I taught a Year 3 maths lesson today. This is my first step towards a career change next year.

RT @ProfThomasDixon: Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6 = dominated by SATs. I knew wd be hard work - and emotionally chal….

And it occurs to me that this description is perhaps evocative of the autistic experience of hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and the resulting feeling of emotional overwhelm. I wonder if others have made this connection? [2/2].

Just thinking about that famous Eliot quote from Middlemarch: ""If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." [1/2].

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6 = dominated by SATs. I knew wd be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by Y6 leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am on day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎.

RT @pattysambuco: It’s a great book @ProfThomasDixon Thank you for writing it!.

I expect you're wondering whether other leading politicians have shed tears in the House of Commons before - and more generally about the history of crying in British culture, and what it means. Good news - there is a book all about it!

Mind-clearing pre-SATs-week morning walk. 😇

RT @ProfThomasDixon: And it made me remember the interesting time I had writing about several different words for love in my very short int….

RT @ProfThomasDixon: I recently enjoyed the radio play "Only one word for love" by Peter Souter and @susie_dent .

And it made me remember the interesting time I had writing about several different words for love in my very short introduction to the history of emotions - and also in @PsychToday

I recently enjoyed the radio play "Only one word for love" by Peter Souter and @susie_dent .

RT @susie_dent: Delighted to say that ‘Only One Word for Love’, a short play I’ve co-written with Peter Souter, will air on R4 tomorrow aft….

RT @susie_dent: A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s….

RT @Ravilious1942: Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It was painted at fellow artist Peggy Angus’s cottage near Firle looking towards the Sou….

RT @Ravilious1942: Bathing Machines, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series depicting Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk. The original artw….

Good morning!

Lovely to hear tribute from @pickstockc to Don Cupitt on BBC Last Word

Successful Y6 WW2 art lesson recreating the 1940 photo “St Paul’s Survives” in chalk and paper yesterday. Nice way to end the week before our mock SATs next week. 😇