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If your school’s behaviour management policy requires you to a) Be a child psychologist b) Stop everything to focus constantly on one child out of thirty c) Be telepathically intuitive and magically persuasive d) Accept rude or unsafe behaviour e) Stop and think hard about

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Learnt today that Dickens (on whom I’m writing now) had a huge following among the illiterate, who arranged monthly readings of his work to align with its serial publication. By the time Dickens’s own 1860s ‘Penny Readings’ were launched his non-reading fans had favourite bits.

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"I'm taken aback myself because it's become normalised." A man broke into Governor Josh Shapiro's home forcing him and his family to flee to safety. The Talking Politics USA team discuss the impact such violence could have on the discourse in America and anyone with their own

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In a classroom the opposite of control is absolutely chaos lol

OTD 17APR1953 Ringo's Mother Elsie Gleave (formerly Starkey) married Harry Graves in Liverpool. (Below pictured with Ringo in front of their home in Admiral Grove, Liverpool in 1958).

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Love Newcastle ⚫️ ⚪️

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Parenting is complicated

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We understand this has happened in Durham too.

Very much enjoyed Robert Jenrick filming himself telling people they should pay for using the tube.

“School is not meant to reflect back a child’s existing world. It is meant to offer new worlds. It is meant to take the child by the hand and lead them to places they never knew existed, places beyond their postcode, places they have every right to belong.” Spot on. 👏

Jamie Oliver is back with very welcome advice for school leaders on how to run schools! I thought he might welcome my advice on how to run restaurants. Link in reply

This numbskull needs to learn some historyt! Then he would know that the Russians started WWII on THE SAME SIDE AS THÉ NAZIS. They invaded Poland too! And only changed sides later.