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Someone told me about Vinted. So I went to try it out.
I managed to sort by my size and got a pair of BNWT (brand new with tags) size 12 brown shoes for just £6.50.
Delighted they arrived today.
Here is a picture of my first Vinted purchase. I haven’t tried them on yet.
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Top secondary schools in the country by provisional Progress 8:
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If you’ve agreed with your partner not to do anything or buy anything for Valentine’s Day, and you don’t do anything or buy anything for Valentine’s Day, then that’s OK right?
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I am sick and tired of the press running stories about schools with standards. They don’t see the working lives they ruin and the stressload they create with non stories like this. “Journalists” who write them should be laughed at
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My daughters are excited about a female referee in the Men’s premier league today.
This matters.
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Do you know what a brave political party would say about schools?
“We are going to demand far fewer things from teachers and schools.”
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I'll never run a school that promises 0 exclusions or suspensions, & never set a target to reduce them.
The aim is safe, secure schools with great behaviour.
I hope that the need for exclusions hence reduces but we will never succumb to pressure to artificially lower them.
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Sorry, but everyone criticising and school-shaming
@MerciaSchool
can do one.
We need to learn from them.
Progress 8 +2.22
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Seems obvious we are going to end up with 6.5% so why don’t we avoid all the games that some might be tempted to play over the next term or two and announce it now?
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There is no correct level of suspensions or exclusions.
I should schedule this tweet weekly.
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I have just discovered that the app for the car I bought last week allows me to tell it I’m leaving in thirty mins and warm the car up and defrost it before I get in and now I realise this is the sort of feeling winners have.
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Trusts taking on some of the most difficult challenges in the country - broken schools no-one else has fixed and no-one else will touch - are rewarded by activist hit pieces in The Guardian and elsewhere.
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I’ve been shown a closed group of a few hundred parents about a school.
It’s the same 8-10 parents, with 3-4 ringleaders, encouraging the whole group to bully and between 5-30 following. Any challenge met with furious response.
The same dynamics as when kids do it.
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Wait. People are charging leaders and teachers from schools funded by the taxpayer hundreds of pounds to visit their schools that are already funded by the taxpayer?
And we wonder why we improve slowly.
Our visit days are, and will always be, free.
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The last thing that kids who have faced trauma in their lives need is to be denied education by being in classrooms where other pupils are allowed to steal their time via disruption.
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Is there a group that campaigns for no smartphones for kids and if not shall we set it up?
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@BBCBreakfast
Why have BBC Breakfast got someone who has no expertise in this area on to talk about it?
We're in an era where the person is more important than what they know. Depressing.
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There aren't many conferences as progressive as
@researchEd1
. My wife and I are both presenting, and can choose to go to any sessions, because our 11 month old has a place in a free creche.
I have used the same creche for my now 13, 10 and 7 yo in the past.
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From
@RoryStewartUK
’s book.
Actually surprised that MPs receive fewer emails than Headteachers. And suddenly realising that the DFE probably don’t know this.
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Some people who can’t or couldn’t run decent schools, departments or classrooms manage to get extremely upset by people that can.
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For New Year I’m going to do the same as I did in 2018.
I failed to do this post pandemic and have settled into too heavy a weight. Not as bad as 2018 but too many bad habits.
This will be challenging but I’ll basically be doing this:
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This explains one of the aspects that shaped my view on exclusions - we need to talk about Kevin:
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People comparing this to a prison should visit a prison.
And also visit schools like Petchey before new leadership started sorting it.
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Staff wellbeing: We carried out an anonymous staff survey over the last month. 61 questions, benchmarked against
@eduriocom
's national data.
Not a single question had responses in aggregate more negative than the national data.
Screenshots below.
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I can confirm that this is the case in all of my schools, and in every single school I’ve ever worked in since 1999.
Pupils are allowed to ask supervising staff for entry to the toilets during lessons, but only if they have had permission from their teacher, or if they have a medical condition.
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Every so often it suddenly hits me that my Dad isn't alive and in those moments it is still a surprise.
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“We will make it easy for people to choose the right spice by putting the first letter as a big capital on the top.”
“But they all begin with C.”
“Shhh”
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@mrsbutlerAHT
@pauldixtweets
I’ve just read it. I don’t disagree with everything in it but on the whole it is a manifesto to lower expectations, work harder, and tolerate lower standards.
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I just realised that there is a generation of teachers who have not heard of Shift Happens and this must mean we are making progress.
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I've had three updates from the secretary of state for education this week - which is impressive volume of communication.
All three have asked me to sign up for updates from the secretary of state.
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I’ve got better at cooking in the last couple of years.
Main lessons:
* double the amount of cheese
* at least double the amount of butter and don’t be shy about using more
* when you think you’ve seasoned just right, season again
* double or triple the amount of garlic
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@MayorofLondon
@LDN_VRU
Do you know how unsafe Glasgow’s schools are?
aand by MM’s admission behaviour is no better.
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I remember working in a school in London that artificially lowered exclusions in a v similar way to many Glasgow schools.
It’s the most unsafe place I’ve worked.
Evidence shows children excluded from school are at higher risk of being affected by violence.
I’m pleased to announce
@LDN_VRU
has brought in educational expert Maureen McKenna—responsible for a 90% fall in Glasgow school exclusions—to help support its work on Inclusion.
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There are no schools that have great achievement for disadvantaged kids and poor achievement for others.
So why don’t we just limit the league tables to disadvantaged achievement and disadvantaged p8?
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Mercia School is in the top 1 for progress of disadvantaged pupils. Not the top 1%. The top 1.
Let them do their stuff. Learn from them. Copy them.
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So pleased about this:
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Yesterday three trustees, including one from a different school trust to mine, gave up a day of their time and long journeys just to help us meet our responsibilities wrt scrutiny and accountability.
They’re volunteers.
Trustees are unsung heroes of the system.
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Amanda Spielman has done a good job in very difficult circumstances.
Even if you disagree with that, the abuse and many of the comments she has received in the last day or so are completely unacceptable.
Sections of the profession do themselves no favours sometimes.
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For what it is worth:
- having a few clear rules in a school is essential
- enforcing/defending them necessary
- putting them on a poster aids clarity for all so is sensible
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The worst behaviour I’m hearing about in schools is now similar to the standards I thought we left behind when I trained in the 90s.
The difference is we have excellent examples at the other end of the scale that didn’t really exist then.
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There's a reason I listen to Gary Neville on how bad Liverpool are. It's because he's an expert in that and knows loads.
The same reason it's easy to dismiss this (as well as being wrong).
There's plenty wrong with exams, but the alternatives, that sound nice, are worse.
'I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school and then it all depend on a two hour assessment'
Former footballer Gary Neville, who also helped found University Academy 92, spoke to
#BBCBreakfast
as thousands of students received exam results
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If you have a sanction to sit at
@bedsfreeschool
you do not play for the school teams, no matter what.
And very very close to 100% of pupils play for a school team every year. I think no state school matches this.
And we have impeccable behaviour.
So warnings didn’t work
Detentions didn’t work
Isolation didn’t work
Suspension didn’t work
If your next thought is to stop this child playing for the football team because that will break them
Don’t tell me it isn’t about winning…
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Ok the feedback on parents groups and vexatious or trivial complaints shows that it is a widespread problem and largely makes schools much worse, mitigates retention, and is personally hurtful.
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This is exceptional. I understand from those that have visited it is typical.
We need to learn from the outliers like Pritesh and Ark Soane.
At Soane we use:
🤚🏼‘Heads down, hands open’ to check for understanding
🗣️ ‘Turn & talk’ for rehearsal
🙋🏽♂️ ‘All hands up cold calling’
How do we do this? Find out more at our 🧬Science conference on Mon 22nd Jan. Get tickets here 👇🏼
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The edu policy announcements are a mix of not-going-to-happen and bonkers, aren’t they?
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@WhistleblowingT
Delete this account.
Before this it had done way too much damage to individuals and the profession. This shows how dangerous it and you are.
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This position is cruel and I’m ashamed this is what someone in my government is saying.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice. 1/4
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I have just seen some data that all
@advschools
have increased attendance this term, some a very significant amount, and all schools are above national average for attendance.
Hard work of my colleagues really paying off.
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@EduFabians
@MichaelRosenYes
@SwailesRuth
@RaeSnape
@secretHT1
@CatMcKinnell
@bphillipsonMP
This is not ok to print unless you can name the schools that do this and have taken action to whistleblow.
I don’t believe a single one of over 23,000 schools does this for not having a pen.
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If you knowingly repeat antisemitic tropes you’re obviously no anti-racist.
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cc
@HickeyDaniel
this is a non-story about a school with rules. I cannot believe you went into journalism for this.
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I have never seen an open evening with anything like these numbers. Unreal.
Over one thousand people at the Houstone open evening this evening. Three talks from the Principal weren’t enough, so we’ve had to put on five.
Thanks for coming to visit us.
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Non-story.
Don’t let kids go automatically because a significant number will use it to get out of lessons/ vape/ wander corridors.
Use professional judgement on a case by case basis.
Monitor.
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Experience is often underrated.
But experience of doing suboptimal things for years or decades doesn’t make those suboptimal things better.
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The hardest thing about trying to get in shape?
Getting to the gym ❌
Avoiding chocolate/ dessert ❌
Eating in moderation ❌
Patience and knowing it takes time ❌
Getting protein ❌
Not eating (all of) the nice bread left on the side with a bread knife and butter dish ✅
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So many articles by people telling them what to do *when they don’t do it themselves*.
Training courses by people who didn’t do what they are telling others to.
Consultants criticising and then you look at their ex-schools.
Genuinely hard to find decent stuff.
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If colleagues are constantly thinking about how to improve something it is likely to improve, & if colleagues are not thinking about something, it is likely to drift.
Knowing & then directing and sustaining attention on the most important things is hard... as I write on twitter.
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How has the UK got to a place where this is something the Prime Minister is proud of?
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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I first met Benjamin Zephaniah when I was into animal rights as a teenager. He was funny and kind.
Later met him through politics and I found he was funny, kind and smart.
He was a really good, principled man. RIP.
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I don’t agree with the emerging narrative about Ofsted.
I don’t want to downplay a tragedy, and I accept the coroners report, so now isn’t the time, but I want it to be known there is a debate to be had.
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Very very important message for school leaders.
Well that’s pretty clear isn’t it?
@TeacherTapp
results from yesterday are in - and behaviour is the number one choice.
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I think that the best schools just stop doing very many good things that work so that they can focus on implementing their top *very few* priorities that are the same/ similar year on year.
1 of the best sch improvement strategies is to stop doing things replacing with nothing.
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Imposter syndrome (and related feelings) is really healthy. Rather than assume it will pass or is just something that we get over, we should admit we don’t know very much at all about what we are doing.
Absence of imposter syndrome means someone is a real expert or a charlatan.
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Those that behave worst achieve worse.
This changes everything.
Students who are suspended from school are, on average, a year behind their peers by the time they take GCSEs, a report by
@EduPolicyInst
reveals
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@naomicfisher
So you weren’t dawdling and arriving late interrupting thirty others for the 12th time this week because there were no sanctions and you don’t understand how rude it is?
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Just seen the Wolves disallowed goal.
It’s an extremely easy offside decision.
It’s not even a tiny bit controversial. Why are the commentators and journalists pretending this is a problem with referees, the law or anything?
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Thoughts and prayers with colleagues, pupils and family of colleague at Tewksbury.
We must ensure we take every measure to ensure pupils and staff are safe in school.
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A large bunch of our kids went to The Globe on Tuesday led by an enthusiastic ECT.
It tipped it down.
They’re still talking about the play and the comedy. They loved it.
My colleagues are mint.
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Do you think someone could arrange for us to have some precedented times soon?
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How about we try to get rid of as much of the two hours a day of admin as we can?
Teachers are spending 2 hours a day on admin tasks – but giving them the flexibility to do some of these tasks at home would ease the workload pressure, a new government-commissioned report says
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Genuinely feels like the activists would have preferred these schools stay awful unsafe places where no-one learns much that is useful.
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@Brittain6500
Basic safeguarding training should mean you:
- don’t post this publicly
- delete it when pointed out to you
- whistleblow, urgently, through appropriate channels.
I’m sure there is more, but just in the content tweeted, you don’t appear to have acted in line with TS.
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I just saw
@NPorter_
make the incredibly important point that (my rephrasing) if there is any kind of schools to prison pipeline it is signposted by illiteracy more than anything.
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Lots of people asking for evidence on this. I don’t have it.
Happy to receive evidence of the counterfactual, but tbh it seems both obvious & I’ve always said to pple asking about our great results (p8 disad, +0.93) “it’s 70-80% because we take behaviour extremely seriously”.
“In schools where behaviour standards are high, disadvantaged children do disproportionately well.
In schools where behaviour standards are weak, disadvantaged children do disproportionately badly.”
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A journalist has basically tried to re inspect Michaela via some other peoples’ (the inspectors) redacted notes and has posted that re inspection on Twitter and his website.
😳
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Because of our approach to behaviour, curriculum and workload, we never had the problems recruiting... until last year.
This year we've had applications from people who want to leave schools because they are "the only person in the department, setting cover for 5 others".
Breaking🚨
The government has recruited just HALF of the secondary teacher trainees it needed this year according to Department for Education data
This is even worse than last year when 57% of the target needed were recruited
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And pay:
We are very financially diligent so our pay award for teachers and leaders will be 7.5% and for support staff it it provisionally £2225 on each scale point (up to 11%) - £300 above the latest offer and subject to change if the offer goes up.
Very well deserved.
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Ready for today.
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Wait. It’s controversial to encourage kids to aim for
university and/or controversial for a teacher or leader to try to be a role model?
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@bones_carmel
This is why Trusts like Delta, OGAT, Star, Dixons, and Northern are such legends.
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This school is in a town where we were told we couldn't run a school with excellent behaviour, high expectations & real purpose.
The Principal & her team have started it. We need more smart colleagues.
Academic curriculum, highly visible leadership, great behaviour.
No fads.
Great facilities and a great setting to do meaningful work. Recruiting now as we take in our third full cohort:
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It’s wild that we’ve got ourselves into a position where a Conservative government is celebrating breaking families up.
Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.
This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇
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This kind of thing is, I think, the big challenge with regard to recruitment and retention at all levels.
I’ve been shown a closed group of a few hundred parents about a school.
It’s the same 8-10 parents, with 3-4 ringleaders, encouraging the whole group to bully and between 5-30 following. Any challenge met with furious response.
The same dynamics as when kids do it.
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Since 2010 we have spent the same as the GDP of Estonia on the pupil premium.
And disadvantaged kids outcomes are the same as 2010.
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I think there is a legitimate story about suspensions and exclusions. But I do wish there was balance, comparison with predecessor schools, and acknowledgement of the challenges and successes.
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Four of us from
@advschools
have just spent over a day with the
@deltatrust_org
team generously sharing everything as we grow and become a better group of schools.
It was free.
They want nothing but for us to run decent schools.
Great people doing fantastic things.
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If you’re a journalist or campaign group enabling this behaviour, you have so much responsibility at the moment. Many of you are failing.
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I hoped we were rid of people calling teachers “outstanding” and other people pretending they could spot them based on subjective criteria.
‘An outstanding teacher is different to a good teacher… being outstanding isn’t a tick list, if you get an outstanding in a one off lesson doesn’t make you an outstanding teacher, being outstanding is so much more than that’
@Cat_Chowdhary
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I’m now pretty middle class and this class doesn’t reveal its secrets, but I’m breaking cover to confirm that sourbread is worse than your standard £1.50 loaf and it isn’t an acquired taste.
Also eating it toasted is risking losing a tooth.
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Pretty hard to be exact on progress but
@bedsfreeschool
has another set of outlier results - since 2018 we’ve had very very high outcomes.
Well done to
@JLHezza
and the team. Thank you.
Many congratulations to our pupils and families. Your hard work, your results.
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Thinking about major profile pieces in the edupress this morning.
I'd like to read profiles of colleagues who are more unknown to social media - a teacher of Y3/4 class in a rural primary who has done it for 20 years, a finance director who moved from industry,...
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