Richard Durant

Education adviser, teacher, music fanatic, with kidney transplant. Also the author of various books including The Student's Guide to Literacy in Every Subject.

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@emmablount8 Hi Emma. I've been away from Twitter for months so sorry I missed this. I was indeed at St K's. Has your surname changed?

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Is anyone else out there a fan of the novels of Louis Couperus? My own novel, Cruel to be Kind, actually 'borrows a chunk of Couperus' Small Souls.

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@realstevenwords Twenty years ago it was required reading in Y7. I always found it a bit tedious. However it has one of the greatest first sentences in literature. Read it aloud

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@Mr_D_W_R Perhaps he's writing with his predictive text on.

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@Mrs_Z_Primary The first four just sound like new sources of anxiety! 🤣

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@mccullough_katy @Suchmo83 Yes. I was always against text books but now I've written a lot of them myself and think... This is quite good really! What I hate is all those school-produced worksheets that are full of errors and just flutter around the house!

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@Suchmo83 So true! I wonder if many of us teachers actually enjoy (or are addicted to) continually reinventing the wheel. It's something I suspect myself of.

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@smithsmm So right. We should go home and stop working. Do something else. Even harder today when there is literally no difference between our workplace and our home.

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@SarahDuggers Modern technology broadcasts even our secret thoughts!

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@MeganChelseaMo3 @MAA_DRET @DRETnews Fascinating and exciting idea. I'm probably being daft but could you give us an example of the sort of thing that is shared in these sessions?

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@TheMrBirch 😂 Someone has bought me a pasta measurer. It's made my culinary life more rational and duller!

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@Kathrine_28 @AlexJQuigley @JohnCattEd Well done! Excellent stuff! Fresh approach to litracy.

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@Kathrine_28 Beautiful, heartbreaking, shocking book. A hard but wonderful read. The sequels are great too. It's also the funniest book about the holocaust I've ever read.

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@mr_englishteach I'm with Mark on this. It's not praise per se that matters, it's authenticity. Empty, reflexive praise (which I've seen a lot of) is counter-productive.

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@PaulGarvey4 Say you WEREN'T pregnant but were intending to become pregnant. Would you feel obliged to declare that too? I know it seems hard on the school but your pregnancy is none of their business unless they are your employer - not PROSPECTIVE employer.

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@TorringtonMus @gillclayton Not been to Torrington for years. About time I did.

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@Digbylj I know what Lord Digby Jones means. I shudder whenever I hear someone drop the h from historic, or the a secretary. Lord knows if Digby Jones does that.

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@StuartLock Brilliant suggestions here. So much to follow up. I love the new Spirit of the Beehive album, 'Entertainment, Death'. Weird but good.

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Finally got to see all 6.5 hours of the #Glastonbury livestream. Wonderful. The finale with DJ Honey Dijon was an absolute treat!

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Still not able to get into the #glastonburylive livestream. Been trying for more than two hours now.