Thomas Kendall

Maths Teacher at Michaela Community School

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

My open letter to the Education Secretary ⁦@bphillipsonMP⁩

Many teachers and school leaders share my concerns with regard to her decisions but are scared to say.

If you can find it in you, please RT.

My letter is also here: https://t.co/phAiybAov5

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

GCSE results out today!

I didn’t think such a stat was possible.

Super well done to the teachers and pupils at Michaela! 🥳

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

3 A*s… 🤗

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

3 A*s - off to Imperial! 🤗

[Thomas Kendall @tkendalluk]

@Edexcel_Maths @MathsEmporium and any further stats edexcel teacher, from the spec guidance for further stats 1 I am slightly confused as to what students are expected to know regarding p-values and the chi squared test. Could you clarify please?

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

The launch of Rishi Sunak's 'Advanced British Standard', replacing A Levels, has convinced me that Sunak knows his days are numbered.

When I think of all that needs doing in education and they want to spend 600K on THIS??😤

What is the problem they are trying to fix? THREAD 1/9

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Adolescents get 237 notifications per day (median). 97% of them use their phones during the school day. There is not much attention left over for everything else.

This is madness. Schools can give them all 7 hours off, 5 days a week. Go phone free.

https://t.co/lWSp5CzLFU

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Brilliance from Sophie Winkleman!

‘My fight to get screens out of schools’

https://t.co/qDUF5qPx3X

In the Spectator’s Schools section this week. Get it just for this.

Sophie is the actress who played Big Suze on Peep Show.

Sophie pulled her own two children out of a school when they introduced tablets - you may remember.

A mother who gets it.

I have total respect.

[Thomas Kendall @tkendalluk]

@MathsNot @GuideCalculator @DrFrostMaths @mathsjem @Edexcel_Maths @PearsonEdexcel Oh thank you! I saw with sadness that the emporium has gone from Twitter now which is a shame.

[Thomas Kendall @tkendalluk]

@DrFrostMaths @mathsjem @Edexcel_Maths Is there any clear guidance (preferably some examples and non-examples) of what is and isn't permitted when this appears on A level edexcel papers?

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Ofsted inspectors visited Michaela last month.

The report will go up on their site soon enough, but in the meantime, you can read it here.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

To the lunatics accusing me of celebrating wife beating - I tweeted a gif with a number of photos of Tina.

For some reason it rested on one photo which I didn’t notice when I tweeted the gig. Nor did I know that was Ike.

The explanation is not that I like wife beating.

[Thomas Kendall @tkendalluk]

Excellent blog from @Mr_Raichura.

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

*Another NEW post*

Two strategies to secure 100% attention in your classroom.

One of them involves banning traditional hands down cold calling.

*Runs and hides*

https://t.co/8xiIiuh43c

[The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar]

I forgot to say, on the first day of the holidays I did a mega update of the Pearson A-level textbook errors blog. At least 40 new errors! So check it out and bookmark, tell your students, tell your teacher friends. https://t.co/3GQ8p6WwHM

[Thomas Kendall @tkendalluk]

@robotmaths This is such a useful document. Thank you so much for sorting!