Rufus
@rufuswilliam.bsky.social
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Rufus
@rufuswilliam.bsky.social
· Dec 30
The kindest thing a teacher can do is to teach so that all their students learn and make good progress.
What's the one thing you've always wanted to know about Teaching? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?
For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What's the one thing you've always wanted to know about Teaching? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?
For me, it's what exactly is a 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut and what is its etymology?
STOIC - the acronym - very helpful!
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
STOIC - the acronym - very helpful!
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we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions
May 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
we only have Vampire Weekend thanks to vampire unions
Kids watching the Wallis and Gromit shows. Oh wow, they're absolute genius. Some of them must be 30 years old now and they hold up outstandingly well
a cartoon character is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and a lamp in the background
ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and a lamp in the background
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Kids watching the Wallis and Gromit shows. Oh wow, they're absolute genius. Some of them must be 30 years old now and they hold up outstandingly well
Highlights from my school years.
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Highlights from my school years.
I hated secondary school.
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Highlights from my school years.
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My 13 year old only really reads History books. He's read some good ones by Dominic Sandbrook.
Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.
Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My 13 year old only really reads History books. He's read some good ones by Dominic Sandbrook.
Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.
Can anyone recommend some others? For now, he seems to be interested in the big 20th Century events.
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Did they get the management consultants in or something?
Whereas drug gangs used to be vertically integrated, with a single kingpin supervising production, transport and distribution, they now rely heavily on outsourcing. This has fuelled specialisation and innovation
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
New decentralised networks are even harder to disrupt than the hierarchical gangs they have replaced
econ.st
October 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Did they get the management consultants in or something?
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I’m loving angles instead.
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I’m loving angles instead.
This, from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is absolutely the best thing you can read on Substack. Free to your inbox every Friday.
New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees
Plus a few book recommendations
open.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This, from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is absolutely the best thing you can read on Substack. Free to your inbox every Friday.
New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
New atheist cringe, hunter gatherer social life, rule by lawyers, origins of Google, the most worthless degrees
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
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*** NEW POST ***
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
Learning lessons from amazing schools
How Do They Do It? Learning Lessons from Amazing Teachers, Leaders and Schools Every so often, Zoe and I find ourselves reflecting on just how extraordinary schools really are. Every day, hundreds …
teachreal.wordpress.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
*** NEW POST ***
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
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If you would like to know more about our new book, there's a useful thread here.
*** NEW POST ***
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
1/ 🚀 Schools are extraordinary places – but so much of what they achieve goes unseen.
This is why @greeborunner.bsky.social and I wrote How Do They Do It? Peak inside here and order a copy
teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/l...
Learning lessons from amazing schools
How Do They Do It? Learning Lessons from Amazing Teachers, Leaders and Schools Every so often, Zoe and I find ourselves reflecting on just how extraordinary schools really are. Every day, hundreds …
teachreal.wordpress.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you would like to know more about our new book, there's a useful thread here.
Going to see Belle & Sebastian doing Tigermilk ♥️♥️
August 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Going to see Belle & Sebastian doing Tigermilk ♥️♥️
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My A Levels in Film & English gave me great opportunities like teaching A Level Film & English to get students A Levels in Film & English.
August 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My A Levels in Film & English gave me great opportunities like teaching A Level Film & English to get students A Levels in Film & English.
August 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Back into teacher-mode.
I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.
I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.
August 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Back into teacher-mode.
I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.
I know we're three weeks out but I'm going to start talking about teaching again.
Despite cycling to work, playing tennis and lifting weights, I have completely lost the ability to run.
So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago.
First walk/run today
#Teacherswhorun
So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago.
First walk/run today
#Teacherswhorun
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Despite cycling to work, playing tennis and lifting weights, I have completely lost the ability to run.
So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago.
First walk/run today
#Teacherswhorun
So, back to couch to 5k which I thought was incredible when I did it years ago.
First walk/run today
#Teacherswhorun
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On the Lucy Letby case, MD writes: the conclusion of the UK’s most senior neonatologist on last weekend’s ITV documentary was clear. You don’t need to invent a murderer, or methods of murder, to explain how these babies died.
MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On the Lucy Letby case, MD writes: the conclusion of the UK’s most senior neonatologist on last weekend’s ITV documentary was clear. You don’t need to invent a murderer, or methods of murder, to explain how these babies died.
MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
A must-watch documentary
The ITV documentary about Lucy Letby is very good. Old school, public interest broadcasting which assumes the intelligence and the conscience of its audience. Anyone with the slightest interest in the case should watch it.
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A must-watch documentary
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Oh you absolutely useless wankers
August 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Oh you absolutely useless wankers
Anyone else read Question 7 by Richard Flanagan?
What an incredible read!
What an incredible read!
July 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Anyone else read Question 7 by Richard Flanagan?
What an incredible read!
What an incredible read!
Anyone else read Question 7?
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July 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Anyone else read Question 7?
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Back tomorrow and I'm desperate to make this summer count, getting in a good head space and in good habits
July 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Back tomorrow and I'm desperate to make this summer count, getting in a good head space and in good habits
Happy for him. I hope a similar thing happens to me in the next hour 🤞
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘I’d had 28 years of depression – now it was gone’: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life
Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the forgivene...
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy for him. I hope a similar thing happens to me in the next hour 🤞
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...