M Bird

Acting Head of RE at a Catholic school in North-East London. Find me watching films and rambling. He/Him

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@NathanJPollard @CatholicArena PF did it last in 2024. Bare-faced lie.

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@CatholicArena Not true.

https://t.co/oaj8eefuUw

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@ShakinthatChalk There are immense issues with teacher pay, post-5 year incentives etc etc and I completely agree with the principle but disagree that this comparison is the way to express it.
Focus on pay progression for classroom teachers and yearly increase far more important imo.

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@ShakinthatChalk £100 a week is a huge amount for many. I think the minimum wage comparison is too simplistic and rather derogatory towards minimum wage workers.
Student teachers can walk straight out of a PGCE and into £39k a year which is higher than the mean graduate salary in the UK.

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@_MissieBee @TeacherTapp Read that as “lamented” and pondered despairingly

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@MsGHist Don’t assume you have to go to the first school that offers you a job! Apply for schools that look on paper like they suit you, but use the interview to check this. If you don’t like the school on interview day, don’t sign!

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Santiago de Compostela - 0

And there it is finished.

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Slow start to my Camino. Delay at Stansted meant I missed the train from Bayonne to St-Jean-Pied-de-Port so now waiting 3hrs for the next one.

[M Bird @MBirdRE]

Salceda - 26

I started this Camino with a short step, and I will end it with one as well.

The Camino continues to hold you account for all of your prejudices and assumptions and leaves you with breathtaking views of natural landscape, and humanity.