Carlos Alcaraz celebrates his first Paris Masters title with the ball kids. That’s a lot of happy kids. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Michelle Grant
@michellegrant.bsky.social
#UKEd #EduSky. Y4 Class Teacher 🍏. MCCT. NEU Rep. Computing lead. Wife. She/Her. Mum of four kids, two cats and a Siamese fighting fish. #BLM 🌈 🏳️⚧️Ally. ❤️#Tennis Currently playing #SouthOfMidnight and #PlanetOfLana. Currently reading #MurderBotDiaries
I lined them up for a family photograph. Not pictured: the murders, corruption, addiction, terrible decisions, unlikely romance and intermittent smart-assery. The Beatitudes joins the family on 16 Nov. Ebook pre-orders open. All six FREE on Kindle Unlimited. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HQ74ZFP7
GIVEAWAY! 🎉 I moved a few weeks ago and discovered that I have quite a few copies of Dead Weight and The Night Guest still. So we’re doing a giveaway! To enter you only have to follow me and share this post. I will select a winner next Saturday, who gets sent both books, signed and pawprinted! 🐾
I went to see the Bayeux Tapestry at @britishmuseum.bsky.social yesterday. It was really good, and fascinating, but here is some advice if you’re going: #historyteacher
💙📚- Please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the Privatisation of the British Library!
On 16 October, Jeremy Silver, Interim Chief Executive Officer, announced to staff that British Library management intends to: • Close parts of the Library, including the Science Reading Rooms, with th...
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Middle school classrooms can transform from chill to rowdy in a matter of seconds. These routines will help:
23 Ways to Quiet a Chaotic Middle School Class
Teacher-tested attention-getting routines to help you quickly restore calm and focus to noisy middle school classrooms.
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I just wrote to my MP to #SaveEducation by keeping £3.3 Billion in Our Schools. 🖊Write to your MP here: actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Write to Your MP: Save Education, Keep £3.3 Billion in Our Schools
Write to your MP today to Save Education. Demand that the government leaves these savings in our schools to protect children’s education and give every school the resources it urgently needs.
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Books matter. Choice matters. Whole-class community reading matters. Yes. Yes. Yes. 🙏 @thevogelman.bsky.social
We can’t let constant surveillance become the new normal. Add your name and tell Zuckerberg to put women’s safety first. goodlawproject.org/s/eba5b1
Hey Meta – stop creeps filming women
When Meta’s “pervert glasses” let creeps film you in secret, it’s women who pay the price. Add your name and tell Zuckerberg to put women’s safety first.
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Husband has bought ‘on offer’ mince pies into the house. It’s a bit early and will be my first one of the season but I’m going in. Mince pies for breakfast, don’t mind if I do… #MincePies #Christmas
Mince Pie
Alt: Mince Pie photo with the words mince pies flashing.
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Just finished watching this on a photographer I didn’t know but photographs I did. Great watch. #BlackSky #BlackHistoryMonth #Photography #BlackIsBeautiful www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Storyville - Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
The remarkable story of the Harlem photographer, activist and cultural pioneer Kwame Brathwaite, whose work helped define the Black Is Beautiful movement.
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There's a LOT of online maths stuff out there...in this article for @teachprimarymag.bsky.social I had a think about which work best and why. Lots to consider, including virtual manipulatives, adaptive teaching and gameification v game-based learning. Take a look: www.teachwire.net/news/online-...
Many online maths tools provide entertainment, but which ones are actually advancing learning? | via @joausten.bsky.social www.teachwire.net/news/online-...
Women of GCSE Science. 147 women scientists mapped to every GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics topic, with a quiz, search and reading list #EduSky #WomenInSTEM www.drjonesphysics.com/women-in-sci...
Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r
Stop the far right targeting Black people at universities
Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate.
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I had SEND Review meetings for the last half hour of the school day yesterday so my TA saw my class out. I’ve been feeling that something is wrong all day and realised it’s because I didn’t get to say goodbye to my class for the end of the term. 😔 #EduSky #HalfTerm #PrimarySchool #Year4
eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.
Two people have died this week trying to cross the Channel. People’s suffering should not be reduced to a trivial and cruel game. Tell Apple and Google to remove Reform UK's ‘Small Boat Watch’ from their app store.
Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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Once again this year’s Excluded Voices report makes for sober reading. Let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate the marginalised authors we should all be buying, borrowing, reading and sharing with our young people. #KidLitUK #KidLit #UKKidLit www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...