Primary Teacher @Edinburgh_CC🍎✏️🏳️🌈🏴 PGDE 21/22 @UniStrathclyde 📚 Learning Japanese 🇯🇵 Will tweet about my dog 🐾
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined August 2021
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Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
Scottish pupils are being taught by 'a rotating cast of short-term staff', warns @Teachers4Perm after it published details of a survey - @Emma_Seith reports tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
📝 Public Survey: What’s really happening in Scotland’s schools?
🚨 Our schools are being held together by temp & supply teachers.
Permanent posts are disappearing. Staff are burning out. Pupils are losing consistency.
👀 Noticed constant teacher changes?
🎓 Know someone who can’t get a permanent teaching job?
📣 We want to hear from YOU.
Help us expose the impact of instability in education.
Take 2 mins to complete the survey:
🚨bit.ly/stfppublicsurvey🚨
🚨bit.ly/stfppublicsurvey🚨
Please share with as many as your friends as possible so we can try to get as many responses as possible!
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
In 2021, the Scottish Government committed to recruiting 3,500 additional teachers. There has been no progress made on the recruitment of additional teachers, in fact, teacher numbers have fallen for three years in a row and by 600 last year in Primary schools, while the workload of those in the system remains unsustainable.
There are 9 days left for COSLA and the Scottish Government to meaningfully and collegiately commit to addressing workload.
ALT 9 days left. Excessive teacher workload is unfair and unsustainable. There are 9 days left for COSLA and the Scottish Government to meaningfully and collegiately commit to addressing workload. Stand up for quality education.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
Scotland Tonight Spotlight: The teaching jobs shortfall
i.stv.tv/4hMGaUC
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
"We should be flooding Glasgow City Council schools with teachers and support staff, rather than looking to cut."
@EISUnion have called Glasgow teachers' decision to vote in favour of strike action a "last resort", due to planned education cuts in the city.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
Yesterday, @JennyGilruth said in parliament that supply was a choice for many teachers in Scotland.
Today, we asked 787 supply teachers if this was true.
97% of them told us that they rather not be on supply.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
It was only back in 2022 that the governments own modelling states the commitment made in Parliament to recruit an additional 3,500 teachers.
Now we are simply ‘maintaining’.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
The Scottish Government were elected in 2021 on a commitment to reduce class contact time to 21 hours. That commitment was made four years ago. There has still been no proposal for keeping this manifesto promise tabled at the SNCT. It is essential that any proposal on class contact time uses the full reduction to increase Preparation and Correction time.
1.5 hours of more preparation and correction time will mark a step forward in addressing the unsustainable workload of teachers.
1.5 hours of more preparation and correction time will allow teachers to better ensure quality learning for pupils, including those with ASN.
There are 23 days left for COSLA and the Scottish Government to meaningfully and collegiately commit to addressing workload.
ALT 23 days left. Excessive teacher workload is unfair and unsustainable. There are 23 days left for COSLA and the Scottish Government to meaningfully and collegiately commit to addressing workload. Stand up for quality education.
Pay an absolute fortune for @AvantiWestCoast trains for there to be no seats and passengers packed standing in the aisles. Here’s hoping I’m not standing from Crewe to Edinburgh.
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Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
It’s day 1 of #EduAdvent! A fantastic giveaway every day through advent! Today the awesome @BluecowE kick things off with a Fortnum and Mason Bellini box. Just ‘Like’, ‘repost’ and give @BluecowE a follow to enter! Winner announced this evening!
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
🔴 Exclusive: SNP told universities they could 'over-recruit' student primary teachers despite job shortages, via @CalumRoss23
scotsman.com/education/snp-t…
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
🚨 Edinburgh Council is CUTTING vital support for vulnerable children! 🚨
My concern is that this reckless move has the potential to INCREASE the misuse of seclusion and restraint in schools. 😥 With fewer staff experienced in supporting children with additional needs, classrooms will become more challenging, and stretched staff may resort to these harmful practices to manage behavior.
They meet on Nov 21st at 10am at City Chambers to discuss these devastating cuts.
We need YOU!
👉 Show up at City Chambers: Make your voice heard!
👉 Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio…
Our children deserve better! Let's show them we won't stand for this!
@Edinburgh_CC @cllrcammyday @Joan_griffiths @JohnSwinney @djohnsonmsp
@Miles4Lothian @ASNReformScot
@EmpowerEDScot @AshReganALBA
@ladymcbeth2 @MorrisonBeth @lezleymarion
@lmacinnessnp @CoelhoMatt94065
#SaveOurSupport #ASN #Inclusion #EdinburghCouncil #NoMoreCuts #OurChildrenDeserveBetter #DisabilityRights #UNCRC #TraumaInformedSchools
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
The truth is that there is no money to employ them, and in order to save money class sizes are being maximised and staffing cut to the bone. The main driver is balancing budgets, rather than educating children.
More ASN teachers are doubtlessly needed, but there won't be posts. – at Stewarton, Scotland
New: Education secretary Jenny Gilruth has said she is looking for “innovative approaches” to the lack of stable employment for primary teachers - including encouraging them to gain an another qualification to become ASN specialists
tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
We are calling for tighter restrictions on fireworks following the death of Roxie, our endangered red panda kit, on bonfire night.
Our expert vet team believe it's likely that three-month-old Roxie died due to stress caused by fireworks in the local area.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
Exclusive from @heraldscotland
Nearly 60% of new primary teachers in 2016/17 got a permanent job. In 2022/23 that had fallen to less than 20%.
In some council areas, it was 0%.
heraldscotland.com/news/2470…
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
Today's big education story from @heraldscotland
Newly qualified teachers’ prospects of finding permanent work have plummeted in the past seven years, with the situation much worse for primary teachers.
Read the full story here:
heraldscotland.com/news/2470…
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
We're one of over 120 organisations from @EndChildPoverty who are calling for the two-child limit to benefit payments to be scrapped by @RachelReevesMP in the #Budget this week.
Children cannot wait for change - every day that passes more children are pulled into poverty by this policy.
ALT The image features a message from End Child Poverty, urging the government to remove the two-child limit in its first Budget to prevent further harm. It emphasizes that scrapping the two-child limit is a crucial step to reduce child poverty in the UK. The message concludes with a call to action: "Now is the time to act: children can't wait." The logo of End Child Poverty, which includes a silhouette of a child holding a balloon, is visible at the bottom of the image.
Laura (Miss Spence) retweeted
So, @StrathEDU deletes their post after teachers began sharing their negative experiences? ❌
Instead of engaging with the real issues, they choose to hide from it. 👎
Many teachers detailed how they felt completely let down by the system, and this is the response?
I wonder how many teaching journeys via the PGDE at @StrathEDU didn’t get past the probation year due to the severe lack of jobs and the continuous churning out of more probationers.
I hope the 2024/2025 cohort are aware of the dire job prospects of this career.
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We need more JOBS for teachers. @JennyGilruth @gtcs
It’s time to listen to the voice of teachers. We need more, not fewer teachers! On World Teachers’ Day, the EIS is calling on @scotgov to honour their manifesto commitment to recruit an additional 3,500 teachers by 2026. #WorldTeachersDay #SU4QE #GoPublic #FundEducation
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