Madeleine F-B
@mxfb.bsky.social
Secondary Vice Principal T&L in London; teacher of English; TF 2011; MTPT trustee; mum of 2; GSOH 🍎🎓 #UKTeaching
First cold day of the year
Playing football outside at night I could see my breath 💨
Booked summer holiday!
😎
Playing football outside at night I could see my breath 💨
Booked summer holiday!
😎
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
First cold day of the year
Playing football outside at night I could see my breath 💨
Booked summer holiday!
😎
Playing football outside at night I could see my breath 💨
Booked summer holiday!
😎
Just used a lime bike for first time. Exhilarating! 🍋🟩 🚲
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just used a lime bike for first time. Exhilarating! 🍋🟩 🚲
I’ve got one of these: “The child who, after difficulty and struggle and poor behaviour, gets back on track.” He is a blessing. In fact I was telling my husband and friend about him just today, how he always helps me with the books and is a model student in class 🙏🏼
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I’ve got one of these: “The child who, after difficulty and struggle and poor behaviour, gets back on track.” He is a blessing. In fact I was telling my husband and friend about him just today, how he always helps me with the books and is a model student in class 🙏🏼
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
#UKEd
#Transformations
#Blessings
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Having taken a look at the Curriculum and Assessment Review, I’m feeling more reassured than I was with the titbits leaked in advance to the press. I haven’t read every bit of it yet, but here are a few things I’m pleased about and a few things that worry me (definitely not comprehensive)…
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Having taken a look at the Curriculum and Assessment Review, I’m feeling more reassured than I was with the titbits leaked in advance to the press. I haven’t read every bit of it yet, but here are a few things I’m pleased about and a few things that worry me (definitely not comprehensive)…
This is TOO exciting.
Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it!
It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨
#HarryPotter
#Pottermore
#Audible
Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it!
It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨
#HarryPotter
#Pottermore
#Audible
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is TOO exciting.
Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it!
It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨
#HarryPotter
#Pottermore
#Audible
Can’t wait to pick my kids up from school so we can start it!
It’s got a full cast; scoring; a bunch of sound effects. Magical ✨
#HarryPotter
#Pottermore
#Audible
Good to be back, after a 2 week half term. Buzzing to be in school again.
My y11s were totally shocked by the child prostitution in Blake’s London,. Nice genuine “reader response” moment.
Also I used “6-7” in a lesson, to much hilarity.
#TeamEnglish
@teamenglish1.bsky.social
#UKed #TeachingRocks
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My y11s were totally shocked by the child prostitution in Blake’s London,. Nice genuine “reader response” moment.
Also I used “6-7” in a lesson, to much hilarity.
#TeamEnglish
@teamenglish1.bsky.social
#UKed #TeachingRocks
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November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Good to be back, after a 2 week half term. Buzzing to be in school again.
My y11s were totally shocked by the child prostitution in Blake’s London,. Nice genuine “reader response” moment.
Also I used “6-7” in a lesson, to much hilarity.
#TeamEnglish
@teamenglish1.bsky.social
#UKed #TeachingRocks
🍎🎓
My y11s were totally shocked by the child prostitution in Blake’s London,. Nice genuine “reader response” moment.
Also I used “6-7” in a lesson, to much hilarity.
#TeamEnglish
@teamenglish1.bsky.social
#UKed #TeachingRocks
🍎🎓
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Important things: AI is trained with all the negative aspects of society (like racism). AI isn't capable of the creativity or even intellectual lifting of human lesson planning. AI maybe can help with some efficiencies or proofing (although that's even questionable), but remember it's a robot.
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Important things: AI is trained with all the negative aspects of society (like racism). AI isn't capable of the creativity or even intellectual lifting of human lesson planning. AI maybe can help with some efficiencies or proofing (although that's even questionable), but remember it's a robot.
Read all of this. Horrifying story and mortifying double standards in reporting. And an insult to ‘nerdy scientists’ everywhere!
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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1/9
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Read all of this. Horrifying story and mortifying double standards in reporting. And an insult to ‘nerdy scientists’ everywhere!
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Finally, a good article about 6-7 and about youth sociolect and social meaning in general.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor
Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Finally, a good article about 6-7 and about youth sociolect and social meaning in general.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My half term read has been ‘Annie John’ by Jamaica Kincaid (1985), since we have added it to our year 8 curriculum. A candid story not quite like anything I’ve read before…
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#UKEd
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#UKEd
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My half term read has been ‘Annie John’ by Jamaica Kincaid (1985), since we have added it to our year 8 curriculum. A candid story not quite like anything I’ve read before…
🍎🎓
#UKEd
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#UKEd
Today’s charity shop book haul: pic 1 for my kids age 6 & 8, pic 2 for the internal room at school. All for under a tenner 👍📚🍎🎓
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today’s charity shop book haul: pic 1 for my kids age 6 & 8, pic 2 for the internal room at school. All for under a tenner 👍📚🍎🎓
Oh good, another new set of post 16 courses.
We really needed some of them…
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We really needed some of them…
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oh good, another new set of post 16 courses.
We really needed some of them…
🍎🎓
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We really needed some of them…
🍎🎓
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For Black History Month & culture day today I wore my Somali Baati, my Jewish ‘tichel’… and my high vis.
I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh.
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#BHM2025
#BestJobinTheWorld
#2WeekHalfTerm
I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh.
🍎 🎓
#BHM2025
#BestJobinTheWorld
#2WeekHalfTerm
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For Black History Month & culture day today I wore my Somali Baati, my Jewish ‘tichel’… and my high vis.
I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh.
🍎 🎓
#BHM2025
#BestJobinTheWorld
#2WeekHalfTerm
I also met an Egyptian Pharaoh.
🍎 🎓
#BHM2025
#BestJobinTheWorld
#2WeekHalfTerm
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Save the environment is a bold back up afternoon activity. Aim high.
Love this though
Love this though
October 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Save the environment is a bold back up afternoon activity. Aim high.
Love this though
Love this though
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Very much a fan of a week bookended by 2 x "snuggle up parties"
October 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Very much a fan of a week bookended by 2 x "snuggle up parties"
If anyone is looking for ideas of half term activities - look no further…
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If anyone is looking for ideas of half term activities - look no further…
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld
🍎🎓 #8YearsOld
Friday was another great English CPD day from the Harris Federation, planned & executed by the brilliant English consultants with some guest speakers/presenters including @trythisteaching.bsky.social, Holly Macguire, @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social &
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Friday was another great English CPD day from the Harris Federation, planned & executed by the brilliant English consultants with some guest speakers/presenters including @trythisteaching.bsky.social, Holly Macguire, @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social &
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓
@neilbowen3.bsky.social who I didn’t get to speak to🍎🎓
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SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
Your complete 21-page guide to success as an early career teacher - SecEd
Teaching is tough, yet incredibly rewarding. If you are to survive and thrive as an early career teacher and set yourself up for a long and happy career then you must build healthy habits from day…
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October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
SecEd’s annual 21-page guide for early career #teachers is out now, with advice & tips covering wellbeing, workload, #teaching, behaviour, #safeguarding, #CPD & more. With thanks to our friends @neunion.bsky.social for supporting this annual resource. Get your free pdf buff.ly/2FeSYa3 #edusky
At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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October 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
At a federation conference INSET day; hearing keynote from @trythisteaching.bsky.social via Zoom - wish you were here in person!
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I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m going on record to call that a radical, pro-democracy action. Any educative act that supplants device-driven attention/reliance with an individual’s skills is democratizing and anti-technocratic. Boss moves, babe. Boss moves.
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM