Ewan McIntosh

Teaching, music, food and booze in no particular order. Also a cycling convert. Treasurer @ChesterRoad. Fellow of @theRSAorg and @Charteredcoll. CTeach

[Elizabeth Stafford @DrLizStafford]

Pop in Partnership: A nationwide study on how reimagining Rock & Pop learning can help Music Hubs deliver the National Plan for Music Education.

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

NEW

"...pupils who had between 95-100% attendance in Year 11 were 1.9 times more likely to achieve a Grade 5 in English and Maths GCSE compared to pupils who only attended 90-95% of the time (DfE, 2025)."

https://t.co/x6vlvDCJoo

[Amit @HeyAmit_]

University of Cambridge just released free online courses.

No payment is required.

Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:

[Prof Martin Fautley @DrFautley]

Do we know anything about the new National Music Education Network? (This is an England-based tweet, I should point out!)

[Liz Clements @LizClements]

Fab offer from @MayorWestMids & @TransportForWM for Christmas: free travel on ALL WMids buses after 7pm from Mon 9-Fri 13 Dec. Why not save yourself stress & cost of finding parking space when you're off to do late night Xmas shopping or having festive catch-up with friends? 🎄🚌

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

“Christian Nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate…”

[Shabana Mahmood MP @ShabanaMahmood]

A teetotal Muslim walks into a brewery… no, this is not the start of a joke!

[EEF @EducEndowFoundn]

🌟Our Autumn 2024 funding round is open!

We want to fund projects focused on improving secondary maths and writing in Key Stages 1-4, to generate evidence on the best ways to boost attainment, particularly for socio-economically disadvantaged pupils.

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[Leora Cruddas CBE @LeoraCruddas]

The new school inspection handbook has just been published.

https://t.co/ebSR960FKP

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Why did Huw Edwards avoid prison?

Is this evidence of “two-tier justice”?

Let’s take a quick look. 🧵

TLDR: This is an entirely expected sentence for offences of this type.

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

Thumbs up to making it illegal to possess or sell a 'statement' knife! But most blades used in youth violence are kitchen utensils. So each step we take to engage, inspire & offer young people better choices & opportunities will bring the best hope of saved lives & safer streets.

[Independent Birmingham @IndependentBham]

Brummie fave The Barton Arms is set to re-open!

Re-opening on 24 August, this stunning Victorian public house and restaurant in Aston sadly announced it was closing earlier this year. However, it will be opening again later this month - which is great news for the city 🙌

[Ewan McIntosh @ETMcINTOSH]

Great tour of the @hiutdenim with the wonderful @davidhieatt. How business should be run. Make the best thing you can and believe in staff and process.

[Vaughan Fleischfresser @VFleischfresser]

The greatest job in the world.

[Daniel McDonald @DmcDT]

Belfast. ♥️

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

No, not 💯 Elon. In the U.K. they’re not going round ‘finding people who’ve said something they disagree with and putting them in a f—king cage.’ Some people are being charged for inciting racial hatred and for organising acts of violence. It’s very specific, and it’s the law in most democracies including the US. For example, one person has pleaded guilty today to inciting an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers: an attack which then took place. Another hotel was set on fire, with people still inside. Freedom carries responsibility: and freedom of speech carries with it the responsibility of each of us to use our words wisely and to be aware of the damage misinformation can cause. To be clear, criminal violence directed towards various communities in the U.K. was perpetrated as a result of malicious and specifically targeted misinformation online. And it’s a relief no-one was killed. Words matter. And yet here you are, running a huge information network, and all you can do is post 💯 over something you choose not to verify for accuracy, not alert people to it’s highly damaging nature. In fact, because of who you are, your 💯 gives it a stamp of approval in the eyes of those who seek validation for their actions. What we say and do has real consequences. That’s because we’re not in a matrix, we’re in real life, and sticking 💯 on a lie doesn’t turn it into truth.

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

Peaceful protesters should be released from prisons to make room for violent criminal rioters.

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

If you’re in the West Midlands and beyond and you’re Muslim, make sure you protect every African auntie, uncle and child like they’re your own flesh and blood.

Hearing horrible reports of racism going through the roof in city centres toward our brothers and sisters. 🫵🏿💙☝🏽🫱🏻‍🫲🏾