Secondary. trauma informed. English teacher, Mental Health Champion and friend to Neville the Owl. Linguist and all around word nerd. All views are my own.
North East, England
Joined August 2013
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This Thursday will be my last day as a teacher! Who knows what the future will bring, but for now I’m hanging up my whiteboard pens and heading on a new adventure!
Thanks so much to my colleagues and students past and present for making the last decade so fab 💕
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Show me the kids were back at school today without telling me the kids were back at school today:
What would yours be?
Feeling so much joy today.
Having not being able to run without crippling hip pain since October 2020, today I ran 5km solid with next to no pain. I am so grateful for the accomplishments of my body.
Oh, and also 45 is GONE and there’s a woman in the White House 👏🏻
If anyone thinks that teachers *want* to do live lessons from home rather than seeing students in an actual class for a “two week half term”, then maybe you should join the profession
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In September I have set a goal to run 150km in 30 days to raise funds for @MindCharity as part of #MoveForMind. If you can spare anything to donate to this amazing charity then please read my story and donate here moveformind.blackbaud-sites.…
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DEADLINE TODAY.
These documentary films are a fantastic resource for understanding students’ needs. The resilience film about overcoming trauma was fantastic and if you sign up today you can watch them all for free!!
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To what extent do you think teachers should have the ability to talk about politics with students? Do you think it should be encouraged or are we in danger of it being spun as some form of radicalisation? Ethically where do you stand on sharing political views you disagree with?
I really wish I could be with my students today, and let you have the results day you so badly deserve. Thinking of you all 💕💕
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Just over a year ago, I was at @OutwoodIE listening to @juliefslater and @drkarenedge at the final Women into Leadership session. We wrote down our goals. Mine were to get a promotion and be on SLT.
Dawned on me today that I’ve only gone and done it 🎉 well done, 2019-2020 me.
Thinking about my lovely 2018 year 11s getting their A Level Results today. It might not be the day you were expecting, or the results you worked for, but you have overcome so much this year and shown strength and resilience, which all counts for something. 💕💕
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As a separate issue to the pandemic, but I can’t be the only teacher wondering why our fellow public sector workers are being overlooked... clapping for ten weeks in a row doesn’t help a family put food on their table. (4/4) done.
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Any acknowledgement of the hard work, trauma and exhaustion they have gone through since the pandemic began? I’m buzzing off a 3.1% pay rise, but why is mine more than the doctors’? And why aren’t the nurses getting anything!? I get that this can be seen as separate (3/4 🧵)
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Put their lives on the line for the last 5 months to try and save as many of us as we can from Covid-19. 300 nurses have died of the disease. Whether or not nurses and junior doctors had negotiated a pay rise previous to this year, how can we deny them any acknowledgment (2/? 🧵)
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