I'm speaking from personal experience of never really seeing it in London to working in a Scottish school last year (and now on supply) and seeing violence against adults regularly. I've looked up the stats but more interested in what people are actually seeing. Hoping I've just been unlucky

Great thread - I've only seen snippets of potential Ofsted changes so it was good to see more context.

Not sure I love the look of the potential report card 😬 this particular aspect doesn't seem like an improvement at all

I knew I wanted to work in education but wasn't really sure in what capacity. Teaching seemed like the obvious option in that regard so gave it a try and really liked it.

I know I previously taught in London for five years but moved back to Scotland last year for personal reasons. It has been a tricky balance between living here because it's better for my personal life but challenging for my career

I quite like Ruby's Worry. The illustrations are really nice in that the worry gets brighter and more vibrant as it grows and the background becomes black and white. Helps to show the kids how we can become overfixated on our worries in quite a simple, child friendly way

Thank you - I appreciate that. It's tricky in Scotland because there is a shortage of teaching jobs so to stay in the career it will be a slog with many temporary, insecure contracts but today reminded me I do actually like the job. Hopefully it will be worth it 🤞

Just had a look at the quiet posters feed. What a good idea!

Sleep meditation 🙄 which involved every staff member lying down on mats in the hall with blankets. Spent the entire time stressing about all of the stuff I had to do. Although I have to admit that it was funny when a staff member actually fell asleep and started snoring verrry loudly 😅

All of a suddenly my feed just fell apart and I wasn't interested in any of it. Couldn't see anyone I followed, was getting 4 ads in a row and the posts I was seeing were really random. Bluesky feel so much more like old Twitter 🙌and I'm really enjoying it

Amazing, thanks!

I'm still catching up on how to use bluesky but like the idea of different feeds so I can turn off work stuff when I'm on holiday. How did you set up the journalist/news feed?

Absolutely! Got this at my own parents evenings every year and it was never said as a positive. Being 'quiet' hasn't done me any harm or prevented me from becoming a teacher/following my chosen career path. It's an unnecessary negative when there are other things to mention like you say