Super 5th place from Tonbridge AC’s Lewis Church in the Commonwealth Games Decathlon. Interesting watching it on BBC Alba in Gaelic!
Richard Newbold
@newboldrj.bsky.social
Teacher of Chemistry and Cross Country Runner. Not necessarily in that order.
FT POLL: Would you support a boycott of the World Cup? Currently 96% yes. compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/fi...
Poll
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How long does it take to hand out a trophy? Have they got to grind off “Argentina” off the trophy?
As if getting beaten by Argentina wasn’t bad enough now we have to endure a Chris Martin singalong. Another break ITV what the frog?!
What have we done to deserve this? Do Americans like this stuff?
Athletics has got a big problem. Josh Kerr smashes a 27 year old record and it’s the last sport story on The Guardian website, after golf, rugby, cycling and qualifying at The Belgian Grand Prix 😬
Another year done. Hopefully the scaffolding will be down by September!
I wrote about the silence around Alexander Zverev on the BBC's TV broadcasts of Wimbledon, which has left UK viewers without the whole picture. Why do the BBC avoid this topic on television when discussing it elsewhere? Free at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/bbc-wimble...
On BBC’s Wimbledon Coverage, the Information Will Not Be Televised
Viewers in the United Kingdom are not getting the whole picture of Alexander Zverev.
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Amelia Fletcher joins @jetstreampony.bsky.social onstage at The Pets Sounds launch gig. Top tip, launch your albums in the autumn🥵
Can’t reply to the post by Sue Cowley about mini whiteboards. They weren’t a thing when I was at school but in my first year of teaching I visited a primary school and saw them in action. I bought a class set that day. That was 22 years ago. I’ve used them every day since.
Brilliant Chemistry sessions by Dr Peter Hoare from @newcastleuni.bsky.social Spectroscopy for Y12 and Colourful Chemistry for Y9
Sarah Ledger has been a teacher for FORTY YEARS and is due to retire in a matter of weeks. Across all that time, she's seen a helluva lot of change, and isn't afraid to talk about it. Fascinating and hilarious new episode, please share if you can 🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/5gDU...
What's changed across FORTY YEARS in the classroom? With Sarah Ledger
They Behave For Me · Episode
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The ball in this year's World Cup is more predicable in terms of its flight and dip, than previous years. It comes down to the science of the geometry of the seams and surface roughness www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...
Analysing the Trionda: The science behind the 2026 World Cup ball
nytimes.com
Drawing on Berliner's research on expert teachers, Priestley on teacher agency, and Stenhouse on teacher professionalism, I make the case that principles beat practices every time — and that the stakes are higher than we think. open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p... 3/3
Why principles beat practices every time
What CPD gets wrong, and what it costs us
open.substack.com
Sunny but rather breezy at Bromley for the Kent Schools’ Athletics Championships
Such a good article. Inclusion in a state school isn’t always the best for the children involved. Teaching science to a non-verbal child at P1 alongside 30 classmates, some of whom needed stretching at KS3, made me realise how much he was being short changed.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU@bettinastruff.bsky.social · 2mo ago“If you’ve got five different lessons in a day, in five different classrooms with five different teachers, and this before we’ve talked about the corridors, and the smells, and where you have lunch – it’s overwhelming,” [the head] said. “So at our school, we have to get our environment right.”
Watching a bicycle wheel go round and round before the start of The Soy who came in from the cold
Not being dramatic, but this probably signals the effective end of Chemistry in English Universities. An *efficient* Department loses something like £2k per Chemistry student per year; this change will roughly double that loss. Universities would be mad to keep teaching Chemistry.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoBreaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
If you are wondering whether governments should do more to ban PFAS chemicals consider this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?
Scientists believe they may now have found the cause of Fair Isle’s pollution – and warn that it should be ringing alarm bells in other coastal areas
theguardian.com
