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Tim Roach

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Primary teacher VP/DHT and Twitter refugee Oldham, Greater Manchester 👍 📚, vinyl, films, Neil Young, Stephen King, #GTFC & good TV. 🤬 correcting splices, capital letters & full stops. All views are my own.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 4d

Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.

Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 11d

What Daisy says here about the possible Y8 reading test also works for the current Y6 reading test. Personally, the least that could happen is that they’d relax the 60-minute time limit.
#sats

Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 13d

The government are said to be planning a new Year 8 reading test.

Do we need it?

Some thoughts here.

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Does England need a new Year 8 reading test?

And if so, what can we learn from America?

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 14d

This was the year I moved to Manchester. We bumped into Liam in the Queen of Hearts pub in Fallowfield and had a drink with him. Amazing times.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14d

Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis outside the Peveril of the Peak pub, Manchester, 1994, photo by Kevin Cummins (Getty Images).

Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 16d

It’s almost as if there’s no time left in the day for poisoning young children’s minds.

Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 16d

Farage lying and doing our country down, again. As if Year 3 teachers are doing this. The last two lines are pure projection.

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 21d

There hasn’t been a Ferris wheel in Manchester for over a decade.

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Nobody goes into teaching for life to be easy […] You genuinely get the chance 99 times out of a 100 to go home at the end of the day having done something positive for somebody, and there aren’t that many professions where you get that opportunity.”

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‘So aware of their emotions’: Pupils are standout stars in new series about Yorkshire academy

Educating Yorkshire Part 2 shows inspirational teachers negotiating challenges in young people’s lives

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 30

And I thought Grimsby Town beating Manchester United was the best thing that happened this week …

Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 28

When he first came to Town in November 2023, we were flirting with relegation from the football league (again). At first, his style of play wasn’t working, but once he realised this, he changed systems and secured league status. Last season we nearly reached the play-offs.

Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 28

While we all have a laugh about the dugout photos of Amorim, listen to Grimsby’s head coach David Artell exuding calm and leadership. #GTFC #leadership

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David Artell FULL post match interview after Grimsby knock Man United out of Carabao Cup

YouTube video by Sky Sports Football

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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 28

Meant to add that what he and Pettit have done for the club allows him to put it whichever way he wants!

Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · Aug 28

It goes a little bit Ron Manager, but as a Town fan, I think he's allowed to this morning.

Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · Aug 28

“This was a reminder of why we keep showing up”

Lovely piece by Grimsby Town co-owner, Jason Stockwood, for @theguardian.com on that game last night.

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