Sun’s back. Productivity over.

Charlotte McFarlan@charlottemaths.bsky.social · 20h ago

Thank goodness for this miserable grey day. I was worrying it would be sunny all summer and I wouldn’t get any of my life admin done 😂

Thank goodness for this miserable grey day. I was worrying it would be sunny all summer and I wouldn’t get any of my life admin done 😂

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“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

bbc.co.uk

Normally I load up my kindle for a summer holiday but this year I’m driving to France so allowed myself actual books and they spark so much more joy! What’s everyone reading this summer?

New (free) TMUA resource. Three pairs of mini-TMUA exams (8 questions each) on themes (Logic & Proof; Geometry & Graphs; Algebra). Do one of the pair, think about the answers (provided), then do the second of the pair with more confidence. www.tes.com/teaching-res... 70 days and counting...

This was 20 years ago as I’m very old now. But I do always remember when I was on the German exchange and on the way to school on the first day, my exchange partner pointed out another school en route and said “that’s where the clever kids go to school”

I feel like these dahlias loosely fit the #MathsOnHoliday theme. There’s gotta be a golden ratio or Fibonacci spiral or something? Anyway, they’re pleasing

Ready for my Teach First National Gathering session. In #MathsToday we are looking at ratio and doing plenty of practice of I Do, We Do, You Do and lots of mini-whiteboards.

Very last-day-before-summer vibes at PMQs, I see. Why not just play a massive game of the Pirate Game?

So excited for this, should be an energising four days!

Teach First Secondary Mathematics@teachfirstmaths.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're off to Newcastle tomorrow for National Gathering and we can't wait to meet our new trainees in person! As well as a subject session with us, trainees have opted into sessions from @meimaths.bsky.social and @ncetm.bsky.social, and @amiemathematics.bsky.social will be there too! 🧮 #MathsToday

Too often, schools in coastal towns give pupils the message that academic success is an ‘escape route’ – but this narrative deprives these towns of the talent they need to thrive, argues head Hannah Carter

Coastal schools shouldn't be encouraging students to 'escape'

Telling pupils in coastal communities that school is a springboard to ‘escape’ is a harmful message that deprives these towns of the very people they need to thrive, says head Hannah Carter

tes.com

Ohhh the BBC think I’m a “young adult” (for a few more months at least)

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3w ago

Young adults (a category which includes 34 year olds with kids and mortgages) are just switching off completely. Look at the first graphic showing audience figures from five years ago. And the equivalent graphic from today, which shows the massive collapse.

Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Spectator going full on ethnonationalist

Getting this in the post from my boss as a thank-you for our busy period ❤️

Exciting update. I’ve just had to put on a cardigan.

Charlotte McFarlan@charlottemaths.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m really plunging the depths of my holiday wardrobe now

Monday really was a fab day in London with some of our brilliant Y2s

Teach First Secondary Mathematics@teachfirstmaths.bsky.social · 4w ago

We were joined by over 100 of our ECTs this week at their final training days in London, Manchester and Nottingham. It was a brilliant opportunity to reflect on their progress, celebrate their successes and hear all about the ambassador projects they've worked on this year 🥳 #MathsToday

I’m really plunging the depths of my holiday wardrobe now

Once had the head of Y13 wander in when I had this chart on the board in a core maths lesson 😂

Jenny Cains@jennycains.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Core Maths teachers - I’m looking at misleading diagrams/charts with my class on Friday. Anyone got any ‘great’ ones I can share with them? I’m going to use this classic but on the look out for a few more crackers @ecrmaths.bsky.social @davegjones.bsky.social @coremathscat.bsky.social

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There is precedent: no one serious ran against David Davis in 2008. Also, some guy called Andy Burnham said Davis should pay the costs of the vote.

So once again, one constituency gets to make a huge decision about the country’s political future

Have checked and parliamentary prodecure nerds seem pretty sure: if Farage resigned, triggered a by-election, and won, the old investigations could all resume. So unless they're wrong (and I don't think they are), there's no procedural get-out-of-jail card here.

Okay I actually have to get on with my work now. Keep me updated if he actually says anything.

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

"Making money is not a crime" says Nigel Farage, who kept his £5 million bung from a crypto billionaire completely secret until it was exposed by the Guardian

Remember that episode of The Thick of It with the press conference where the announcement is that there is no announcement...?

Eleven minutes late? Nearly time for a hydration break...

My hometown of Norwich is in the south but Birmingham is in the north

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.

what's the worst geographic take you could have on England, given the day's discourse? I may trial a beautifully boneaded US import of "to understand England you must understand the great divide between the coastal places and flyover country"