English teacher and charities coordinator at an independent school in Kent. Passionate about communication, teaching challenging texts, and pastoral care.
Joined April 2018
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28 Jul 2023
You know that bit at the start of Harry Potter where Professor McGonagall sits, as a cat, on the road sign and watches the Dursleys all day?
There’s a cat that’s been sitting on the wall opposite us for more than 24 hours now. It’s clearly not injured. What’s it plotting…?
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28 Jul 2023
Look at him. Loving life. Watching the world go by.
ALT A fluffy ginger cat sits atop a white garden wall. There is a red car parked in the foreground, and hedges and bushes behind the wall.
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19 Jul 2023
Now if this isn’t the makings of a great evening…
ALT A bottle of champagne and a DVD copy of The Sound of Music. An iconic combo.
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17 Jul 2023
I’ve recently finished this by @lucyjones and I think it’s a must-read for school leaders. It includes the damning fact that 75% of children spend less time outside than prison inmates. Even in cities, it doesn’t have to be this way.
ALT A copy of the book Losing Eden: why our minds need the wild, by Lucy Jones. The book is white with a blue leaf pattern on the front.
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15 Jul 2023
Packing a picnic for Wimbledon tomorrow, and I’ve just caught myself putting the cream in its own Tupperware “just in case.”
This is it. This is the moment. I’ve become my mother.
ALT A small pot of double cream secured in a round Tupperware that is just the right size for it.
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10 Jul 2023
Starting my new role in September suddenly seems a lot closer than it did when I accepted it.
Incredibly nervous. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to try and alleviate this?
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27 Jun 2023
Very excited to bring a group of the @KingsRochDrama crowd to see this later in the week. We did this show as a school five years ago; the last of those who were in it are leaving the school next week. It’s going to be emotional!
27 Jun 2023
Titanic the Musical opens today!
This stunning production celebrates the 10th anniversary of its London premiere where it won sweeping critical acclaim across the board.
📅 Tue 27 June - Sat 1 July
🎟️ eu1.hubs.ly/H04fc1w0
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22 Jun 2023
Deputy Head, on his way to lunch, sings “Nacho, Nacho Man. I wanna be a Nacho Man.”
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20 Jun 2023
Giving up trying to work with this on in the background. Too much. Can’t not listen.
#ENGvAUS
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17 Jun 2023
Started this one this evening, and it’s already tickled me. Thank you, @RevRichardColes. I’m a Vicar’s-Wife-To-Be, so I’m thoroughly enjoying all the little comments about the idiosyncrasies of parish life that I know will take up too much of our time in years to come!
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14 Jun 2023
Marking in my classroom and the neighbours are having a barbecue. It smells SO GOOD. Surely this can’t be fair.
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12 Jun 2023
Trying to come up with increasingly original ways to say “please can you turn your music down” to my upstairs neighbour.
I’ve tried polite. I’ve tried matey. I’ve tried sweet. I’ve tried downright rude.
None are working.
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10 Jun 2023
Absolutely fab time last night @_bridgetheatre last night for Guys and Dolls. Felt so close to the action, and we were all up and dancing at the end!
Highly recommend!
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7 Jun 2023
Ahead of A Level English Lit tomorrow, I’m only now realising that listening to We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel would have been excellent revision for dystopian fiction….
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6 Jun 2023
Does anyone else feel like “And then I took off the VR headset” is becoming the new “And then I woke up and it was all a dream”?
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1 Jun 2023
Watched the staff at my gym take a delivery of about six new big inflatable ball things. We already had about ten.
What are they for? What are they actually for?
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23 May 2023
When I accepted a new job for September back in January, it felt like it was ages away.
I’ve got five and a half more weeks in my current school. Really starting to feel it. Going to miss this place 💙
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