
Acting Head of Science at a comprehensive school in North London. @Everton fan.
London, UK
Joined September 2009
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My shared folder has various ad hoc resources including a guide on Learning How to Learn, a few science graphic organisers, and various chemistry resources. New stuff will get added from time to time - feel free to help yourself. dropbox.com/sh/nn921cymrl1yo…
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Update: the new Persephone bookshop opens at 10am on Weds Nov 4 at 1 Scala Street, London W1, with the proviso that this is v much a 'soft' opening, a bit like a pop-up, so there may be a slight air of chaos. But we will certainly have all our 155 titles in stock - do come by.
We have some news. This autumn we are opening a second Persephone bookshop – in London, in Fitzrovia to be precise. We had not actually been planning this, but by chance we heard about a 1767 four-storey house that had become available... More info here: persephonebooks.co.uk/blogs/…
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A volunteer at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital who recently marked 80 years’ service in healthcare has been featured on @BBCBreakfast as a thank you for her unwavering commitment to her community 🎥
Audrey Joughin, 96, began volunteering at the Royal in 1995 following her retirement from NHS. She has since undertaken almost every role the volunteer service offers. A huge achievement for Audrey and well-deserved recognition 💙
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The old Championship Manager has been released as a browser game, it has been updated with 26/27 squads. champman2627.co.uk/play
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NEW: "They’re all very different, and they all have very different ways of making me laugh." British novelist @andrewhunterm recommends his top five funny sci-fi books
fivebooks.com/best-books/fun…
Attention.
📘 My new Teaching for Attention Playbook is a 70+ page, evidence-informed guide that breaks down the science of attention and provides 6 practical strategies to support teachers.
It covers how to:
🎯 Secure Attention: Create the conditions for students to focus
🎯 Direct Attention: Guide students towards important information
🎯 Orchestrate Attention: Manage where attention goes as learning unfolds
👉 Want a free copy? REPOST and comment ATTENTION below, and I’ll DM you the link.
⏰ Available free until Wednesday 30 September at 11:59pm AWST
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Discover Richard Holmes' favourite works of historical non-fiction, spanning pioneering biography and inspiring stories of volunteer lifeboat stations.
📕 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' by Elizabeth Gaskell
📕'Lytton Strachey: The New Biography' by Michael Holroyd
📕'The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens' by Claire Tomalin
📕'Flaubert's Parrot' by Julian Barnes
📕'Stuart: A Life Backwards' by Alexander Masters
📕'Super Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne' by Katherine Rundell
📕'Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer's Story' by Dominic Gregory
Browse his selection on our @bookshop_org_UK page 📚
uk.bookshop.org/lists/richar…
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Review: Darwin: Janet Browne ***** - This is described as the definitive biography of Charles Darwin - and I really can't argue. It's long but highly readable and full of insights into both Darwin the and and his work popsciencebooks.blogspot.com… #bookreview #popularscience #biography
I've found the study of history and historiography over recent years to be an incredibly enriching experience.
historytoday.com/archive/hea… via @HistoryToday
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Christian Moore-Anderson is a major — if for some an uncomfortable — contributor to thinking about teaching that prods beyond simple behavioural norms.
I deeply appreciate Christian Moore-Anderson's argument that education shouldn't force a choice between total teacher freedom and rigid lesson scripts. He shows how England's recent push for "consistency" actually made things worse by turning teachers into script-followers. Over time, this created a trap where teachers lost their teaching skills and became dependent on pre-written lessons.
Moore-Anderson explains the key difference between handing teachers complete lesson plans versus giving them high-quality raw materials. When everything is scripted—what to say, when to say it, which worksheets to use—teachers can't adapt to their actual students in real time. They can't have real conversations about learning because there's no room to adjust.
His recommendation: give teachers shared principles (like basic game rules) plus quality resources, then let them decide how to use them. Think of chess—simple rules but endless possibilities. Teachers keep their professional judgment, can adapt to their students' needs, and benefit from collaborating with colleagues. Everyone wins: teachers, students, and schools.
christianmooreanderson.com/t…
When the first major intake of 29 Labour MPs entered the UK Parliament following the 1906 general election, they were surveyed by 'The Review of Reviews' to name the books and authors that had most influenced them. The results might surprise you.
Some recent reading.
'The Things We Never Say' by Elizabeth Strout
'The Death of Grass' by John Christopher
'Villette' by Charlotte Brontë
'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute
My wife adores 'Wives and Daughters'. For me, it was redolent of 'Cranford' and contained aspects of Eliot's 'Middlemarch', which would appear seven years later. I enjoyed it more than both of those books, but I prefer 'Mary Barton' and 'Ruth'.
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Everton owners TFG including Dan Friedkin accepted proposal for Harrison Armstrong from Nottingham Forest. After a unanimous push back from the clubs leadership group and our fanbase, a decision has now been to made to reject any proposal for the 19 year-old 🔵
📣📣📣 1878s STATEMENT 📣📣📣
First and foremost the 7 of us in this group are fans, fans who spend our hard earned money to follow our team home and away like many others. We are nothing else, just fans like everyone else who wants the best for our football club.
We are an independent group, who have developed a good relationship with the club over the years. However, it doesn’t mean to say that we agree with every decision the club makes and in this situation we certainly don’t.
The potential sale of Harrison Armstrong goes against everything our fanbase stands for, a young talented scouser who is the future of our club.
Should the sale of Harrison Armstrong go ahead, as a group of blues who all do this in our spare time for free, have full time jobs & children.
It has been decided, as a group, that we will be standing down for the foreseeable future and will not be dedicating a huge amount of our own time to put together the displays that we do that try and generate the best pre match atmosphere possible.
We do not feel right now that our fanbase’s ambition and clubs ambition align.
When we design flags, there are rules and regulations that we have to adhere to regarding the wording on our flags during displays, we are not allowed derogatory or offensive wording or images.
If we were able to get a load of flags in the ground to show our feelings of discontent, disappointment & anger over this whole situation, believe us, we would, but this is something that simply wouldn’t be allowed.
We still urge fans to get behind our team on the pitch and sing our hearts out for 90 mins like we did yesterday at Bournemouth.
We will support any actions taken by our fans regarding this.
Our motto ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’ is the standard we expect!

































