Ellie C
@philosophicellie.bsky.social
💜RS/Philosophy 11-18 Teacher 🛕 KS5 RS & Phil lead 💭 GCSE AQA, Alevel RS Eduqas, Alevel Philosophy AQA⛪Leading on Curriculum transition 🛠️ Farmington Scholar 2024-25 📚 PGCE mentor 🪄 DofE lead 🏕️
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Teacher of RS wanted to join a growing department in Southampton.
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Staff Vacancies for Upper Shirley High School, USH, Southampton Hampshire
Upper Shirley High School or USH is a Jefferys Education Partnership Academy secondary school for boys and girls in Southampton, Hampshire.
uppershirleyhigh.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Teacher of RS wanted to join a growing department in Southampton.
Contact me for more info
Job add below 👇
uppershirleyhigh.org/staff-vacanc...
Contact me for more info
Job add below 👇
uppershirleyhigh.org/staff-vacanc...
Exciting possibilities for RE #TeamRE
❗ Curriculum review proposals revealed
New curriculum in 2028: schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
Proposals round-up: schoolsweek.co.uk/curriculum-r...
Subject reccs: schoolsweek.co.uk/curriculum-r...
Q&A with Becky Francis: schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-be...
New curriculum in 2028: schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
Proposals round-up: schoolsweek.co.uk/curriculum-r...
Subject reccs: schoolsweek.co.uk/curriculum-r...
Q&A with Becky Francis: schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-be...
New curriculum to be introduced in 2028 as review published
Government commits to scrap the EBacc and make citizenship compulsory in primary schools
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Exciting possibilities for RE #TeamRE
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It's 31 October. Most people will be thinking about Halloween. Historians, of course, will be thinking about Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg on this day in 1517. 1/4
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's 31 October. Most people will be thinking about Halloween. Historians, of course, will be thinking about Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg on this day in 1517. 1/4
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The bursary for RE teacher training will be withdrawn for 2026-27, worsening the national RE teacher shortage.
#TeamRE Please support our campaign to reverse this decision.
Full details: natre.org.uk/news/please-support-our-campaign-to-reverse-the-decision-to-remove-the-itt-bursary-for-re/
#TeamRE Please support our campaign to reverse this decision.
Full details: natre.org.uk/news/please-support-our-campaign-to-reverse-the-decision-to-remove-the-itt-bursary-for-re/
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The bursary for RE teacher training will be withdrawn for 2026-27, worsening the national RE teacher shortage.
#TeamRE Please support our campaign to reverse this decision.
Full details: natre.org.uk/news/please-support-our-campaign-to-reverse-the-decision-to-remove-the-itt-bursary-for-re/
#TeamRE Please support our campaign to reverse this decision.
Full details: natre.org.uk/news/please-support-our-campaign-to-reverse-the-decision-to-remove-the-itt-bursary-for-re/
I'm going to complain about something that makes me feel like an old lady:
The quality of socks today is poor. I still have socks I wore in secondary school (2 decades ago) but the pretty ones with birds on I got from M&S a year ago now have holes in and are going thin. This is upsetting.
The quality of socks today is poor. I still have socks I wore in secondary school (2 decades ago) but the pretty ones with birds on I got from M&S a year ago now have holes in and are going thin. This is upsetting.
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm going to complain about something that makes me feel like an old lady:
The quality of socks today is poor. I still have socks I wore in secondary school (2 decades ago) but the pretty ones with birds on I got from M&S a year ago now have holes in and are going thin. This is upsetting.
The quality of socks today is poor. I still have socks I wore in secondary school (2 decades ago) but the pretty ones with birds on I got from M&S a year ago now have holes in and are going thin. This is upsetting.
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I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
September 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The persistence of the gender pay gap in schools is 'grossly unfair', says @naht.org.uk as it calls on the government to urgently conduct a detailed pay equality analysis
Schools gender pay gap is ‘grossly unfair’
Headteachers’ leaders urge DfE to carry out a detailed pay equality analysis, as report highlights persistent gender gaps
www.tes.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The persistence of the gender pay gap in schools is 'grossly unfair', says @naht.org.uk as it calls on the government to urgently conduct a detailed pay equality analysis
It's the second time already this term I've reverted to stew and dumplings. I'm not complaining, but it is a lot earlier than normal for me to give up on summer and go full on autumnal hedgehog.
September 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's the second time already this term I've reverted to stew and dumplings. I'm not complaining, but it is a lot earlier than normal for me to give up on summer and go full on autumnal hedgehog.
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Free CPD for A-level RS teachers @natre-update.bsky.social #teamRE
September 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Free CPD for A-level RS teachers @natre-update.bsky.social #teamRE
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According to experts on fascism one of the best defences that a country has against fascism is a strong trade union movement. Trade unions unite all workers and fight for better for all of us. Join a union ✊
September 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
According to experts on fascism one of the best defences that a country has against fascism is a strong trade union movement. Trade unions unite all workers and fight for better for all of us. Join a union ✊
Today I remembered overly ambitious day off syndrome.
Plan
restock food cupboard
soak and cook dry beans
make up turkey meatballs
Two loads of washing
sorting out some banking stuff
change my bed
Shockingly only 3 of those things got done, and 1 I am still doing.
Plan
restock food cupboard
soak and cook dry beans
make up turkey meatballs
Two loads of washing
sorting out some banking stuff
change my bed
Shockingly only 3 of those things got done, and 1 I am still doing.
September 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today I remembered overly ambitious day off syndrome.
Plan
restock food cupboard
soak and cook dry beans
make up turkey meatballs
Two loads of washing
sorting out some banking stuff
change my bed
Shockingly only 3 of those things got done, and 1 I am still doing.
Plan
restock food cupboard
soak and cook dry beans
make up turkey meatballs
Two loads of washing
sorting out some banking stuff
change my bed
Shockingly only 3 of those things got done, and 1 I am still doing.
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Can you help with £1 to cover the £800 a year costs of the podcast? www.gofundme.com/f/donate-ps1...
Donate £1 to cover the costs of The RE Podcast, organized by Louisa Jane Smith
Hi, my name is Louisa Jane Smith, producer, host, editor, and promote… Louisa Jane Smith needs your support for Donate £1 to cover the costs of The RE Podcast
www.gofundme.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Can you help with £1 to cover the £800 a year costs of the podcast? www.gofundme.com/f/donate-ps1...
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Every so often I hear people saying that "the public" has a deep seated, unshift able hostility to immigration, and feel the need to post this.
September 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Every so often I hear people saying that "the public" has a deep seated, unshift able hostility to immigration, and feel the need to post this.
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In two weeks time, we will host our Teachers Talk Humanities event in Manchester and we are delighted that one of our sponsors will be @hachettelearning.bsky.social - Find out more on 20th September at our event. Grab your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/teacher...
September 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In two weeks time, we will host our Teachers Talk Humanities event in Manchester and we are delighted that one of our sponsors will be @hachettelearning.bsky.social - Find out more on 20th September at our event. Grab your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/teacher...
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Biblically-accurate Wittgenstein
September 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Biblically-accurate Wittgenstein
'Twas the night before training
And all through the house
Not a teacher was stirring
Not even the Scouse
The adults were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.
And all through the house
Not a teacher was stirring
Not even the Scouse
The adults were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
'Twas the night before training
And all through the house
Not a teacher was stirring
Not even the Scouse
The adults were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.
And all through the house
Not a teacher was stirring
Not even the Scouse
The adults were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of KCSiE danced in their heads.
Everyone got their lanyard?
August 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Everyone got their lanyard?
This is a school. I wish my school had Gargoyles and a jazzy porch to the teacher accomodation block.
August 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is a school. I wish my school had Gargoyles and a jazzy porch to the teacher accomodation block.
I won things in the show!
(Usually my cousin's sweep up prizes and I get nowt)
Best bit of the holiday!
(Usually my cousin's sweep up prizes and I get nowt)
Best bit of the holiday!
August 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I won things in the show!
(Usually my cousin's sweep up prizes and I get nowt)
Best bit of the holiday!
(Usually my cousin's sweep up prizes and I get nowt)
Best bit of the holiday!
#teamRE secularisation is on lots of the A-level spec
🔪"Our results challenge skeptics who doubt that secularization theory can be broadly generalized. Skeptics suggest the secularization observed in some regions, such as countries in Western Europe, is not comparable to dynamics elsewhere in the world."
The three stages of religious decline around the world - Nature Communications
Religious decline is happening around the world. Here, the authors show that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of...
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#teamRE secularisation is on lots of the A-level spec
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News piece - The number of students taking Religious Studies at A level has remained stable at 15,005, a fall of just 1.3%
Read the full statement here www.natre.org.uk/news/latest-...
#TeamRE
Read the full statement here www.natre.org.uk/news/latest-...
#TeamRE
August 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
News piece - The number of students taking Religious Studies at A level has remained stable at 15,005, a fall of just 1.3%
Read the full statement here www.natre.org.uk/news/latest-...
#TeamRE
Read the full statement here www.natre.org.uk/news/latest-...
#TeamRE
It was a good day today.
1. Results were pretty good.
2. Two of the books I've had on reserve came through just as I was finishing one, so I have a choice of what next!
3. I made chocolate sauce to have on my yogurt as a treat.
(I did also smash a serum pipette and get glass in my foot but shh)
1. Results were pretty good.
2. Two of the books I've had on reserve came through just as I was finishing one, so I have a choice of what next!
3. I made chocolate sauce to have on my yogurt as a treat.
(I did also smash a serum pipette and get glass in my foot but shh)
August 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It was a good day today.
1. Results were pretty good.
2. Two of the books I've had on reserve came through just as I was finishing one, so I have a choice of what next!
3. I made chocolate sauce to have on my yogurt as a treat.
(I did also smash a serum pipette and get glass in my foot but shh)
1. Results were pretty good.
2. Two of the books I've had on reserve came through just as I was finishing one, so I have a choice of what next!
3. I made chocolate sauce to have on my yogurt as a treat.
(I did also smash a serum pipette and get glass in my foot but shh)
For decades, Hindu parents in the U.S. have complained about a “caste pyramid” visual aid commonly used by teachers that they say simplifies the ancient system to a harmful degree.
religionnews.com/2025/08/12/s...
religionnews.com/2025/08/12/s...
Hindu parents raise concerns about faith's 'problematic' depiction in classrooms
(RNS) — For Hindu parents, the exclusion of parents from their children’s curriculum is part of a ‘long-festering’ issue that some have had for decades — that the portrayal of Hinduism and India in…
religionnews.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Just had the classic pre-results day distraction of cleaning and reorganising the kitchen cupboards.
Really hoping things go well for my students.
Really hoping things go well for my students.
August 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just had the classic pre-results day distraction of cleaning and reorganising the kitchen cupboards.
Really hoping things go well for my students.
Really hoping things go well for my students.