Nori MacIntyre-Gray

Life-long Londoner 🎡 Passionate about photography 📸 social justice 🤝 theology 🙌 and joyful, visible inclusivity 🦾🏳️‍🌈

SP Teacher of Citizenship/PSHE🎓

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Love this graphic - habits become practice... become visibility... become joy! 🏳️‍🌈🦾😁

[Daniel Wickner @DanielWickner]

We rely on our colleagues to triangulate our blind-spots. Thank you, @emilymeadowsorg , for highlighting that "*preferred* pronouns" suggests optionality (as opposed to an undeniable true-ness to identity), so "gender-affirming pronouns" is what we need. Infographic improved!

[Embrace Autism ✨ @EmbraceAutism__]

In this post, I explore concepts like hyperfocus, flow, distraction, and rumination, how they relate to each other, and how to find a balance between them. https://t.co/2IuC2OiPqb

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Some fairly niche fortune cookies at #TandLSummit... accompanied by a very full menu of interesting CPD in 22-minute snapshots 📸

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Mr Helpful is always so helpful in making the examples...

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Very excited to learn the correct term for this! (And highly likely to interrupt with this factoid in the near future, ofc!)

[Embrace Autism ✨ @EmbraceAutism__]

One thing many autistics frequently do is use a conversation style called cooperative overlap. You might call it an enthusiastic (autistic) way of interrupting! https://t.co/mGXzzAueVP

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Class trip to Ninja Warrior today and then just about to tuck in most of our primary learners for their first sleepover. Will we get any sleep? Who knows...? #lotc #teacherlife

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Sorry, can't be organised this term: my cat objects.

[Samaritans @samaritans]

This in-between time between Christmas and New Years can feel a bit... odd can’t it? The days might blur, and regular routines can slip.

But one thing that won’t change: we’re here if you need to talk, 24/7, whatever the day, whatever the time. 💚

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

@ralston_h @RiseSchoolUK @SeemaMalhotra1 Yes, it is UK Parliament Week 😊

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

@ralston_h @RiseSchoolUK @SeemaMalhotra1 Each topic was based on a bill and said when it is next being discussed and in which house.

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

@ralston_h @RiseSchoolUK @SeemaMalhotra1 Each day had a slide which went to forms to do in form time/CR and then they had a Google form to fill in with their individual votes and any salient points they could come up with; each day they got the last day's results too and I put them up in the hall.

[Embrace Autism ✨ @EmbraceAutism__]

If everyone was a little autistic…

I would not need any accommodations,
as the world would be made for me.

—

What things do you think would be different if the world would actually consider our wants and needs?

[Repost with image discription for the vision-impaired]

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

But is it even half term if you haven't been over-ambitious with the DIY and the cat is lying on the instructions?

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Today is #BudgetDay 2024! To mark this important day in Parliament's calendar, here is a short thread on the history and traditions of the UK's annual Budget. 💷🧵(1/10)

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Incredibly proud of our Citizenship students particularly - all the hard work paid off!

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Stop off for dinner after the last day of school... and who is there but one of the new Y7s in my next form. The wheel keeps on turning! 👩‍🏫

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Great initiative that made it really accessible for our learners 😊🦷🪥

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

- There is a caveat for flexibility, but this is quite hidden and is unlikely to be at the forefront when schools are afraid (which is typical in practice) of being accused of breaking the guidance.

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

Please respond to this consultation.
Points I took away: 🧵
- "Age limit" is very different to guidance on when something should be introduced
- This is not just gender; discussion of suicide, FGM, online safety, and other topics are well above age of emergence

[LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @LGBTHM]

Consultation on the new RSHE draft guidance is now open to consultation.

Nothing has changed as yet, but when the final version of the guidance is introduced it will be statutory and schools will be expected to follow it.

https://t.co/NzURogD60y

[Nori MacIntyre-Gray @TeachMacG]

- This suggests a culture of silence rather than a culture of safeguarding students with education. How can students open up to teachers who are told students are not old enough to teach them about issues they face?