Whatever successive Ed Secs may trumpet about out children's improvements in reading, here is the truth. Even when they decode well most children are completely disengaged from the joy reading can bring when taught well.
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Working my way through Cass. It may take longer than I thought.

Glory be, there is some nonsense spouted in the name of religion/ british values/protecting kids/ whose rights trump whose.

Twitter is awash with it right now.

Remember when this sort of thing was a sacking offence.

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A Hermes 450 drone manufactured by Elbit Systems was used by Israel to kill International aid workers. UK made F-35s are used by Israel to bomb Gaza

No more complicity. Israel’s war against humanity must be ended

Recall parliament. Shut Elbit down. End arms sales to Israel, now

That wonderful feeling when you have completed your annual Child Protection training.

Angela Rayner has said she will publically release her last 15 years of tax records if Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and James Daly release theirs.

RT if you want to see all their tax returns, and all the tax they didn't pay.

Trying to insert the dot to show a recurring number on a word doc has aged me about 20 years.

Nobody earning £100,000 should be getting free childcare, while 4m children are being fed from Food Banks.

Jeez Louise, the lunacy grows exponentially.

Jeremy Hunt says that £100,000 is not a huge salary and if the Tories are re-elected he wants to give help with childcare costs to people striving to somehow manage on more than that.
REPOST if you think he’s out of touch.
LIKE if you think he has his priorities wrong.

Big mistake not to call Diane Abbott MP at #PMQs

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Oops. Sunak's not done terribly well today, has he.

Looking forward to Michael Gove’s new definition of extremism

Anyone who wants a British MP shot because of their ethnicity - fine

Anyone who wants a ceasefire in Gaza - anathema

I wonder whether Gove's new definition of extremism will include party donors calling for MPs to be shot...

Lee Anderson ‘Reform is not the answer’

What changed? Oh I know. You were suspended.

My morning visitor

Rosie Duffield claims that simply by saying 'I am a woman' men can demand entrance to rape crisis centres and DV refuges.

REALITY: neither are open to the general public, most have secret locations and you need to be referred. archive.is/2024.03.06-215…

Nope, just can't listen to any more.