L Lavin

She/her

Teacher 💛🍃✨🌿

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Nature - our life support system - is in trouble. But it’s not too late to act. Please sign the #RewildingNation Charter, calling for Scotland to become the world’s first Rewilding Nation - offering hope for nature, climate and people.
More: https://t.co/6MZkqBQPni

[Save the Children International @save_children]

3,195 children killed in #Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

All humanitarians and the children and families they serve MUST be protected.

[Cheddar Gorgeous @CheddarGorgeous]

In the 2021 census 0.2% identified as trans, and 0.1% in Non binary ways. If watching rich powerful people bully minorities isn't enough to irk you, you should be angry that policies that only impact 0.3% of the population, are being touted as this governments priorities.

[Philip Pullman @PhilipPullman]

@BBCPM @AndrewBowie_MP This is how fascism spreads. Tell lies, repeat them over and over, make people fearful of something that doesn't exist, and then claim that you are the only way of preventing these non-existent horrors. Sickening that politicians should behave like this.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Get to Know the Bibby Stockholm...

- 500+ single adult men crammed onto a barge with a capacity of 222 in normal use (e.g. as accommodation for oil workers)

Single rooms:
- 2 strangers, sharing an austere metal bunk bed
- TV (as mocking and useless as a paperweight: they've been deliberately detuned so they won't pick up anything, to "encourage socialising" apparently)
- 1 chair, 1 desk, 1 wardrobe
- A window (it's supposed to be able to open; this is touted as a major plus by the barge's owners)
- Shower and toilet

Slightly larger rooms:
- 4 strangers, in 2 bunk beds

Communal areas:
(Most of the larger ones have been repurposed into dormitories. The thin list below is pretty much all that's left.)
- Narrow corridors
- TV room with sofas, seating up to 12 people max
- Tiny gym
- Classroom with seating for perhaps 20, some sort of laptops, and "wifi access"
- Bar (off-limits to asylum seekers, and reserved as a "staff lounge")
- Multi-faith prayer room
- Games room with a pool table and a few chairs
- "Outdoor" space surrounded on all four sides by massive walls made up of the 3-storeys of cabins, so you can't see anything other than sky
- Canteen dining area (not nearly big enough for 500 people)

Other facilities:
- Basic meals 3x a day (but note that the canteen seems far too small to seat everyone at once, so presumably there will be shifts coming and going all the time)
- Laundry service
- On-site nurse 5 days a week
- Access to GP if referred by the nurse

Beyond the ship:
- Airport-style security (metal detectors etc.)
- 24/7 guards conducting "robust security checks"
- 15ft high fence all around
- No pedestrian access to the port or the wider area
- Only way to get to Weymouth and beyond is on the occasional shuttle buses
- Have to sign register every time they leave

The asylum seekers on board are likely to be there between six months and a year or more.

They can't work.

They will be fed and their clothes washed, but they will have just over a pound a day for absolutely everything else they need.

They are expected to spend the overwhelming majority of their time on the barge, where as we've seen there are leisure and learning facilities for maybe 1/10th of people if we're being extremely generous with how we estimate it.

It is truly, truly disgusting.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Our leaders , current & aspiring , are playing politics with life on earth .

Download , Print , Post from https://t.co/3TQerKK1Al

#NoNewOil

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

When a man if considerable restraint delivers a speech like this…

[Mothers Rise Up 🌍 (inactive) @mothersriseup]

BREAKING: Parents gather to tell @RishiSunak they won’t watch him fiddle while Rhodes burns.

@RishiSunak is out of touch with parents & the climate science. His doubling down on fossil fuels in a climate crisis is a BETRAYAL of children worldwide.

#ClimateEmergency

[Big Education 🌎 @_bigeducation]

Do you think play-based learning should continue beyond reception?

Unlike most schools in England, @School360_ runs a continuous play-based provision in year one.

Children are given Autonomy, Agency & Freedom & continue to enjoy their learning.

📹 https://t.co/MrnXKemXlL

[AndrewT500 @CourierBoyUK]

@simonharris_mbd @bfast_bound Also this⬇️

[The Guardian @guardian]

‘The task is impossible’: three teachers on why they are quitting https://t.co/nZyLazjQr3

[National Education Union South East @SouthEastNEU]

The March on Parliament today is HUGE!

[Just Like Us @JustLikeUsUK]

Today, 42% of LGBT+ school pupils are bullied.

Whether it’s in your workplace, at university or school, you can always create a great pride fundraiser to help LGBT+ young people!🏳️‍🌈

Find out more & order your pack of Rainbow Ribbons below!👇🌈
https://t.co/jtCeJHqG5H

[Galop @GalopUK]

If someone you know comes out to you as LGBT+ – congratulations! They are trusting you with something very important 🥰

Here’s a few different ways you can show your support and say “I’ve #GotYourBack” to a person in your life who has just come out to you. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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[L Lavin @MsLavinEYFS]

@SadiqKhan @JackDunc1 ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🩷

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Teachers in England are leaving 'in droves' according to the National Education Union.

Our Data Correspondent @C4Ciaran looks at the numbers behind the headline.