Vicky OMaths
@vickyomaths.bsky.social
Currently taking a year out of education to care for family with additional needs. Becoming a reluctant expert on EHCP applications, funding, and therapeutic schools. Seeing the SEND crisis from both sides! Always learning 💚
"We Miss When Our Teachers Could Actually Teach Us" Jesus Christ this is bleak
Natalie Weiner@natalieweiner.bsky.social · 3w ago“Education should be about exploration,” the letter reads. “We want to go to school to connect with people, discover things, and learn....We can’t now, because of the rigidity of the new lesson plans and rules makes it almost impossible to explore new ideas...”
My eldest child, very academic, quiet and gentle, autistic, came back from their first day at Therapeutic school having had 6 full lessons of GCSE content saying “it didn’t feel like school because it wasn’t traumatising”. Isn’t that just such an indictment of SEND kids experience in mainstream.
I thought Cat did SO well on BBC breakfast today, excellent piece on dyscalculia with some voices of children too!!
Dyscalculia Network@dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social · 7mo ago#Dyscalculia on BBC Yorkshire today! An article here - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Plus watch BBC look North later today for ths full story 😀 and listen into Cat being interviewed on BBC York Radio at around 11.10am. this morning (ten past eleven) BST. #Dyscalculiamatters
✨ Voice 21 welcomes the recently published Curriculum and Assessment Review report, which recognises oracy as a foundational skill alongside reading, writing and maths. Check out our response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review in full here 👇 voice21.org/voice-21-res...
If you're interested in some intersection of history and maths (e.g. history of maths, or the maths of history) and the potential for each to enrich education of the other, then I have the free fledgling network for you: historyand.mathsy.space
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Friday morning hot take brought to you by Kirkland Whole Bean Coffee: When I drop off my kids at school in the morning, I'd like to think I'm dropping off more than a brain in a jar? So framing a science of learning as "how brains learn" feels like a weird way to talk about that work.
#TheLatest "One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds" from The Guardian Read it here: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/23/one-in-12-secondary-pupils-put-in-isolation-rooms-at-least-once-a-week-study-finds #NAPCE #PastoralCare #Education
Just to add I would also trim a lot of leadership fat to ensure there were enough *well-paid* special needs and child development experts in the building too ❤️ Heads of departments and heads of year do so much of the work, they need less contact time and more training and investment as leaders.
Vicky OMaths@vickyomaths.bsky.social · last yr.Increase break and lunch time and give meaningful spaces and activities for students and teachers during that time. Cut the number of formal assessment points per year group down to 1 per year. Have students end the day with their form tutor and parents can collect at the door and speak to the FT…
🤔 Ever wondered how you can engage all staff in oracy implementation? Don’t miss out on our latest blog, with our three top tips on how to engage all staff in oracy implementation👇 voice21.org/how-to-engag...
Can someone help please? How do we get seen on here? None of my posts are being looked at. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Any advice would be gratefully received. Thank you 😁 Wendy, My Mood Stars www.mymoodstars.co.uk
My Mood Stars a highly effective emotion resource for Early Years
My Moods Stars are rapidly becoming known as a the most effective emotion resource for Early Years children, helping them discuss feelings.
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Have you heard of ‘informal inference’? it’s an approach to teaching #statistics that can support students in developing their statistical reasoning skills. Many students don’t encounter inference until A-level, but in fact they can be introduced to these ideas from a very young age.
Showing mathematical reasoning is more than a formality, or a speed bump to the correct answer. It’s how students make sense of problems, communicate ideas, and prove their reasoning so that others can learn from them. ⭐ #MathSky #ITeachMath
7 Ways to Get Math Students to Show Their Thinking
Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.
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I wonder why so many #neurodivergent children can’t access school 🤔 www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
Neurodivergent adolescents experience twice the emotional burden at school
Negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical classmates, and this is significantly correlated with depression and anx...
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Schools Week@schoolsweek.bsky.social · last yr.📝 Schools should take 'proactive' action to help cut the number of children missing education and locate those at most risk, the government has said
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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I hope September has been gentle so far. I recently learnt that not having dreams is a sign of chronic stress, and the past couple of weeks I’ve been having dreams for the first time in ages. It’s weird for September to start and not to be in education, but… I am dreaming now so there’s that ❤️
Few students feel comfortable speaking to a teacher, school counsellor or mental health professional about anxiety of returning to school, survey finds
Students want more support for back-to-school anxiety
Few students feel comfortable speaking to a teacher, school counsellor or mental health professional about anxiety of returning to school, survey finds
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In @tesmagazine.bsky.social, @mmulholland.bsky.social shares her recommended reads on equitable school leadership & how to further develop your inclusive practice: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
SEND and inclusion: a recommended reading list
Margaret Mulholland shares her recommended reads on equitable school leadership and how to further develop your inclusive practice
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Just thinking about the joy of learning an instrument ❤️
Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · last yr.This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
What a lovely last (potentially ever) GCSE results day!
Results days for me are feeling more emotional and final this year than any other! These days feel high stakes, but they are a culmination of 11 or 13 years of education *and life* and the variables are such that those who might try to hold you accountable should be reminded that you were
Teachers often only see the ‘blockbuster’ education research, says @mrenglishteach.bsky.social, who shares 7 lesser-known studies that can help to improve your pupils' learning
7 studies on how to boost learning you might not have heard of
Teachers are often only exposed to the ‘blockbuster’ studies from education research, writes Mark Roberts, who shares seven lesser-known papers to inform your practice
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Good column this. Ultimately the UK's problems are 'need to spend a bit more money' - big and important questions on what the right mix of public and private that should be, but no, we don't need a 'Meiji Restoration' level of upheaval!
Britain is not a broken society
The country has serious problems but the right’s vision of it has become hysterical
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If there were such a thing as an email discussion group aimed at giving #history #teachers and #maths teachers (mainly secondary) somewhere to discuss the history of maths and the maths of history with a view to exploring each subject in the other's lessons... ... who would join it? #MathsToday 🏛️🎓
The support for #InclusiveOracy is growing. @theguardian.com. Great work @voice21oracy.bsky.social. www.routledge.com/Thats-My-Sto...
That's My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and Creativity in KS1 and Beyond
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children and young people and it underpins their social, emotional and educational development. If a child experiences a positive relation...
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Voice 21@voice21oracy.bsky.social · last yr.This morning The Guardian has thrown its weight behind the campaign for oracy education. This is an important moment for the oracy movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is so powerful, neurodivergent kids carry a heavier emotional burden in mainstream schools. The students in this report talk a lot about the negative impact of certain interactions with adults in school 😔
Group for Research in Relationships And NeuroDiversity - GRRAND@grrand-team.bsky.social · last yr.The ‘My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ was co-produced with young people with ADHD and/or autism to measure levels of emotional burden (EB – combining frequency of exposure to common upsetting events and intensity of emotional responses to them) in adolescents.
Week 1 of summer hols spent in Cornwall, mostly on the beach. I’m covered in sand. The car is full of sand. The holiday house is full of sand. I step out the shower and still find sand over my legs. The dog whimpers at the sight sand. The beach has no sand left. Time to leave Cornwall 🤣
Posting about about "Why Don't Things Fall Up" because I want people to read it. I don't think anyone else could have written a book quite like it - it as been described as "a great idea, beautifully executed" Sold for £3 so you know this isn't about the money (I'll make pennies per copy sold).
Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained
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