Miss Billington-Groom 📚

27 ~ Year 11 Tutor & Teacher of English @ Bedford Academy ✨ English Literature BA (Hons) 🎓 I left my reading glasses somewhere around the 19th Century 🤓

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

Don’t let where you come from or those around you dictate what you can or cannot do.
Believe in yourself because I guarantee you, you absolutely CAN.

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

@NicDarwood Thank you so much! 😌 a 6 year journey if we’re counting my BA! 👩🏻‍🎓

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

Today, on National #ThankATeacherDay , I have been recommended for my QTS after completing my first year of training. To everyone who has supported me, guided me and inspired me for the last 3 years of my journey into education. THANK YOU! 🥳

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

@AlexParrottPE Thanks APA! Definitely wouldn’t have got to this point without the amount of crisis emails I have sent you over the last 2 years! 😂

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

A brilliant visit from author Helen Dennis this afternoon. Year 7 had the fantastic opportunity to break some codes and learn about what it takes to write an incredible series! @Bedford_Academy #theBAWay #English

[Dr James Shea @englishspecial]

90,000 maths A level entries over 53,000 English entries shows the devastating effect of the anti-English curriculum reforms and defunding. Dominic Cummins detested English graduates and he and others have left a terrible legacy.

https://t.co/Ii72NMrV19

[uniofbeds @uniofbeds]

Calling all local schools & colleges!📢 We're holding Taster Days with @UoB_SEEL for year 12 & 13 students so they can experience what it's like to study Education & English at university!🎓

Find out more in the flyer below & register at: https://t.co/VfUr9Y3d82👈 #Bedfordshire

[Daniella Adeluwoye @daniellaadelu]

From growing up on Free School Meals in Wood Green to being Called to the Bar of England and Wales. I’m so excited to share that a month ago I started pupillage… I’m a Pupil Barrister!! 👩🏽‍⚖️

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

Today was pure joy ✨ special mention to my Year 7s for blowing me away with their maturity, their reasoned argument & empathy for the lived experiences of others

[Andrew McCallum @AndrewEMC]

Students who read fiction regularly attain more highly than those who don't. That includes students who read regularly but don't read fiction. Yes, fiction is a special kind of writing that does special things https://t.co/UCA6lCsZKI

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Important. Pls spread word
100,000s of people, mostly women age 66+ who took were off work for childcare between 1978 & 2010, are due to get HMRC letter that may be worth £10,000s due to underpaid state pensions. It isn't a scam DON'T bin the letter. See https://t.co/5a9fNY8YFZ

[Mr C Deller FCCT @c_deller]

Come and join us @Bedford_Academy next Wednesday for our #openevening. A few places remain for our second 7:15pm HT welcome. We can show you the impact of #TheBAWay! #community

[Cressida Cowell @CressidaCowell]

VERY bad news. DECADES of research shows reading for pleasure is related to a child’s later economic success, not to mention their educational prospects, and emotional wellbeing
#readingismagic #magicisforEVERYONE
School and public libraries are an essential not a luxury.

[Natalie Williams @MissNWi]

This tickled me 😂

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

@Mar_A_Bell Thank you Marcela ❤️ have a wonderful summer x

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

I always get sick at the start of the holidays. This time it’s a head cold. In the height of summer! Make it make sense. 😩

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

No staff were (severely) harmed in the making of rewards day 😅☀️

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

Today’s SCL included lunch with some friends. On-site chickens!! 🐔 Next stop: the emotional support dogs 😍

[Miss Billington-Groom 📚 @MissBG_]

Day 1/5 SCL completed. Missed my school so much 😂 but a great experience at a different school 👍🏼

[Mrs Nelson 👩🏾‍🏫 @MrsNels2016]

This is a gorgeous idea! I had to wipe tears from my eyes from laughing at some of those quotes! 🤣

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
Fraud report
Special mentions to
PPE MEDPRO - Michelle Mone under criminal investigation
Randox £777m - failures in record keeping, gaps in conflict-of-interest declarations, lack of scrutiny and sign off
VIP recommended by ministers - received £6 BILLION of £7.9 BILLION of testing contracts....
Be angry? I'm livid....
Quote from report
"Between March 2020 to December 2021, Government awarded 22 contracts to Randox (or its strategic partner Qnostics Ltd) for its testing services, worth a maximum total value of £776.9 million. The Committee’s inquiry into these contracts found numerous issues with the first contract – failures in basic record-keeping; gaps in conflict-of-interest declarations; and wider procurement issues, such as a lack of senior scrutiny and sign-off. The DHSC also marked supplier offers as ‘VIP’ if they had been referred from ministers, MPs, or Number 10. These priority suppliers received £6 billion of the £7.9 billion of testing contracts awarded between May 2020 to March 2021.27 .The PAC has been asked by Parliament to examine the papers relating to government contracts for the supply of PPE by PPE Medpro which secured two contracts worth a combined value of over £200 million and is now the subject of an investigation by the National Crime Agency into potential fraud."

https://t.co/hTBi8qMgfy