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Stuart Billington

@stubillington.uk
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Secondary Teacher of Physics • Head of Science • Associate AP • SLE • NPQSL Based in Cheshire, UK Suggestions of how to get enough time in your day: The Efficient Teacher, stubillington.uk (including uses of #GoogleAppsScript) #UKTeaching 🎓

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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 17/11/2024
Not a surprise, but important to have it confirmed: the outcome of Ofqual's consultation is that students WILL receive equation sheets in GCSE Maths and Physics for the next 3 years, just like the last 3 years. 2025 ones to be published in Dec, but they'll be identical to the 2024 ones. 🎓 #UKEd
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Decisions on changes to the assessment of mathematics, physics and combined science GCSEs in 2025, 2026 and 2027
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 17/09/2024
Due to retirement, we're advertising for a Science teacher for January in our beautiful 11-18 state school in Cheshire. Engaged enthusiastic students, collaborative professional staff, a well-resourced department and intelligent leadership. What's not to like? 😊 🎓 #UKEd #UKEdJobs Please repost.
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Teacher of Science, Macclesfield - Tes Jobs
The Fallibroome Academy, United Kingdom
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 28/08/2024
Before the whirlwind of next week sweeps us up, here's my website devoted to time-saving tips. There are a whole range of things; changing my planner to one that combines week-to-view with year-to-view at the same time has made a massive difference for me, but what could work most for you? 🎓 #UKEd
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Time-saving strategies for teachers: there can be enough hours in the day, you can have a healthy work-life balance!
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Mumin Humayun @mrh1978.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Stealing the moon 🌕 📸 by Daniel Antoniol
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 25/08/2024
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 24/08/2024
Finding it harder than it should be to manage #Bluesky followers and lists? Here's my simple yet quite useful (??) alternative using just a #GoogleSheet! See who you aren't yet following back. Set search terms for list membership and then have the list membership update automatically, on a timer.
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Bluesky (TEMPLATE)
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 23/08/2024
The UK Teaching 🎓 feed (bsky.app/profile/stub...) is for all things educational in the UK, showing the last 7 days of #uked, #ukteaching and #ukteachers posts. There's a UK Teaching 🎓 list (bsky.app/profile/stub...), too. Add yourself to that and you can post to the feed using just 🎓.
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Claire Harley @claireharley.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
If you are line managing colleagues this year, here is my summary of the issues we face and what we can do about them... #UKEd www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/how-do-...
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How do we get line management right?
I want to be a better line manager. Line management meetings are essential for supporting and developing leaders and I have been thinking about how I can get it right next year. However, the more I th...
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 16/08/2024
Just deactivated my X/Twitter account. Not used it in months, but was holding on to it just in case. However, the vast influx of teachers this week now makes that unnecessary. 😊 #cleanbreak 🎓 #UKEd #EduSky
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Evidence Based Education @evidencebased.education · 15/08/2024
In honour of re-sharing old blogs - The Art of Questioning Great teachers use questioning for two key purposes: 1) To promote thinking; and 2) To assess thinking. Read the blog here👇 evidencebased.education/the-art-of-q... #EduSky #UKEd #UKTeaching
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The Art of Questioning
Questioning is an element of great teaching that offers pedagogical benefits, for both teachers and students.
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 14/08/2024
A huge number of teachers have arrived here this week (hello!), all celebrating a jump from Twitter. I've been off Twitter for a while and so am not in touch...did something happen last week to cause everyone to move, or is it just the middle of the holiday? 😂 🎓 #UKEd #EduSky
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Dawn Cox @missdcox.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
For new followers, the link to this document will be shared as a live document on Thursday and updated as the exam boards add info. Free to all!
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 13/08/2024
Teachers...do you use #GoogleApps, and #GoogleClassroom in particular? Did you know you can automate a whole load of time-consuming tasks using #GoogleAppsScript? Today's example: send out guardian invitations to a whole year group in minutes. stubillington.uk/automate-gua... 🎓 #uked #EduSky
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Automate guardian invitations | The Efficient Teacher
Use Google Apps Script to save hours by automating guardian invitations in Google Classroom instead of manually inviting them one at a time.
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
AQA GCSE Physics equations 👏👏👏👏 #ITeachPhysics
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 13/08/2024
Bsky lists...can be curated manually (Lists>Add new), BUT can also be created from search rules using Skyfeed.app (Lists>Create), which is so powerful! It searches profile descriptions, making it so important to cram these with relevant keywords and tags if you want to be found.
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 12/08/2024
To create a custom feed: 1) Go to skyfeed.app in a browser (install as an app when prompted if you want). Use your Bluesky username and then click the arrow in the password box to get BS to generate a password token for you (just call it "Skyfeed") that you can then paste into the password box.
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 08/08/2024
@redsolver.dev @skyfeed.app When I hit apply the list is created with the 235 people, but the "edit" function stops working...it just hangs indefinitely. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 19/02/2024
UK Government today advises a blanket ban on phones and to actually search pupils to check if they have them. What happened to education and developing trust? "BYOD policies should not include mobile phones". So we shouldn't make positive use of the computer in every pocket? So disappointing. 🎓
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Mobile phones in schools
How schools can prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day.
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
3 Physics demos, with 1 can! Simple, effective and easy to set up using repurposed physics equipment 🙂 #ITeachPhysics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exr_...
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Physics teachers. Today with my Y11 class we did Joe Cossette's HR diagram activity. It was fab. Such a great intro to what can be a difficult topic🙂 #ITeachPhysics passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/plottin...
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Physics teachers. This site has super easy to use calliper and micrometer applets. Will use this week with Y12 as they learn about vernier scales 🙂 #ITeachPhysics www.vascak.cz/data/android...
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Physics teachers. These are two websites I recommend you join, if you haven't done so up to now Please repost to spread the word #ITeachPhysics
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Interesting account to follow for #chemistry teachers. #edusky
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Science teachers. If you haven't seen it before, this link contains pretty much all the resources you will ever need. 1000s of files. Thank you to Mr Clayson for collating #ITeachPhysics drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 10/01/2024
I love the simplicity of this! Will be giving it a go. 😊 🎓
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 31/12/2023
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 30/12/2023
Charles Darwin’s voyage of discovery A voyage that started on 27 December 1831 took a man from Shrewsbury around the world and ultimately led to our understanding of evolution @jenniekermode.bsky.social via Central Bylines centralbylines.co.uk/history/char...
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Charles Darwin’s voyage of discovery
A voyage that started on 27 December 1831 took a man from Shrewsbury around the world and ultimately led to our understanding of evolution
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Graphing tip for deciding if it is a straight line or a curve #ITeachPhysics www.youtube.com/shorts/OxJqa...
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
This is the most addictive of simple games. Such fun to play. Highly recommended 👏👏👏👏🙂 #ITeachPhysics www.linerider.com
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Brian M. Ross @oldblackcrow.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Oh, this is fascinating! Hoping this pans out in practice... 🤞🤞🤞 🔭
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A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, study finds
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers' best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the pr...
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Duane Habecker @duanehabecker.com · 31/12/2023
#RecreationalMath
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Might be useful when making a card for a colleague who is leaving a Science job #ITeachPhysics
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
The size of Comet 67P relative to LA 😱 #ITeachPhysics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Chu...
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
And it was in a review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connection of the Physical Sciences that the term "scientist" (recently coined by William Whewell) first appeared in print. She & Caroline Herschel were also 1st women honorary members Royal Astronomical Society. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🗃️#HPS
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 22/12/2023
This week you'll be hearing me talk about my work on NPR! Listen to my interview here: www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1... 🧪🦠
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 20/12/2023
Full formulae sheets for GCSE Physics/Combined Science and Maths confirmed for 2024 exams. Will be published after Xmas, but will be the same as the 2023 ones. 🎓
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Decisions: Proposed changes to the assessment of mathematics, physics and combined science GCSEs in ...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
It's the most wonderful time of the year; it's time to watch for the Nothern Lights. But makes them look so different each time? On today's podcast episode, we revisit a conversation from our archives about this wild winter light show. pod.link/73329284
Photo of the Northern lights over a lake
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 08/12/2023
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 08/12/2023
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Protecting all diverse varieties of bees and other pollinators is a really crucial part of sustainable agriculture
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 02/12/2023
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
If you are looking for ideas for Physics demos in class, this channel I made now has 176 clips on it, sorted into playlists by topic. I hope you find it useful 🙂 #ITeachPhysics www.youtube.com/@hookean1/pl...
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Dr Dan Jones @hookean.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Another amazing photograph Solvay Conference photo, from 1933. So many great physicists #ITeachPhysics
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 26/11/2023
A reminder that the Ofqual consultation on giving this year's Year 11 complete formulae sheets in their Physics and Maths exams closes on Thursday. If you haven't yet responded you can do so here: 🎓 #iTeachPhysics #iTeachMaths
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Proposed changes to the assessment of mathematics, physics and combined science GCSEs i...
Find and participate in consultations run by Ofqual
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Jupiter and Galilean moons (l-r: Callisto, Io, Europa, Ganymede). 1938UT 25 November 2023. 🔭 🧪
Jupiter with two moon dots to its left. Two more moon dots to its right. All on a dark background.
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SevenHill Farm 🌱 @sevenhillfarm.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
When you choose to shop small business for the holidays, you’re not only getting something made (or grown) with love, you are putting food on family tables and making holiday dreams possible for the children of small business owners. Thank you ❤️🌱 www.etsy.com/shop/Sevenhi...
Two young girls squint in the bright sunlight as they sit among their harvest of red carrots and yellow onions.
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Stuart Billington @stubillington.uk · 25/11/2023
Please remember to "like" the UK Teachers feed (not just the posts) so it gets included in new users' search results. Also "save" it so it appears in your own list of feeds on the # tab. ❤️ 🎓
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