Nick B-Tingley

#EnglishTeacher Deputy Head of English. Ghost-writer before entering teaching. Loving every minute of it. Blogging at

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New Year. New project.
I've started blogging at https://t.co/ryqHdQSb9O
It's a work in progress, but will be looking at case studies, theorists, ideas - the works.
Teacher or student - check it out
#teamenglish #englishlanguage

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Hit me up English Teachers!

I'm looking up possible trips for A Level - both Literature and Language course. Has anyone done any really worthwhile trips with their English KS5 cohorts?

#TeamEnglish

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Before the 10-hour day Factories Act of 1847, employees could commonly work 14-16 hour days. If Bob Cratchit was that unfortunate, he could well be on as little as 95p an hour in modern terms.

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In An Inspector Calls, Eric steals £50 from Birling to give to Eva Smith.

My students seem non-plussed by this until I show them this.

With current inflation, Eric has stolen £4,787.

Not government PPE scandal amounts, grant you, but still a significant amount.
#teamenglish

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Likewise, I keep seeing comments that Bob Cratchit would have been above minimum wage today.

The Bank of England Inflation Calculator begs to differ.

Bob would be on £79.88 a week. That's £13.31 a day (using the common 6-day working week of the time).
#TeamEnglish

[Tim Taylor #MantleoftheExpert #TryThis... @imagineinquiry]

This is revolting, it is so easy to exploit young children. They will have no idea what he has done politically.

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You got to wonder if a sport is really all that entertaining if I can walk away from it, come back eighty minutes later and find...

Absolutely... Nothing... has...changed...

#engsvn #EURo2024

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The Eagle has Landed, Don't Look Now, The First Great Train Robbery, The Dirty Dozen, JFK: some of my favourite films were truly built on the back of the wonderful #DonaldSutherland . He will be missed.

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Saw that #NoamChomsky was trending and had a moment of sheer joy as I thought the level of discourse on this platform had upped. I'm sad to discover that he died.

I was literally talking about him with my A Level group today. Sad times.

#RIPNoam

[Jon Biddle @jonnybid]

This is an actual quote from the headteacher: "We lost a lot of people in Covid… a lot of our parents, their businesses have not recovered. So a lot of them have left and gone to state schools. Then we had the interest rates, energy bills and all of that."

[Who Targets Me @WhoTargetsMe]

New @conservatives Facebook ad, which appears to be leaning into Davos/WEF/"Great Reset" conspiracy theories.

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@Miss_Jarvis_Eng @EngLangBlog Ditto - so many kids are turned off by the GCSE. We're literally doing a Language rally next year to drum up some more interest

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I really want an A Level Language student to do an NEA on Trump's daily post-trial media speeches. I think it would be quite an interesting topic.

#Trump #TeamEnglish #eduqas

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When you find out your year 13 gain time is being used to take on a 'challenging' class.

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@gillybean1983 If GCSE, I can't help I'm afraid. If A Level then I could be some assistance...

[Tes magazine @tes]

‘Every year they have held back pay decisions to the very last minute like a badly organised sixth former with an essay deadline,’ says trust CEO @JonnyUttley of news that the government’s teacher pay decision will be confirmed post-election
https://t.co/Z8xdp3hSqZ

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I'm finding it hard to distinguish conversations I have with my 3yo from interviews with politicians:

Me: Do you need the toilet?
3yo: I think I want the Elsa dress.
Me: That's lovely but do you need the toilet?
3yo: Listen, can you hear that noise?
#generalelection #toddler

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Charle Leclerc to the engineers

#monacogp #p1 @MattP1Tommy

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#MonacoGP #p1 @MattP1Tommy

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Sainz restarting the Grand Prix in 3rd after running off the track on lap 1

#monacogp #p1 @MattP1Tommy