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SueP

@sparkes66.bsky.social

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UK Headteacher NPQH. Working on NPQEL Moved from IT 18 yrs ago. Mum to 3. 1 engineer, 1 History teacher & 1 History undergrad. Passionate about inclusion. Interested in education. Hobbies include crafting, hiking, singing, reading. #UKTeaching

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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SueP @sparkes66.bsky.social · 7h

I paid for a shingles vaccine in the end because I had it at least once a year from 50. In my case it was a shingles patch but the associated symptoms got more severe each time. Finding out about the potential Alzheimer’s protection is a massive bonus!

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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 23h

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Dr Andrew Meyerson @andrewmeyerson.uk · 1d

The Times front page from exactly 11 years ago. Those Tory reforms wasted £50B over a decade and ushered in the greatest assault on public health in NHS history. Experts warned them. They refused to listen. That’s why the Tories are done. Labour should take note.

#SOSNHS

“NHS reforms our worst mistake, Tories admit” front page of the Times from 13 Oct 2014

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 19h

Dementia risk for people who quit smoking in middle age ‘same as someone who never smoked’.

Kicking the habit halves the rate of decline in verbal fluency & slows memory loss by 20%, according to a study of 9,436 people in Europe & the US.

🧪🚬 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Dementia risk for people who quit smoking in middle age ‘same as someone who never smoked’

Research finds kicking the habit halves rate of decline in verbal fluency and slows memory loss by 20%

www.theguardian.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 1d

"Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year."

-Mary Russell Mitford

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 9h

Wednesday, 15 October sunrise, from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️.

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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 23h

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks a bunch, you anti-vaxxer dipshit fucks.

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U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 9h

This young man has just been on the news.

He’s right, CPR should be taught in Scotland’s schools. There’s a HWB outcome for it. If you look in enough cupboards you’ll probably find practice dummies. British Heart Foundation has resources.

He suggests 1 PE lesson. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Could I have saved my parents' lives if I'd been taught CPR?

Cameron McGerr lost both his parents and is campaigning to have life-saving first aid taught in schools.

www.bbc.co.uk

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chappell roan atkinson @turpywurpy.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear, the average reading age in the UK is 9 years old.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 15h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 14h

Sunset cloud.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink 📷 #photography

A view over a roof (with a silhouetted television aerial) to a heavy cloud, its edge lit bright pink by the sunset.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 11h

Yes #WeWantPockets My dress for the wedding is having one added as we speak.

We also want functional pockets! I’ve spent several hours today checking donated clothing and my hand totally disappears wrist deep into men’s pockets but not women’s. No use for phones!

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

'Girls need to carry things too!': How women's pockets became so controversial

Why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? For centuries, the humble pocket has been a flashpoint in the gender divide of fashion. Is that finally set to change?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Sarah H Praia @sarahhpraia.bsky.social · 11h

It's B2. They probably used A-level because most people in the UK wouldn't have a clue what the B2 means.

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 11h

First English degrees are useless, then this. I do wish they'd make their minds up

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Brizo75 🇵🇸 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 @brizo75.bsky.social · 11h

Passport please.

Here

Thanks

Flight details?

Here's my booking email.

Thanks, that's great

What's the purpose of your stay?

Work mostly.

Ok, can you tell me why you think the character of Curleys wife is intrinsic to the wider narrative points in Steinbecks 'Of Mice and Men'.

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David Pickworth @davidpickworth.bsky.social · 11h

A Frenchman once said to me, after I spoke to him in French, that it's most unusual for Brits to have any language skills at all...
This is how he described it to me:
Speaks multiple languages = Polyglot
Speaks two languages = Bilingual
Speak only one language = British 😜

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SueP @sparkes66.bsky.social · 10h

This.

Urgo, confused and needing cake... @urgocakelord.bsky.social · 11h

Ideally they should have a Functional Skills English qualification. Much more useful, and the content is better aligned with practical life / work needs.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h

Indeed I reckon many British people would struggle to get a really good pass in the Cambridge first certificate exam

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