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Tim Roach

@timroach.bsky.social
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Primary teacher VP/DHT and Twitter refugee Oldham, Greater Manchester 👍 📚, vinyl, films, Neil Young, Stephen King, #GTFC & good TV. 🤬 correcting splices, capital letters & full stops. All views are my own.

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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Whoever wins … we lose.
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War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com · 14/02/2026
Skiing! Physics! Knitwear! This week we watch The Heroes Of Telemark, a film that truly has it all. champ.ly/EObrleIT
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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Last year, we ran a pioneering AI-enhanced dynamic assessment of writing. Year 6 students wrote a story, received feedback, and redrafted it. We're running the project again this year and improving the feedback. The deadline for signing up is 20 Feb. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/how-do-you...
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
If S Korea can do this, why can’t we stop lawnmowers and leafblowers during SATs in May? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 21/10/2025
Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.
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Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What Daisy says here about the possible Y8 reading test also works for the current Y6 reading test. Personally, the least that could happen is that they’d relax the 60-minute time limit. #sats
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This was the year I moved to Manchester. We bumped into Liam in the Queen of Hearts pub in Fallowfield and had a drink with him. Amazing times.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Farage lying and doing our country down, again. As if Year 3 teachers are doing this. The last two lines are pure projection.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Nobody goes into teaching for life to be easy […] You genuinely get the chance 99 times out of a 100 to go home at the end of the day having done something positive for somebody, and there aren’t that many professions where you get that opportunity.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘So aware of their emotions’: Pupils are standout stars in new series about Yorkshire academy
Educating Yorkshire Part 2 shows inspirational teachers negotiating challenges in young people’s lives
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
While we all have a laugh about the dugout photos of Amorim, listen to Grimsby’s head coach David Artell exuding calm and leadership. #GTFC #leadership youtu.be/zTcYpVjk_XI?...
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David Artell FULL post match interview after Grimsby knock Man United out of Carabao Cup
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It goes a little bit Ron Manager, but as a Town fan, I think he's allowed to this morning.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The magnitude of Grimsby Town's win over MUFC, in numbers. (Figures from @priceoffootball.bsky.social)
Table comparing the financial resources of Grimsby Town and Manchester United.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Grimsby’s unbeaten opening to this season continues ….
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Here we go … #UTM
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Spotted on the way up to Accrington: a back-to-front Union Flag hung from a motorway bridge. I guess that’s patriotism in this day and age.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“Who are they?”
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Top result on Google search for Jimmy Savile 🤔
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Reading Seth Rogen’s Yearbook and there’s this page where he describes managing to avoid befriending two toxic individuals.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Four stars on @letterboxd.social
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We’re halfway through June, which means there’s only two weeks left of KS2 writing moderators (me included) going into schools and reading humdrum retellings of that animated short film Alma,searching in vain for any dialogue at all, let alone some that conveys character or advances the action.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Not a bad spot for a school trip. 🔭
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year
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Manchester Museum named European Museum of the Year
Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’ It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year. The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world with judges praising its approach to addressing its complex past and its extensive work with communities. Continue reading...
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Sophie Bartlett @missiebee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨 Full analysis of all the 2025 SATs papers 👇🏼 Apologising in advance bc I liked some bits that others hated. And I hated bits that others will defend 👀 MATHS: tinyurl.com/2025maths GPS: tinyurl.com/2025-GPS READING: tinyurl.com/2025-reading #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #Year6 #SATs
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homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“The gap between public and private sector pay has grown over the past decade. Dismayingly, the former is now lower in real terms than in 2010, with experienced teachers facing some of the steepest drops.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: ministers must fund an increase | Editorial
Editorial: Schools are tough workplaces, and the government should endorse the case for higher pay
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In today’s paper: my column is on the campaign against exclusions and what I think it gets right (but more importantly, what I think it gets wrong):
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If only it were as simple as no more excluded children
It’s never just about the one pupil who is made to leave school
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RIP Val Kilmer
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This. That’s all they need to do to make SATs work for everyone.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Dear DfE, please can every local authority have an @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social to coordinate primary writing CPD and moderation. Thanks. #TDaPEManchester
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It’s great to be back in a room full of teachers on a Saturday morning, especially when @andrewpercivaled.bsky.social is talking retrieval practice at #TDaPEManchester
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Severance finale. Nothing else like it.
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two men are dancing in a dark room with purple lights
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What a bunch of contemptible people.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“We meet a shadowy Zuckerberg aide who supposedly games his boss’s own algorithm so his posts have mega-engagement. Mark’s senior staff all let him win at Catan.” These people are the worst of us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde
Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Check out Thomas Turgoose’s Instagram to see Mark Ruffalo joining in with the classic Grimsby Town chant: “We piss on your fish.” #GTFC
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Beta Band tickets secured 🔒
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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a man in a plaid jacket and tie is saying " i feel bad for you "
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I’m watching Severance S2:3 while scanning the news. And it’s not even been three weeks of this shit.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Goal of the season? Danny Rose’s unconventional finish for Grimsby Town against Bromley, 1/2/25. The lens flare is just the chef’s kiss.
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Primary Rocks Edchat @primaryrocks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It was so much fun last week we are back on here for more! This week’s #PrimaryRocks edchat from 8pm ON BLUE SKY! @grahamandre.bsky.social @ict-links.bsky.social @compscitsui.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @misscleveland.bsky.social @merrillteaches.bsky.social Tell your friends!
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
No one asked this primary child to cut out a tiny piece of orange paper, but they got a piece of A4 and they decided this was the best way to do it anyway. #primaryrocks
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
$1 million bucks for a front row seat and I have to sit near these losers …
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thinking about David Lynch. It feels like Bowie all over again.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Got my Christmas present late and it’s a thing of beauty: the epic 1300+ page, two-part book of the production of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining from J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich. 🩸 🪓
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
**Liz Truss crashed the economy** pass it on …
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
2000 streak 💨 on @teachertapp.bsky.social
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Jenrick’s blatant opportunism laid bare by @roberthutton.co.uk.
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Tim Roach @timroach.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Finally pulled the plug on Musk's disinformation machine. I locked my Twitter account with his entry into the riots, but hesitated to go all the way. I learnt so much and met so many special friends during those 14 years, but even those memories aren't worth the being in the same place as his lies.
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