Life long Londoner, born, educated and now specialist Computing teacher. Here in a purely personal capacity. Views my own.
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Because it is the first Saturday of October 2026, a #morningmugshot #refill because @schoolschess will be happening again where I work after a ten year break...
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Ready for the visit by members of the team from @planceibal who will be coming to visit the school I work in to observe me teach this Tuesday, 6th October...
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Well that @gotynker was astonishingly easy and quick to do. Shifting into stage mode with the chess board I created and imported, I can drag and drop all of the pieces from your actors media library to get this result or display...
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Thank you @dare_richard and @PardoeMary for ♥️ last Knight's post (see what I did there!). Anyways, my #morningmugshot is realising that the third rank is on the horizontal where x is zero and the d-file is approximately where y is equal to -146 on my @gotynker project.
Saying goodnight and farewell to Friday with the link to the teaching the Knight's Tour programming challenge guide full document I have written. #Goodnight drive.google.com/file/d/1Mth…
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Saying goodnight and farewell to Friday with the link to the teaching the Knight's Tour programming challenge guide full document I have written. #Goodnight drive.google.com/file/d/1Mth…
Thank you @hari_neo21 for ❤️ my @TheChessShopUK post. Got this work in progress because I've realised chess is a perfect screen free way of teaching computational thinking techiques to children aged 8 plus...
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I know that this a blatant rip off from a rival product but this @c @GrumpyCompSci is what I was thinking for the @Kitrtonik #MaiZ light and dance display that I was twittering on about earlier this week. Anyway, happy Friday!
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Thank you @hari_neo21 for ❤️ my @TheChessShopUK post. Got this work in progress because I've realised chess is a perfect screen free way of teaching computational thinking techiques to children aged 8 plus...
1 of 2: Hello again @TheChessShopUK Firstly ♥️ the new X handle. Had a wonderful after school @schoolschess meeting attended by nine brilliant junior players. Sadly, we didn't have enough sets for all to play so am wondering if I should invest in a set of these because...
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Elevensies because of a change of timetable this week, I have three Year 2 classes to teach from 12.30pm this Friday afternoon...
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Apologies for the absence of my #morningmugshot from the #teacher5oclockclub but returning with an epic #GetUpGetGoing offering dedicated to @cheesepudding3 @And0h2 Skills, knowledge and vocabulary for 12 programming lessons from Y1 to Y6 per year group. drive.google.com/file/d/1aNN…
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1 of 2: Hello again @TheChessShopUK Firstly ♥️ the new X handle. Had a wonderful after school @schoolschess meeting attended by nine brilliant junior players. Sadly, we didn't have enough sets for all to play so am wondering if I should invest in a set of these because...
Thank you @chessandbridge for the brilliant buying advice yesterday afternoon. My son was delighted with his gift and being able to have a wonderfully weighted Schools tournaments standards set to get some OTB practice against me. He is so formidable, beats me everytime...
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This @MattTheApp is brilliant! Thank you for sharing!
🧠 Need students to recall key facts before starting a topic?
Try Tim’s Game (thanks @timnmiddleton 🙌).
Students read each fact, then try to remember what disappeared. Simple, quick and great for retrieval!
mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/tims…
#iteachmaths #mathsteacher #MathsToday
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Because my teenage offspring are into #CelebrityTraitors #Traitor or #Faithful ? #BeigeFood for TV dinner...
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Getting emails like these reminds me that 1️⃣ despite this platform becoming Marmite, I prefer to be here than elsewhere. Also 2️⃣ grateful that I am a Classroom based salary serf and never want to be anywhere else irrespective of how temporarily lucrative...
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#Grateful 1️⃣ for the beautiful start to October 2026 with weather feeling more like Summer than Autumn 2️⃣ wonderful new tradition of Autumn Term Sports Day and 3️⃣ working with colleagues who share my enthusiasm for making chess part of the curriculum again @schoolschess
Apologies that this is an technologically assisted edit as using the window frame of the train I was aboard causes the horizon to appear tilted by about 5 degrees anti clockwise...
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...while Earth's diameter approximated to be 12,742 kilometres is only a mere 75 million of its actual scale from the graphic of this rug...
As the Sun is thought to approximately 1.39 million kilometres in diameter, the graphical depiction of the centre of our Solar System is over 2,527 million times smaller...
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As the Sun is thought to approximately 1.39 million kilometres in diameter, the graphical depiction of the centre of our Solar System is over 2,527 million times smaller...
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So how was your first Thursday of October? New tradition of spending all day as an official at the School's Sports Day which will be an Autumn Term event from now on followed by after school @schoolschess club with some amazing junior players...
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