Naomi Andersson 🌍🌱

Awwww thwarted 😹

Does it? Spending their untaxed cash here when they do visit? What does their untaxed cash here go on? How does it benefit local economies? How does it benefit the national economy? I guess a bit of VAT. I think it is grossly unequal. I think it’s naive to think they want to settle back here too.

🤣 thoughts and prayers

Crumpets and tea, yes please!

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Can you just imagine….. controlling the historical narrative, nationalistic histories and geographies. Hopefully I’ll be well gone by then. I’ll be out at 57. Early exit and do something else. Counting the days.

#geographyteacher #watersecurity great visualisation. Y12 Geog covered glacial retreat this week, @theguardian.com article last year stating 2 billion worldwide reliant on retreating glacial waters.

De-colonising the curriculum has been a long running thread at the Geography Association, it’s very cool to take the blinkers off and add some perspectives 👍

My colleague that teaches Environmental Sci says we teach the most depressing subjects, it’s an effort to find silver linings in some of our topics. The end of unit specification point is ‘oceans pose a threat to the safety of humans’ so we’ve done rubber boats, Mediterranean migrant routes and this

Brrrrr 🥶 absolutely beautiful images. I love love love ferns 🌱💕🌱

Oh my days…. this is such a thing of beauty! 💕🌱💕 is there a collective name for fern lovers?

Mine did a massive print out in those green stripey pages with holes down the sides. It had everything from Jockey to Prime Minister on 🤭

🤣 social mobility is one of the proposed solutions, alternatives to a life within organised crime - start them young.

Another is poacher turned gamekeeper idea, make them inf security forces protecting from piracy and pay them well.

Third is multi national & collaboration defence. US led force

Middle East temporarily off the cards then.

Imagine life with a dog, it’s this x1000 🙀 enjoy ☺️

Under The Hague convention, that would entail the “victor”:

Protect civilians & maintain public order
Respect existing local laws
Protect property & cultural sites
Ensure food, medical care, & basic welfare
Prohibit collective punishment or reprisals against civilians

Good luck with that America…

I bet you feel really empowered 😬🙄

Politics finished BTEC cake obvs … Friday graveyard shift has to have its plusses 🥱😴🤭

Teaching Today 2/2:
Year 12 BTEC: chocolate cake for B’s b-day. Marketing Mix 7Ps in detail.
Year 12 Politics: elections and Referenda case study on the EU referendum. Used Teachermatic AI to summarise and simplify massive impenetrable pdf with great success!

Teaching today 1/2 🧵:
Y1 Geography: finishing up strategies for management of ocean piracy. Then starting Glaciated Landscapes.
Y1 &Y2 Tutor: careers fair class challenge collect freebies and speak to an adult who is not a member of staff.

Favourite cover…. We saw a Mariachi band doing Oasis once, surreal and weirdly wonderful 🤣

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Brilliant!

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Oh come on @financialtimes.com you are better than this. What do you take us for? Sort your headline out. Billionaire risks civilian workers lives in war zone.

Ah so I’ve got it backwards 👍 it’s a beautiful drawing

Is this above the field centre, I’ve had my breakfast looking at that view from a little lower down I think? 🤔

Consultation Evening: wall to wall adoring parents of delightful students. Good evening had by all. 👏💕

Teaching today: Y12 Politics; 1983,1997 and 2019 elections, voting behaviour and influence of opposition, media, policy, manifesto and leadership style. Students fascinated by pre mobile pre internet daily papers etc.
Y12 BTEC Business; Marketing Mix part 1. 7Ps

10 years ago we used to teach that Fracking became financially viable over $65 a barrel, they would just down tools if the barrel price dropped. I don’t actually know today’s figures but… it figures.