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Sad news for Blackpool. Hopefully this will help focus more support.

Good luck to all teachers starting this week esp. @TeachFirstNW trainees and NQTs! It will be a whirlwind, take in as much as you can, write down questions and thoughts, start each lesson a fresh and remember relationships (staff and student) are key! Speak to you next week 🙂

ACT IS BACK! 🔵🟢🟠 We had a great time chatting with some wonderful first year Teach First trainees about how they’re settling in. How lucky we are to have such passionate teachers in a time when students need it most. 👨🏻‍🏫 Video dropping soon! 🎥

I would fail a masters student for this.

Wow!

The quickest and easiest way to grade all Higher Tier GCSE Maths students this summer would be to see how many marks they get on the Hannah's Sweets question. 6 marks equates to a grade 9, 5 marks equates to a grade 8, etc. Don't tell me you're not tempted.

Introducing...the new Richard and Judy

This podcast looks interesting ... #watchthisspace

I’ve heard the maths one is a bit random ...

Not long now!

When you order 7 calculators from Morrisons and they send you 7 chicken and bacon pasta bakes instead as a substitution? 🤔

Pick a number between 1 and 10? Find out if you're predictable... Greg James and @BellaMackie learn why humans are likely to choose the same numbers. 🎧 Learn all about maths in the latest episode of Teach Me A Lesson, available now on BBC Sounds ⬇️ bbc.in/31uusIU

The perfect place for the first in person BEACH meet 🏖🎣 Rob Fisher Mrs Francisco

Exciting but insane to see 2023 applicants getting their acceptance emails! Feels like only minutes ago I got mine in 2019/20 😅😅 welcome to the team! #teachfirst

Feeling increasingly frustrated in regard to rhetoric from the private sector toward state Oxbridge entry... 😡

Anyone else soooo looking forward to never again looking at the Advanced Information document?

A great Further Maths trip by the Blackpool Sixth maths department at Lancaster University Mathematical Sciences to learn about uni life! Great to see some ex-students doing really well too!