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Mark Wildman

@wildthinker.bsky.social
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Natural history nerd. Still practising Dark Ages Primary headteacher. Allotmenteer. I have walked around England's boundary...every step.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights? I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has. It’s from Is A River Alive? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
That's 95k! We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament. Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
correct, these are the best flowers. (especially thrift!) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions
From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Harbour Energy made £4.9 BILLION in 2024 drilling for oil and gas . These companies and their execs are quite literally killing life on earth . Sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships now govpetition.uk/700024 – 60K by midnight ? C'mon !
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I scroll through Bluesky and am disappointed by the lack of coherence and spirit. Threads is still so much better IMO.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Can we get over 2500 signatures today for traditional and social media reform? We are so close to this threshold! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Let's get some Sunday morning support for cleaning up our media! Sign and share the petition! Who can you share with this morning to help us get more signatures? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Multiple people have got responses from the BBC after lodging complaints over their absurd and excessive coverage of Rachel Reeves. Quite frankly the response is weak and simply tries to justify again what they were doing. Our media needs urgent reform! And I have a petition for just that!
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One for @gnashette.bsky.social
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@MiniHorts @minihorts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our new soap has arrived! From plant to bar with the help of a local soap maker.@_goly.natural Using the Attar Of Roses scented pelargonium leaves it smells like Turkish Delight. Thank you to year 6 for harvesting the leaves! #Gardening #School
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The media need new rules. They are out of control - whether the dodgy headlines in Times and Guardian, the abhorrent GB News spreading hate, to the Murdoch controlled newspapers or online video channels encouraging a general to be mysoginistic. Something has to change!
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I? Like if you do RT if you really do
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Why are gen Zs deserting garden centres? Maybe they’re more into planting than shopping | Claire Ratinon
They can be joyful and important social spaces, but a new generation of customers runs a mile from the shelves of plastic and chemicals, says food grower and writer Claire Ratinon
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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A manatee: Imagine eating lettuce under water | Helen Sullivan
Manatees don’t have incisors or canines, only ‘cheek teeth’. No hair, only whiskers. Algae growing on their backs. Everything is gentle
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@MiniHorts @minihorts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@gardenshour.bsky.social Good evening! Thank you so much for sharing our move.🥰 #GardensHour
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Sam Strickland @strickomaster.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Here’s an article I wrote on the Behaviour Hub scheme and why Labour should keep this approach… schoolsweek.co.uk/five-lessons...
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Behaviour Hubs: What we learned and why they should be kept
The programme hasn't just taught us about behaviour. It's been an effective model for school improvement
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Anyone out there walked the Great Chalk Way? #longdistancewalk
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
They don’t care about you .
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hollywood is on fire , yet still deniers clutch at straws to blame this on anything other than the real problem– climate breakdown . I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads to take the fight to the companies who continue to exploit our fragile planet petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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School Data Updates @jpembroke.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It might be expected, but is it enough? The risk of tracking towards expected standards. www.insightinform.co.uk/2024/12/13/i...
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It might be expected, but is it enough? - Insight Inform
Many years ago, following a meeting of the Reception Baseline Stakeholder Group at DfE Towers, I went for a cup of tea with a fellow group member and was told a story that blew my mind. As we sat sipp...
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Eco Jurisprudence monitor is a fascinating & hopeful resource: an interactive database of Earth-centred legal initiatives (eg river-rights) as their number & consequences grow & grow. Cartography as imagining otherwise; a glimpse of a geography of hope. Here: ecojurisprudence.org/dashboard/?m...
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
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Tom Sherrington @teacherhead.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher's personality and desire for autonomy; let's celebrate that. @walkthrus.bsky.social teacherhead.com/2024/01/07/e...
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Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher’s personality and desire for autonomy; let’s celebrate that.
A theme I find myself exploring a lot is the need for teachers to feel that they can be themselves in their own classrooms, expressing their personality and enjoying teaching, doing things they fee…
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
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It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics
Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late, writes former Electoral Commission David Howarth.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Potholes everywhere, shoplifters rampant – today’s Britain looks as broken as it feels | Simon Jenkins
This is what happens when power over public services is stripped from local councils and handed to Whitehall, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Good news. It's a great shame and indeed it makes no sense that local authorities are not generously funded. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way
Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpaths
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I think Wikipedia is a valuable teaching resource and I urge all teachers to donate at least once a year. Far better than Twinkl
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 25/12/2024
You should donate to Wikipedia. It may eventually be the only way news gets out. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-ai…
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
There is so much that needs fixing. One place is csll out parents who fabricate conditions in their children. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
They are laughing at us. Yorkshire Water CEO defends plans to increase bills by 41% after collecting £371,000 bonus. Bonus for what - dumping sewage, paying dividends, increasing debt, financial engineering, neglecting investment, fleecing customers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yorkshire Water boss defends 41% price rise and £371k bonus
Nicola Shaw says the six-figure bonus was to
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Idea - if you were one of the main cheerleaders for the catastrophic Brexit you’re not allowed to publicly advocate for any of your other ‘ideas’ for ‘improving’ the country until 2036, before which time you must spend a minimum of half an hour a day sitting and contemplating why you’re a big silly.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 07/12/2024
From thirst to success – the new brewery that started as a hobby and is now a major Perthshire enterprise | @charliemac2204.bsky.social
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Wasted Degrees: a brewery dream in Pitlochry
From thirst to success – the new brewery that started as a hobby and is now a major Perthshire enterprise
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Tim Schofield 🌹 @timschofield.org.uk · 07/12/2024
If you were considering voting for #Reform then read about the health care system #Farage wants us to have and calculate whether you have the funds to cover it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Killing of insurance CEO exposes simmering anger at US health system
Long-standing frustrations were revealed online after a health insurance executive was shot and killed in New York City.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
More train delays this morning Bring back British Rail....I know we moaned but jeez...you were cheap and efficient and fast .... Thanks Margaret Thatcher and John Major ....another fine bloody mess you sold to us and then made us pay for 😡😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
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Rush-hour trains delayed due to 'nationwide fault' on communication system
Affected services include South Western Railway, Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Successful schools run on the power of vision; deep, thoughtful vision. Not three alliterative words or trite phrases.
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Russell Grant @therussellgrant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One of my early jobs was working for HTV Cymru/Wales. The show was All Kinds of Everything and Terry Griffiths was my guest. A gentle ♎️ with great warmth and charm. I’m truly sad that he passed due to debilitating dementia. Such a nice man: I’ve only fond memories of Griff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is how knowledge-rich works. Rich, connected schema transform what and how pupils access the next stuff, unlocking fascination, heightening attention and thereby transforming inclusion. Our latest video from #OpeningWorlds, this time about Year 4 geography. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETA...
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Y4 Geography D1
YouTube video by Opening Worlds Ltd
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Calbear @calbeargirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Nigel Farage is a hypocrite Watch the latest @ledbydonkeys.org film
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
School leaders need vision. It might be hazy and mirage-like - indeed it probably will be - but without vision you can forget growth.
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Chris Chivers @chrischivers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today @butserancientfarm.co.uk we were mostly doing wattling.
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 29/10/2024
Oh yeeeeah this is incredible news!! 🙌🏼 This estate is right by where my parents live, so I can't tell you how exciting it is that the Wildlife Trusts are taking it over! This'll be a hell of a lot of moorland taken out of grouse shooting 🥳🌿 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years
Charities plan to create flagship for nature recovery on 9,500-acre portion of Duke of Northumberland’s estate
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Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Feeling irked by friends of my parents who have been bitterly complaining on FB about 'brutal' cuts to the Winter fuel allowance, posting anti-Labour memes every day. Meanwhile, they are also posting images of the wonderful meals they are eating every day in their month long holiday to Greece.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
It's highly disturbing to read a article about Ofsted and see it is followed by the Samaritans number. Just think about this. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Ofsted cannot be allowed to reform itself, say teachers’ unions
Sister of headteacher Ruth Perry, who killed herself last year, joins call for ‘complete reset’ of schools inspectorate
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
We had a visit from a celebrity in our school grounds last week...a member of the Patridge Family. How can I be sure?
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
In our school grounds this year the children have seen some great wildlife including three hawk moths - pine, lime and elephant.
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