Hazel Grindrod

Primary teacher. Mum of boys, cats and chickens.

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@JaneFallon Thanks - I will give it a whirl.

[WRDaboutbooks @WRDmag]

We have 4 GORGEOUS HB copies of #100WaystoSavethePlanet by @MrTomJordan & @joshrice_pics to #WIN!
Illustrating 100 fun ways that you & your young eco-warriors could become Green Superheros!
RT & Flw by Apr 3 to enter
@GMCbooks #WRDMagComp
#GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearOfReading2026

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@katielockett 🤯

[LibraryGirl&BookBoy (Jo) @BookSuperhero2]

**Giveaway Incoming**
To celebrate the imminent release of one of 2026’s most anticipated reads (The House With Chicken Legs Runs Away), I’m giving away a copy of its predecessor #TheHouseWithChickenLegs so you can get up to speed. RT&FLW to enter.

https://t.co/sfHJyihAAb

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@Katy_primary97 We put a timer on and when it went off we took him to the toilet. Give lots of water to drink so that he gets used to the feeling of needing a wee. We also had a pom pom jar that got filled when he did wees and poos, with a prize once it was full.

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@cea_forster I lean from side to side on the turns. 🤣

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@RobBiddulph
My 3.5year old did his first #drawwithrob today. I helped with the colouring, but the rest was ALL him! I couldn’t be prouder!

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@LeeBraganza Probably best not to let you know what’s in store post 40 then! 🤪

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@MissSDoherty Moose

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@charlotteosul One of my favourite books of all time

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@CrowtherSim 🙌🏻 abso-bloody-lutley!!!

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@LeeBraganza Why can’t you just buy the school badge & either sew/iron it onto the supermarket sweatshirts at home, or better still, get the PTA to iron them on! Polo shirts, don’t need a badge! I’d be happier buying a badge, for a nominal amount & sewing them on a £5 supermarket sweatshirt

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@TsuiAllen I would love to pick your brain about leading computing in a small school.

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

So much I agree with in this post! I’m definitely trying to incorporate more consolidation, next year. I taught time last week and counted 4 different exercises they had to cover, when the first was just too much for most of them!

[Keith Campion @keith_campion]

I hope the curriculum is being carefully looked at & teachers are being consulted. Many ‘working towards’ children simply haven’t had time to consolidate skills, rather than being less able. We’ve got a maths curriculum that fires a variety of strategies at them without them ever being secure in one. Then we quickly bombard them with an obsession with ‘reasoning’ without them being confident in the basic skill. In English, they are expected to write to such a high standard by 11, they inevitably get rushed on. Children end up confused.

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

More coach dramas with @biggreencoach Stopped in Swindon (a massive detour) No one to pick up and now our driver is saying that he has to take a 45min break at 4:30. He also says he needs to wait 9 hours when we get to Cardiff. @ticketmasterhq1 bin this company off!

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

Waited almost 2hours for our @biggreencoach to Cardiff. Fobbed off and lied to by the company. @TicketmasterUK should review their partnership with them for events. No toilet on the coach either 👍🏻

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@CrowtherSim It’s like he’s had some sort of reform-lobotomy! So out of touch! Ironic, after his “I get it” comment.

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

Had a terrible experience with @TalkTalk where they started charging my mum for a broadband data add-on 2y after the account was closed! Then, in 3 months, trebled the amount and sold the ‘debt’ to a debt collector. She is 75 and recently widowed. @MartinSLewis

[Hazel Grindrod @GrindrodHazel]

@the_only_abi @LeeBraganza Defo Bluey!