Can any other Scottish primary teachers illuminate me on violence in their schools? I trained in England & moved back to Scotland last yr to a scl with lots of violence towards adults. Thought I was unlucky with the scl but now doing supply & seeing it again. Someone please reassure me it's unusual🙏

Why am I not surprised? 🥲
They're just recruiting more people for the opportunity to be unemployed!
www.scotsman.com/education/sn...

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky

@theguardian.com

Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.

One of UK's biggest water firms in legal battle to block release of environmental information on treated sewage being discharged into Windermere in Lake District.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Did my first day of supply today and it was so lovely! After a year in a really tricky school, I might have given up on teaching altogether if today had been bad. It has given me hope that maybe I might have a future in teaching

13 year old Ahmad’s family are in hiding in Afghanistan. He escaped with his uncle & aunt when Kabul was evacuated 3 years ago.

The Home Office rejected their application for family reunion.

This is what causes desperate journeys in small boats. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

First September in 6 years that I won't be going into the classroom. It feels very strange but excited to start a Masters in Education alongside some supply work around my timetable #edusky

Yeah, but what do you mean by 'smart-casual'?

I refuse to read the ed sec in The Sun 🙄 but this piece explains what she said. There's no way primary schools can help them fulfill the 2025 offer because that's for babies of 9 months old plus. #EYFS www.eyalliance.org.uk/news/2024/08...

I’ll miss this unique stage of a social media platform’s development where we welcome new arrivals as if we’re a 9 year old child talking to another 9 year old child on their first day at school after having just moved to the area. "Now, this is where the toilet is. And that is where you do a wee."

I don’t want to go back to the bad place so if you’re part of the edu-exodus & looking for people to follow, I’m going to start a little thread of some familiar faces from edutwitter already posting here.

Please tag people to this thread as I know it’s tricky to get started when you first join.👇🏼