Danny Nicholson (Science Fix book out now!!)
@dannynic.bsky.social
SCITT ITE Science / Computing lecturer. STEM/Edtech CPD provider. Science teacher. Author. Google Certified Educator. Craft Beer, gaming and geek. Science Fix book for primary teachers out now.
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What does Ofsted mean by ‘foundational knowledge’? And how can schools show that they are delivering it? @greeborunner.bsky.social offers some answers
What schools need to understand about foundational knowledge
The renewed Ofsted framework refers to foundational knowledge. What is it, and how can schools demonstrate that they are providing it?
www.tes.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:35 AM
What does Ofsted mean by ‘foundational knowledge’? And how can schools show that they are delivering it? @greeborunner.bsky.social offers some answers
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The Southern Counties region's committee is delighted to welcome all ECT's & trainees to this event.
Providing an opportunity for to share resources & websites that they have found valuable in teaching in this online discussion. 🔗 https://www.ase.org.uk/events/southern-counties-ect-idea-share-0
Providing an opportunity for to share resources & websites that they have found valuable in teaching in this online discussion. 🔗 https://www.ase.org.uk/events/southern-counties-ect-idea-share-0
February 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The Southern Counties region's committee is delighted to welcome all ECT's & trainees to this event.
Providing an opportunity for to share resources & websites that they have found valuable in teaching in this online discussion. 🔗 https://www.ase.org.uk/events/southern-counties-ect-idea-share-0
Providing an opportunity for to share resources & websites that they have found valuable in teaching in this online discussion. 🔗 https://www.ase.org.uk/events/southern-counties-ect-idea-share-0
For those that missed it, here's the write up and presentation from my ASE talk this year "A Digital Toolkit for Early Career Teachers" www.ase.org.uk/digital-tool...
#ukteaching #edusky #eduskyuk
#ukteaching #edusky #eduskyuk
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
For those that missed it, here's the write up and presentation from my ASE talk this year "A Digital Toolkit for Early Career Teachers" www.ase.org.uk/digital-tool...
#ukteaching #edusky #eduskyuk
#ukteaching #edusky #eduskyuk
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Primary teachers, please fill in my survey to help me get an understanding of how you are all using Generative AI to teach science (or not).
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Primary teachers, please fill in my survey to help me get an understanding of how you are all using Generative AI to teach science (or not).
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
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Discworld "Lego". Great A'Tuin, elephants + disk complete.
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Discworld "Lego". Great A'Tuin, elephants + disk complete.
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🚨NEW BLOG🚨
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
Looking in the mirror: Why lesson evaluation matters for beginning teachers
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com When you’ve spent fifteen or more years as a student, you develop certain expectations. For most of her academic life Billie has been accustomed to producing …
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog
February 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Another gold. Well done Team GB. Always love snowboard cross.
February 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Another gold. Well done Team GB. Always love snowboard cross.
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🚨NEW BLOG🚨
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
Looking in the mirror: Why lesson evaluation matters for beginning teachers
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com When you’ve spent fifteen or more years as a student, you develop certain expectations. For most of her academic life Billie has been accustomed to producing …
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
Finding it hard to evaluate your lessons? This blog is for #mentors and #ITT beginning #teachers who find it hard to analyse their own teaching and the learning actually happening in the classroom.
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/02/13/l...
#TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring
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So many questions.
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 AM
So many questions.
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ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...
cordcuttersnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
My desktop background updates every day. Have spent all of today being watched by a booby... Very unsettling
February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
My desktop background updates every day. Have spent all of today being watched by a booby... Very unsettling
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This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
Primary teachers, please fill in my survey to help me get an understanding of how you are all using Generative AI to teach science (or not).
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Primary teachers, please fill in my survey to help me get an understanding of how you are all using Generative AI to teach science (or not).
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
Link here: tinyurl.com/bde9prat
Please share with your colleagues in school
Reposted by Danny Nicholson (Science Fix book out now!!)
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Trying out the @cleapss.bsky.social paper parachutes activity with Chelmsford Teaching Science Leads in their termly meeting yesterday
#primaryscience
#primaryscience
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Trying out the @cleapss.bsky.social paper parachutes activity with Chelmsford Teaching Science Leads in their termly meeting yesterday
#primaryscience
#primaryscience
Seen on the walk to school. Thought it was a snake for a moment... 😂
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Seen on the walk to school. Thought it was a snake for a moment... 😂
@intruth.bsky.social Happy Birthday!
February 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
@intruth.bsky.social Happy Birthday!
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Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets
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The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.
The will of the rich and powerful: Brexit and the Epstein files
The Epstein files reveal the role of Brexit in a global network which stands to gain from undermining democracy itself
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.
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Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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I'm running a full-day CPD session at Colchester Zoo on 21st April for @thesciencehub.bsky.social . We'll look at the benefits of learning outside, and give you practical ideas for outdoors teaching across the primary science curriculum.
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I'm running a full-day CPD session at Colchester Zoo on 21st April for @thesciencehub.bsky.social . We'll look at the benefits of learning outside, and give you practical ideas for outdoors teaching across the primary science curriculum.
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
Could we be on for the earliest ever St Totteringham's Day? www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mikepitt/to...
St Totteringham's Day
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Could we be on for the earliest ever St Totteringham's Day? www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mikepitt/to...
That Man Utd fan waiting for the haircut must be getting pretty nervous now.....
February 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
That Man Utd fan waiting for the haircut must be getting pretty nervous now.....
I'm running a full-day CPD session at Colchester Zoo on 21st April for @thesciencehub.bsky.social . We'll look at the benefits of learning outside, and give you practical ideas for outdoors teaching across the primary science curriculum.
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
February 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I'm running a full-day CPD session at Colchester Zoo on 21st April for @thesciencehub.bsky.social . We'll look at the benefits of learning outside, and give you practical ideas for outdoors teaching across the primary science curriculum.
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary
Sign up-> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#eduskyprimary