Happy Bruffmas* to those celebrating. *Bruffmas is the day a Year 11 rocks up to class and says "Sir/Miss, I saw this sick video on YouTube yeah, Mr Bruff, tells you everything you need to write in the English exams!" And you say, holding back tears, WTF DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEE

Are you travelling by Southern this weekend? My friend Lucie desperately needs your help. She has spent nine months hand making this beautiful quilt out of disused kimono silk for her oldest friend's brand new baby:

Doing some English marking and I promise I’ll never complain about 6 markers in gcse science ever again.

Feeling this at the moment!

My husband called this era of education 'Long Govid' this morning and it's set me up for the day.

Recruitment & retention My thoughts on what could be done to resolve the impending crisis (disclaimer I know not everyone will agree).

Dylan Wiliam’s 4 Quarters Marking is a great solution to streamlining assessment and reducing teacher workload. This summary is based on Carl Hendrick interview with Dylan Wiliam in his book 'What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?’

This is an important read. If you work in a school, you'll have noticed the rise in students who struggle with their mental health, but also the students who cannot sit with reasonable discomfort for any length of time. Why is this? 🧵 theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

It’s no mystery. The first woman he targeted was a mum & a 9 month old baby. He killed 5 women & a man. The man was a security guard trying to protect women. 8 women are in hospital. He ran past men to stab women. He targeted women. His actions tell the story. His ideology was

🧵What the world needs now... There is so much noise at the moment. Sometimes it's so deafening I shut down. Much of the noise has a personal and professional overlap for me. I am torn between shouting into the abyss and finding an island far away. Today a thread...

Yes to all of this - feeling inspired this morning!

Absolutely agree. It's a total mess.

What a lovely idea! September 2026 will be my 20th year at my school and next year is my 20th as a teacher. It really doesn't seem that long!

I could not agree more!

Current GCSE exam unreliability 1. Impacts on students & their futures 2.Impacts on HoDs stress levels, the very people schools are desperate to keep in a retention crisis 3. Involves a vast amount of admin for HoDs, reviewing scripts, writing reports for SLT etc Not acceptable.

Experts raise concerns over ‘unreliable’ marking of GCSE English theguardian.com/education/2024…

When is something going to be done? This is destroying our subject. theguardian.com/education/2024…

How many marking errors are there in the 6 million exam scripts marked each year? The figures we have on re-marks are probably just the tip of the iceberg, writes Dennis Sherwood tes.com/magazine/analy…

Tes With the same breath English Lit could do with allowing an unannotated poetry anthology. 🧐

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