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Financial literacy is covered to some extent in PSHCE, but there's an absolute mountain of stuff to cover. I teach at a school that has a lesson of PSHCE a week, but there are plenty of schools who do PSHCE drop down days 2-3 times a year where you get a day off timetable to cover a huge chunk of PSHCE. This year in PSHCE my form (year 8) will have 39 lessons to learn about these topics. Most are single lessons, some you get two weeks. Relationships - Running away, body image, sex, contraception, consent, comfort zones, sexting, friendship Health & wellbeing - Fire safety, prescription drugs, knife crime, personal finance, physical health, smoking, alcohol, period poverty Wider world - Islamophobia, child rights, CSE, extremism, sweatshops, racism, xenophobia, law & the legal process, data. Personal finance was two lessons looking at salaries, the cost of living and a brief intro to budgeting.
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Jun 3, 2021 10:20
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:Yeah that sounds like a lot to cover, but all pretty useful stuff , do you think they take much of it onboard? Bits. It definitely opens the eyes of many to things that they might not know otherwise. For example nearly no-one in my class had an idea what a sweatshop was, by the end of it they had an idea and there was some discussion about why people buy things from Primark rather than more expensive places and the challenge that has (if you can barely afford food then it's hard to justify buying a t-shirt for £10-15 rather than £3 'just' because it wasn't made by a kid in Bangladesh being paid 50p a day).
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Jun 3, 2021 11:28
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Bobstar posted:I was too unspecific, the "silliness" is the second half of the sentence: "why didn't they teach us X life skills instead of this useless trigonometry crap" - there is room for both. I'm a secondary computing teacher so not a primary expert but the general answer is because there's a mountain of everything else to do. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/at-school/ looks at it. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum is the official documents about what the national curriculum covers. KS1+2 are primary. For languages in particular I'm sure a lack of specialist knowledge is a huge impact too. Primary teachers teach everything. Each primary school will have a subject lead who is the 'expert' for that subject. Having been around local primary schools who have computing leads that don't at all feel comfortable with it, I can imagine the need to have a French and Spanish expert would be too much for many. My secondary school still has a language as a compulsory GCSE option and that leads to a lot of grumpy students who disengage.
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Jun 3, 2021 15:07
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Miftan posted:In my experience being a lead in a subject is a promotion so "oh you've taught this for a couple of years and our old one left". They're by no means an expert. A lot of teachers aren't even experts in teaching (because let's face it, 3 years is not enough time at all. Nobody is an expert on their undergrad subject), let alone their subject. Very fair comment. My degree in Computing is more than a decade old and I remember pretty much none of it. My 'expertise' in the subject is a lot more down to my interest & self-study in recent years focused on the exam specification for GCSE & A-Level, but there are still bits that baffle me - the difference between all the methodologies for one! Thankfully they mainly need to know a few bullet points as opposed to an actual understanding of intricate differences between the Agile/RAD/Waterfall/Spiral methodologies.
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Jun 3, 2021 16:07
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ThomasPaine posted:It is kinda a tricky one because I absolutely see the value in being able to informally socialise and even get drunk with people of varying seniority, but then I am a dude and I can see why hanging out with a bunch of horny old possibly predatory dudes in positions of authority might be very much not how a young lady would want to spend her evening! I actually have no idea how you square the circle here between keeping the good things you get by allowing personal friendships and preventing harassment and abuse, from a policy perspective. Yeah. When I was in Mexico City taking Spanish classes at the uni there, we went out drinking with our Mexican history teacher (late 30s). It was great. Then he got wasted and started hitting on the 20ish year-old Korean students and they found it incredibly awkward.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:43
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ThomasPaine posted:remember when we were all just going to have to stay at home for three weeks and this would all blow over, lol Yup. I remember the certainty from other teachers on March 20th when we were telling students that they'd be going home that we'd obviously be back after the Easter holidays. I mean they were. It was just after the summer holidays too.
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Jun 14, 2021 22:10
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keep punching joe posted:Labour are going to lose batley and spen because of anti semitism Is the claim that they're losing votes with Muslim voters because Labour are antisemitic or because Labour opposed antisemitism? I really can't tell from that.
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Jun 20, 2021 11:05
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't know about the machines, but I know my brother-in-law has to go up to London quite a lot in 'normal' times and I know if he catches a train in Newport he has to pay peak, but if he drives to Bristol (an extra 20 mins) and catches THE SAME TRAIN he only has to buy off-peak saving £10s. Couldnt they buy a peak ticket to Bristol and then an off-peak one from there? Split ticketing is definitely allowed and can save decent money. Not done it for a couple of years but assuming it's not been cleaned up.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:36
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Paperhouse posted:Question(s) about student loans that I thought you guys might be helpful with The way it can negatively impact is that if they decide you're ignoring them then they can decide you need to make fixed repayments of a few hundred quid a month and then get grumpy when you don't pay it. When I was overseas I'd send them a letter every year or two either saying this is where I am and here's proof of income or I'm overseas and not working so can't repay.
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Jun 21, 2021 17:23
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jiggerypokery posted:Did he actually get anything done in education or dis brexit corsair everything? He was education before Brexit, 2010-2014. He pushed for academisation and reform of qualifications. He was also a big believer in improving academic rigour. Wiki page about it
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Jun 27, 2021 11:33
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jiggerypokery posted:Did England take the knee before the match? If so are there any implosions on right twitter? Yes and will for every match. Both teams did today. Mild boos but drowned out by cheers.
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Jun 29, 2021 22:55
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https://twitter.com/dancardenmp/status/1410619872715808771?s=21 is he a decent egg normally? There's that video and then one going around Liverpool asking businesses to put pride flags up. Would be nice to have another Labour MP who isn't terrible.
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Jul 2, 2021 06:38
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Javid posted:Asked about his own future mask use, Javid told Today he would “carry a mask with me for the foreseeable future” and wear it in crowded and enclosed spaces. However, he said he would choose to not do so even if it was recommended if the space concerned was not crowded. Excellent. We have a Health Secretary that says that he would ignore mask recommendations in some circumstances. Really does feel like the Hancock video was released to get rid as he wasn't as aggressive as Javid.
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Jul 6, 2021 12:38
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Gary Nev with a fun dig at Boris. Comment about Southgate along the lines of it's good to see a leader with honesty and integrity after the last two years.
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Jul 7, 2021 23:21
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ThomasPaine posted:I had a fiver on a draw in the England-Denmark game and won just under twenty quid then stupidly chucked it all on one of those online wheel of fortune games the bookies have and turned it into £600, good day. I'm not sure whether this is an argument for casinos because that was pretty sick, or against them because now I definitely think I can magic money out of nothing and will probably blow all my cash trying to repeat the success after a few pints The beauty of gambling and why it's so dangerous. Win? That was easy. I can win more! Lose? I'm sure to win next time. It's ready to pay out! I'm glad I made a good chunk off bookies with matched betting before it turned garbage. They're a terrible lot.
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Jul 8, 2021 17:39
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hookerbot 5000 posted:I actually asked a class of secondary school kids this the other week - we were doing a lesson for Pride week and the importance of being an Ally. Part of it was the importance of not letting homophobic language pass and I used the example of calling things gay when you mean it's a bit rubbish. They looked a bit blank at that so I asked if it was still something people said and they said it wasn't so I got to feel extra old (but also pleased obviously). Lovely isn't it feeling old. DofE safeguarding came out this week and so sexting should be called sending nudes instead as that's the term used. Pride month was lovely. Lots of chatting about it and a few of them (year 8) worried that they didn't know yet. Lots of reassurance from others about how that's fine. We also watched Out by Pixar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkLZN0ziLuI
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Jul 8, 2021 20:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think the highest compliment I can pay to it is that every once in a while I remember the last two episodes and smile. Not just at the actual ending of the story, which was moving without being schmaltzy and somehow managed to make three of the four main characters choosing to end their existence seem like a happy ending and even get a few laughs out of it Jason's "Hey Chidi wait up!" is just the most perfect summary of the character and so the perfect ending for him, but at the meta-game of how the writers managed to escape what was, between seasons 2 and 3, looking increasingly like a fairly repetitive formula and throw in a hell of a twist right at what would have been, for a less brave creator, a natural ending point when they got to The Good Place having finally fixed the problems of the scoring system - to not only decide to explore the problems of a "perfect" eternity but also solve them once you've got to that point is ballsy as *hell*, no matter what way you cut it. Thanks for posting that. I watched the 4 seasons over the last few days. What a glorious show.
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Jul 15, 2021 20:59
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At my school some staff have been given the choice between doing a lateral flow each day or isolating. Not sure how the decision has been made. It's all just seemed very random. Obviously there was nothing random about Boris & Rishi.
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Jul 18, 2021 11:43
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happyhippy posted:"Look here Baldrick, we found a little bit of clay pottery here, look you can just about see it here in my hand. we can extrapolate from that we had a roaring town of people living like old times people! Cue the artist renditions or people dressed up as them." Visiting ruins in Central America had that feeling at times. I had a Mexican student ID so got free/heavily discounted entry to ruins. This meant instead of just going to the big ones like Chichen Itza and Tulum I went to a few where there was a field with a couple of stones that had been excavated. Nothing else visible other than the display board that had an artist's rendition of a temple and a few paragraphs about it. Absolutely baffling.
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Jul 29, 2021 14:23
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The Perfect Element posted:Cycled about 8k in my lunch break. I was a lot of fun but I forgot how much effort is required to go up even pretty small hills and secondly OH MY GOD MY ARSE. I seem to remember that not long ago someone recommended some kind of revolutionary bum-saving accessory you can get... Anyone care to make that recommendation again? https://mantasaddle.co.uk/ is the greatest saddle most people have never seen. Looks ridiculous but removes any kind of some bum and you kinda feel like you're getting a massage instead. Also acts as a deterrent because most people would be too confused to sit on it and steal it.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:14
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's the weirdest reason to vote Labour I've seen yet. That sounds massively off. 4300g of cheese. 1000 crackers is only 4.3g per cracker and that seems very stingy. I'd say you want at least 10g but don't currently have access to cheese or scales to confirm this.
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Aug 17, 2021 22:09
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Biggus Dickus posted:Missus Dickus convinced me to get YouTube Premium because she likes streaming music while she works. It comes with massive advance removing all tacked-on ads. YouTube has different pricing depending on which country you are registered in. For example, if you give it an address in India then it's 189 rupee a month (£1.85). It doesn't really seem to impact much beyond the initial recommendations on YouTube Music which may be a lot of different types of Indian music. They are clearly aware I'm not there. But would rather get 2 quid a month off me than 0.
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Aug 22, 2021 10:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:tried for a wile to set up that youtube premium via India using a VPN and screwing with my Google Pay settings, but apparently I'm too dumb to pull it off so I'll just ignore annoying videos for the rest of my life I guess https://amp.reddit.com/r/beermoneyuk/comments/juvpud/youtube_premium_114_a_month/ is is a guide on how to do it. Give that a glance. I'm sure you can manage it!
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Aug 22, 2021 22:38
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https://www.moneydashboard.com/ may be a useful website to help if you prefer a less hands on approach. Link it to your accounts and it'll keep track of what went in and out and categorise things for you.
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Aug 23, 2021 06:41
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keep punching joe posted:I used that for a bit but could never get comfortable with the idea granting consent for a third-party app having access to my online banking login (they say it's apparently 'read-only' but that raised an eyebrow as it had the full login details which gives access to do everything). Completely understandable. I'm assuming that the API only let's them receive transaction details. They can't actually log in to your bank as you don't give them your password. I think it's like when you use Single Sign On to access websites via Google/Facebook/Microsoft accounts. A key is granted and stored that lets them perform specific and limited functions.
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Aug 23, 2021 07:50
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keep punching joe posted:Starling Bank's app actually has some decent cash tracking features so you can follow your spending easier. I was amazed it existed last year when I found it. I learnt Python 3 years ago and the first thing I did was write a program to logon to each of my ~10 accounts (artefact of taking advantage of countless switching bonuses and the like) to scrape them and keep track of my balances.
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Aug 23, 2021 08:28
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Money dashboard is categorising my £5 expenditure on patreon as my "Income" and my actual income as "Transport". You can definitely reclassify. I assume it then learns from that but don't have that much experience with it to be honest.
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Aug 23, 2021 17:39
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jacksbrat posted:While banking app chat is happening, does anyone use any of the new online banks for multi currency stuff? Next year I'm starting a secondment in the US and wondering about how to pay for stuff without getting screwed with conversion fees. Paying rent is going to be a nightmare no matter what, I'm guessing. When I was travelling I used a variety of cards. Creation and Starling both worked near enough everywhere without conversion fees.
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Aug 23, 2021 23:35
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Guavanaut posted:Their budget burgers are the cheapest source of calorific value in human history and also delicious, but subsidized by their more expensive stuff and also the destruction of the environment and workers' rights so there are both pros and cons. 300ml of double cream is a quid at Asda and 1500 calories. Perfectly delicious meal. Lack of protein is a slight issue but better for the environment and workers rights.
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Aug 24, 2021 12:17
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Comrade Fakename posted:Do not drink a third of a litre of cream for a meal. I have done many a month on a ketoish diet, including when I was doing long distance triathlons. I had no problems drinking that much cream and then going for a 80k bike ride. It's not for everyone, but it does work. The alternate of a couple of balls of mozzarella for the same price is much fewer calories.
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Aug 24, 2021 16:36
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Intermittent fasting and low carb are the two best ways I've found to control my weight. They combine together well too. Takes a few days to get used to it, but during lockdown 1 I ate in a 4 hour window (noon - 4pm) and had no issues with it. Now breakfast is huel with coconut flakes. Best thing for easy meals that taste good is a slow cooker. They're usually simple recipes too which helps.
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Aug 25, 2021 00:36
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm confused because last week we seemed to be talking about how the alpaca tested negative twice in NZ and would have died by now if it had been positive for TB; how the UK test is notoriously innacurate against alpacas and how it was basically DEFRA not wanting to give anyone a legal grounding to question the badger cull. But apparently it's now straightforward rich lady bad. I definitely remember that version of the story being said on Podcasting is Praxis, but don't know the truth.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:48
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