Ruth Westwood
@ruthwestw.bsky.social
Exec HT of a multi site PRU/AP in southwest UK, like gardening, pets, crafts, books and music.
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🗑️ 'Rigorous literacy and numeracy proficiency tests that students can take when they are ready could be introduced readily'
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🗑️ 'Rigorous literacy and numeracy proficiency tests that students can take when they are ready could be introduced readily'
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We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
Bluesky: help a museum out
August 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
Bluesky: help a museum out
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🤝 A 16-school trust is set to merge with a group of specialist academies, as it bids to support children with 'a broader range of needs'
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Special trust joins 16-school MAT
Merger plans revealed for 'truly inclusive' trust as more MATs look to add SEND expertise
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August 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🤝 A 16-school trust is set to merge with a group of specialist academies, as it bids to support children with 'a broader range of needs'
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New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
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July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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We are up and running! Come see us at @romanpalace.bsky.social I'm off to sneak into a hypocaust!
July 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We are up and running! Come see us at @romanpalace.bsky.social I'm off to sneak into a hypocaust!
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Great news! UNESCO adds Minoan Palace sites in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage list!
Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺
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#Archaeology
Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺
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#Archaeology
July 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great news! UNESCO adds Minoan Palace sites in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage list!
Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺
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#Archaeology
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Reducing emissions and seeing more from your trip. Would you consider switching flights for train travel? ✈️🚄
Check out Find Your Climate Action for tips on:
💰 How to book the best deals
📍 Destination inspiration
🚞 Scenic train routes
Take a look: brnw.ch/21wSYCo
Check out Find Your Climate Action for tips on:
💰 How to book the best deals
📍 Destination inspiration
🚞 Scenic train routes
Take a look: brnw.ch/21wSYCo
Travel by train instead of plane for your next holiday | Natural History Museum
Taking the train is a more sustainable way of travelling than flying and it allows you to discover hidden gems along your way.
brnw.ch
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reducing emissions and seeing more from your trip. Would you consider switching flights for train travel? ✈️🚄
Check out Find Your Climate Action for tips on:
💰 How to book the best deals
📍 Destination inspiration
🚞 Scenic train routes
Take a look: brnw.ch/21wSYCo
Check out Find Your Climate Action for tips on:
💰 How to book the best deals
📍 Destination inspiration
🚞 Scenic train routes
Take a look: brnw.ch/21wSYCo
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Train travel has its own benefits, like seeing more of the countries you travel through. 🛤️
Plus, going straight to city centres and avoiding the travel and waiting at airports can result in a similar travel time to quick flights - but with a very different environmental impact!
Plus, going straight to city centres and avoiding the travel and waiting at airports can result in a similar travel time to quick flights - but with a very different environmental impact!
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Train travel has its own benefits, like seeing more of the countries you travel through. 🛤️
Plus, going straight to city centres and avoiding the travel and waiting at airports can result in a similar travel time to quick flights - but with a very different environmental impact!
Plus, going straight to city centres and avoiding the travel and waiting at airports can result in a similar travel time to quick flights - but with a very different environmental impact!
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Did you know that on average, a train journey produces up to 96.5% fewer CO2 emissions than a comparable flight?
In fact, a return flight from Manchester to Rome produces more CO2 emissions than a person living in Nepal generates in a year! 😱
In fact, a return flight from Manchester to Rome produces more CO2 emissions than a person living in Nepal generates in a year! 😱
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Did you know that on average, a train journey produces up to 96.5% fewer CO2 emissions than a comparable flight?
In fact, a return flight from Manchester to Rome produces more CO2 emissions than a person living in Nepal generates in a year! 😱
In fact, a return flight from Manchester to Rome produces more CO2 emissions than a person living in Nepal generates in a year! 😱
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed about how to help the environment? 🌍
We all want to fix our planet - but it’s a big job, and hard to know how. Luckily, we’ve got a great new tool called Find Your Climate Action, and we’re exploring one action today - switching short haul flights for train travel ✈️⬇️
We all want to fix our planet - but it’s a big job, and hard to know how. Luckily, we’ve got a great new tool called Find Your Climate Action, and we’re exploring one action today - switching short haul flights for train travel ✈️⬇️
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Do you ever feel overwhelmed about how to help the environment? 🌍
We all want to fix our planet - but it’s a big job, and hard to know how. Luckily, we’ve got a great new tool called Find Your Climate Action, and we’re exploring one action today - switching short haul flights for train travel ✈️⬇️
We all want to fix our planet - but it’s a big job, and hard to know how. Luckily, we’ve got a great new tool called Find Your Climate Action, and we’re exploring one action today - switching short haul flights for train travel ✈️⬇️
A few people have liked this so I thought I’d better credit the maker. Penny Simpson is on Instagram and she has an online shop www.pennysimpsonceramics.co.uk
Her studio is well worth a visit in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
Her studio is well worth a visit in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
May 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A few people have liked this so I thought I’d better credit the maker. Penny Simpson is on Instagram and she has an online shop www.pennysimpsonceramics.co.uk
Her studio is well worth a visit in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
Her studio is well worth a visit in Moretonhampstead, Devon.
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Check out this beautiful wooden shovel and antler pick from Bronze Age Britain #FindsFriday 🏺
Currently in the Cornwall Museum, they are some of the oldest of their kind in Europe and would have been used to mine tin traded as far as the Levant!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Currently in the Cornwall Museum, they are some of the oldest of their kind in Europe and would have been used to mine tin traded as far as the Levant!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
May 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Check out this beautiful wooden shovel and antler pick from Bronze Age Britain #FindsFriday 🏺
Currently in the Cornwall Museum, they are some of the oldest of their kind in Europe and would have been used to mine tin traded as far as the Levant!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Currently in the Cornwall Museum, they are some of the oldest of their kind in Europe and would have been used to mine tin traded as far as the Levant!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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WE WON!
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
WE WON!
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
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May 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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"Improve & connect existing temperate rainforest"
Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project
Glad to have inputted to the consultation process
dartmoorfarmcluster.org/our-landscap...
Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project
Glad to have inputted to the consultation process
dartmoorfarmcluster.org/our-landscap...
May 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Improve & connect existing temperate rainforest"
Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project
Glad to have inputted to the consultation process
dartmoorfarmcluster.org/our-landscap...
Exciting to see the new 'Dartmoor Landscape Vision' published by the Duchy of Cornwall & the tenant farmer-led Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery project
Glad to have inputted to the consultation process
dartmoorfarmcluster.org/our-landscap...
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For #FindsFriday here's a fabulous bronze boar from the Lexden Tumulus burial near Colchester, Essex
Dated to the late Iron Age ~10BC, it may have belonged to King Addedomarus of the Trinovantes tribe!
📍In the Colchester Castle #Museum
📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #blueskymuseums🏺
Dated to the late Iron Age ~10BC, it may have belonged to King Addedomarus of the Trinovantes tribe!
📍In the Colchester Castle #Museum
📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #blueskymuseums🏺
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
For #FindsFriday here's a fabulous bronze boar from the Lexden Tumulus burial near Colchester, Essex
Dated to the late Iron Age ~10BC, it may have belonged to King Addedomarus of the Trinovantes tribe!
📍In the Colchester Castle #Museum
📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #blueskymuseums🏺
Dated to the late Iron Age ~10BC, it may have belonged to King Addedomarus of the Trinovantes tribe!
📍In the Colchester Castle #Museum
📸 Mine #archaeology #museums #ancientbluesky #blueskymuseums🏺
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Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists
British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Today’s best blooms. The wisteria is full of bees, a constant hum. Laburnum is just coming out and roses getting going.
May 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today’s best blooms. The wisteria is full of bees, a constant hum. Laburnum is just coming out and roses getting going.
Today’s flower highlights . So good this year with plenty of sun, some gentle rain and less wind to blow it away.
May 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today’s flower highlights . So good this year with plenty of sun, some gentle rain and less wind to blow it away.
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*Part 3 of Time Team's Sutton Hoo series premieres on YouTube at 7pm (BST)*. The heat is on in this installment! As the summer heatwave peaks, the dig enters its final week bringing discoveries and determination.
If you need to catch up you'll find previous episodes here:
If you need to catch up you'll find previous episodes here:
Time Team Official
Right here, you’ll find all the latest Time Team news and a whole host of classic content from the last 25 years, including NEW TIME TEAM EPISODES, official episode commentaries, exclusive…
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May 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
*Part 3 of Time Team's Sutton Hoo series premieres on YouTube at 7pm (BST)*. The heat is on in this installment! As the summer heatwave peaks, the dig enters its final week bringing discoveries and determination.
If you need to catch up you'll find previous episodes here:
If you need to catch up you'll find previous episodes here:
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The Melsonby hoard, or about 1-2% of it, is currently on display at the entrance of the Yorkshire Museum for fundraising to purchase the find. Stunning late Iron Age metalwork deposit, dominated by horse & vehicle fittings. Visited on Tuesday, & blown away by it!
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May 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The Melsonby hoard, or about 1-2% of it, is currently on display at the entrance of the Yorkshire Museum for fundraising to purchase the find. Stunning late Iron Age metalwork deposit, dominated by horse & vehicle fittings. Visited on Tuesday, & blown away by it!
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Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.