Emma Peach

Head of Humanities
Views entirely my own

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Our country needs to hear this right now…

This is Jonathan Miller taking on Enoch Powell

Calling out the baselessness of racial fear and hatred

…and we need our leaders to follow suit.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Local political parties in Southport have released a joint statement following the stabbings

[@HenryRiley1]

[Up Your Alley @UpYourAlley2]

Let’s make this wonderful woman go viral. The far right have hijacked the absolute tragedy in Southport but this woman is standing fearless in the face of fascists. What a woman

#southport #southportattack #racismnotwelcomehere

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

The Dictator believes he is coming

#ToriesAreOut #StarmerIsPM23 #LabourLandside #Changebeginstoday

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

This year, we've released four new episodes of our Evidence into Action podcast.

We've covered topics from improving primary science to defining disadvantage, and spoken with a range of great guests from across the sector.

Catch-up here: https://t.co/4uM5ejEFA3

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

A teacher in their fourth year of teaching in Scotland earns £45,960.

You won't breach this south of the border (outside London) until you are on UP3.

This takes at least 9 years, and often, due to the funding crisis, you will find you're being held back from achieving it.

Let's not talk about "bumper" pay awards. Steps in the right direction, yes, but the fact is teacher pay in England/Wales has been held back significantly.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Notice how it’s always “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to welcoming the immigrant, helping the poor, feeding the hungry, bringing healthcare to the sick, forgiving debts, caring for our planet, laying down our swords, or loving our neighbors.

[Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere]

A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

For those who can't imagine the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Today a missile fired by the Russian military into Kyiv hit the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital.

We can never allow acts of such barbarism to be normalised. They are crimes against humanity; crimes against all that it is to be human.

[Emma Peach @EmmaPeach2]

Perfect!

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

Study Humanities. Run the Country.
In classrooms on Monday.

[Emma Peach @EmmaPeach2]

Definitely worth a read. Eloquently describes the problems inside schools- and they are mostly external factors!

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

The last question to the panel was "what would you like the new government to do on curriculum and assessment?"

My answer:

If we are talking about curriculum and assessment, the biggest thing for me is a reduction. There's too much content across the board, and we need to strip back. We also need to stop assessment backwash, where exam mark schemes become a part of the curriculum and determine what students do and don't learn.

But that's if we're talking curriculum and assessment. If we're talking education in general - if @bphillipsonMP picked up the phone to me and said "what's the biggest thing in education" I would say something else:

Broadly, the education system itself in this country is working. Training is getting better, standards are improving, professionalism and professional knowledge is increasing and slowly, slowly, outcomes across the board are heading in the right direction. Curriculum and assessment need some changes, fixes, and tweaks, but in a broad sense they work.

What isn't working is everything else: we can't access CAMHS and we don't get hold of social workers. We have a two child limit and a benefits cap that keeps children hungry and in poverty. We have income cliff-edges that mean children whose parents can't afford meals are also not eligible for free school meals. We don't have Sure Start, we don't have youth centres. The SEND infrastructure is byzantine, underfunded and on the verge of collapse. The very fabric of the social security net is tattered and frayed, and vulnerable young children are falling through the gaps. Parents have lost faith in the system, and are losing their trust in schools and teachers.

Despite this, schools are heroically battling the odds to provide students with a high-quality, robust and meaningful education. But when everything outside our gates is in such disrepair there's a limit to what we can do.

So yes, there are things within education that need fixing. But the main thing - the biggest thing - is everything else. The best thing you can do for us is to fix that.

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

Study Humanities. Run the country.

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

I voted Labour, happily, but I want to thank the Liberal Democrats. Ed Davey brought the fun to this election for me, but more importantly, inspiration. To see a man work so hard, while caring for a disabled wife & son, was humbling & will stay in my heart.
#GeneralElection2024

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

Now record 264 women MPs!
Chance to work cross party on women’s priorities.@fawcettsociety will convene meeting for all women MPs enabling them to embark on process of setting up powerful Women’s Caucus. *Childcare, *violence against women, *equal pay. Now is the time for change!

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

Just to say that within minutes of Kate Kniveton having lost her seat, she messaged me to ask me to carry on her work on family courts. Not my party, but that my friends, is what a decent representative would do.

[Susan Fletcher @sfletcherauthor]

Voting always makes me so emotional. I think of all those women who fought and fought for my right to do this - and, too, of all the millions in the world who are still without this right. A pencilled 'x' in a box, that's all - but what a privilege. 💪💗 #Elections2024

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

I don't get to vote in this election, but I do have to live with whoever you elect.
No pressure. #GeneralElection24