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May 7
Summer Quiz⏱️again! Early🐦 offer on my TES shortly, £2 or less for a nice lesson as classes reach the end this year. Fun, easy, hopefully memorable😊
Rounds:
Picture-MonthlyQ-Music-GenK-Movie-Subject-True/False. tiny.cc/b203101
#teaching #edutwitter #endofterm #summer
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Mr Payne retweeted
24 Nov 2025
Free online treasure hunt? Are you young at heart and enjoy a puzzle, or maybe want to get your students problem solving. Why not try this new resource: tomdoesmaths.wixsite.com/war… Select WQuest kids. Or if you really fancy a challenge and a prize... the other option.
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May 10
I while ago, (post #strangerthings) I got the idea to make my kids (6 and 8) a D&D game. If it looks like fun for your kids, please play! Let me know if they enjoyed it. Full game manual and printables on my website: tomdoesmaths.wixsite.com/tom… (Google doc link there) #dnd
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Mr Payne retweeted
May 7
Summer Quiz⏱️again! Early🐦 offer on my TES shortly, £2 or less for a nice lesson as classes reach the end this year. Fun, easy, hopefully memorable😊
Rounds:
Picture-MonthlyQ-Music-GenK-Movie-Subject-True/False. tiny.cc/b203101
#teaching #edutwitter #endofterm #summer
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🎉 CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK GIVEAWAY! 🎉
"Funny AND educational" is how our 10-year-old reviewer described Lily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller by @ameliatait @HachetteKids ⏰📖
Diary-style, laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely relatable, with history facts woven in so naturally your readers won't even notice. Perfect for readers 9 and fans of Lottie Brooks.
To enter to win a copy: LIKE, RT and COMMENT telling us which period in history you would visit?
1 copy available. UK only. Ends midnight 31/05/2026.
#bookrecommendations #middlegrade #kidsbooks #LottieBrooks #bookgiveaway #timetraveller
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Mr Payne retweeted
May 17
In case anyone is still checking Twitter...
Here's something I've been working quite hard on recently:
classduels.com/maths/
A Maths game featuring:
- two-player and single-player modes
- 50 topics across KS3-KS5
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May 15
Please can anyone send me an EDUQAS Higher Maths Paper 1 from yesterday? Our exams team are not at a point to find me a spare yet and want to try and analyse before Monday! #help #exams #mathsexams #gcsemaths #eduqas
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May 10
I while ago, (post #strangerthings) I got the idea to make my kids (6 and 8) a D&D game. If it looks like fun for your kids, please play! Let me know if they enjoyed it. Full game manual and printables on my website: tomdoesmaths.wixsite.com/tom… (Google doc link there) #dnd
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May 10
PS crafting the figures is also really fun for most kids. Cutting, sticking, blue-tac... Should be able to play the whole game free. Especially if you can print a few colour pages at work ;-p
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Mr Payne retweeted
Apr 24
I saw a snake that was 3.14 meters long. I think it was a π-thon.
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Apr 20
Awesome GCSE resource alert! We've done some database magic🪄to get the distribution of exam questions in each spec (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas) by granular skill. For Edexcel this covers the last 24 years of papers! Check it out: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Mr Payne retweeted
Here are some widgets I created with @Genially_en AI builder. They can be reused and edited (locks, fladhcards, bingo machine, post-it notes). #MFLtwitterati view.genially.com/69d74e87ae…
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Apr 8
International A-level and International GCSE provider OxfordAQA has announced changes to its exam series that will affect schools around the world
tes.com/magazine/news/second…
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Mr Payne retweeted
Apr 7
Have to say i find stuff like this deeply problematic. Encourages a tick box approach to teaching and observing, leading to shallow understanding and a culture of compliance. It simply cannot substitute for deep pedagogical knowledge and observational skill.
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Mar 30
Update today A2 Question of the day now 160 questions with solutions pls share and repost sites.google.com/view/mathem…
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Mar 27
1/3 Some of the social media teaching conversations recently have reminded me of something that happened when I was a student. I think around year 7/8. There was a one-way system on a particular set of stairs and my friend wanted to break the rules and go up them. I did not...
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Mar 27
2/3 He tried dragging me up them. Along came a teacher, who gave us both a punishment (I forget what). Later on, at home, I told my mum. Not because I wanted to, but because I worried about her finding out without me giving my side. I think she believed me...
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Mar 27
3/3 But she did not argue my case. She told me to do the punishment and move on. I think that was the right call.
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