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Andy K

@andykirby.bsky.social
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Teacher, mathematician, sports lover, charity trustee, parish councillor, serial volunteer

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Kerry Dunton @kerrydunton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths can anyone help with how you know which approach to take?
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/09/2026
The thrill of thinking they might be in front, combined, I suspect, with wallowing in the aggro atmosphere of Twitter, has brought their bullying, nasty side into the open.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The "water flower" effect: when physics turns drops into petals
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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Andy K @andykirby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#maths #statistics How does this chart get made and approved? Stacked instead of dual bar chart, makes harder to compare the 2. Cumulative frequency up to 6 then not cumulative for the last category, I think. Makes it harder to understand. I can use this in #GCSEststistics teaching next year.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In 1964 and 2024 Labour got fewer votes than in 1959 and 2019.... And in 2001/2005 fewer votes than in 1992...
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia. I disagree. RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
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JimCook@JimCook.bsky.social @jimcook.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Immigrants less likely to commit crimes than natives, as countless other studies have shown #NomadCentury
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Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales, report finds
Analysis finds lower proportion of foreign inmates than would be expected if they were jailed at same rate as UK citizens of same age
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Yes, there’s a reason alright.
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Andy K @andykirby.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Correlation ≠ causation First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told
Data suggests more than half of children who miss a day at the start of term become persistently absent.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16/08/2025
I am still semi-convinced that if we rejoin the EU it will be driven by an argument that it will reduce migration.
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 14/08/2025
UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025 US economy grew 0.6% I present these figures without comment
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Maths and English literature saw a slight fall in top grades awarded for this year's A levels, with sciences and the arts seeing a rise. Discover how your area performed in our detailed subject-by-subject breakdown: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14/08/2025
Interesting how you never see the head of this school on Question Time or elsewhere opining on the culture-war topic of the day.
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"UK university tuition fees could rise again"
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UK university tuition fees could rise again
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I wonder if the Mail mention inside which party left jails dangerously full and failed to build any while ramping up sentencing?
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
GCSE results data shows that while some subjects have a neat distribution of grades, many don’t. Author Dennis Sherwood explores why
tes.com
Exam results: why do some subjects not have bell curves?
GCSE results data shows that while some subjects enjoy neat grade distribution, many others see multiple peaks across the spread of grades. Dennis Sherwood explores why
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You can actually see the brain cells turning over
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
startribune.com
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.
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Dr Jon Goldin @drjongoldin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
For anyone who may need these over Xmas…just in case
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Jackyjacky @jackyjacky.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We should post this everyday , as this is how most of us feel , thank you to this lady for so eloquently explaining how racism works .
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Utterly predictable.
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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The grim reality of Meloni's actions:
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hear, hear @stephenkb.bsky.social! www.ft.com/content/1e46...
ft.com
The case for school uniforms is compelling
Sensibly enforced, they can have an equalising effect in the classroom
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Evidence Based Education @evidencebased.education · 17/12/2024
Let's talk about Great Teaching 🗣️ In these short videos Stuart Kime explores each of the 17 elements from the Model for Great Teaching. Watch all of them here 👉https://buff.ly/3DlbESv Let us know what you think of them!
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Element Videos
A free resource for teachers & leaders describing each element of the Model for Great Teaching
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Government has proposed an unfunded, 2.8% pay increase for teachers next year. Instead of continuing Conservative austerity, the Government must fully fund the above-inflation pay increases desperately needed to value, recruit and retain teachers and school leaders. neu.org.uk/latest/press...
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DfE evidence to STRB on teacher pay in England | National Education Union
We are putting the Government on notice. 2.8% unfunded won’t do.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨
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Kevin F. Quinn @kevfquinn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Explains that the very wealthy non-farmers (e.g. Dyson), buying UK farmland to avoid inheritance tax, have pushed land prices up beyond profitability as farmland and thereby made everything much harder for most farmers.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes. Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is good from Ian Dunt on the prisons crisis open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
The report really couldn't be clearer about culpability. The prison crisis is the fault of the previous government. This made no difference to the Daily Mail, of course, which this morning insisted that "Labour's prison release scheme could see criminals let out early for YEARS". Or the Daily Express, which said that "Labour's early prison release plan" was "smoke and mirrors". Or Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who disingenuously asked: "In what world is releasing 20,000 criminals onto our streets a good idea?" Well, very much the world you made when you persistently fucked up in government, Thomas.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/12/2024
"He paid $100 million to Donald Trump and what access, by God, he has got in return... "Now, he wants to do the same in Britain". Is Elon Musk planning on giving Nigel Farage $100m for his next election campaign?
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Musk rumoured to give Reform $100m donation: A ‘dangerous’ moment for British politics
Elon Musk is believed to be considering giving Nigel Farage $100m to help secure him as prime minister in the next general election.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I love Ian Hislop but it’s worth noting that most of us would balk at the prospect of publicly admonishing a wrongdoer whose conduct you condemn in this way. I did it once to the UKIP/Reform/Brexit twerp Richard Tice but that took exactly zero guts. This is speaking truth to actual power…
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I did a comparison of the demographics Red Wall seats (using James Kanagasooriam's list), seats with high Reform share, and all Con and Lab held seats. There's a fair few characteristics shared by RW and Reform-heavy seats (note - over half of RW seats are also Reform heavy).
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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This doesn't surprise me at all. Many people believe that the quality of teaching at indies is better than states, but I don't think thats accurate personally.
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cascade of blerg @alltheblergs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Clarkson: Your claim that I bought a farm to avoid taxes is false and irresponsible. BBC: It’s your own claim. Clarkson: What’s that got to do with anything?
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Here's a useful tool for Bluesky Type your account name in and activate It will come up with a list of the accounts followed by the people you follow.. If you type in your password it will give that list with an optional follow button to make life easy. Try it 💙💙 bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 17/11/2024
There's been a lot of angst and frustration aimed at Ofsted after leaks of their plans to inspect 10 areas of school life + split the inspection of teaching and the curriculum. In my first BlueSky thread, I thought I'd explain why I think Ofsted *might* actually be on the right track. /1
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is why you end up using the car so much if you don’t live in a big city. And the 43min by public transport is the *best case scenario *. That’s IF the bus turns up & is running on time.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year. Mainly people escaping Balkan wars. Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers. Had you been taken in? I wouldn’t blame you.
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