Miss W

28 • Year 5 • 8th year teaching • Key Stage and Maths Lead ✨

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

My new lights for noise management have been working so well! Love a bitmoji

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@hiirmaeminic @example Bit late to this, but I was at this concert and was absolutely shocked to see his attitude towards you! I have video footage of it (assuming this is the same situation, him saying ‘get out of your seat, you look stupid,’) if you wanted to see it.

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

That feeling of relief when end of year reports are finally submitted 😅

[Mark McCourt @EmathsUK]

Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths.

There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems.

But that’s not the same thing at all as questions that seek to confuse, mislead or hide meaning in meaningless, tiresome contexts.

Show a real mathematician a problem written by someone who is deliberately communicating badly or poking fun by being disingenuous and that mathematician will tell you to bugger off.

We’re in the business of grappling with and resolving genuinely interesting and important questions. We have no interest in silly, dull and ill conceived questions that lack meaning and intend to trip up.

So, an opportunity to show pupils what mathematics is and can be has been utterly wasted and instead we’ve just made it a lot less likely a nascent interest in becoming a mathematician will flourish for many, many pupils who will, quite rightly, reject the subject as tedious sleight of hand.

To those writing, signing off and publishing national exam papers: be better at your job or do something else.

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

In the process of moving house and every week my completion date keeps getting pushed back… to the point where it’s looking like it has to be when I’m on a school residential next month 🫠 desperately looking for cover!!

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@miss_m_5 We use share point which is essentially OneDrive! It took some time for staff to get on board but everyone uses it now. So much easier when working from home!

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Got all my children to draw/write their favourite stories on my dress for World Book Day! ❤️📚

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@Tesco I bought two fillet steaks and when I picked one up, it broke into 3 separate pieces like this. Very disappointed for our steak night :(

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

What are the pros and cons of working in a multi academy trust school?

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@ICT_MrP One holiday, I had a sewage flood in my flat. All the maths books I brought home to mark got covered in 💩. I was told it doesn’t matter and to just throw them away. Of course, marking was still non negotiable when I got the new set!

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Has anyone else had any problems downloading things from white rose maths? 3 different computers and each crash when I download a ppt from there and I have to manually reboot the device

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@MissHudsonHist At my friend’s wedding - he was a last minute guest!

[Holly @SocialistHB]

Appalled by this email from my sons primary school. Solidarity with all @NEUnion members taking strike action! My response below…

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Starting at a new school for September in Year 3. So nervous but excited for a change 👍🏼

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@miss_c_teaches I had my offer accepted June 2020 chain free both sides, didn’t get in until end of Nov 2020 because of solicitor incompetence on both sides. It all worked out in the end though!

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Been massively quiet on here for a long time - it’s been a tough journey this year! Onwards and upwards to starting at a new school in September. Does anyone have any advice on writing a resignation letter?

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@missm_teachess I love this planner! Where did you get it from? Sorry I have no suggestions for pens though 😊

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Walk outside to drive to work and for the SECOND time I’ve locked myself out of my flat without my car keys or house keys. Thank goodness my colleague hadn’t left yet and lives nearby 😭

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

@ehmyles_ Thank you ❤️❤️

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Hello lovely teachers of Twitter! Does anyone have any examples of History or Music action plans/policies please? CPD today has been to go and write ones for our subjects and truth be told minimal support has been provided ���

[Miss W @MissW_Y5]

Constant never ending to do list 😰