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Grandad’s Pride - What Primary schools and parents need to know
You may have seen on social media or on the news, arguments over a book called Grandad's Pride, and whether it is inappropriate for...
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Ian Timbrell
- Aug 24
- 2 min
6 books to help you make your school more LGBT+ inclusive
Making our schools LGBT+ inclusive is incredibly important, but sometimes we can be unsure of where to start, if we are doing the right...
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Ian Timbrell
- Aug 12
- 7 min
The only gay in Montenegro?
Our trip to Montenegro marked the first time we had visited a Balkan state. Amid the picturesque landscapes and fascinating culture, the...
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Ian Timbrell
- Jun 1
- 5 min
Should Primary Schools Embrace Gay Pride?
Before you start reading this post, I think it’s important for me to state how difficult it was to write this piece. I spend most of my...
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Ian Timbrell
- Mar 13
- 8 min
Choking, anal sex and 72 genders? An opinion piece on what is really taught in RSE in the UK
Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, made the following statement in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday 8th...
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Ian Timbrell
- Mar 6
- 5 min
When RSE goes wrong
It’s no secret that Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) is an important part of helping young people understand healthy...
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Ian Timbrell
- Jan 15
- 6 min
Shut up Belinda: quietening my anxiety daemon
It’s a Saturday night and I’m on my own. I’m sat trying to watch TV, playing on my iPad, pouring another glass of wine and checking my...
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Ian Timbrell
- Jan 7
- 14 min
The Sinister RSE Code
The ever-reliable internet suggests that the Welsh and English RSE curricula: You could be led to believe that RSE is the worst thing to...
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Ian Timbrell
- Nov 24, 2022
- 1 min
World AIDS Day 2022
World AIDS day is on the 1st December 2022. Wales has pledged to end all HIV cases and transmissions by 2030, and educating our young...
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Ian Timbrell
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Should teachers come out of the closet?
There is a lot of conversation on social media at the moment from newly qualified teachers regarding whether they should be open about...
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Ian Timbrell
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Anti Bullying Week 2022 – That’s so gay
A poll in 2019 revealed that pupils are bullied for their sexuality more than race, gender or religion. Anti-bullying week is from the...
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Ian Timbrell
- Sep 20, 2022
- 7 min
What the LGBTQIA+? What do the letters mean and why do we need them?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my own identity, where I fit into the LGBTQIA+ community, what the purpose of these labels are,...
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Ian Timbrell
- Aug 16, 2022
- 4 min
Gender and school uniform; moving forward
It can be argued that our clothes, accessories, hairstyles and makeup are one of the fundamental external displays of gender that we...
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Ian Timbrell
- May 21, 2022
- 6 min
Should we be teaching grammar at all?
I feel sorry for grammar. It has far less research about it than reading, writing as a whole, or oracy, and much of the research...
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Ian Timbrell
- May 13, 2022
- 7 min
After dropping out of university at age 19, I had a breakdown and tried to take my own life.
This is my story about how being an in-denial gay teenager shaped me. A year ago, I posted a message telling my friends that I was...
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Ian Timbrell
- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
Using Prepositional Phrases in, through and within writing
Prepositional phrases are an invaluable tool, especially when writing a narrative or descriptive piece. Take this extract from Artemis...
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Ian Timbrell
- Apr 10, 2022
- 3 min
10 top tips for teaching grammar
1. Start with the endpoint Before you start teaching the grammar, write or at least look at the model. Which grammar do they actually...
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Ian Timbrell
- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
Why we don’t teach grammar
Ask a lot of teachers to describe what they teach in literacy, and I bet one thing will be missing: grammar. And yet, it’s such a...
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Ian Timbrell
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1 min
Grammar Curriculum Part 1: Introduction
Knowing where to start with a grammar curriculum can often be daunting for non-English specialists. However, when the basics of good...
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Ian Timbrell
- Mar 9, 2022
- 1 min
Grammar Podcast with Impact Wales
I was thrilled to join Fin and Jane from Impact Wales to discuss what the research says about the importance of grammar as well as my own...
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