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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We have nearly sold out our SHP Understanding event on Teaching History through an Emotional Lens, at the British Library on Saturday October 10th! But there are still some tickets left from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shp-unders... come and join us for a really inspiring afternoon.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I would have chosen that if it was just me...or Jaffa cakes. But I don't believe they have mass appeal, for some strange reason.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think it's because @teachertapp.bsky.social knew chocolate hob nobs would win.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I cannot believe rich tea got the same % as fig rolls. Outrageous. What sort of sociopath would choose rich tea? Here's what teachers responded yesterday on teachertapp.co.uk

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I've just seen what Gove has put in the Spectator this week and it is a good indicator of that divide 🙄 VQ apparently 'anti-intellectual' says the man who is against experts.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I just think the problem is, how can we get people to stop talking about VQ as a lower tier of assessment. It's just baked into our culture.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I think we desperately need a history VQ of some kind. Keep on at them!

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I've found a great little list of recipes for cold noodle soups on the Mob app. We've been loving it. Always seems to involve a lot of coriander though so probably not for everyone.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My house is never cleaner than it is during exam marking season. Whole new systems of organisation are invented.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Really looking forward to heading back to Leeds this year after missing 2025. Come too! The line up this year is so good.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Why did it have to take several nations to threaten to ban social media for under 16s for Meta to start doing teen insta accounts? If they'd been doing them from the start, we might not be talking at a ban now.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Went to a free exhibition of rarely-seen Elizabethan portraits today and I took this snap especially for you @helenpins.bsky.social

The reprehensible Robert Devereux, look at his suggestively placed belt, grim

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Congrats Sasha and what a glorious day for it!

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Russell Brand on being a sex pest: 'When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger.' As explanations go, this one is poor.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So offended by my fortune cookie. What does it mean 'soon achieve'?!

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thanks Julie ☺️ yes, still teaching it...it's our y8 unit to introduce the concept of migration in Britain, before the KS4 unit.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is like when I found out that, without teflon, the medical shunt couldn't have happened. Blew my mind.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The BBC screened an interview with one of the neighbours this week. I couldn't believe such bigotry went unchallenged. Appalling.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just reading that Drake died in his amour. It's given me the giggles. Particularly because he died of dysentery. #didyouforgetthatfirstR

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Horrifying! Hate it when they blame the tech, too.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As automated emails go, this one was a shocker. Made me panic my account had been hacked when it was nothing to do with the payment failing. I replied to say, 'This sounds like a you problem'. I await their response.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Currently reading a library book on the train. My local has open access during unstaffed hours so often when I go, I am the only person in the whole building. Dreamy.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

So often they just parrot the talking points that are easily disprovable with only the briefest of searches. It's so disheartening.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

There are so many of them now 😩 I'm astonished by how quickly people have become willing to share racist points of view very publicly, with people they don't know very well, as though this is now just what the majority think.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We'll drink tequila and look for sea-shells.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Haven't heard this in a while.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Quite pleased to work out that today's gym visit was my 52nd of the year. Also Weird Gym Man was there but did not approach me, so that was good.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

1. Theme - Jamie and the Magic Torch 2. Theme - original Grange Hill 3. Labyrinth - Dance Magic Dance 4. Fame - The Body Electric (Red Light a close second) 5. Theme - Rentaghost #fridayfive

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I use the Mysterious Cities of Gold theme with Y13. When I was a kid I would have sworn that series went on for hundreds of episodes.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

In pursuit of some kind of life outside of work and inspired by the summer hol list of @spbeale.bsky.social I've had some 'nice things' to do lists since Sept and they've worked well. Now trying to write one for the coming term. What's traditional for Jan/early Feb? Other than self-flagellation.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Shout out to everyone else doing the @steplab.bsky.social CCL course, chasing that 9am assignment deadline 🫣😂 I see you all on the proforma download! #solidarity

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Michelle Mone is a proper villain, isn't she. Sell the boat, Michelle! Reject that neo-lib programming and do something for someone else for a change.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

1. Carly Simon: The right thing to do 2. Simon Webbe: Coming around again 3. Raye: Worth It 4. Tina Turner: Baby I'm a star 5. Beyoncé: Love on top (especially the MTV VMA 2011 live version) #FridayFive

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

School tripping with Y13 to Greenwich today for some early empire input. 5.30am start 😩 but Harts has its dauphinoise danish on the counter for the season 🥳

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I did not expect to wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with some Marjorie Taylor Greene said. What an odd sensation.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

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Teaching Slavery

This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Love this way of doing it, it almost makes me want to go back to 1C! Almost.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The only reason I liked that section was because it was a good way of wedging in the weird world of the Hapsburgs. Interestingly the exam board loves to foreign policy bit of my early empire course, too 🤔

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Come on Helen. You know that textbook like the back of your hand and we all know it. Nerd 🩷

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more. 🙄

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Absolutely loving this talk on metacognition from Thalina, she is unconsciously filling out a plan I've been making for tackling this topic in school 🎉 #TTHumanities

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This dog does have the grace to look a little bit guilty at least 😁

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Tell me how your week's going without telling me how your week's going. In other news: big welcome to the first cold of the academic year 🤧

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