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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 3h

Why don't schools use adblockers?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"A149: Strengthening Solidarity with Ukraine" was ranked 52nd of 58 in the prioritisation ballot of members, and the defence review 43rd. The motion opposing sanctions on Iran and the IRGC is 11th

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MRMICT @mrmict.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Science task design🫀 First #retrieval task how blood moves. The final task used the heart diagram as a model to think & annotating the route of blood rather than simply labelling parts. The knowledge held up when we observed a heart dissection later in the week. #PrimaryScience #TaskDesign

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"No emails over the weekends" policies are dumb. If your teachers are struggling with workload, restricting when they can do their work makes things worse not better.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was spoilt last year. I am really struggling this year and feel like I've been SpaceJammed a bit. I've got from having a lovely class, consistency and having 2 excellent TAs to none of those things, and some other things that are frustrating me too.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Also needs mentioning that we have a child with a 1-1 TA and an almost full-time class TA.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I have my favourite type of class this year.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/10/2026

oh actually a friend recently infected me with another one, which is that when you order like a diet coke or a soda water in a pub and they ask if you want a pint or half pint, you can then sternly go "a half, I'm driving"

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Inclusion at primary has failed. We have too many kids in mainstream schools who shouldn't be there. We have too many kids in mainstream schools who need specialist support who aren't getting it. There are lots of schools that are undoubtedly unsafe as a result.

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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does anyone have a permanent Lego station - or something comparable - out on their school playground?

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If your school is considering buying into the Developing Experts scheme of work for science, don't. It is rubbish. The worst scheme of work I have ever seen.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're outraged by the Man City fiasco, have you considered following your local non-league or EFL team instead of or as well as your PL team? It's way better in almost every way. Premier League football has had more and more of its soul sucked out of it each year since its inception.

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Teacher Tapp @teachertapp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can wearing PE kit all day boost participation, especially among girls? Research suggests it might — so how common is the policy? 🟢 Primary: 77% of teachers say yes, students can wear PE kit all day 🟢 Secondary: just 17% say the same

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m a big fan of Rob Smith and The Literacy Shed but I don’t think this one works. “Look like you mean it” is just “expression” with five words instead of one. VIPERS is great but not everything needs to be a mnemonic.

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What do we think would happen if we screened all children for all SEND conditions at, say, age 8?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is really fascinating to me that people cannot separate his obvious desire to cheat with his ability to do so. I've been arguing about this all year and he's been able to do almost none of the things people thought he might try.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always fun when my Facebook decides that the content I want to read comes from the Jeremy Kyle holding pen.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Enjoying the denizens of Bluesky, the anti-AI platform, sharing this quite obviously AI-generated video

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new retort to kids saying "why should I learn how to code this when AI could do it for me?" Well _I_ could code it for you, what would be the point of that? Your mum could code it. The point is for YOU to learn something new.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Autumn migration is kicking off! 🍁 Have you noticed any of our winter visitors arriving? Stay tuned: we'll be shining a daily spotlight on the birds joining us for the colder months. Check out the Arrival Boards to see who’s flying in and when! 👇

Graphic titled “Arrivals”, showing when a selection of wintering birds arrive in the UK and when they typically leave. Bar-tailed Godwit arrives July–October and departs March–April; Grey Plover July–November, departing April–May; Knot arrives in August and leaves April–May; Sanderling arrives in August and leaves in May; Pintail arrives August–September and leaves March–April. Redwing arrives in September and leaves in March, while Lapland Bunting arrives late September–October and leaves March–April. October arrivals include Purple Sandpiper, Brent Goose, Pink-footed Goose, Shoveler, Bewick’s Swan, Barnacle Goose and Fieldfare. Brambling arrives October–December. Most of these birds depart between March and April, although Pink-footed Goose leaves February–March and Bewick’s Swan in March.

Graphic titled “Arrivals”, continuing a seasonal guide to wintering birds in the UK. Goldeneye arrives August–December and departs March–April. Snow Bunting arrives September–November and leaves February–March, while Pochard arrives September–October and leaves March–April. Great Grey Shrike, Red-throated Diver, Rough-legged Buzzard, Teal, Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Long-tailed Duck and Shore Lark all begin arriving from October, mostly staying until March or April. Water Pipit arrives in late October and leaves in April, while Whooper Swan arrives late October–November and departs March–April. Waxwing arrives November–December and leaves February–March, and Smew arrives November–January and departs March–April.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Essex restaurants doing service charges 🤢

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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is my favourite of the DfE Inclusion training slides so far. I'd like to add my own reflection question for older staff: Which previous model of DfE training materials encouraged the now frowned-upon approach? (Maximum of three responses)

DfE training slide, entitled "Reflection" features two cases:
Teacher A: The teacher prepares the lesson by developing three different sets of lesson objectives and different sets of learning materials. Each set of objectives/materials gets progressively more challenging. The teacher determines in advance which set each pupil will get. The intention is that by giving pupils different work, based on their SEN status and whether they have lower or higher prior attainment, all pupils will make progress in the lesson.
Teacher B: The teacher starts by thinking hard about what pupils may find challenging about the new topic and how they can best scaffold learning for all pupils. They pick ‘worked examples’ which they intend to model initially and then provide as a scaffold when pupils start to practise the task. They plan a single set of lesson objectives and learning materials for all pupils, recognising that some pupils may initially need small group support to use the scaffold effectively.

Beneath is a reflection question: Which of these examples represents the planning of ‘adaptations’ more in-line with the principles of inclusive teaching, and why?

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still not watched a second of it. I'm not even bothered by the news of Man City's charges. It's just a soulless, corporate behemoth that's targeting rich and foreign fans at the expense of the very people who made it what is.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can now look forward to a long appeal process, I know. But we can also say, now, "Manchester City, who were found guilty of 114 charges..." every time we mention the club's name; and I believe we should. No more "allegations". They were found guilty, and that is a fact.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*bangs head against wall forever* Apparently the way Burnham thinks we get parity of esteem is by saying vocational quals are for non-academic kids.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't think Ed Sheeran would have got this much abuse for this long if he was a lady.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Significant difference between primary and secondary here.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Headteacher wrote a letter to both twins congratulating them on their GCSE results and in both he said he much preferred them to their twin. Excellent trolling. 10/10.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can anyone recommend a support group for men whose wives are addicted to Vinted?

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If someone says that to you, you take two union reps and your mum.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm surprised this post got approved in the first place and has gone this long without the comments being locked. The admins of this group usually shit themselves about this kind of thing.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The best way of working out if you were working class or middle class as a kid is how you decided who was the tagger when you played 'It' or 'Tag'

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Things are feeling very "off" and inefficient at work atm. I have a strong feeling that we're not being told something huge.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Devastating news. I've been thinking about this boy and his family all day.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I got ChatGPT to ask me 10 questions and then recommend me a game. It recommended Mewgenics. I'm about an hour in and this is very much my kind of thing.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

School meal take-up is going to absolutely plummet, especially in smaller schools.

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If someone fancies doing one in Essex or Suffolk that's near a train station I'll go. Probably.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Politicians do of course have to respond to things the President of the United States says. But Trump doesn’t know what he's saying from one minute to the next. Tomorrow he may say the opposite. Recognising that the leader of the free world is deranged lunatic could save everyone a lot of time.

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Teaching sharing in a ratio soon? This completion table can generate plenty of practice for each skill - depending on the cells you reveal. mathsbot.com/tables/ratio

A screenshot of the "Sharing in a Ratio" completion table resource from MathsBot.

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Bitter infighting, allegations of bullying and councillors walking away. A Sky News investigation has taken a look behind the scenes in Durham. 👇

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Oliver Mills @olivermills.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saturdays are the only day I get off. I have spent the morning watching my daughters at gymnastics (which I do enjoy) and soon will be taking them to a birthday party that's a 50 minute drive away and is lasting from 3pm until 9pm 🙄

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In #MathsToday - Pie charts! Love this as a starting point for pie charts. Why can you work out what flag they are? Because of your ability to reason with proportion. You could make your own version of this using this flags tool shaheeilyas.com/flags/

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