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This was an epic run in the snow. Total change of route mid way through as we were making incredibly slow progress in knee deep powdery snow. Gave us immense respect for all those starting the Spine Race this weekend. Speaking of which, if you haven’t been watching dots already this weekend then here are…
I love running in snow. It’s a hell of a workout. Didn’t go far today, ran the length of the hill behind our house, but I was the first idiot covering most of it so was running in 1-3 ft of undisturbed snow for much of it. Distance: 11km. New squares: 9. New peaks: 1….
Snow and ice, a first trig point, and a bump to the head! Distance: 13km. New squares: 5. New peaks: 1. New trig points: 1. SD9807 takes in the Saddleworth village of Delph. I almost always take the footpath along the river, rather than the high street. It’s quiet and another nice bit of industrial…
A beautiful January day to start ticking off squares & peaks. Glad I didn’t go out yesterday with fairly significant flooding in the local area. Distance: 13km. New squares: 9. New peaks: 2. First up was my home square of SD9905. The local playing fields were looking picturesque in the morning sun & frost. The…
I’m 45, √2025=45, time for a 2025 square based running challenge! I’ve ordered a custom OS Map centred on my village. 20km² = 400 map squares to visit. I’m going to attempt to visit them all. On foot. From my front door. Inspiration via @MElcoate. I’m planning on taking a photo (square of course) in…
Looking back on my near 20 years of paying union subs and working with unions in leadership I can think of a few reasons for apparent apathy in the teacher strikes voting.
So you’ve decided it’s time to get started with Mastodon but don’t know where to begin? Whether you’re dipping your toe into the ‘fediverse’ or leaving Twitter behind forever, this is a quick guide from my experience of leaving edutwitter and re-finding some joy in social media.
Originally posted as a LinkedIn article, this looks at the publication of the 2022 Secondary accountability measures. The first such results published for 3 years.
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/school-funding-crunch/ Introduction Balancing academy and MAT budgets has never been more challenging than it is now. This month’s Data Trends looks at the factors affecting budgets, and what MAT leaders can do in the world of data, curriculum & IT. …
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/exam-results-2022/. Introduction Last week saw GCSE/BTEC results published to join the A-Level results. Today’s news summary rounds up links to in-depth analysis from around the sector. A-Levels Recap The CAGs and TAGs process through 2020 and 2021 saw huge grade inflation…