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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Good morning - the Spring sun is out at last in Scilly, and maybe your mind is turning to new beginnings? We have a great Sites Operations role open at Five Islands and are keen to hear from you: recruit.sampeople.co.uk/jobboard/Vac.... Closing date for applications: 8th March.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers. As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example. Meet Torrey Canyon.

Oil tanker Torrey Canyon. One careless owner. Sold as seen. In this image it's almost completely awash and broken in half. At the very least you've got to imagine they've voided the warranty.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you’d like to get a glimpse of life at Five Islands, check out Channel 5’s Summer in the Scilly Isles episode from last night: www.channel5.com/show/summer-...

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This look brilliant! Too far for me from Scilly, but I hope other members of the HA Southwest Network will make it. @andrewshtbc.bsky.social

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

1. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of the @1972shp.bsky.social South-West History Forum! The inaugural event will be taking place on June 18 in Bristol, with a stellar lineup: Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This September, you could be embarking on an island adventure as MFL/French teacher here in the Isles of Scilly! Click below to complete an application form: 3 days left to apply. We would love to hear from you. fiveislands.scilly.sch.uk/teacher-of-m... Friends and connections: please share…

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

*Modern Foreign Languages Teacher* in the Isles of Scilly. Join us this September at Five Islands Academy: fiveislands.scilly.sch.uk/join-us/job-.... We offer a truly beautiful school, community and environment to teach in. We’d love to hear from you.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

*Teacher of Music* in the Isles of Scilly! Are you dreaming of a life, creativity and career adventure? Join us at Five Islands Academy as Music Teacher: fiveislands.scilly.sch.uk/join-us/job-... Please get in touch to find out more.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Our little spooky eyes St Agnes horror film - ‘Look, Stranger’ - has been showing in Bristol and Paris this month! Filmed a couple of years ago with lots of giggles and perplexed holidaymakers passing by. Enjoy if you have an idle 4 minutes. youtu.be/ByQMNf6dQsY

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Look, Stranger

YouTube video by Tom Dyson

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We are recruiting for a short-term French teacher in the Isles of Scilly this June/July! What an adventure. Please get in touch. fiveislands.scilly.sch.uk/french-teach... We can offer a flat 2 mins from the sea, and a lovely, friendly school community to join for the half term.

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Will Goodfellow @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Gorgeous text, gorgeous pages. We're on the home stretch with the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 Expanding Worlds c.1600-c1870 proofs, so here's an Easter treat of a few pages. Every spread in this book is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for you all to see it.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What a beautiful image. And such powerful word choice: ‘the sheer diversity of young lives we serve’ - recognising the individuality of our children and our moral duty to each one of them.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“And yet, the demand to empathise with the boys and men propagating this hatred must surely be exceeded by a justified anger on behalf of the girls and women who are the actual subjects of said hatred. If anything, it is obscene that we women are not more furious and more frightened.”

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The Andrew Tate problem

His coarse misogyny is often described as appealing to working-class boys and young men. Is this really the issue?

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Congratulations to all at Penrice! This is a huge achievement in our Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly setting - and the pride with which your students present the report is inspiring.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/03/2025

I cling onto the fact that though none of us can save everything, we can all save something, some tiny little speck of something good, and these, collectively, perhaps will make waves in ways we can’t begin to fathom xx

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you are feeling, ‘What on earth can I do?’, here is one small thing which won’t feel small to a family supported by Hospice Ukraine.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It was great to welcome our first full cohort to Session 1 of the (now over-subscribed) @histassoc.bsky.social Experienced Teacher Programme tonight. Educators from a wide range of contexts, with 348 years worth of teaching expertise to share over the next five sessions.

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

On the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine we have made out Historian 'Ukraine edition' open access - learn about culture and history as well as politics of conflict. www.history.org.uk/publications...

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The Historian 163: Ukraine

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Such a useful discussion in the thread and comments (the MFL input particularly) about students following the text during teacher read-alouds.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you can possibly get a ticket to Kenrex at the Southwark Playhouse, it’s incredible! A blast of a one-man show bringing to life the true crime story of a Midwest town complete with a dozen compelling characters - and brilliant music by John Elliot. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Just four places left on the 2025 Experienced Teacher Programme starting this Wednesday, 26th February: CPD pitched at the level of expertise, designed to refresh and reenergise great history teaching. Bag your spot here: www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

💬 "Degree apprenticeships are not being used as a tool for social mobility in the way they really could be." Degree apprenticeships could be great for social mobility, if we boosted access to them. More needs to be done to make them accessible to people from all backgrounds ⤵️

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Whale 🐳 time of year again in sparkly February Scilly 😊

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Bonkers but brilliant Project Week planning at school this week preparing for our student-led day of community workshops to raise money for Scilly Welcomes - supporting our Syrian friends who have resettled in Cornwall to visit us on the islands. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Watching this: we’ve never tried providing interview questions in advance, but I like the idea of taking away the element of testing candidates’ speed of processing and instead giving them a chance to explore their thinking in depth.

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Bennie Kara @benniekara.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oooh this looks good! #EduSky

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In this blog, @andrewshtbc.bsky.social and I have shared our thinking about why there is a need for high quality CPD specifically designed for expert teachers. We’ve designed an HA Experienced Teacher Programme in response to this perceived need, and would love to hear your reflections.

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An antidote to one-size-fits-all CPD

“Effective professional development has explicit relevance to participants” and is designed around “individual teachers’ existing experience, knowledge and needs.” DfE 2016 A good teacher,...

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Are you as self-critical as I am about the marginalisation of Irish history in your curriculum? Emmy’s session sounds like a great place to start changing that.

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Bram Hubbell @bramhubbell.com · 11/01/2025

Great discussion of a painting from Glasgow showing the links to the transatlantic slave system. Slavery’s legacies are everywhere! 🗺️🗃️ glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2020/07/29/s...

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Selling West Indian Sugar and Rum in Glasgow

The artist and the sitter’s identities for this unique portrait of a woman working in a grocery shop c. 1790 to 1825 in Glasgow Museum’s collections are as yet unknown and remain to be discovered. …

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools Interesting. Something that Schools History Project does (or did). I used to teach the NI conflict in the 1990s www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools

Parallel Histories, one of three charities the Guardian is supporting this year, helps students navigate contemporary conflicts

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

History community: please share as I’m not using X any more! Inspiring CPD tailored to experienced teachers who want to grapple with ‘new’ ideas (or challenge how new they really are), refresh pedagogy and expand networks. Brought to you by @histassoc.bsky.social, @andrewshtbc.bsky.social and me.

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Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Exciting new resource from @ageofrev.bsky.social: graphic novel with sound by the amazing Angeline Morrison, telling the story of sailor Billy Waters - ageofrevolution.org/home/billy-w... - including free class set of the text to support teaching of migration/Black British histories. ❤️

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Billy Waters: Songs from the Shadows - Age of Revolution

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

New story - Henry Metelmann. I concluded for this one he ought to tell the story himself so combined extracts from his book with the 1997 BBC History file video with structured qus. This story does so much not just on youth but also terror, control & disciplinary thinking. #historyteacher #OCRB

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

'Half a million pupils studied history at GCSE or A-level last year, but just 2,000 tackled the origins of the Middle East’s most contentious war: why Israel was born, what that meant for the Palestinians, and the decades of occupation and violence that followed.' Parallel Histories addresses that.

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‘A whole new world opened up’: the radical project taking Israel-Palestine into schools

Issues often deemed too controversial for the classroom are bread and butter for Parallel Histories, which teaches children to see hot-button topics from both sides

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David Rawlings @davidrawlings.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Do you teach OCR African Kingdoms Alevel or African Kingdoms at KS3? Would you like to start? On Friday 25 April 2025, the Bristol Historical Association are hosting an afternoon of lectures on Early Modern African Kingdoms from an amazing group of academics. Free for Sixth Formers and Teachers!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

It's interesting to see the wave of new Bluesky individual accounts including journalists, following the Trump/Musk electoral victory. The question of the day is, will institutions and organisations (including charities, research bodies and universities) now follow suit?

Image of a large oceanic wave, surging from left to right at its peak.

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Caroline Spalding @mrsspalding.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Pondering the order school leaders need to sort stuff. Ok so they’re complex and overlapping but when you boil it down is it as simple as…? 1. Safeguarding 2. Attendance 3. Behaviour 4. Quality of teaching 5. Quality of academic interventions 6. Personal development #Edusky

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

I had an experience at work recently that left me very shaken, and was advised to phone Education Support. Such an amazing resource: an immediate hour of counselling and kindness which really helped. Thank you, @edsupportuk.bsky.social. And #edusky friends - if you need help, phone 08000 562561.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

It’s so exciting to be speaking on a panel at #VIS2024 with a global audience, and learning about how island educators across the world (Bermuda, Antigua, Scotland…) meet the challenges of climate change, fluctuating populations, mental health and aspiration through innovation and creativity.

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Rachel Lewin (scillyteacher) @scillyteacher.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Spending this evening reading tributes to Helen’s kind, gentle, but also incisive and determined wisdom, with tears for the loss that history educator friends are feeling. What a lot of love she inspires from those who were very close to her and those of us just touched by her generous friendship.

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Helen Snelson, 1969–2024

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