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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Another one. It's infuriating.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

1. A story. Please read. Reposts hugely appreciated on this. You'll see why in a bit. I was born in Pakistan and lived there until I was 4. My parents worked there as doctors. While we were there we were very close to a couple called Christine and Mike Miles.

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Claudia Lewis @mbdscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

"She states that “only 14.9 per cent of teachers were identified as being from an ethnic minority background" [implying this needs rectifying]" Only 18% of people in England and Wales belong to an ethnic minority* background. 3.1% is not a worrying disparity. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

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How racist are British schools?

Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The evidence suggests otherwise.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I enjoy reception class but miss the older ones. Y5 loved using magnifiers to read this timeline.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Because leaders take their eyes off the ball. Most awful when in situations such as whole school assembly when leads, after signalling for silence, allow low level background noise to continue when resuming speaking…….why should anyone else bother when it’s not modelled at the top.

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Julie Davis @anotherjules.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Tarjinder is right; primary schools don’t tend to PEX a child if they bring a knife in. We work with the child, family and relevant authorities to try to understand the reason why. However, I wouldn’t want my child going to a secondary school that DIDN’T have a zero-tolerance policy on this.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Even to someone who's no expert in aircraft so obvious this is beautiful design.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have just vented. I cannot find anything positive to say. I find the term Report Card insulting. The toolkit will drive up workload. It’s an APP grid lookalike. Exemplary is the new Outstanding. The word ‘leader’ is in toolkit 200 times. ‘Teacher’ is there 20 times. Meaningless word salad.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It’s just so awful and depressing how quickly it’s been rolled out and that it isn’t really for schools and certainly won’t drive real improvement. It’s for parents. They call it a report card ffs It’s insulting.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Most telling feature from Louise McL on the toolkits apart from the absolute, car crash , APP style madness and incoherence? Word ‘leaders’ mentioned 200 times.The word ‘teachers’? 20 As a non SLT teacher, its inevitable stress will be off loaded onto teachers to ensure leadership is okay.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It came as a shock to those without £ security, but was quickly accepted. It slowly escalated and now, it’s almost taken for granted that if you don’t have at least a silver plated spoon, you may have to pay for uni ed the rest of your life…….they stop asking for their money back when you are 65.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I remember convos in 90s; well off graduate friends saying “It’s such low interest and you only pay back when you earn enough.” Meanwhile, trust funds got it all covered😂 It was always going to go in this direction ⬇️ All this talk about the ‘gap’ closing in sch….then the door firmly closes.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Working in a Catholic school- RE is 10% of teaching time ( assemblies not included!) What would happen in faith schools?

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Long anticipated and after #TDaPE conference and ⁦‪Christopher’s session, I know it will be worth its weight in gold!

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I know! No wonder placements are hard to come by.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just looked again and YES the provider still requires it.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thanks Jenny, will look into it further. It will add to my workload and I’m not prepared to do it.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I am a FT teacher and have been asked to mentor a student 2nd school practice ( 2 terms). Apparently, I now need to do 20 hours training. ( several modules) to make sure I’m fit for purpose. This does not seem reasonable to me. I just did around 6 hours to mentor an in school trainee last year!!

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Comparative Judgement is a proven way of assessing writing reliably without a rubric. If you're thinking "how is that possible" then join our webinar on 3 February at 4pm, take part in some demo judging of real Y5 & Y7 writing, and find out! buff.ly/3YzOgav

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Thank you, Kieran, I appreciate that.

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Just had a look and was expecting to see Hannah Gillott on list of speakers. ( very interesting on TDaPE with D Bristow on AI) Where can I find full schedule please?

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

AI has made me even more concerned. I don't know how much I can do about it but it worries me someone could use it to go "find all examples of where Ben has criticised the government" and there everything would be in a nanosecond. It's not I worry about this now, it's the future.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My trust in the stability and security of the future is declining a lot. I'm concerned that big companies or governments might use data in ways we now find unacceptable. I don't trust what we say now to hold in the years to come.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A lot of my older relatives have always been deeply concerned about providing data to government/big companies and for years I was sort of "oh bless them with their old paranoid ways" and now I've 180ed and won't even give my fingerprints for the cashless canteen. ID cards now horrify me.

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

What we were promised: an end to Ofsted grades, an awesome report card, and generally sunlit uplands What's been leaked so far: Nando's chilli-pepper nonsense TUNE IN FOR COMMENTARY - please share if you can :) open.spotify.com/episode/11pW...

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

New from us on our latest AI trial. We're dubious about AI feedback because of the error rate. Instead, we've got teachers to record verbal comments & then used AI to transcribe & combine them. Quality human feedback - just quicker.

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Using AI to automate written comments

Verbal feedback given!

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

open.spotify.com/episode/0Pm0... Another cracking podcast with special guest Sam Freedman. If I could have asked a question, it would have been: About the recent OECD report which argues in favour of more investment in 'high-quality early childhood education, why does EYFS get so overlooked?

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Why is everything broken, and how do we fix it? With special guest Sam Freedman

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I will be discussing the results of our first oracy assessment in more detail with @claresealy.bsky.social on Tuesday at 4pm. All NMM subscribers can register for the webinar for free here. hub2.nomoremarking.com/trainingVideos

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A valiant effort @adamboxereducation.bsky.social , I was not expecting to hear the ditty so jauntily adapted in the tenor range on the podcast today. No AI in sight, just a pure a cappella delight🔥 open.spotify.com/episode/27cT...

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East London Research School @elresearchsch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟Join Kat Branco from @NorthLondonRS & @flissj.bsky.social from East London Research School tomorrow for our free webinar 4-5.15pm. 🌟Sign up here; docs.google.com/forms/d/1R8j...

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MadeUpTeacher @madeupteacher.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pity me! I have to work ditties like this into all aspects of the curriculum. Say the sounds to read the words, read the words, read the words, to This the way you wipe your snot, and, the class favourite - We don’t have to share our germs, to have a good time, good time. 😂

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