Mike Hodgkiss

Retired deputyhead & editor of @teachtalks Interests: education,politics,walking our cockapoo,painting with acrylics,playing guitar,member of #BHF patientpanel

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@Morsecat There’s a solution; don’t read the Daily Mail.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@RealGeoffBarton Many congratulations on the well deserved award. Happy New Year. And, as I’m sure your wife knows, in many parts of #Suffolk, ‘twenty’s plenty’.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@Headteacherchat Rabbit catcher
Mouse catcher
Wasp catcher
Smokers catcher
Ball catcher
Culprit catcher
Cold catcher…….. ‘Bless you’

Happy Christmas to all teachers/catchers

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

Her focus on belonging lays the groundwork for a more supportive and inclusive school environment.
#Phillipson #schools https://t.co/XdjVnBYNMU

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@PaulGarvey4 So much about Trump’s victory casts a long shadow not least his ‘partnership’ with Musk

https://t.co/INfI58W94E

[Candice Holmes @hol40900]

@implausibleblog 🔥🇬🇧 Finally, someone telling it like it is! 🙌 John Major is spot on about #Brexit making the #UK weaker and poorer. 🤑 The Emperor's New Clothes moment has finally arrived - where are the benefits of Brexit? 🤔

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@Morsecat @BarlowCaroline @keziah70 Congratulations on your four years at @HeadsRoundtable and helping to focus attention on the issues schools face.
You pass the baton on to safe hands.
@vicgoddard @HelenaMarsh81 @RosMcM

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

So well observed
So well written
So well acted

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

If you haven’t watched Trying on @AppleTV you really are missing out. 4 series of beautifully tender and well observed comedy that also shines a light on how infertility and adoption are gruelling and challenging.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

#Ofsted

“Single-headline grades are low-information for parents and high-stakes for schools. Parents deserve a much clearer, much broader picture of how schools are performing”
⁦@bphillipsonMP⁩ welcome news
https://t.co/TFmGYJsvmf

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

‘Good’

Ofsted single-word school ratings to be scrapped immediately https://t.co/TFmGYJsvmf

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@primarily_prog Bill Nelson; one of the most underrated guitarists, outside of BeBop deluxe fans that is.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

“The merry-go-round of Tory ministers in recent years failed to grip the rising tide of poor behaviour pre-pandemic & then told children & families they’d ‘maxed out’ on Covid recovery support.”
14 years of underfunding may also have something to do with it.
@Stephen_Logan

[thehighcliffeguy @AdamHighcliffe]

An appalling article from @guardian, which has the potential to cause harm to thousands of children.
With lurid warnings of a 'bad-behaviour bubble', it could inflame a delicate situation.
And the beneficiary could be under-fire tsar Tom Bennett.
🧵
https://t.co/NqlrLEFOjq

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

Relive those stockcupboard moments of getting high before lessons even started
#Banda #reforming

[Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales]

The big announcement:
We're putting the Banda back together.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

The most astonishing thing is the use of the word ‘astonishing’
#Trump
@MichaelRosenYes

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

would be more of a story if she found him a deft master of etiquette

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Civil society, not civil war. Do please repost, #Elon

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@ottleyoconnor Well said.
Staying on #X formerly known as #Twitter can be a message to those that want to change the tone and nature of the platform that “we ain’t going nowhere”.

[Mike Hodgkiss @whichoneispink]

@RealGeoffBarton @Morsecat @pepediiasio @ASCL_UK One of my principles was always to maintain a broad/balanced curriculum; it became increasingly difficult to maintain & since retiring I’ve seen it narrow more. It was also the rhetoric around the ‘value’ of creative subjects from the former govt that did harm; I hope it changes

[Dr Zubaida Haque @Zubhaque]

An incisive and powerful piece by @DavidOlusoga “While there were horrific attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers, most of those targeted by the rioters were British citizens: members of communities with histories that go back three generations or more…”

[Dr Penny Rabiger (She/Her) @Penny_Ten]

There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga | The Guardian https://t.co/VhnS6E5Ec1

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

What a blisteringly sharp analysis from @DavidOlusoga, who calls out the riots for exactly what they were - violent racism, fomented by populism.

Please read his superb piece 🔥

https://t.co/FzHHYPmxj1