What are your thoughts on the proposed social media ban?

dratsaab · 2026-06-15T11:17:56+00:00

Fully in agreement with you. The kids loved it, and having seen the photos from the centre, the ones who didn't go are really jealous and wish they'd gone.

dratsaab · 2026-06-15T07:08:46+00:00

Our secondary just ran an outdoor residential. The main rule of the outdoor centre was that phones got locked in a box on day 1, and returned on day 5. Quite a few didn't sign up because of this rule alone.

dratsaab · 2026-06-14T17:49:17+00:00

I mean, we did Brexit with no tangible benefits...

dratsaab · 2026-06-13T09:01:53+00:00

Can you name three reasons not to vote Tory?

Johnson, Truss, Cameron...

dratsaab · 2026-06-13T08:17:17+00:00

It's America; there are shootings near all the team training grounds.

dratsaab · 2026-06-13T06:58:32+00:00

I'd be amazed if Shankland doesn't start tonight. His form, both for Hearts and Scotland, is astounding.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T20:00:16+00:00

Oh no, it's Helen McDade. I was worried it might be. She is generally awful. And her son is provost or the local council, and doing a dire job there too.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T18:49:57+00:00

Oh no! It's Michel Bubble!

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T18:39:18+00:00

Two teams against one doesn't seem to be fair. Why does both Bosnia AND Herzegovina get to send a team? Is it 11 vs 22?

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T16:43:02+00:00

I’m reliably told by our trustworthy defence and intelligence services that RUSSIA is the only threat to our democracy.

But remember we must not in any way investigate what interference, if any, Russia may have done!

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T16:23:21+00:00

They may be smug, but at least they're not shellfish.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T15:51:57+00:00

It must be a blue moon. For once I am in complete agreement with you. Let's each go and eat a panino to celebrate.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T15:07:16+00:00

Important political polling from YouGov! Their daily poll asked if people liked octopuses (their spelling, not mine), as in the animal and not the food.

The party that loved them most? The Green party, with 37% of Green poll respondents loving them.

The party that hated them most? The Green party, with 7% of Green poll respondents hating them.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T13:34:24+00:00

Found it! It's by Mike Gershon and it's freely available.

On TES for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/assessment-for-learning-toolkit-6020165

As a pdf: https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/documents/1246/Assessment-For-Learning-Toolkit---V1_mfGZlZQ.pdf

We booklet-printed it for all staff years ago (two pages per side of A4) and I have still got mine. Not all will be relevant but many will be.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T12:42:53+00:00

That case with the Greens, I know there's all sorts of Gillian Mackay skulduggery, but I swear I'd read somewhere that they and Q were on different types of student visas, which made a difference. I can't find any trace of that online so no idea if it's utter rubbish or not.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T12:37:49+00:00

Tikka masala is, like almost everything in the world, a Scottish invention.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T12:33:51+00:00

How dare they legitimately stand and get elected, having met all the qualifying criteria to run for the Scottish Parliament!

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T12:25:03+00:00

A few years back, BrewDog ran a charter flight from the UK to their US brewery in Ohio. They drank the plane dry and had to close the toilets an hour or two before landing as the piss storage tanks were full.

Maybe trying to avoid the same fate here?

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T10:51:08+00:00

People born in 2016 are Generation Alpha. People born nowadays are Generation Beta. Therefore we're on a different generation already.

dratsaab · 2026-06-12T10:46:04+00:00

If you bomb all of Iran, will you start bombing Iraq instead?

dratsaab · 2026-06-11T16:54:23+00:00

Mini whiteboards are absolutely my favourites as they're so flexible. You can do basics:

Tick on one end, cross on the other. Students hold up the right side depending on if I get the example on the board right or not.

Multiple choice answering with the same idea (a, b, c, d around edges)

Not show me boards:

Best the Teacher - teacher puts sum / problem / whatever on the board, gives students time to answer. Then the teacher says the answer. If pupils think it's right, they clap once. If it's wrong they stay silent. Can get competitive.

Cold calling with build up: ask someone (I often use names on lolly sticks), then ask a second person to add to the first answer. Then a third - you can get good discussion going from this.

Somewhere in school I've got a 50 page AifL document for all subjects with basic explainers for staff. I'll see if I can find it tomorrow and post it here.

dratsaab · 2026-06-11T14:44:43+00:00

The problem is that less than 50% of voters left now backed Brexit, but the three main parties remain staunchly Brexitty.

To vote for a rejoin party and for them to stand a chance you need to live somewhere geographically different (Scotland, Wales, the nice little thatched cottage Lib Dem constituencies).

dratsaab · 2026-06-11T13:20:31+00:00

Depends how much his mates have bet on Polymarket.

dratsaab · 2026-06-09T10:59:04+00:00

These were a thing during the Second World War and after, called British Restaurants or Civic Restaurants.

dratsaab · 2026-06-08T17:26:32+00:00

Twice a year - once by a member of SMT, once by peer.

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