I'm Labour's parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth North and I need your help.

Since 2022, Penny has received over £100k in private donations.

Can you chip in to my crowdfunder?

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In my last years, I lose the anger of midlife impatience, and reinforce the determination to make certain the fight for an equal society, serving individuals of communities, continues, where no one is left in need or neglect. Aging is not towards the right wing but towards good.

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So many things wrong with this article from Suella Braverman MP:

1) Independent schools aren't being wiped out. They're being asked to pay VAT on fees. Perhaps they need to look at ways to cut costs without putting the burden on the parents (Like we have…

More than half of school leaders are thinking about leaving the profession.

The key drivers behind this - including pay, workload and accountability - need to be addressed.

🔗 Get involved in our recruitment and retention campaign: bit.ly/43iXZV3

#ForTheirFuture

The majority of deputy and assistant heads do not aspire to headship, and a massive 81% said that concerns about Ofsted inspection was a key deterrent.

We need urgent change to halt the recruitment and retention crisis.

🔗 Get involved: bit.ly/43iXZV3

100% attendance pizza and film party ⁦AndertonParkPrimary⁩ ! 98 children. Excellent. So proud of you all. Pizza is on its way ….

1 week to go ! Our Schools' Broadcast of Macbeth (2023) will be available to watch 18 - 22 March🗡️

UK schools and home educators can register for free ➡️rsc.org.uk/learn/schools-…

Made in Birmingham

International Women’s Day everyone ⁦NAHT⁩ ⁦NAHT Birmingham⁩

Killed Women Count: A project highlighting the toll and tragedy of violence against women in the UK theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…

Had the BEST DAY EVER! Honoured to attend the BBC The One Show #500Words Competition finals at #BuckinghamPalace with our incredible Conway Primary colleagues and pupils. A special moment meeting HRH the Queen The Royal Family 👑

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⁦Tate⁩ ⁦Michelle⁩ Great exhibition

⁦Tate⁩ ⁦NAHT⁩ Great exhibition ⁦Michelle⁩

📉Toxic inspections…literally life threatening
📉Inadequate pay & funding forcing deficits & redundancies
📉Below target recruitment & 40,000 leaving p.a.
📉Crumbling school estates & planned PFI hikes
📉SEN chronic underfunding crisis
📈Workload & stress

Good job 👏🏽

'Believe women”: It does not mean beginning with an assumption of guilt. Instead, “it means that the claims of women should be investigated, interrogated, taken seriously. It means we should not begin with the premise, or posture, of disbelief.”
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Our Cymru President telling us why he💙NAHT: Campaign with a strong collective voice for the issues that matter most to me
Mental health & wellbeing of all School leaders
Reduction in the bureaucracy & burdensome accountability
Restoration of pay NAHT #heartunions

Some good news. I have been appointed an honorary professor of education at UCL Institute of Education.

If music be the food of love play on … let me have excess of it … ⁦AndertonParkPrimary⁩ ⁦SFE Music⁩

⁦AndertonParkPrimary⁩ #SFECMF Really thrilled to be part of this ⁦SFE Music⁩

Kemi Badenoch is unfit for office
2008
She confessed to HACKING into Harriet Harman's website & changing material on there.
The CRIME carried a jail sentence of up to 5 years at the time.
Nothing happened.
Reminiscent of her actions since then?
#bbclaurak
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