Big fan. 💔Memories of my first concert as a child. Playing all the songs today.

🧵As part of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek I've created some daily wellbeing challenges based on the PERMA model of #wellbeing. Children will practise skills to develop positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement! Please use and SHARE!! 1/2

The Alpinist makes for great CPD on ADHD

Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants "Evidence shows it’s not whether TAs are delivering interventions but how they are doing so. It is important to think about which intervention is being used and how it is being delivered" eef.li/teaching-assis…

Our updated Teaching and Learning Toolkit – your guide to the best international research on teaching 5–16 year-olds: eef.li/toolkit

Not sure about you folks, but when I was making my plans for 2022, the prospect of global nuclear Armageddon didn’t feature on the list. 😱 #PutinIsInsane #NuclearTyrant #PutinIsaWarCriminal #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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The government wants to increase starting teacher salary to £30k but what about TAs? Nothing has been mentioned about TA pay & yet the cost of living crisis will affect so many hard working TAs that schools would suffer without?! #whataboutTAs

We have 12 children arriving from Ukraine in our village soon. Any good ideas to support them? They’ll start at the local school, but wondered if anyone has experience of maybe running youth clubs, after school groups etc? Thanks!

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There are lots of benefits of visual schedules!

A 🧵 on burnout Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important. 1/ #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™ Academic Encouragement

Don’t worry if your A level results are disappointing. I got a C and 2 Us and I’m currently holidaying on this boat.

And it’s over 😭

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You know the country is f*cked when a parking space earns more than a postie working for Royal Mail.

This is so true.

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