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[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@Miss_Snuffy Incredible 💪

[Christopher Such @Suchmo83]

I have just completed a series of four professional development videos on the subject of teaching effective whole-class reading lessons.

These videos contain high-quality footage of me teaching each part of the reading lesson structures from Primary Reading Simplified.

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[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

You can't win general elections when people are so motivated to vote against you regardless of who the opponent is.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@implausibleblog Even his use of the word 'trends' exposes how divorced he is from reality. He's taken social media, made it worse, and now believes that it's the real world. A man deficient in many things, including Vitamin D.

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But wearing a rainbow armband would have meant being kicked out of Qatar 2022...

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Giovani Lo Celso has brought out a banner saying ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’ — ‘The Malvinas are Argentine.’

He held it with Nicolas Otamendi and then briefly put it away before laying it out on the pitch at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Las Malvinas is the term used in Argentina for the Falkland Islands, a British dependency which lies about 300 miles (480 km) off the east coast of mainland Argentina.

In 1982, Argentina’s military government invaded in an attempt to take the territory from the United Kingdom. The conflict lasted from April 2 to June 14 and ended with an Argentine surrender. In all, three civilians, 255 British and 649 Argentine troops died.

The Athletic has contacted FIFA for comment.

England 1-2 Argentina live blog: https://t.co/V6vsfDZJWj

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

He couldn't even host the World Cup without making it corrupt. Incredible.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

Do well, take the lead, then give away a goal just to keep fans feeling anxious. The England/Spurs analogies continue. Apart from the 'do well' and 'take the lead' parts.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

Are Kane and Bellingham the new Kane and Son?

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

Can anyone work out what he's done wrong, besides lacking 'charisma' and not shouting about his successes?

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

How much of Labour's 2024 manifesto did Keir Starmer stick to?

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@RogersHistory Some parents look at it as a way to guarantee a place at their preferred secondary school.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@FabrizioRomano Forever be a head-scratcher, this one. Reminds me of Ndombele. Came with such promise, never lived up to it. Turbulent few years for sure but never got the feeling he was a player any of our many managers felt they could rely on.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@adamboxer1 Stardew Valley my dude. (Can also be played on PC but meh.)

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@RogersHistory I'd never presume to tell someone how they should or shouldn't feel, but if you join a school, the school makes you aware of their rules, the rules are in place to keep people safe and you decide not to follow said rules, a feeling of not belonging is a choice you've made.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@MBDscience Clearly you just haven't formed a relationship with them. They behave for me.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@AlasdairGold Bentancur as well I thought. That box between CBs and CDMs didn't give much away.

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@SchoolsWeek Holy overreaction, Batman!

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@rob_pearson86 https://t.co/Er74LV8tbF

[thebiggeez @thebiggeez]

@SchoolsWeek @DanielKebedeNEU Is it beyond belief though, because given that in primary schools the ONLY years children don't sit some form of nationalised assessment is Year 3 & 5, I feel like this is very much the norm 😂

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@DavidDidau @Trivium21c Ironically, I had an 'Alan Bennett moment' when reading this piece; as if you had reached into my brain, taken my opinion, qualified it with added validity and re-purposed it as an outstanding ode to thinking hard about curriculum choices, not building our church on slogans.