Sarah Drummond

Classics Teacher, T&L lead, and lover of all things G(r)eek; powered by coffee, vegan snacks, and tricola; "I replant potted history."

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@WelshHT Hope you’re okay and you’ve got some support to help you out. It’s new depths of hard sometimes (sometimes = a lot of the time!)

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@bennewmark Becky chambers’ a long way to a small angry planet is the first in the Wayfarers series and absolutely brilliant! Have you read the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde?

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@MrSmithRE But how can you resist just opening one and accidentally losing two hours of your life?

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@benniekara @creativeHigg Have you watched the Octopus episode of Bluey yet? It acknowledges the real world parenting guilt Banjo inspires! Definitely worth a watch. Also love putting the pool or the dump episodes on when I need to explain to the kids why I’m busy getting ready / tidying up!

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@emma_au_soleil Tbf everyone who plays Warhammer knows it is a ridiculous hobby. It’s my happy escape from the grim dark world of eternal conflict known as parenting

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@emma_au_soleil Other key vocabulary/ questions to drop in could be: painting in subassembly, two things painters love going on about are zenithal priming and a technique called slapchop, and how the players feel about the streamlining of rules in 10th edition

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@emma_au_soleil Ask if they are excited about upcoming release of ‘The Old World’

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@benniekara Too many to mention but my favourite so far is ‘this unicorn is too sparkly’ after asking for more sparkles 🤦‍♀️ wishing you all the luck with your journey, we’re a bit further down the track but still finding our way day by day!

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@PDJSwallow Congratulations! So proud of you!

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@AnnaJMcO @OCR_Classics @classicsforall @Classical_Assoc Oh wow! Teaching Persepolis next week, can’t wait to see how the students react!

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@jessbisc @DrArleneHH @JohnCattEd @ARLTClassics @Classical_Assoc Amazing! So exciting to see this!

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@WomenEd Had several days of working mornings and then going to visit children, my head was everywhere! Happy to talk via DM 2/2

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@WomenEd School amazingly supportive, lots of leave to go to meetings and worked flexibly for a year to create space for it. Still have cover to attend meetings. Would say that the UEA introductions model is an absolute killer in terms of work/life balance 1/2

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@babytismoffire I’ve been to the National and to local ones, really loved them. Mixture of big and small spaces. I’m hoping to go the researchEd Berks this year if you want another adopter-teacher to have coffee with

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@MsSSaunders Hope she has come out by now. If not, trying sitting on the floor and reading aloud to yourself, it’ll get her used to the sound of your voice

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@3dancingfeet @nr_inthesilence As the child of an academic, I can attest sick days when I got to go to uni with my dad were the best sick days ever!

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@mrwbw @JackWorthNFER overrun with classics teachers just yet…

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@mrwbw @JackWorthNFER Classics counts as MFL as Latin counts towards the Ebacc. DoE also running the Latin Excellence Program along similar lines to the Manderin Excellent Program. I think the target no of classics teacher is 28 (don’t quote me on that) so the teaching world is not going to be 1/2

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@SPBeale @TeachersSPL @mtptproject *timetabler

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@SPBeale @TeachersSPL @mtptproject Not a male teacher but I took 2 shortish blocks of SPL after my two weeks of partner’s leave. School (and the timetables) were amazing; my colleagues juggled mine and their classes and school were really adaptable. It was tricky but we made it work and I’m so grateful