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Roberta Cresswell

@mrscresswell.bsky.social
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✏️ KS2 teacher in Oxfordshire 📚 Reading Lead 🖥️ MAT Computing Lead 😊 ITT Mentor 📖 Bookworm- adult and children's books!

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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Picked the big coat up from the dry cleaners, had my flu jab and taught the Harvest Festival songs in assembly this week so I'm officially ready for autumn!
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Snoop Dogg Dances When Harvest Samba Comes On
ALT: Snoop Dogg Dances When Harvest Samba Comes On
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Farewell to Yayoi Kusama and thanks for all the fun art.
Infinity mirror room filled with yellow orange pumpkin sculptures with me in the one space to stand. Infinity mirror room filled with balls that have colourful lit polka dots. Giant spotty flower sculpture out in a dark rainy gallery courtyard. Red leaves of a real tree next to it have a light shining through them.Giant yellow pumpkin sculpture with black dots in the middle of Hyde Park.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/08/2026
"Soon I’ll be spending Saturday afternoons writing my informative classroom NEWSLETTERS and Sunday afternoons hemming and hawing about my LESSON PLANS, so I need to store up all my FRIEND TIME like I’m a GRIZZLY BEAR who’s getting ready to SOCIALLY HIBERNATE." buff.ly/2gBeiUa
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Hang Out with Me, a Teacher, Before Summer Is Gone
“My social calendar is CLOSING for the season except for occasional SATURDAY NIGHTS during the school year until around 8:30 p.m. (sorry) because by then my ...
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 31/07/2026
in this week's newsletter! quite an angry essay on this BLOODY weather, which I loved so much at first but just cannot stand anymore: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/the-great-... [free to read!]
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Munching my way through the most delicious bag of crisps that actually taste of lamb and tzatziki!
Large blue bag of crisps labelled Co op irresistible hand cooked BBQ lamb kofta and tzatziki
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/07/2026
Time Change xkcd.com/3272/
3-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 behind podium on stage: We all hate springing forward. But we love falling back. (2) [Audience pictured listening] PERSON 1: Therefore, we are abolishing the *spring* time change *only*. We’ll gain an hour every year, but never lose one. (3) PERSON OFF-PANEL: Won’t that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun? PERSON 1 holding up a fist: *Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!*
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/07/2026
alright what good veggie heavy less cooking dishes are we going for these days. heatwave incoming type dishes, you know?
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Digital Schoolhouse @digitalschoolhouse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📢 Big news! The Playful Computing Conference is going online - and it's free for everyone to join! Due to the extreme weather warning, we have moved our Playful Computing Conference online, and as such, we are letting everyone join in on the CPD. Joining online tomorrow at 10 am: zurl.co/PYNDs
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Playful Computing Conference 2026
The Digital Schoolhouse Playful Computing Conference brings together world-leading educators in STEM and Computer Science subjects with cutting-edge video games & edtech industry experts to empower you to deliver the new wave of digital and creative learning.
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This is objectively the best response I've had to a homework activity asking 7 year olds to use some measuring equipment at home.
A wobbly childs drawing of a measuring jug half full of pink liquid, with the legend "This is 300ml of milk so we can make angle delight".
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask.  Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?
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Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
How dare the book I was reading end, now I need another book
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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app
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Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive
Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Keywords > 15 May 2026 I found all 5 words! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 2✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 3✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 6✗ 💡 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🔥 Play streak 1 🏆 Complete streak 1 keywords.bagpuss.org
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Made it on a playlist,.. Q Essential Drive. open.spotify.com/playlist/1Q9...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me
Earthenware crab vessel with two spouts flanking a round handle on its back. It's painted a reddish-orange color and its stumpy claws are closed in front of its cute little face. It's standing up on its six non-claw legs, which are also stumpy. Insanely adorable.
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Had a great time at the Ealing Book Festival this weekend. Andrew Graham Dixon was a delight explaining his new research on Vermeer!
Andrew Graham Dixon stands on a stage facing a packed small theatre. Two Vermeer paintings of a woman weighing and a woman pouring milk from a jug are projected behind him.
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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Tesco, emailing me this terrifying motherfucker to me on a Sunday morning is an act of war, what the fuck, no I will not meet Plumbert I will destroy Plumbert
Tesco's new terrifying mascot for school kids fruit and veg
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Why nobody ask for a free book Mr Harry?" "I just don't know Stouffer"
Harry Hill on stage holding Stouffer the blue plastic cat.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🎉30K giveaway book bundle! #💙📚 Inc @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @lavanya.bsky.social @neuvel.net @csecooney.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social US/CAN/UK/IE only. Like, repost, follow & drop a🌟in the comments! Ends 24/4
30K international book bundle giveaway from Solaris.

Books include:
HOME SICK by Rhiannon Grist
SINOPHAGIA edited by Xueting C. Ni
TERRIBLE WORLDS: DESTINATIONS by Adrian Tchaikovsky
AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings
THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester
INTERGALACTIC FEAST by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
THE MANY by Sylvain Neuvel
THE MOUNTAIN CROWN, THE DESERT TALON and A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
why didn't anybody tell me that saturn has "ravioli moons"? WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME ABOUT THE RAVIOLI MOONS?
One of Saturn's small inner moons from two angles. It looks like a ilttle circular ravioli or pirogi. This one is named Pan, which is also something you could cook a ravioli in.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Sister and Friend, 2024 by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter #WomensArt
Painting with dashes reflecting two young black girls, one with her arm around the other's shoulder, dressed in a red and a purple dress, walking away
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/04/2026
Art Thief Leaves Behind Tacky Jeff Koons Piece
Art Thief Leaves Behind Tacky Jeff Koons Piece
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It has been discovered that Charles Dickens 'A Tale of Two Cities,' was serialised in a couple of local newspapers. It was the Bicester times It was the Worcester times. 🐢💨
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National Motor Museum @natlmotormuseum.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Our collection of Easter bonnets! Happy Easter from the @natlmotormuseum.bsky.social 🐰🚗😊
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Druids Akimbo @isabelvray.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So many good ones. This is in my top five:
Tweet by “let's try calling me 'november'” @AliceAvizandum: 

FRANCE: we're fancy
WORLD: ok
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch
WORLD:
FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

12:27 PM Feb 18, 2017
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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Viral crypto tortoise deathscam" in the TMNT logo font
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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
😂😂😂
Picture of a post. Caption reads: oh my gods what an annotation. With a picture of the first page of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat. Someone has written “Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel.” The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you…
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19/03/2026
O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...
Two cartoonish shrimp with big smiles and claws raised. Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty.
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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I love THESE lads!
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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#BOOKGIVEAWAY - Secret Warriors - #British #Submarines during the #coldwar @OspreyBooks Follow @ColdWarPod.bsky.social , then reshare post to for a chance to win this book T&C's & other ways to enter here
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Our latest giveaways
Listen to the author interview here** UK Addresses only **To enter the draw to win a free copy of the book, you will need to do at least one of the following before 2300
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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#BOOKGIVEAWAY - Secret Warriors - #British #Submarines during the #coldwar @OspreyBooks Follow @ColdWarPod.bsky.social , then reshare post to for a chance to win this book T&C's & other ways to enter here
coldwarconversations.com
Our latest giveaways
Listen to the author interview here** UK Addresses only **To enter the draw to win a free copy of the book, you will need to do at least one of the following before 2300
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/02/2026
bless the museum sector for this sentence
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Same energy... (Amber bear from Poland, 3000 years old).
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This Olympic opening ceremony is the most violently Italian thing I've ever seen.
Dancers at the Milan Olympics opening ceremony dressed as stovetop coffee pots.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
SCHOOLS! Here are fifteen books. I'm giving them away. If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know. I'll pick one of you this evening. You can share it too, if you like. Ta.
fifteen picture flat books, i'm giving away to a school.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2026
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer. In memory of a friend who died at the end of last year, @lancslass.bsky.social is offering to buy TWO people a book each of their choice, up to £15. So, if there's a book you'd like (any book, not just what's on my website), get in touch. UK only
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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year's Eve everyone. If you are a teacher (or indeed anyone) still posting on X, I have a suggested New Year's Resolution for you. Stop! If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there. open.substack.com/pub/markgood...
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A New Year's Resolution for Teachers: Quit X
The best time to do so was when Musk started poisoning it; the second-best time is now
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SwearyMess @swearymess.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
See also….
Old Twitter post from Mistle-no Martia
@MartiSchodt

“What do we want?
DRESSES WITH POCKETS!
How do we want them?
FILLED WITH SNACKS!
What kind of snacks?
PREFERABLY A REFRESHING MIX OF SALTY AND SWEET BUT WE'RE NOT TOO PICKY FOCUS ON THE POCKETS”

08/12/2017, 11:00 pm
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Hello Bluepals, we are open
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a man wearing a scarf and gloves stands next to a woman
Alt: Andrew Ridgely waving in the video to "Last Christmas" by Wham.
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Some absolute genius at work took the £10 Secret Santa guideline and just bought a massive piece of Sainsbury's finest cheddar. Great idea!
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Roberta Cresswell @mrscresswell.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This was when getting into school early for!
Blue and pink sunrise with trees silhouette in front
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
For Decades, Kids Drew Men When Asked to Picture a Scientist.
Not Anymore.
After half a century of bias in a crayon, children are tinally drawing women in lab coats proof that representation isn't just symbolic, it rewires imagination.
Original study: Joumal of Educational Psychology, American Psychological Association; November 2024.
HEAR HER STORIES
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The post reads:
There are no rabbits
On the trampoline
No squirrels skydiving
On the air conditioner
The cat is not holding a meeting
In a dapper little suit
But there’s a fat pit bull at the bus stop
And a baby with chubby feet in a stroller
And the air smells like fall
Real life is happening all around you
And it is more beautiful than garbage
Vomited up by a machine that eats water and jobs
I am begging you to unhook your brain
And go eat ice cream on a bench
Life is too short
To stare at a small screen
That turns your dreams into pretty pictures
And your brain into mush.
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