Sarah1963Gilbert✊🌹🇺🇦
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Mum of 2, feminist , English teacher for 30 yrs. Retired. Labour Party member, cat lover, dressmaker, recent student of Class Civ. History nerd , Gin.
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Best news ever. Cancer downgraded to a 2, no chemotherapy. No further treatment needed. Thanks to my wonderful bowel cancer team. Hurrah! Tears of joy from all the family. 😄😄🥰🥰
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I retired early from teaching last year at 60 after 30 years in teaching. This is my second September of not being hyper anxious about going back to school. I feel fabulous 😀
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I’m retired from teaching, I’m going to Italy on 6 September. So glad not to have that return to school anxiety 😀
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As an English teacher for the last 30 years, I can tell you the GCSE Literature is putting kids off, it’s focused on memorising quotes, rather than thinking. They think the A level is more of the same tedium. So sad.
English was the most popular A-Level twenty years ago. Now it’s not in the top 10. I’m biased, but I do think it’s a shame, and perhaps indicative of a shift towards education becoming less about ideas and more about employability. Getting a good STEM job can’t be everything.
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She’s smashed it! She has the A levels for Edinburgh, where she wants to go! I’m crying!!!
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Darling daughter received her unconditional offer from Edinburgh University yesterday! To study English Literature and Classics. She took her A levels last year. We have been waiting so long to find out- six months. She’s delighted. Hurrah! 🎉🍾🥂🎊😀
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@1an_Higgins
On a school trip to Barcelona, I slept in the coach outside the Sagrahada Familia. I’d been clubbing all night. I was the teacher. Missed the church, I hear it’s good.
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@implausibleblog
Unbelievable rubbish. The people under most stress where the NHS and they behaved impeccably and saved lives despite the enormous stress. 🤬
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If you are a teacher and you’ve had enough & near retirement age, phone and talk to the Teachers Pension ppl, don’t just rely on looking at the website. Pensions are complex & confusing. I discovered I could retire earlier than anticipated. Joy.
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Back in school tomorrow after 6 months out with cancer. Feeling somewhat apprehensive going back to teach approx 200 teenagers. 😳My last park walk celebrated with this stunning tree.
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Husband off on his next pilgrimage, walking Lisbon to Santiago de Compestella. Then bus to Paris and van to Antwerp! He loves long distance walks.
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I’ve been off sick with heart failure and I’m feeling a bit fed up. Son is having a tricky time at Uni, it’s all very lonely for him, now I’m all anxious. Sometimes life is just too much worry. 😕
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Back in school for the first time in a year - I had cancer last year. I really don’t know if I can still do this. I’ve only been an English teacher for 29 years.
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Happy 61st birthday to me! Celebrating by staying at the YHA at Treyarnon. A room with a view of the beach and the crashing waves.
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Atwood on Scrooge, brilliant, original observations, of course.
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I will be 60 a week today! And getting my pension! Hurrah! Goodbye teaching. 😀
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Dom’s best friend has made a little memorial in our nearby park. I brought yellow flowers for Brazil and the sunshine he brought into my life.
@domphillips
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@Team_English1
I’m studying Classical Civilisations A level. The whole Hamartia as a ‘ tragic flaw’ is wrong. It means mistake. This is direct from Aristotle.
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I’ve had bowel cancer. Today a man held open the payment gate at a public loo for me , saved me. It was an emergency and I had no change. Thank you. 😊
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Tomorrow will be my 30th year in teaching. I’ve no idea how I have survived this long. I feel dread about facing tomorrow, but I know I’ll get through it. I always do. Once more unto the breach…
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Anyone teaching The Handmaid’s Tale?
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Well, for the first time in 10 yrs no new term tomorrow. Still recovering from cancer. Dr says I need to take it easy. Good luck to all the teachers out there, please look after yourselves. 😘
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Just had an operation to remove a bowel cancer, all went really well. 7 hours of surgery to keep it keyhole. The NHS are amazing! Thank you.
#lovetheNHS
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@TheRestHistory
@dcsandbrook
@holland_tom
My favourite photo of Czar Nicholas II and his tall uncle who was head of the army.
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Daughter off to university for the first time this weekend. I think I’ve got everything- extension lead, door stop, mattress cover… Anything else?
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#MassiveAttack
Sitting in the rain, in the garden, listening to the wonderful
@MassiveAttackUK
play on the Downs nearby. I miss the 90s. Love Bristol. Miss Dom.
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@niaandthepoems
My school was once inspected by a head from a private school, mine was a comprehensive. He also stopped a lesson, told the teacher he was doing it incorrectly and told him what he should be doing. A complaint was made & he was replaced.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 2024 - Summary of Examiners' Report.docx - Microsoft Word Online
@GCSE_Macbeth
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Happy birthday to me and my pension has arrived! Yay!
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@lewis_goodall
Son accepted by
@UniOfYork
on predicted grades and given an unconditional offer on 11/8. Algorithm dropped him a grade in 2 A levels. Feel so lucky & very grateful to York.
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Broke my wrist on holiday in Turkey. I slipped and fell walking to the beach. My sandles had no grip. Should have worn trainers. All well now, lesson learned. The holiday was fabulous, as was the NHS. A&E was empty, Dr said it’s always empty when the sun shines.
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It’s Dom’s memorial today. I’ll never forget the happy times we had together.
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I’m going into hospital tomorrow for an operation, the first thing I have organised is downloading episodes of
@TheRestHistory
to listen as I recover. I love it. 👍
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@jon_severs
@heymrshallahan
I’ve just retired at 60 after 30 years of being a teacher of English. It was mentally, physically and emotionally exhausting & I had serious health repercussions caused by my job. SLT ignore your experience. Joyfully retired before teaching killed me.
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Made it to the Coliseum! It’s just spectacular 😳
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Watched the first half of Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth with yr9. They were silent and totally transfixed throughout, fabulous.
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Beloved daughter update . She did brilliantly! Hurrah! All joy here. 😀😀😀🎉
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@bowelbabe
@bowelcanceruk
Me and my BFF have just ordered one of these each to wear on our summer holiday to Italy. We plan to wear them and toast Dame Debs in Prosecco 🥂🥂🍾🍾
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Setting up my own little library in my classroom. Some were only 25p.
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I have been seen by the Sleep clinic, due to medical reasons. I have mild sleep apnea, I’m given an air mask to wear at night & I go into deep sleep for the first time in 20 years! Omg! A revelation! How on Earth have I survived this long!
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@OwenJones84
As a Bristol woman I’m really impressed by the women who protested , filmed this & reported the incident to the police.
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Cancer follow up procedure went very well . I’m sitting in the garden feeling very chilled with that bit of anaesthetic is very soothing. 😊😊😊
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#domphillips
and I were a couple in the 1990s. He was a lovely man, clever, funny, intelligent a joy to be with. I was broken-hearted when we split up. He has lead an extraordinary life & I was lucky to be a part of that . I loved him then & I love him now .
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@LBC
@MarinaPurkiss
It’s an obscene waste of much needed public money on a man who could pay for a ceremony himself. Disgusting.
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Woken up from a terrifying school dream. Can’t find my timetable, my class. Students shouting at me. Do all jobs get this type of nightmare?
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So after my retirement jaunt over Italy last month, I’m now tidying and cleaning the entire house! Cupboard by cupboard. Endless excitement. 30 years of ignoring the housework cos of being a teacher . Living my best life. 😊
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@FloraSCooper
@Ofstednews
@Headteacherchat
Fabulous!! I feel like weeping! Well done, you hero. Solidarity ✊
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Right, so I’ve taken the big dressing off my big wound. It’s been exactly 4 weeks since my surgery for bowel cancer. Feeling good. 😀✊
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Chatting to other teacher friends at different schools- no parity with this yrs exams. Some are doing only 1 question on paper 2, some are being shown the papers beforehand, some are missing out Q3 on Language paper 1. Total chaos. ☹️
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@StuartLock
I’ve taught for 30 years, I’m retired now at 60. I thought I was teacher tired, I wasn’t, it was bowel cancer that was exhausting me. That was 2020. After treatment all is well. Beware thinking everything is teacher tired.
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As a student in the 1980s in Manchester I was revolted by Thatcher, I can’t believe I detest Johnson more. He makes her look like a lightweight.
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Really chuffed my daughter has chosen this poem as her A level coursework focus. She asked me if I knew it ( I’ve taught English for 30 years) 🥰
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The totally stunning mural at my school which has been renamed Montpelier High School. A very emotional moment, I had tears in my eyes.
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Everyone has gone to work except me! 😀Yesterday at the garden centre, today gardening. Retirement is wonderful 😀🥰🥰🥰
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Had an operation to remove a bowel cancer on Monday. Home on Friday feeling good. God bless the NHS
#NHSheroes
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@timparamour
It’s always the highest compliment to be called ‘mum’, it’s happened to me, and always by boys. 😊
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@JDaviesPhD
During bereavement and cancer what helped was my cat, writing a journal, walks in the countryside and my kids.
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@MichaelRosenYes
is a national treasure. I had an A level student that wrote to him & a well known Language academic asking advice. The academic’s reply ‘ read my books’, MR’s reply was A detailed 2 page personal letter. An inspirational, kind man.
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Husband Alistair finished his 500 mile walk to Santiago de Compestella this morning!
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Italian holiday update: My Heart nurse has recommended that I do not travel abroad on my own 😞My husband & friends have also advised me to do it next year, when I’m more healthy. I’ve booked 3 days camping in the Gower instead & will save Italy for next year.
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@WelshGasDoc
I once delivered an excellent report at parents evening to Hannah & her mum. The girl then said, ‘ I’m not good Hannah, I’m had Hannah, you have mixed us up’. I then had to back pedal & take it all back. 😳
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@HodgkinsonJohn
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Well said John, I’m retiring after 30 years. It’s an intense, exhausting, demanding and highly responsible job. I’ve spent so much of my own money to support my career. Behaviour in classes can be heart stoppingly stressful.
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@AnnOlivarius
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My mum. A single parent ( widowed) who was a full time teacher of the deaf & raised 3 kids alone while full of grief. She was funny, clever and a joy to be with. She never gave up, she fought hard . She was everything to me.
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So 3 days after my operation, I’m showered and dressed. Only on paracetamol. Recovering well. Love the NHS
#NHS
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@amyjccuddy
As a teacher this blew my mind, written in the 60s I read it when I trained in 1992. Brilliant . How Children Fail.
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Finally having my cancer exit procedure on Sunday, 18 months later than it should have been. I trust all will be well. I’m self isolating until then with DR Cat
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@StigAbell
My son & my daughter took A level English, loved it and did very well. My DD got her results today & is going on to do a degree in English & Classics. I’m so proud of them both
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So glad
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#FreeNazanin
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Thank you so much for this! They have a complete video of the Andrew Scott Hamlet! I’ve tried to find this fir years! 😊
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Back from the consultant gynaecologist, great news. Fibroids shrinking. No more need for MRIs every 3 months, meds reduced from 6 a day to 1 a day. Hurrah! Let’s hope tomorrow’s pre op day is as optimistic. 😀
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So, no inset day for me, hurrah. Just sorting out the last few details for my retirement trip to Italy. 😊 tips on Venice, Rome and Sicily welcome 😊
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My friend is also in the NEU and will be striking. I’m now retired but I will be taking the pickets donuts to keep them going. ✊Solidarity
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My lovely Louis got his place at York university to do Politics and International Relations. Thank goodness, so happy. Thank you to all his fabulous teachers at
@ChoirBristol
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#AlevelResults
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Books I’ve bought yet not read, something to look forward to in 2023. 😀TBR pile.
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@pandorab14
I totally agree, in 58 but even the 30 year olds struggle. I had cancer for 5 years and didn’t realise as I took the extreme tiredness for granted as teacher tiredness. All OK on the cancer front now.
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@JuliaHB1
I’ve had cancer in March, I’m back into school on Monday. Do you think I’m lazy? I’m scared.
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Looked at my school email, I feel like a massive failure already and I’m not even in the building.
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