Emma Turner FCCT
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SIP, CPD & Author by day. Chaos Coordinator of 3 chn by night. Curriculum, CogSci,Maths, Leadership, Flexible Working .27 yrs primary,21 yrs SLT, HT & SIP. 🇪🇪
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Interested in primary subject leadership or primary curriculum design? New contact details for enquiries to support schools & trusts with all aspects of subj leadership & curric development. Get in touch via emma
@emmalturner
.co.uk & see below what other HTs & Trust leads think.
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My non-teacher brother just sent me this and it properly made me laugh 😂
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Rick Astley at Glastonbury reminds me of the deputy that’s been at a school for decades & who just quietly & modestly gets on with everything but when something happens they step up & knock it out of the park & everyone goes, ‘wow’ then the deputy just goes quietly back to work💖
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My parents had to cut down some of the trees from our family home. A friend of the family has made them into beautiful bowls. Mum just asked me to choose one. A beautiful bowl made from the tree I used to play in as a little girl. This is just the loveliest thing. 💖💖💖
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My middle one (y2) has been taught remotely by her teacher for 2 weeks. Teacher is back in today. Middle one just wrote this and I think it’s the finest phonetically plausible but incorrect spelling I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂😂😂😂
#PandemicPhonics
😂😂😂
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A Year 4 blew my mind today.
Y4: I love maths
Me: Tell me your best Maths fact.
Y4: I can tell you one you won’t know.
Me: ok what’s that?
Y4: all odd numbers have the letter ‘e’ in them.
Me, tells
@HalilMrT1
& we both stand there counting on our fingers & spelling.
#MindBlown
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So when a car fails its MOT on some fixable aspects you can get a partial retest within ten days, during which time you can fix any issues. The car is not written off or ‘failed’ for the next few years. You get a window of time to fix it.
Seems sensible doesn’t it…
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My eldest, who’s in year 6, just ran a 5km adult parkrun in 20:19
I’m stuffed if she ever decides to run away!
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🧵 Imagine you went out for a meal.
You’re happily enjoying your starter when the waiter whips it away from you & plonks down your main course.
You’re a few bites in & then the same happens with your dessert, then your coffee.
Then the waiter quickly clears the table & closes up
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Lockdown with three small children is pretty much spending 80% of your day flushing toilets you haven’t used yourself. 😬🙀
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Most nursery or wraparound care settings don’t open until 7.30am
That means no formal childcare until 7.30am
Then there’s the commute to the workplace after drop off.
Early morning work starts/meetings are hugely challenging for anyone with pre school or primary age children.
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Was in a cafe today.A man with visual impairment (& a guide dog) started singing along to the song on the radio then when it reached the chorus, he held the dog’s face & sang quietly to him. It was,’I’ve had the time of my life; & I owe it all to you’ I almost wept there & then.
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If we prioritise curriculum coverage over curriculum understanding then we’re just whipping away unfinished plates.
Everyone’s hungry, there’s loads of waste and no one quite knows what’s going on.
Fewer plates, more time to savour and digest.
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When I started teaching, there were no emails. We all managed to teach, lead, keep everyone safe & function without weekends or holidays full of ‘essential’ communication that just had to be sent at the weekend.
Just because we now can, doesn’t mean we should.
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Ofsted in SATs week? For the love of God.
Seeing a few primaries getting the call. First SATs week since Covid began is surely not the time to visit.
How on earth are heads meant to juggle the SATs administration alongside an inspection?
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Now I have 3 primary school age children I would quite like to build a time machine to go back in time and punch myself in the face for all the ridiculous holiday ‘projects’ I set for my new classes. To all parents of many of my former pupils, please accept my sincere apologies.
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Musings from my non teacher dad yesterday…
So if you’re teaching 30+ children x5 per day all wk & you have to then mark the books, plan the lessons, adjust anything, attend training & speak to parents then there aren’t enough hrs to do this.Has no one done a time & motion study?
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You know you’ve been in a thrilling meeting when…. 😂😂
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Anyone need a 1/2 term activity timetable? Might I suggest😂😉
1. Dragging kids on a pointless walk -everyone moans
2. Arguing over which film to watch
3. Clearing up flour for hrs & realising baking is a ridiculous idea
4. Craft...resulting in shouting
5. Freezing at the park
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Youngest had ‘eagerly’ as a spelling to learn.
Me: Do you know what eagerly means?
6 year old: Yes, it’s when you’re being a little bit like an eagle.
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This is just gorgeous.
An assembly or INSET story right there.
Truly truly gorgeous.
Congratulations Lola.
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🧵Why Easter holiday SATs booster classes for Y6 get a hard no from me.
1. Because some of them are still only 10. They should be playing during the holidays.
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I’d want every very young child to like their teacher. It’s a long old day to be in a room with someone you don’t like when you’re only little and everything in life is still very new and you’re actually still getting used to being on your own.
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Even if you don’t work in EYFS, we should all be interested in the suggested potential scrapping of adult to child ratios. Provision and outcomes will be compromised and the knock on will be felt by all. We ALL need to be v concerned.Cut a tree at its roots & see what happens.
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Whoever set these term dates for Leicestershire I am convinced has never taught in primary. The staff and kids are on their knees after this particular run and there are still 4 more days to go. 😴
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Just showed my youngest this and his mind is now blown 😁😁😁
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🧵 So, if you know me you’ll know I love an assembly banger! Here’s a list of tried and tested assembly ‘hall fillers’ for primary. Oldies but goodies and guaranteed to make you smile. Oh and plenty more where these came from 😁
💃 🕺🏼 👇
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It’s my 25th year in primary this year. Here’s what I know.
Education is cyclical; trends and approaches rise and fall in popularity. It really is a case of ‘wait long enough and it’ll all come around again.’
With this in mind, the only true constant is the child.
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A story about spelling tests…
Me: So you got 4/5 in your spellings today?
My youngest (5): yes
Me: Do you know what happened in the wrong one?
Yes.
Me: what?
I put a ‘y’ in ‘she’
Me: how come?
I wanted to practise writing a y. They’re nice and loopy.
Me: 😬
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If you’re recruiting, please consider what your process would be if a candidate invited for interview tests covid positive. Missing out on my dream interview because of the two red lines has been really rough.
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In an ofsted report,the only named educator on the report is the head. That is incredible pressure. Unless it’s been your name on that form, it’s hard even to imagine. To hear the weight of a judgement was so great, a colleague has ended their own life is so tragic. A community
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For a female dominated profession this is quite the line up.
.
@nadhimzahawi
has a new team of advisers at
@educationgovuk
- so who are the new faces who will be helping to shape government policy affecting your school?
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So my 3 kids can be in 3 different bubbles of 30-60 in school. As parents we can go to work, kids can go to their football training but as a family of 5 we can’t see both grandparents at the same time, even outdoors. In which world does this make even the slightest bit of sense?
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Still chuckling that when I got my paper diary out today in a meeting I got accused of having the equivalent of a ‘sundial’ in my bag 😂
Big love to all my fellow paper diary devotees. I know you’re out there!
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Came up on my FB time hop from 5 years ago. Still makes me 😧
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Longer school days?
If we look at it as a proportion of very young children’s waking hours then an 8-4.30 day is approximately 75% of their waking hours.
Adult equivalent of 75% waking hours 5 days a week would be approximately a 60 hr week on site.
Sustainable for children?
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Clear Post-its.
‘Now that’s what I call stationery Vol:26’
How can I have only just discovered these beauties? I’m slightly obsessed now.
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My middly (age 10) is tiny, really tiny.
Did an athletics comp recently.
Went to throw and the markers looked at her and all walked forward to the 5m line.
She lobbed it over 25m.
Waaay over their heads.
A reminder we should never underestimate anyone.
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Every year this comes up on my FB time hop & every year it makes me smile.
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Managed to track down a copy of this online after mine got lost in a house move.
My primary maths heart couldn’t be happier.
If you know, you know 😂😂😂😍😍😍
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My eldest (10) is determined to be an Olympian - has been since she was 4.
6 days out of 7 she gets up before anyone else & runs on the treadmill. She also wants to be a footballer. I said I didn’t think anyone had ever managed both.
‘Then I’ll be the first,’ she tells me.
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After 7 years, surgeries, procedures and lots and lots and lots of appointments, our little teeny tiny preemie tinker (and DogDog) have been discharged. No more clinic! Hoooooray!!!!!!!
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I have spoken to 4 women in the last month who have been driven out of roles or not secured roles due to wanting to work flexibly. 4 amazing, experienced teachers & leaders now out of work as of sept because of this. What a loss to our pupils. As a sector we have to do better.1/2
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One of the beautiful resources in the old National Numeracy Strategy was the mathematical vocab booklet. It's still a thing of joy & you can download it here. Some things have shifted yr grps but as progression in mathematical vocab goes, it's still lovely
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PPA at home as an option since 2005. 16 yrs says it works. It helps. Sometimes people stay in school, sometimes they go home depending on what/with whom they need to work. Insisting staff stay on site is a hard argument to win if what needs to be done gets done.
#FlexibleWorking
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Wish I’d videoed it moment just after school pick up… My youngest (Y4), ‘Did you know reading helps your writing? Now I’m reading more books I’ve got more ideas. Last year I used to write about 3 lines. Today I wrote 17 in my first bit!’ Out of the mouths of babes 💕
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Day off so I’m in the gym. Group of boys I don’t know all about 16/17 in there,
‘Are you using this bench boys? May I take it?’
‘No miss, take it’
It appears that even in the gym on your day off your teacher voice is unmistakable and it’s seemingly transferrable cross phase 😳😂
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1/2 This weather is our annual reminder that so many school buildings are simply not fit for purpose. It’s insane that there’s no upper temp limit for safe working. So many kids absolutely melting & staff trying to keep going when everywhere is utterly stifling. It’s bonkers.
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Just clearing out some old baby clothes and found this from my youngest. I think I’ve solved it! 😉😂
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I was in a school last week where I taught in four separate rooms and in every room, every single board pen I picked up, actually worked. I know it’s still September but it genuinely felt like sorcery.
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Omg it’s here! I wrote a real, actual book! Just got in from the kids’ swimming lessons to find it 🐯🙀🥰 thanks
@JohnCattEd
@WomenEd
that’s my 10% braver!
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Recently a head and deputy were telling me how they’d taken KS1 blackberry picking then made blackberry and apple pie using a recipe from a Beatrix Potter book.
Be still my primary heart 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
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🧵 This year’s SATs.
Tomorrow our y6 cohorts begin their SATs. They’ve not had a year without disruption since they were little year 3s, fresh out of KS1. They have had a huge proportion of their little lives away from school, friends, normality, the rites of primary passage
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Found my eldest 2 daughters (8&5) lying on the landing floor with their hands through the banisters.
Me: What are you doing?
Them: We’re being suffragettes chaining ourselves to railings
Possibly my proudest parenting moment to date. 😄💫💕
@WomenEd
@keziah70
@ViviennePorritt
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New year, new job! After 5 wonderful yrs with my current trust, I’ll be off at Easter to pastures new as p/t Deputy Director of Education for a local MAT.
I’ll still be working independently around my new role, plus my next book is due, so 2023 looks like an exciting & busy year
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Who’d have thought we’d all end up working from home again because none of us can get to work because there’s no fuel 😬😬😬😬
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If everyone in education spent a significant chunk of time in or observing EYFS and Y1 then a lot of the messaging around what constitutes excellence in pedagogy, curriculum design and general teaching tips and approaches would be parcelled very differently I feel.
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And so begins the national day of rounders for Y6…
Well done everyone!☀️👍 🥳
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Ofsted report ‘coordinating mathematical success’ contains this key suggestion for primary.
I’m not sure what to make of it, as after 25 years I’ve not seen any primary teacher who thinks a noisy class not paying attention during an explanation is a good idea in any subject.
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Is there a law that says all teenagers must spring the need for cooking lesson ingredients on their parents at the last minute every single time?
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The one teaching equipment setup guaranteed to work every time is a skilled teacher, a normal non-digital board and a pen. Some of the best lessons I've ever taught or ever seen are the equivalent of the teaching omelette - simple ingredients done beautifully.
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My cousin and his fiancée had their first baby a few days ago. Today I batch cooked them a variety of almost 20 home cooked dinners and a load of home made biscuits, flapjacks and cakes. Off to see them tomorrow to deliver it all. Because you can’t eat a babygrow!
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My 7 yr old comes out of school. "I'm going to do computing as my A Levels when I'm older."
"Huh? Where's this come from?"
"Because we did coding today & now I am brilliant at patterns & I am going to do all the things with coding now; I am going to get an A level in this!"
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New job starts Monday.
Feeling really lucky to be starting another trust senior role part time.
My last three senior positions, Headteacher, trust CPD and research lead, & now my new role have all been p/t &/or flexi. Senior flexi roles can & do exist but sadly still too rare.
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About to go out running for today’s run in these festive bad boys 😂🎅🏻🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️😂😂
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Omg this had me howling when I saw it over on FB 😂
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Just laughed so hard at a reel about going to primary in the 90s….
‘Why did we spend so much time in primary measuring the playground with trundle wheels? I think they must have needed help with planning permission or something.’ (Credit Tom Glover)
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In today's trip down memory lane for the best resources in the history of the world of primary ever, I give you, "The mathematical vocabulary book". If you've never seen it,follow the link;if you've loved & lost it,prepare to be reunited with a lost love!
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Sitting in the garden reading Edubooks whilst my eldest reads the books I read as a child which my mum brought over out of my parents’ loft. It’s like the ‘edu-circle of life’ watching her utterly engrossed, holding my treasured favourites from when I was little. 😍😍😍 📚
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I use this document every year with our
@ILSCITT
cohort as they move into their NQT year. It's a practical overview of pretty much everything they'll need to consider to get the ball rolling smoothly in those first few weeks.
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Lots of posts asking if unions are worth joining. On my very 1st day in post as an NQT someone else’s error caused something unexpected & awful which, had my union not been there for guidance, support & resolution could’ve ended my career before it had even begun. Join a Union!
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Slightly blown away by the fact my ten year old just came in as first female in our local adult 5km
@parkrunUK
@parkrun
14th overall against hundreds of fully grown adults.
She
Is
Ten
😳😳😳😳
#DoesntGetItFromHerMother
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When we design our offer in primary, we need to respect and actively champion Article 31 of of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, that of the right to play. Play is fundamental to all children's development.
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For some children, primary school ‘is’ their childhood. We need to be mindful of the fact we teach very young children and so ring-fencing the unique state of childhood is an important part of curriculum design. No child has ever run out of school to wax lyrical about a worksheet
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🧵If you ever hear me speak you’ll know I’m a fan of knowledge rich but also a fan of childhood rich. If we have chn who leave ks1 not knowing traditional stories, games,rhymes & having taken part in rich opportunities to play, explore & develop, is this not just another deficit?
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5 year old eyfs daughter went to school on non uniform day in full football kit including socks, boots (&pigtails). Class teacher said it was so great to see stereotypes being smashed & it’d been a real talking point amongst the children. Raising strong girls here 💪🏻👍💕
@WomenEd
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🧵 There’s been a little sarcasm and sniping about TAs in primary. These wonderful colleagues are sadly an ever rarer sight and the full time TA model is now extremely rare. And this is sad for the pupils, many of whom are still very young and need help to navigate their
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You finish still hungry.
You didn’t get to eat all aspects presented, you’ve felt rushed, flustered & a bit bewildered as to what’s going on.
This is not dissimilar to rushing onto the next lesson or section in a teaching sequence just because there’s so much to get through.
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Saw this over on Facebook for birthdays in school. 🎂
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When you get sent a pic of your Estonian great grandma at the same age next to a picture of you…
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🧵 Things that are frequently badged as being super right or wrong that don’t always translate to primary (esp mixed age classes)& especially ks1 & eyfs.
1. Rows
2. Group work
3. Differentiation
4. Prescriptive lesson structures
5. Booklets
6. Centralised planning
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I have officially graduated and I couldn’t be more relieved or proud after all my hard work over the last 8 years. My three kids no longer need me on the softplay. I can now enjoy a cup of tea and not have to get into the cheesey plastic snot pit of hell.
#mumgraduation
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A children’s hospital and a maternity hospital.
I feel truly sick.
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If someone had told me that national media, Westminster & the DfE would want to pick my brains about
#flexibleWorking
3 years ago, I’d have laughed. What a difference
@WomenEd
& 10% braver has made. It’s now on the national radar & I’m so proud to be part of the conversation.
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🧵 My 2 youngest children’s reports made me well up. The teacher comment sections capture their personalities & unique attributes so beautifully; their teachers know them so well & as a parent I am absolutely certain they are not only making progress but
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If you know anything about me, you’ll know I’ll give away every idea, piece of time or any resource I ever have if someone might find it useful. Sadly 3 times this week I’ve had instances where my work has been used/copied directly, passed off as someone else’s and not credited.
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Understanding EYFS is so crucial for understanding how we learn. If you want to see pretty much any aspect of exceptional t&l practice,nip down to eyfs & have a brilliant eyfs practitioner explain the provision & approaches. Guaranteed it’ll blow your mind.I’ll owe you £10 if not
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Just finished my 24th year in primary, which means September will mark the quarter century year. Do I get a carriage clock or something? 😁
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