Anthony Alonzi
@anthonyalonzi.bsky.social
I like Star Wars, Lego and various Sci Fi and fantasy stuff. Run (slowly). Teach maths and do other school based things….
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There may be savings to be made at the big MATs with huge central teams, but our school is a local authority school. Our local authority is skint. There is nothing left to cut! @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social
The government believes schools can find savings through adjusting the make-up of leadership teams and deployment of support staff, as it prepares to leave them to foot the bill for future teacher pay rises
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/10-things-we-learned-from-dfe-teacher-pay-evidence/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/10-things-we-learned-from-dfe-teacher-pay-evidence/
10 things we learned from DfE teacher pay evidence
Department believes schools can make savings from leadership teams and deployment of support staff
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
There may be savings to be made at the big MATs with huge central teams, but our school is a local authority school. Our local authority is skint. There is nothing left to cut! @jonathandaviesmp.bsky.social
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I have a massive issue in the choice of the New ArchBishop of Canterbury.
The way that the Bishop of London’s office has behaved and how decisions have been made an implemented suggest none of them have integrity and can be trusted, least of all as ABoC.
The way that the Bishop of London’s office has behaved and how decisions have been made an implemented suggest none of them have integrity and can be trusted, least of all as ABoC.
October 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I have a massive issue in the choice of the New ArchBishop of Canterbury.
The way that the Bishop of London’s office has behaved and how decisions have been made an implemented suggest none of them have integrity and can be trusted, least of all as ABoC.
The way that the Bishop of London’s office has behaved and how decisions have been made an implemented suggest none of them have integrity and can be trusted, least of all as ABoC.
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Please can they also introduce mandatory ‘enough money to run a school’?
Exclusive: The government plans to introduce a mandatory reading test for year 8 pupils in its upcoming schools white paper, amid fears poorer children are disengaging in the early years of secondary school
schoolsweek.co.uk/year-8s-to-s...
schoolsweek.co.uk/year-8s-to-s...
White paper to usher in year 8 reading test
Move to ensure poorer pupils are not shut off from wider curriculum
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Please can they also introduce mandatory ‘enough money to run a school’?
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Yes. And it won't win over a single voter whose main concern is immigration. Pointlessly self-destructive.
Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving.
Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.
Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.
The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yes. And it won't win over a single voter whose main concern is immigration. Pointlessly self-destructive.
Me watching the Ryder Cup… doesn’t Justin Rose look old.
Me looking in a mirror
Me looking in a mirror
an older man is sitting at a desk in an office talking to another man and says `` you look so ... old ! ''
ALT: an older man is sitting at a desk in an office talking to another man and says `` you look so ... old ! ''
media.tenor.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Me watching the Ryder Cup… doesn’t Justin Rose look old.
Me looking in a mirror
Me looking in a mirror
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After OCR rebrands as "Cambridge OCR" and Edexcel insists on being called "Pearson Edexcel", AQA decides to get in on the act...
"Basingstoke AQA"
"Basingstoke AQA"
Hundreds of thousands of students across England celebrated receiving their GCSE and Cambridge Nationals qualification results yesterday.
Read more here: www.ocr.org.uk/news/ocr-res...
Read more here: www.ocr.org.uk/news/ocr-res...
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
After OCR rebrands as "Cambridge OCR" and Edexcel insists on being called "Pearson Edexcel", AQA decides to get in on the act...
"Basingstoke AQA"
"Basingstoke AQA"
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Important again to recognise that my wife and I can be in the same session (with Becky Francis) at #rED25 because of the free crèche that is available.
This is unusual and is an example of genuine inclusion.
This is unusual and is an example of genuine inclusion.
September 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Important again to recognise that my wife and I can be in the same session (with Becky Francis) at #rED25 because of the free crèche that is available.
This is unusual and is an example of genuine inclusion.
This is unusual and is an example of genuine inclusion.
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As usual, looking on Companies House shows that the reserves of the school fell from 2019 to 2023, from £4m to -£1m.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...
They ran out of money LONG before the VAT changes came in.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...
They ran out of money LONG before the VAT changes came in.
Hundreds of private school pupils left in the lurch after historic school shuts
160-year-old institution in Oxfordshire blames Labour’s VAT raid for immediate closure
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
As usual, looking on Companies House shows that the reserves of the school fell from 2019 to 2023, from £4m to -£1m.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...
They ran out of money LONG before the VAT changes came in.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne...
They ran out of money LONG before the VAT changes came in.
Nearly everytime I run a school trip I end up adding another coach company to my list of - coach companies I won’t use-
July 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nearly everytime I run a school trip I end up adding another coach company to my list of - coach companies I won’t use-
Public Service announcement. The MiS known as Arbor is a big pile of smelly poo.
July 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Public Service announcement. The MiS known as Arbor is a big pile of smelly poo.
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Often forgotten, because of the big protests, that the Iraq war had majority support in polls when it started. And then didn't not too long afterwards.
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Often forgotten, because of the big protests, that the Iraq war had majority support in polls when it started. And then didn't not too long afterwards.
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There was a time when maths homework was all written by text book authors, and published in a handy homework book which students could just have a copy of at home.
Setting homework took seconds:
"Do task 13.2"
EdTech solutions aren't actually less effort for teachers.
Setting homework took seconds:
"Do task 13.2"
EdTech solutions aren't actually less effort for teachers.
June 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
There was a time when maths homework was all written by text book authors, and published in a handy homework book which students could just have a copy of at home.
Setting homework took seconds:
"Do task 13.2"
EdTech solutions aren't actually less effort for teachers.
Setting homework took seconds:
"Do task 13.2"
EdTech solutions aren't actually less effort for teachers.
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#MathsToday An #ALevelMaths student told me she'd accidentally left her CG50 on a train to Edinburgh, and LNER had found it (with her name on), cross-referenced the name on it with the name she'd booked her ticket under, emailed her to let her know then posted it back to her. How refreshingly nice!
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#MathsToday An #ALevelMaths student told me she'd accidentally left her CG50 on a train to Edinburgh, and LNER had found it (with her name on), cross-referenced the name on it with the name she'd booked her ticket under, emailed her to let her know then posted it back to her. How refreshingly nice!
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In #MathsToday we were talking about Chekhov's gun (the idea that, in a play, if a gun is introduced early on then it must be fired at some point later) The Chekhov's gun in our question was that the area of a triangle was 8. We hadn't used it yet, so we had to figure out a way to introduce it.
May 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In #MathsToday we were talking about Chekhov's gun (the idea that, in a play, if a gun is introduced early on then it must be fired at some point later) The Chekhov's gun in our question was that the area of a triangle was 8. We hadn't used it yet, so we had to figure out a way to introduce it.
Have they impeached him yet?
April 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Have they impeached him yet?
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I've been on exclusion panels as a governor. It's utterly horrendous. You just don't do that unless you feel you have to protect others in the school.
March 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've been on exclusion panels as a governor. It's utterly horrendous. You just don't do that unless you feel you have to protect others in the school.
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School staff need to read this memo carefully
March 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
School staff need to read this memo carefully
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For my sixty-plus years on the planet, the trope of the loud-mouthed, boastful American has always been there. It was mostly affectionate and wry. Our perception of US arrogance has always been there, but the turbo-charged MAGA variant is something else. Godawful.
March 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
For my sixty-plus years on the planet, the trope of the loud-mouthed, boastful American has always been there. It was mostly affectionate and wry. Our perception of US arrogance has always been there, but the turbo-charged MAGA variant is something else. Godawful.
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Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.
March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.
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Still can’t get over that our country is being run into the ground by literal Nazis and the officials we elected to stop that from happening were like “oh don’t worry, we’re helping. By holding up tiny little signs that say we don’t like it”
March 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Still can’t get over that our country is being run into the ground by literal Nazis and the officials we elected to stop that from happening were like “oh don’t worry, we’re helping. By holding up tiny little signs that say we don’t like it”
I was less worried about the future when a novel virus was killing 1% of people who caught it and overwhelming healthcare worldwide…..
March 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I was less worried about the future when a novel virus was killing 1% of people who caught it and overwhelming healthcare worldwide…..
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
I’d like to see a news story come from America that doesn’t fill me with misery. 1/2 the country voted for this evil, the other 1/2 seem to be doing nothing.
March 4, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I’d like to see a news story come from America that doesn’t fill me with misery. 1/2 the country voted for this evil, the other 1/2 seem to be doing nothing.
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My debut novel with IAL Diamond’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for THE APARTMENT. Thanks to @pbdiamond.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My debut novel with IAL Diamond’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for THE APARTMENT. Thanks to @pbdiamond.bsky.social