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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

TOMORROW: Tune in for our discussion of Joe Brown and Tim Clark's new book 'Debating Childhoods'. Here's Joe telling individual teachers that we do in fact have lots of power to change the lives of the children we work with!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Very enjoyable Thursday morning recording a podcast episode with Dr Viv John in the studio and Dr @ehmacgregor.bsky.social (+ Walnut the dog) in Oxford. Plenty of critique for the National Plans for Music Education of both England and Wales!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Tomorrow, I'll be joining @ehmacgregor.bsky.social & Viv John to present our work comparing the Welsh & English National Plans for Music Education. Cardiff Met colleagues please come along if you can! Article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Teacher recruitment and retention is a hot topic at the moment, so it was a timely visit by Professor David Egan to our studio to discuss his recent report into the issues. Tune in on Friday! Here's a taster, and you can read the report here: issuu.com/cardiffmet/d...

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This week we welcomed some school colleagues to our studio to create multimedia resources to support school-based teacher educators in making student teachers’ observations of lessons more focused and purposeful. Huge thanks to them, and the team from C.Met Sport Broadcast & Media for their help!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Congratulations to Dr @VivJohn6 who did a fab research seminar today on the experiences of popular musicians learning to be teachers. Thanks for inviting me along for the ride, Dr Viv!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Read in one sitting - thanks, @N8Holder! Ranges widely and is clear, concise, interesting and subject-specific - all my favourite things!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

It’s PGCE Research Bites recording time again… two days in @MetBroadcast’s very shiny studio to bring you some of the best student teacher research from @ITEcardiffmet in both English and Welsh!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Huge thanks to @lucy_crehan, @garethdjevans and Matt Maughan from @BassalegSchool1 for their contribution to today’s panel discussion for the PGCE Secondary programme. We’ll put it out on @TalkTeachingPod soon for everyone to enjoy!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

What a day! @Fenn5Lisa and I had a great time, but more importantly we learned a lot, and hope our student teachers did too. Huge thanks to our panellists @Pymble1984 @prycewilliams and Marc Lewis from @YsgolPlasmawr and to Peter and Adrian from @MetBroadcast!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

We’re off! Here’s what I’m seeing this morning…

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

A new first today - our PGCE Equity & Diversity conference, live online to nearly 400 student teachers, is a co-production between @MetBroadcast and @ITEcardiffmet - our schools of Education & Social Policy and Sport & Health Sciences collaborating on 4 hours of live broadcasting

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Had a first go in the new studio today, recording a segment for @talkteachingpod with @CameronGStewart - thanks as ever to @MetBroadcast for the support!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Calling all @cardiffmet PGCE students! Time to tune in to the first of our video broadcasts about your clinical practice placements. Check your emails for details and resources. Hope you enjoy the change of pace and format - see you at 9!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

First day of the PGCE was lovely yesterday, not least because we got to do the day 1 lectures in-person for the first time since 2019. My start-of-programme views from 2020 to yesterday: spot the odd one out!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

The genius that is @dafydd_sioned watched me and @ethayer_cmu record three lectures this morning (with plenty of slip-ups!), had a quick lunch break, then sat down and delivered all three lectures to camera in Welsh in single takes, with only the English slides as a guide! 🤯

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Massive thanks to @MetBroadcast who’ve provided their studio (re-dressed with education pictures), top-quality kit and fantastic tech support so we could produce some online resources to support school placements. Six hours of bilingual goodies in the can today!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

Plenty of speculation about what @CaraCAitchison was saying to me last week. Strict royal protocol means I can neither confirm nor deny that the VC was saying, “fall through the stage again at one of my graduation ceremonies and it’s P45 time for you, miladdo, PhD or no PhD.”

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 27/06/2023

Canadian PGCE student teacher Christy sharing her research into game-based maths strategies in the primary classroom with ⁦@dafydd_sioned⁩ - catch her work on ⁦@TalkTeachingPod⁩ and YouTube in the autumn!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR is back! Capturing some of the best student teacher research from @cardiffmet in Welsh ⁦@metcaerdydd⁩

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Slide 4 of today’s class is dedicated to @MarvinMTMusic and everyone else who twitches a bit when they see this picture.

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 17/03/2023

It’s that time again! Filming the first of our new block of PGCE Research Bites with excellent student teachers. You can watch these at

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 06/02/2023

Up and running bright and early this morning for two recordings: firstly to share my doctoral research and then interviewing @marywoolley down the line from @CanterburyCCUni about connections between science and religion.

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 03/02/2023

Busy day in B2.16 today - three hours of live broadcasting to the #PGCE programmes featuring @theredcardwales @ITimbrell then checking the @ipDTL remote line to @marywoolley at @CanterburyCCUni ready for a @TalkTeachingPod recording on Monday!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 27/01/2023

A quick bit of filming over the #PGCE lunch hour for our ⁦@CSCJES⁩ ⁦@sewalesEAS⁩ funded project on the professional standard. Thanks to Lucy from PGCE English for helping out!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 17/01/2023

Filming ⁦@palmerston_p_s⁩ for the ⁦@CSCJES⁩ and ⁦@sewalesEAS⁩ funded standards project today. Thanks to our lovely colleagues for the warm welcome, endless supply of hot drinks, and very nice setup complete with plant!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 16/01/2023

Arriving at @cardiffuni school of social sciences to update Professor @d_avid_james about our @ITEcardiffmet research project and get some much-needed advice - been looking forward to a catch-up for a while! @CardiffSOCSI

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 08/01/2023

Basil Bernstein (1975) gives some early advice (40 years early in fact) on Curriculum for Wales

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 06/01/2023

A memorable quote from Prof Richard Jenkins here…

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 22/12/2022

On leave for the Christmas break. Wishing all my students a well deserved rest!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

Having studied in both institutions back in the day, it’s always good to visit @cardiffunimusic and @RWCMD to try and find the next generation of classroom music teachers! Thanks to both institutions for the warm welcome this week.

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 01/11/2022

The clinical practice requirements team preparing to present the results of @CSCJES @sewalesEAS funded work which has led to interesting outcomes for practitioners and even joint @cardiffmet/@cardiffuni research. Thanks to @UCET_UK for the invitation! #UCET2022

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 26/10/2022

Screen legends @dafydd_sioned and Rhian C-W filming Welsh language resources for the #PGCE / #TAR in what must be the tiniest studio we’ve made yet!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 04/10/2022

Pushing the envelope a bit further this week - dual simultaneous teams live events to allow students to watch Welsh and English versions of the prerecorded lectures simultaneously! Colleagues standing by on the text Q&A to collect questions in both languages.

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 03/10/2022

Big live event day today on the #PGCE - and our new(ish) studio is working well so far!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 21/09/2022

The online lecture format allows us to film the presentation in advance & then concentrate on addressing the questions asked by the audience during a live 'pit stop' in the middle - double the capacity! Plus students watch in a comfortable environment and know they can re-watch.

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 21/09/2022

Live from B2.16, we're introducing our new PGCE secondary students to research and enquiry!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 12/09/2022

40 minutes to go before we start a new #PGCE year… and we’re ready!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 11/09/2022

It’s the final countdown before we start all over again on the #PGCE here at @cardiffmet. Just time for a final check of tomorrow’s video content and the backup broadcast equipment, then it’s a very early alarm call and off to kick off the new year. See you at 9am!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 20/07/2022

Thanks to the wonderful team PGCE Music of 2022 - you did yourselves proud, & are heading to music classrooms all over the country. You made my job easy and I hope you keep in touch - and become mentors for me soon. Here are nearly all of them graduating yesterday!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 20/07/2022

We all had a lovely time at graduation yesterday - congratulations to the class of 2022! Back in the studio now, filming some more material for September…

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 29/10/2021

A bit of leave from work is a good opportunity to double-check that the interview contributor box built in Covid lockdown is still working and has latest software - though I hope we won’t need to post it around so much this winter! ⁦@InQualitydotcom⁩

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 07/10/2021

It was literally a last-minute decision to re-edit the #ITEtv end credits while @ChantyHaughton was still on-air talking about Betty Campbell. It meant we could see this wonderful 7 seconds of footage one more time. Here’s our sign-off if you missed it at 4.20!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2021

Rounding off week 2 of #PGCE secondary music - our new students teaching, watched over by me and Virtual Viv!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 20/09/2021

Timed to the second! @sharne_watkins finishes an hour on professional conduct at the exact moment our Welsh and English language videos on research and enquiry start to play out. Week 2 of the #PGCE is under way!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 12/09/2021

Doing a public live event to hundreds of people tomorrow? Responsible for putting the Vice Chancellor live on screen along with prerecorded videos and four guest panellists? Yes indeed, there’s ALWAYS time for one more test of the backups! #PGCE

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 11/09/2021

Well done to all the new ITE students who gave up their Saturday for first attempts at GCSE equivalency exams! And huge thanks to the wonderful Linda from @CMUCatering for keeping them fed and watered, campus services, the invigilators, plus @rhianmulligan and @Mathematics_Hub!

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 10/09/2021

Rehearsal under way for Monday’s PGCE lecture on the new Curriculum for Wales

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 09/09/2021

In the latest step forward for crazy improvised tech in PGCE mission control, I’ve finally cracked the Teams Live Events emergency presenter phone patch. Never again will a presenter with dodgy internet escape me! Presenters at this year’s ITE launch, take note…

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Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social · 09/09/2021

PGCE mission control is taking shape ready for Monday’s launch of our primary & secondary PGCE programmes. Our welcome talk at 9, lecture at 12, and ITE programme launch at 5 (+ 2 seminars) will all be produced from this studio. Why not join us at 5?

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