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Johnson says "schools are safe but the problem is the household mixing that occurs in schools" and if you understand what that means, you are a better person than me.

Dear Boris Johnson With £22,000,000,000 (!£22 billion!) spent on Test & Trace, why are Serco & Dido Harding not taking control Covid testing in schools? You'd imagine it was part of the deal? Instead Department for Education have given *all schools* £78mil and one week to set it up

Wow, was fairly confident that I knew most of the tips and tricks for PPT, but always something new to learn! Will definitely make use of this one. Thanks!

9% of teachers delivering remotely from school 🤔...but, but, “work from home if you can”?! And remote instruction means it can definitely be done from home! Wonder was this by choice of these teachers or they have been told they must be in their empty classrooms? Teacher Tapp

There are 50 MS form Biology quizzes here for you to take and do as you please with! Plants, photosynthesis, the heart, enzymes, and loads more! Please Retweet! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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Have been really concerned about guidance re LFTs replacing need for isolation... just hope that the government really do “follow the science” and change the guidance ASAP. Or is “follow the science”, just a nice tag line and a way to pass the buck for big decisions 🤔

🚨 Competition 🚨 To celebrate my new book (published at the end of Jan) I will be giving away a copy of Retrieval Practice & Retrieval Practice 2: Implementing, embedding & reflecting - both to one winner. Just retweet this tweet to be entered into the prize draw 🎉 📖😁👏🏻

If the exam boards aren’t going to provide new papers, and they’re not going to mark them...what are we paying for?

🚨 Competition time ... to celebrate my latest book Retrieval Practice: Resource Guide 🎉 📖 To win 4 books - a copy of each of my books - all you have to do is retweet this tweet to be entered. 🤩👍🏻🧠 Winner announced 29.04.21 I do like a book giveaway! 😁🥰👏🏻

Dear Ofqual Please can you tell us what the 2022 GCSE exams will look like. We use these final weeks to plan for next year and need to do what’s best for our students. After a year of chaos, help us gain back some control. Many thanks, Every teacher in the UK 🌍

Impressive data here: shows how vaccines have clearly broken the link from cases to hospitalisations and death in U.K. Link not broken in US because of lower vaccine uptake.

If you use it right, Google is the most powerful tool in the world. But the truth is most people suck at it. Here are 8 Googling tips that you probably don't know👇

New Blog on why performance tables can't fairly be published as normal: dataeducator.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/des…

Judge noted “it’s hoped that anyone reading the report will go beyond the headline and see what sits behind it… a glowing report” But that’s exactly the problem with Ofsted reports, it is only the grade/headline that matters to most.

New research and more depressing news for Ofsted' 'head is stuck-in-the-sand approach' to grading schools. An analysis of 580 primary and secondary stuck schools found that schools with more disadvantaged pupils receiving a poor Ofsted grade contributed to teacher turnover!