Happy birthday to my favourite poet and children's author, @MichaelRosenYes . What an inspiration you are to millions, and your performances are still my favourite videos to show my class every year. What an honour to share a birthday with you! 💕
@LaytonWilliams WOW. You were absolutely outstanding in Cabaret this weekend! Cannot get over how good the show was from start to finish. And I was already such a big fan from Bad Education! Well done for an amazing performance! 👏
Today’s KS2 maths reasoning paper is a failure at a national level, one which will serve only to put pupils off maths.
There is nothing wrong with tough questions in maths. Mathematicians love the challenge of overcoming difficult problems.
But that’s not the same thing at all as questions that seek to confuse, mislead or hide meaning in meaningless, tiresome contexts.
Show a real mathematician a problem written by someone who is deliberately communicating badly or poking fun by being disingenuous and that mathematician will tell you to bugger off.
We’re in the business of grappling with and resolving genuinely interesting and important questions. We have no interest in silly, dull and ill conceived questions that lack meaning and intend to trip up.
So, an opportunity to show pupils what mathematics is and can be has been utterly wasted and instead we’ve just made it a lot less likely a nascent interest in becoming a mathematician will flourish for many, many pupils who will, quite rightly, reject the subject as tedious sleight of hand.
To those writing, signing off and publishing national exam papers: be better at your job or do something else.
@timhortonsuk Any more news on your Basildon branch?! It's been 2 years now since it was announced you'd be opening and nothing seems to have happened in that time....? #whatsgoingon#justwanttims
I've never used #Groupon before and never will again after this. How can they have vendors on their website that refuse to use vouchers being offered and then take no accountability for their services?! #dontusegroupon#notworthit@groupo
If anyone is thinking of purchasing a @Groupon, don't! I purchased an experience and the vendor refused to accept the voucher because they couldn't contact Groupon on a Sunday (one of the dates that was suggested TO me) and now Groupon are refusing to refund me! #ridiculous
My final week in Qatar covering the #FIFAWorldCup2022 one of the best tournaments I’ve witnessed! 🔥
The final episode is now LIVE! - https://t.co/EF7SzvF4KQ
#FifaWorldCup
Outrageously disrespectful to Qatar that the BBC didn’t broadcast the World Cup opening ceremony, and instead put out more virtue-signalling guff about how awful it is. If they’re that appalled, they should bring home their vast army of employees & spare us this absurd hypocrisy.
I was trying to think of something to say but Boris Johnson has said it all. Whatever you think of him, the man can write. Some beautiful words about a magnificent monarch.
@TorontoPearson this is insane. Got here over 3 hours early to line up for 45 minutes to check in WITH bag tags and it's absolute chaos with only 2 people on. #pearson#omg
Thanks so much to the amazing girl on our plane who offered her seat to my cousin so her, my husband and I could sit next to each other! Super nice of you to do! #thanksgirl#airtransat
Yo guys don't ever order from @UberEats Canada. Had the driver STEAL our food, and we still had to pay and got told we can't get a refund. #theft#disgusting
@Uber_Support Yeah, you say that and yet when she contacted you guys, you told her she couldn't get a refund. There are loads of other cases of this happening too if you look it up online!!!