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Well done Lucie! 🎉👏

Vote for Lucie!

I simply cannot tell you how happy I am to see this as the most-read article on The Herald during #AutismAcceptanceWeek. It was written by a 14 year old autistic girl, and there's no paywall. Please, please read it. It's so important. heraldscotland.com/opinion/242291…

Northern lights from the garden!

"I just thought we all knew what we needed to do, and we done it" Hear the post match thoughts from today's goal scorers Lucie Burns and Louise Cowan.

The pass 🔥 The run 💨 The finish 💪

Our chair Jim Thomson presented the Rising Star award to both Lucie Burns and Ethan Mersey at the Killie POTY Awards this evening! 🏆 Congratulations to you both! 👏 👏

Lucie Burns is our academy rising star for the 23/24 season. Congratulations 👏

Cheering on two @WMCKilmarnockAc and Kilmarnock FC Women stars Lucie and Louise this evening! ‘Mon the Killie! ⚪️🔵🐿️ and Eve on the bench too - fresh out of her N5 chem exam 💪👏

Absolutely! Listening to the team - if they think it needs changed then action is required. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Until you have the context of the school figured out, change for change sake is a terrible idea.

I’m on a poster!

Excited to announce plans for an inaugural “The Science and Art of Learning” conference in Scotland. Coming in 2025, more details to follow soon.

As part of the early work on the Curriculum Improvement Cycle we are looking for practitioners to join curriculum area collaboration groups. More information👉 ow.ly/NQVU50TIFoI A thread 🧵(1/4)

This looks fun! Indicator droplet art: uwaterloo.ca/chem13-news-ma… #chemistry #art #STEAM

And yet I was categorically told on here that there are almost no circumstances where I should accept pupils arriving without a pen. I picked my battles and when I was teaching in a school in an area with high levels of deprivation, this was not the one.