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@Tomcol23

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Subject Leader for History and Politics. Reading Season ticket holder - Y26. Like to tweet about Teaching, Politics and Football

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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
1 year
Favourite thing about today’s Inset, which is why @WrenSchool is the best school, is the school celebrating our local history and one of those things being @ReadingFC Great to see the Ding on the corridors ❤️Up the Ding! #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
I’m not going to go into this…long story short @ReadingFC have made it our job as fans to organise this. Please can I ask for an applause this Saturday (16th) on the 59th minute for my stepdad. 1964-2023. He supported the club for 53 years ❤️ @OfficialBWFC
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
All round special day today! @ReadingFC thank you for the support #readingfc and @OfficialBWFC fans. This is a special moment that I will never forget! Love you all
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
Hi @ReadingFC please can I ask that we have a minutes applause for my stepdad who recently lost his battle to cancer after a year, he supported Reading for 53 years and has the same birthday as Steve Coppell. Me, @ChrisH1871 and Chris’ mum would weekly go to games together. Xx
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@Tomcol23
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6 months
A student made me aware of this during my lunch break. I cried for 5 minutes after they left. The reality is @readingfc will no longer exist, and it’s heartbreaking to see the @EFL are doing fuck all about it #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
Massive thank you to all the #readingfc and #boltonwanderers fans who tweeted and liked my post regarding my stepdad and the 59th minute applause. @ReadingFC have come back and said they should be able to display a picture of him on the 59th minute for an applause. Love you all.
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
Touching tribute to John and his love for #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
Got offered the role as Subject Leader of History and Politics at my current school and I’ve accepted! Absolutely buzzing 😍😍 #edutwitter
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1 year
A student from @WrenSchool came up to me during lunch duty and said “I’ll be clapping for your stepdad tomorrow” having seen the news on Twitter. Love this school and #readingfc fans
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Andy Preston
1 year
💙Reading fans to pay tribute to fan John Davis with 59th minute applause  #ReadingFC @Tomcol23
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@Tomcol23
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3 years
Just a cheeky reminder to my History, Politics and Citizenship students (which is displayed on my whiteboard) that “it’s Ovie’s world and we’re just living in it”. @ReadingFC @ElmParkRoyals #readingfc #ovie
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1 year
Having a picture with the players and manager, probably the best day of my life @ReadingFC
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
3 years
To anyone teaching the Edexcel Migration History module next year, I highly recommend this book. Some excellent stories about the experiences the Windrush generation faced in Britain #NQT #historyteacher #edexcel
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@Tomcol23
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4 years
Can’t believe it’s a week today until I teach my first class as an NQT! Combination of nerves and excitement is largely kicking in! #NQT #HistoryTeacher #History #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
So, I am officially a History teacher 😍 I cannot wait to teach interpretations of Margaret Thatcher with my cardboard cut out of her 😂😍. I got this as a secret Santa present 6 years ago, and now it’s coming in handy! #NQT #HistoryTeacher #History #Qualified
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
Ovie when Ince is sacked #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
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4 years
So as a school teacher I can mix with thousands of bubbles a day during a global pandemic, but I can’t drive off to spend one day at Christmas with my family. What an absolute joke. #Covid_19 #boris
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
5 years
Can we just appreciate what an amazing performance that was from @Ejaria today. Never seen such a skilful player at the Mad Stad before - Ovie Ejaria, your defence is terrified #readingfc #ejaria #teamovie
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@Tomcol23
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1 year
@Club1871 Feel free to all come back to Y25/Y26 where there’s adults
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
9 months
I did a thing! Really enjoyed this course from the @histassoc thank you for all the help! #historyteacher
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1 year
Highlight of my day, a member of SLT coming into my classroom tell me that they are excited for me being Subject Leader for History and Politics next year! I’m definitely at the right school!
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
Am I the only #NQT absolutely exhausted after their first day of school?! I’m definitely having a sleep before 9pm tonight!! #edutwitter #historyteacher #teacher
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
Just had amazing, positive feedback from my NQT observation today, and I am the happiest Mr Collins I ever have been since having the special privilege of being a teacher!! #NQT #edutwitter #historyteacher
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MrCollins
1 year
@ReadingFC @RFCSupport @OfficialBWFC just to clarify it’s for the 59th minute. He had supported them since he was 6 @ChrisH1871 @1ntrepidtravel @Xx_XanFrank_xX @Huntyroyal
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
1 year
Hi @ReadingFC please can I ask that we have a minutes applause for my stepdad who recently lost his battle to cancer after a year, he supported Reading for 53 years and has the same birthday as Steve Coppell. Me, @ChrisH1871 and Chris’ mum would weekly go to games together. Xx
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@Tomcol23
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11 months
Just planned a scheme of work on the interpretations for the rise of fascism in Italy and communism in Russia for year 8 and then realised I don’t teach year 8. The flaw of being HoD for History, gutted I won’t teach it 😂 #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
1 year
Thoroughly enjoying @GoodwinMJ book ‘Values, Voice and Virtue’ - I’ve already scanned pages for my students to read for when we look voting behaviour and the media for A level Politics. #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
Being a teacher is so bloody awesome!! #NQT #edutwitter #History #historyteacher
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4 years
Having read up on Jill Biden a former teacher and soon to be First Lady, I am so inspired by the following quote of hers: “teaching is not what I do, but who I am”. Absolutely love it. #NQT #HistoryTeacher #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
A massive thank you to @mrwbw and @Dr_RJHarris for the most amazing PGCE experience!! This has been the best experience of my life and I cannot wait for what the future brings! I Literally cannot thank you and the team enough!! #NQT #HistoryTeacher #PGCE
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
11 months
Every Politics teacher when a cabinet reshuffle happens #edutwitter #cabinet
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He’s back 🔥 Congratulations @David_Cameron 👏
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@Tomcol23
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5 years
Amazing session on teaching the Holocaust in the classroom with @AR_Pearce Absolute pleasure in having that talk today. I would recommend any teacher to attend a seminar with the @UCL_Holocaust and Andy! #History #PGCE #HistoryTeacher
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@Tomcol23
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5 years
Just booked two sessions with @UCL_Holocaust for the 24th June and 1st July! I want to teach sensitive issues the best I possibly can! #PGCE #History
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
I am doing my upmost best not to cry! Today was my final lesson of teaching and I cannot wait to start my NQT year at my new school! #PGCE #History #historyteacher
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1 year
Tom Ince when he realises daddy is no longer manager which means he can’t scream at his teammates for a slightly misplaced pass and isn’t described as readings best player by the manager after every game @readingfc #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
Passed with a distinction for my QTS with @UniRdg_IoE 😍😍 Absolutely over the moon!! Cannot wait to get myself back into the classroom for September 💪💪 #PGCE #NQT
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4 years
Another week of realising being a teacher is bloody awesome!! #NQT #education #edutwitter #historyteacher
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9 months
Much better commentary @TimDellor please keep it this way for the foreseeable future, cheers #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
8 months
Absolute legend @DamianGreen One of my favourite comments to ever come out of Parliament. #readingfc
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Nick Knight
8 months
Somebody who is more tech minded than me, please sample this piece of wisdom from @DamianGreen #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
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2 years
@Callumc1871 He’s probably found out he will finally be playing through the middle this season, rather than a left winger
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3 years
Final observation done of my NQT which went amazingly!! I love this career so much and I’m so excited for the future!! #NQT #HistoryTeacher
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MrCollins
3 years
Celebrating the summer holidays and end of NQT year, the only way I know how - PIZZA ❤️ @emily_jayne3005 #NQT #historyteacher
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@Tomcol23
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8 months
Passed my NPQLT! Not a bad start to the year, NPQ and SLDP passed 👌 #edutwitter
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1 year
Not a bad start to the summer holidays, just bought myself a Mini Cooper S!
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1 year
@JmlJourno Thank you ❤️
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1 year
The gap between the end of the season and start of the season is always boring! Good to be back @ReadingFC @ChrisH1871
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3 years
Listening to Neil Warnock on @SkySports say he personally paid for Crystal Palace team bus journey to an away game when they went into administration makes me even more desperate for him to be @ReadingFC manager #paunoout #readingfc
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1 year
Really poor response from Pearson regarding History Paper 3, maybe it’s time to move to OCR after all. #edutwitter
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MrCollins
5 years
Amazing session on Teaching about slavery by @PamCanning at @UniRdg_IoE Some great content on Readings connections to slavery. Thank you very much! #PGCE #History #HistoryTeacher
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1 year
When the Reading players see Ovie in training today @ReadingFC #readingfc
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5 years
Incorporating my first two @Citizens800 videos into my English Civil War lesson for Thursday! So excited!! #PGCE #Historyteacher #EnglishCivilWar
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1 year
How I’m feeling about Ruben Selles right now - loving the passion on the way back to the club @ReadingFC #readingfc
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@Tomcol23
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3 years
Ermmm, is it possible to keep my tutor group in year 7 forever because I want them to remain this way… they really are the cutest! #NQT #edutwitter #HistoryTeacher
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4 years
Review of 2020 as a teacher: ✅ Passed PGCE during Covid Teaching ✅ Secured a job as an NQT ✅ Amazing 1st term NQT Report Happy New Year everyone, and good luck to all teachers in the new year!! #edutwitter #NQT #historyteacher
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3 years
My first purchase ever from @TPositiveTC - I do love a feedback sheet 🤭😂 #NQT #historyteacher #edutwitter
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MrCollins
4 years
An absolutely amazing session discussing History teachers collaborating with historians with @AuntieAmie @CharCrouch @cburnshistory @HistorySpringer and the PGCE cohort. A real focus today on improving the practice of both teachers and lecturers #History #PGCE #historyteacher
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5 years
Absolutely pleasure seeing the History department at @BrightonHillSch very interactive day! Looking forward to going back there later on this term! #PGCE #historyteacher
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@Tomcol23
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2 years
Back on Twitter after someone hacked my account… hello Twitter people #edutwitter
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MrCollins
1 year
Just been informed that @UniofReading has a James Furlong Award set up by @mrwbw for PGCE mentors- really touching award this, and its great to see that two of the @WrenSchool teachers had been nominated for it! #edutwitter
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1 year
48/52 marks for Paper 3 were based on 1924-29…really disappointing from @PearsonEdexcel when students have been heavily revising the entirety of 1918-39 #historyteacher
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MrCollins
5 years
Doing my part for international women’s day! Equal gender proportion in History teaching! #PGCE #History
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IoE Uni of Reading
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In this clip trainee teacher Tom speaks about ensuring equal gender representation when teaching #history #IWD2020 #EachforEqual
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MrCollins
3 years
I was involved in a car accident on Tuesday just outside the school - returned to school today and it was so lovely to see so many students coming to my classroom just to check how I was and if I was okay - something I’ll remember forever #edutwitter #historyteacher
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
@RFCLatest Ola John
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4 years
It’s absolutely amazing to see the solidarity across all teachers, lecturers and unions. We do not want the schools to close, we just want to ensure that pupils and staff feel safe, as what was promised on the 30th Dec by @GavinWilliamson . #NEU #schoolclosures #COVID19
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@Tomcol23
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4 months
A Level Politics teachers when an election is about to be called #edutwitter
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@Tomcol23
MrCollins
4 years
Absolutely loving collaborating with historians which has been organised by @CharCrouch as part of the PGCE! This is definitely something I’m going to continue when I start teaching as an NQT in September! #history #historyteacher #PGCE
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@Tomcol23
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3 years
Ermmm, Lucas Joao… Not too sure how I feel about this Instagram post… @ReadingFC #readingfc #RFC
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5 years
Last lesson with my Year 10 class today at my first placement, when I announced it to the class, one of the students came up to me and shakes my hand. A moment in my life that I will never forget. #pgce #historyteacher #history
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4 years
Another example of why being a teacher is so bloody awesome ❤️❤️ #edutwitter #historyteacher #NQT #halfterm
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1 year
@royalex_B Should be back after 2/3 games
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1 year
As a Politics teacher, this is the message I want to send to anyone working in UK politics. Too much has happened these past few days already!! #edutwitter
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4 months
So excited for my old politics lecturer from @_UoW to come to @WrenSchool tomorrow to speak to my A level students! Any Politics teachers that want me to share resources from it, please let me know #edutwitter
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3 years
My politics lecturer from my degree university @UniofWinchester Professor William Sheward is giving a talk to my A level politics class on Tuesday. I’m not sure who’s more excited, myself and the other politics teacher, or the A level students! #PoliticsTeacher #NQT
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MrCollins
4 years
#rdghistorycollab2020 @AuntieAmie @AmyG_Historrry @becca_grose @BRebisz @CharCrouch @E_M_Barnes @ktfaith @mrwbw Thank you so so much for the collaboration placement - I have loved every bit of it and we cannot wait to continue this in the future! @HistorySpringe @cburnshistory
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MrCollins
4 years
Who would have thought that my year 9 history teacher, Mr Mullins, going off in a tangent telling us that that Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997, would prove to be so important - just won a History PGCE pub quiz. Thanks Mr Mullins.
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4 years
Crazy first term over as an #NQT during a global pandemic, but it’s worth every minute showing pupils the importance of learning History! Especially when one of my year 7 pupils bought me some whiskey as a Christmas present 😍😍 #History #teacher #edutwitter
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1 year
How I felt after watching @ReadingFC today! Just goes to show how positive motivation is better for the players than slagging them off all the time! #readingfc
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1 year
@ReadingFC Can we see some new shirts in the shop? Rather than the yellow away kit from 2021/22 season? Be ideal to try them on 🤷
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4 years
Absolutely loving @KateWilliamsme ‘Rival Queens‘ on Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I. Thought I’d be committed to reading my local historians work at the @UniRdg_History #History #HistoryTeacher #NQT
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3 years
Don’t know what I’m more nervous about, returning to teaching tomorrow or the fear of Ovie Ejaria leaving Reading #readingfc #edutwitter #RFC #DeadlineDay
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MrCollins
4 years
I’m getting more and more excited by the day in starting my NQT year at my new job!! I’m desperate to get back into the classroom!! #historyteacher #PGCE #history
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3 years
Going through history books and realised how I got my year 9s to write down that History has been by those that are “male, pale and stale”. Thank you @ClaireKennan for this amazing quote during the Reading PGCE History enrichment! #historyteacher #edutwitter #NQT
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2 years
When are we doing a whip-round to sign @babarahmangh and Danny Drinkwater permanently? Absolutely outstanding today! @ReadingFC #readingfc #rfc
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4 years
@JuliaHB1 @mattforde ⬅️ It is allowed, the arrow is pointing at one.
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3 years
Collected my Alfa Romeo Mito QV from @WLMGltd today and I absolutely love it! I’m definitely an @alfa_romeo driver for the rest of life 😍😍 #AlfaRomeo #Mito
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@ReadingFC
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𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋𝐒 Led by @huntyroyal , the peer to peer support group has been going from strength to strength since it's inception last year and you can be involved in next week's session. Click below for full details ⬇️
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4 years
Imagine if we find out tomorrow that Mark Bowen gets sacked and replaced with Chris Hughton and Ovie finally joins us on a permanent deal 🤭🤭 #readingfc #rfc #Ovie
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3 years
@Tylds_1863 He’s good at Instagram posts and that’s about it - cheers for Ince.
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8 months
@SellBeforeWeDai Going to EFL HQ would be a great idea, get other clubs involved perhaps too that have suffered under them.
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9 months
Merry Christmas everyone from Tenerife ❤️
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4 years
Is @TimDellor a clown? You mistook Michael Morrison for Pelé earlier in this game 😂😂 #LUTvREA #RFC #readingfc
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5 years
@TalkReading This commentator needs a lesson on how to pronounce names properly.
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4 years
I hope @ReadingFC take my email concerning Ovie Ejaria seriously. #rfc #readingfc
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1 year
GCSE results nerves have begun! Best of luck to all students @WrenSchool and fingers crossed that my History and Citizenship students smash it! #edutwitter
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MrCollins
3 years
So excited for my former Politics lecturer from @_UoW to be talking to my A level politics students tomorrow! We will be focusing on Voting behaviour and the media from the 2019 GE and political party ideologies. DM if you would like any resources ☺️ #NQT #Politics #Alevel
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MrCollins
1 year
Can’t wait for @TimDellor and Mick Gooding to say what a travesty this is, how much we will miss him and what a terrible manager Selles is…I’m glad Carroll is gone and am fully supportive of Selles
@ReadingFC
Reading FC
1 year
We can confirm that striker Andy Carroll has triggered a release clause in his contract to terminate his deal with the Royals with immediate effect. We would like to thank Andy for his contribution to the club and wish him the very best of luck in his next challenge 🤝
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4 months
Thank you William Sheward my old politics lecturer from @_UoW in speaking to my A level Politics students @WrenSchool really inspiring and cannot wait to catch up with the upcoming General Election! #edutwitter
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5 years
My C in Drama GCSE was useful today. Me and a teacher staged an argument to get witness statements from the students today - 80% of them fell for it! Perfect way to start off my yr8 lesson on how historians create accounts for Charles I execution #pgce #historyteacher
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2 years
First reaction to Ministers resigning and the increasing likelihood of Boris going is the realisation I’m going to have to replan some A level politics lessons… #edutwitter
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MrCollins
5 years
Can we hurry up and sign Ejaria permanently! He’s too good for the championship - he’s been back for three games and he’s already a cult hero #ejaria #readingfc #reading #HUDREA
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