Simon Fisher
@Thirst4Learning
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Father, sportsman, stammerer, photographer, secondary school Co-HT and London-based Sunderland fan. #geographyteacher
UK
Joined December 2012
@AndyGoode10 @TheRugbyPod Please be brutally honest on Borthwick with plenty of impressions.
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@tombennett71 We've had incredible feedback from schools taking part in our trial weeks. Members have already started building our model into Tutor Time for next year. Built around EEF guidance on improving literacy in secondary schools and knowledge rich at the core. https://t.co/bhRFNAWp0n
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A lovely story @mr_gotgotneed Profoundly powerful connections. Lovely memories for your daughter. Thanks for sharing.
A @Medium blog about my daughter's new friendship, 9 decades in the making. @HolocaustUK @JewishChron @KarenPollock100
https://t.co/mjQJ9C0gkk
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Water regulator weakens standards for water companies that set the rules about sewage being pumped into rivers and waterways
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@mrjamesob No apologies to the people at HMRC who would have been put in a very challenging position. No apology to the public or the people he threatened to take to court. His tax scam was the equivalent to the yearly tax of 1,488 people earning 25k a year. How is he still an MP.
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I've returned to my parents' home in West Oxfordshire this Christmas to find people angry and worried about the future of the village. Why? Because they say "Europe's biggest solar farm" is about to be built on their doorstep. 🌞a festive thread🌞 1/
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"Falmouth's The Endless Summer Swim event postponed due to beach sewage warning." In 2021 @SouthWestWater paid shareholders a "special dividend", of £1,500,000,000. https://t.co/3oV1hENdc0
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It follows a dozen sewage alerts in Cornwall
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@campbellclaret Tree of the day - Northumberland - after being battered and bruised by various storms this years, this tree is just about standing
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OK there's going to be quite a lot of speculation about A-level results (coming on Thursday) this weekend. So here's a thread on how the grading is being done this year and what it means.
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New research by me and @ian_cushing published in Literacy (@The_UKLA), available open access here ( https://t.co/z916qlkZdY) and a short thread on the work below. Thanks to @LeverhulmeTrust @LeedsUniEnglish and @LeedsUniAHC for funding support
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School spending per pupil in 2024 to remain 3% below 2010 levels in real-terms once you account for actual costs faced by schools | Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Another great coach development opportunity to join the FA Womens High Performance Football Centre team based at Birmingham City University. 👇 https://t.co/PcrCOdcfTW
jobs.bcu.ac.uk
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It’s day 11 of #4for44. ☀️Share 4 photos from your day for 44 days taking us in to September. ☀️Could be of anything: food, drink, sights, books…anything! A great way to journal the holidays! Please retweet to share and get more involved! It’s been brill so far!
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Are you a School Leader? We're giving away a free copy of 'School Leader Planner.' For a chance to win, like and RT this tweet. On Tuesday Night at 7.30 pm, we will choose one of you at random.
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My second book of the Teacher’s Reading Challenge with @readingagency @OpenUni_RfP. I really enjoyed this book from @OnjaliRauf It is definitely going to be one we read with our classes next year to help them think about & understand the lives of others #TheBoyAtTheBackOfTheClass
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Great coach development opportunity to join our growing team of FA Womens High Performance Football Centres based at the University of Essex👇
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I wish I was able to promise people a pay rise and then not pay for it! Yet another funding cut for education
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