jane Goodall died last week aged 91.
What do you think the differences are between humans and primates?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 11d

If you're from the school of 'every little bit helps' then here's a low investment (time, money) way of possibly improving student attendance.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean...
educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

BITUP: Updating Parents on Number of School Days Missed - trial

A trial to test the impact of sending parents text messages about their child’s attendance on school attendance rates.

educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 11d

Please count me in :-)

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Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 11d

#SciTeachUK #UKEd

Brett Handley @physicsmrh.bsky.social · 11d

Come & work with us ...

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Teacher of Science - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract - Magnus Church of England Academy

Teacher of Science - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract job from Magnus Church of England Academy. Apply by 13 Oct 2025.

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