Visit 20 science departments in deprived areas (or probably any area in fact) and have a good look at the staffing. You will find teachers teaching out of subject, out of specialism, or even with recruitment still needed! Pay teachers properly.

Labour plan to give ECTs £2,400 to stop them quitting… but nothing to stop experienced teachers from leaving bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

This proves how useless an Abubakar grade is. The grade was changed within less than a year, but most schools have theirs stick for multiple. They’ve proven their own flaw, and it’s disgusting and saddening someone had to die for this

After the amount of striking and work the profession has put into this fight to restore our great profession, it feels slightly anticlimactic that the union wants us to support this offer. This is neither at/above the inflation busting pay deal we wanted, nor is it fully funded

Sunak can’t find the £2.5bn to fund the 6% pay rises. But he found £6bn for an aircraft carrier that doesn’t work. £5bn a year for HS2 that won’t be finished till 2042 £4.8bn for ONE railway station. £7bn to fix Parliament £7.2bn a year for banks Obvious why there’s a shortage

Yeah, it’s a bit hot, but it’s summer. Let’s keep drilling for new oil. Who cares about about our kids and their kids’ future anyway?

From the Guardian this morning, one chart to tell you all you need to know about for whose benefit the economy is now run:

It’s more based on which version of the uniform they choose to wear

Are you beginning to get that ‘End of Year’ feeling? We asked more than 10,000 of you, your thoughts on this very challenging academic year.  How quickly can you locate the word you used to describe this year? 🔍

If you believe a media that tells you that it's wrong for a Doctor, Nurse, Rail Worker, teacher to get a pay rise but it's OK that a hereditary billionaire, who avoided inheritance tax to get a 45% pay rise from £86m to £125m, then you are part of the problem.

England teacher training update: recruitment for September still well below target across most secondary subjects. Looks like recruiting teachers will be very challenging for secondary schools in 2024

The sort of Teacher Tapp stat that should make policymakers squirm. Teachers in deprived areas most likely to say a pupil in their form left to be home-educated this year.

Science is a serious subject, with lots of equations, definitions and concepts to learn. Help students engage better with it all by adding stories, heroes and villains to your teaching 🦸‍♀️⏬ edu.rsc.org/ideas/storytel… #ScotEdChat #UKEdChat #iteachchem

I find this divide in political affiliation so odd, I wonder if there's a way to measure scientific literacy and correlate this data too.

Okay… so I’ve been pretty blasé about switching apps, but this takes the biscuit now. Where are we moving to? I’m done here.

Does anyone have a spreadsheet with hazcard information - CLEAPSS 🏁 pdfs are great, but not very easy to search for information (and copy it into risk assessments) easily. Would love a copy if you have it, rather than have to make my own! Trying to set up LabLogger