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French and Spanish teacher. I like to play football in the park with my brother. Last weekend I went shopping. Next weekend if it is sunny I would like to swim. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com

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Alex Bellars 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 2h
Might try this out... 😉
On the chalkboard: "Homework Assignment: Bake dog biscuits"
Teacher says: "I don't want to hear any excuses"
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 10h
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 6h
The expression "one bad apple" seems to have lost its meaning.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cases included a 3 year old child. It's nearly like 17th century England where an 8 or 9 year old boy was tried and hanged in 1629.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 6h
Brexit
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 15h
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... So much for data protection Whenever I read these stories I think about how my children’s school has repeatedly asked for their medical records to justify an absence And how I refused but many won’t. And how those files are just on sharepoint
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NHS staff suspected of snooping on patient data to face immediate suspension
There have been too many cases of staff abusing patient trust, and enough is enough, the head of the NHS in England says.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 15h
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Young people in Mental Distress. What could it possibly be?
Many years ago in Mexico City, a friend and I came across a stall selling magnetic health bracelets. My friend (a scientist) asked the stal...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 15h
Brexit. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2658969...
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Norfolk fruit giant warns firms face 'cliff edge' over seasonal worker visa scheme
Ministers want the agricultural sector to reduce its reliance on seasonal migrant labour and for farms like Place UK in Norfolk to invest in…
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 15h
American Bake Off sounds exciting. Mound instead of a tent?
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Transactional Role Plays at KS3. Important useful scenarios? Or one-off language that doesn't fit with the accumulation of vocabulary or conceptualisation of grammar? Should we keep them? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/npp-...
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NPP 17: Transactional Role Plays
Our National Priorities Project is using the lens of our Year 7 French Exhibition to examine the rest of our curriculum. And Transactiona...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 16h
Inclusion. Removing barriers to learning without removing challenge... whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/npp-...
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NPP 19: Cognitive Load and Inclusion
In an earlier post in this series on our National Priorities Project , I looked at how thinking about our Year 7 French Art Exhibition hel...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 16h
Connections Puzzle #1207 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 16h
Wordle 1,929 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Green parrots pick clean deer skull in desert. Lovely.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 16h
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AI will kill your children and abandon their Granny. Don't use it.
The worst thing AI has done for me is this: I was testing its problem solving skills by asking it how to cut a cheesecake into 5 equal piec...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love #AI. Can answer anything. And give an explanation too. Don't know why people are so down on it. share.google/aimode/AEWyb...
Screenshot of AI answer. Full text in link in post.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 17h
Maths - learn a procedure or understand/think
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love #AI. Can answer anything. And give an explanation too. Don't know why people are so down on it. share.google/aimode/AEWyb...
Screenshot of AI answer. Full text in link in post.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow. That is old!
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Spain announces ban on evictions after protests over 87-year-old woman's removal from flat
The ban is part of a number of proposals that must be approved in parliament within 30 days.
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Crista Hazell @cristahazell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cracking @linguascope.com webinar in progress right now with @fraubastowmfl.bsky.social and Jennifer Wozniak talking about KS3 and how to make learning count. Cracking discussion... Brilliant, thought provoking and timely. #mflmatters #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflteachers #languagesmatter
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently if a tube train gets stuck at a rogue red signal, the only thing you can do is get all the passengers to sit down and then drive over it really fast so it can't stop you. Sounds worrying.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great title for a talk. KS3. The one sector that hasn't been messed about with by the government.
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Crista Hazell @cristahazell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are live with @fraubastowmfl.bsky.social and Jennifer Wozniak-Rush in tonight's @linguascope.com webinar. #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still my favourite useful suggestion for AI. Made by AI itself, no less.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Poor Antinous. Died so young and without ever having tasted chicken.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still my favourite useful suggestion for AI. Made by AI itself, no less.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, by all means trust it with important decisions. You just go ahead.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I imagine the BBC are watching closely.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Asking pupils to be creative and express themselves can lead to errors in their language. Is this bad? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/npp-...
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NPP 12: The Art Exhibition and Attitude to Error
Here are some examples of pupils' work for the French Art Exhibition from 2026. Most people's initial reaction is that this is a beautiful ...
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Rachel Orr @rachelorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Like Donald Trump, Ofsted appears to have become a lame duck. And like Donald, the inspectorate cannot just blame circumstance for its predicament: it’s had a significant hand in its own mid-term disablement.' tes-magazine-daily.beehiiv.com/p/ofsteds-la...
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Ofsted's last stand
Plus the week's talking points and events diary
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New hedgehog poo reported in the garden. The old one was eaten by a badger. Just the inverted skin left.
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Turns out Translanguaging makes a whole lot more sense than I thought it would. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/npp-...
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NPP 9: Translanguaging
This National Priorities Project on how our Year 7 French Art Exhibition engages Interculturality with classroom language learning, is tak...
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John-Paul Flintoff @jp.flintoff.org · 29/09/2026
Similar: I can choose not to have Gmail snooping on my inbox, but Google can still access my emails in other people’s inboxes.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Zealand superimposed on Japan. 4.9 million people vs 126 million. Source: buff.ly/2ZLxp4e
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El Rincón de Keren | Blog ✒️ @elrincondekeren7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Si eres profe o educador, este post es para ti. www.elrincondekeren.com/como-introdu... #educacionsky #elrincondekeren
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COMO INTRODUCIR LA LITERATURA AFRICANA Y AFRODESCENDIENTE EN EL AULA | El Rincón de Keren
Material autodidáctico para adolescentes y niños
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Association for Language Learning @all-languages.org.uk · 29/09/2026
The Language World 2027 Submission Portal is now open until 03/11/2026 Language World is ALL’s annual Conference, professional learning and development event. The theme is A Lifelong Love of Languages: Connecting Cultures, Empowering Voices www.language-world.co.uk
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Clare Seccombe @clareseccombe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
4 new Primary Languages CPD videos on YouTube today www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... All dealing with French phonics and pronunciation. I think I should be able to get French phonics done in 2 more videos!
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Primary Languages CPD Series - YouTube
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Errr... Wonder why that is...
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Guys, the reason you're having to 'check for understanding' is because you stripped all the dialogic and relational elements out of your lessons in pursuit of 'learning = memory'. Now you're trying to sneak them back in under a different name but the problem is with your mental model of learning. 🤷‍♀️
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just seen someone posting (elsewhere) about 'developing teacher agency' while making their teachers use a set of specific steps in class based on a very narrow view of learning. The term 'checking for understanding' has become a proxy for compliance imho.
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José Picardo @josepicardo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One group used a textbook. One had unrestricted GPT-4. In practice the AI group improved 48%. Unaided after, they scored 17% below the textbook group. They believed they had learned more. www.azimuth.org.uk/the-wizard-o...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Does anyone know the two different ways of doing "we" in French? "Oh, sir, is it those toilets that is a hole in the floor?"
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can we find examples to explore the idea that language learning is the rehearsal of forming accurate sentences, being careful to never ask pupils to express themselves because they would just make mistakes... whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/npp-...
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NPP 14: In which I temporarily lose some patience with the argument for mechanical accuracy over self-expression.
ln our National Priorities Project we are examining whether our Year 7 French Art Exhibition drives language learning or detracts from it,...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What can we actually do to take steps in the right direction to move away from this system that stops people from learning languages? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/08/chal...
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Challenging the System Part 6: Next Steps...
In a previous post, I offered a vision of what a functioning languages ecosystem in the English state sector could look like. With a posit...
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The list of legitimate questions is getting longer.
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