Mrs Sullivan

English teacher, mother and feminist. Views are my own.

[Amy Silverstein, author @ajsilverstein16]

I will be closing down my Twitter in 2 weeks. Meanwhile:
My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon https://t.co/9ko3Eu53oK

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

The government can say what they want about inflation and hard times and standards and whatever.

But when 3/4 of people in a profession aren’t certain it’s a good job, you’ve got to admit you’ve undermined their goodwill and need to start making genuine moves to win it back.

[rob kelsall @rob_kelsall]

‘Disastrous’ fall in new teachers as Londoners opt for better paid jobs - Evening Standard ⁦@educationgovuk⁩ ⁦@NickGibbUK⁩ ⁦@GillianKeegan⁩ https://t.co/rWISiAJG0z

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@MrsBezoari We’ve booked a holiday park in the Netherlands plus ferry from Dover to Dunkirk - look at the Landal GreenParks website. Half the price of similar in UK. End of August was much cheaper as lots of their schools have gone back by then (staggered school holidays).

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@HeroicMrT UPS point… Many UPS teachers already contribute ‘extra’ - but unlike leaders still teach full timetable. Some jobs get quicker with experience but others, like marking, will always be time consuming so little capacity for taking on more. Lose UPS? Retention issues will worsen.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Carly has been using her allotment to feed people struggling with the cost of living. Last night someone broke in and salted the land to stop her growing.

Her go fund me: https://t.co/mn2vIkYSPP

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@C19thNerd Radish

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@BarbaraBleiman @SaysMiss I’ve been fascinated that often developing readers find longer, more complex words easier if they have the conversational vocabulary - it’s easier to read ‘catastrophe’ than a word like ‘though’ as there are fewer words it can be mistaken for and the consonants do the work.

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@BarbaraBleiman This is so sad. Both for reading and writing. Surely alongside learning phonics, children can read and write FOR PLEASURE? My eldest (now KS1 and a very confident reader) read the books she had had read to her as a toddler. This is actively being discouraged??

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@bennewmark Newspaper journalist before. Nasty profession (at least where I worked) but far less intense work and much shorter days apart from when there were overnights/ travel. Work also ‘stayed with you’ less as stories came and went.

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

Both heartbreaking and outrageous that the new David Attenborough series is a sequence of beautiful things, with Attenborough basically saying "But you'll probably never see this, as the rivers are full of shit. And your kids DEFINITELY won't." Britain is literally dying.

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

The @NEUnion consultative ballot on the Government's pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of NEU teacher members in England on a turnout of 66%. #NEU2023 #SaveOurSchhols

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £136,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

How about a bit more deep concern about a catastrophic crisis in teacher recruitment, as well as retention, an inspection system that is grotesquely flawed and chronic problems arising from drastic under-funding. Get your priorities right & stop this populist showboating.

[Baroness Mary Bousted @MaryWBousted]

This is happening throughout the profession. “I was a good teacher’. What a waste.

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

This is a great piece of writing - thanks for sharing it, Ben. Sums up the exquisite beauty and suffering of teaching! Brought a tear to my eye.

[Ben Newmark @bennewmark]

The teaching life https://t.co/XUhdGdVzuY

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@rob_kelsall Interesting that this article has now disappeared, replaced by a more ‘positive’ story about AI…

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@Ms_H_English They can be so wonderful but there will be many, many, many questions!

[Mrs Sullivan @MrsSullivanEng]

@Ms_H_English Imagine being the most patient you have ever been and multiply by 1000… 😉