Helen

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A secondary school English Teacher looking to connect with interesting, innovative people. Loves good cheese, good walks and good animals.
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LocationHampshire, UK

Set myself up on Pinterest. Take a look if that’s the kind of thing you’re into…

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On Pride and why I haven’t always been that good at it.

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gay #pride #pride2025

http://questioninguk.blog/2025/06/01/pride-and-shame/

Pride and Shame

Hello again!  It’s been a while.  The last few months have been pretty busy, as I suspect they have for most teachers, but Year 11 have gone off on study leave and it’s given me some time…

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Are there 1000 people who are as Anti-AI as I am and have 25p spare?

There are FIVE (edit:TWELVE) of us so far who are supporting this release in an attempt to make a statement! ❤️

All you have to do is add this to your Bandcamp collection - think of it signing a petition but also with the added bonus of screwing with the leechbots and the AI algos.

Yes - it is 60 minutes of silence and the bots are scraping it 😆

https://kelaudio.bandcamp.com/album/rage

#AI #Anti-AI #ArtistRights #YouWouldntStealACar

Rage, by kel.audio

1 track album

kel.audio

Hello. I’m on Reddit now. Feel free to connect there if you are too.

https://www.reddit.com/u/questioninguk/s/iOTQicPsZ4

The perfect British holiday picture doesn't exis....

Kai waking up from a nap and contemplating life, the universe and everything. In a hat. @forestfjord

#sillySummerHatting

I made a thing … es ist so cute! 🥰

Okay. I'm a teacher, so let me say this in a way everybody can understand.

If you ask me for $5 and I say no, but you take it out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you ask me for $5 and I'm too drunk to either say yes or no, but you take $5 from my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If I give $5 to your friend, so you decide that gives you the right to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I gave $5 to you yesterday, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse today, that's stealing.

If I'm flashing hundred dollar bills on the street, just really flaunting how much money I have, so you decide to take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If I tell you I'll give you $5, but then, while reaching into my purse to get it, I change my mind and say actually no, but you decide to take the $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you hold a gun to my head and force me to give you $5, even if I physically reach into my purse and hand you the $5 without another word, that's stealing.

If no one has ever given you $5, and you can see I have extra money in my purse, so you take $5, that's stealing.

If we're married, and you ask for $5 and I say no, but you decide to take $5 out of my purse anyway, that's stealing.

If you say "God gave me $5" and then take $5 out of my purse, that's stealing.

If you're my boss, and you tell me you'll fire me if I don't give you $5 right now, that's stealing.

If you want $5, and I reach in my purse and only give you $1, but you reach in while the purse is open and take $5 anyway, that's stealing.

If you pretend to be my friend in the hopes that being my friend will someday lead to me deciding to give you $5, you aren't actually my friend. And if you take the $5 you were expecting to get for pretending to be my friend, that's stealing.

The reason all men can easily understand this, and that there are no "grey areas" in stealing $5, is that men value $5 more than they value a woman's body.

A moment of teaching insanity today - which I did contribute to, fair enough. A Yr11 guessed exactly the poem and question on their Lit Paper 1 - so I bought them a bag of onions as a prize ("I give you an onion" Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy). Another student then proceeded to eat a raw onion, just because. It was a spicy one. Tears and retching ensued. The rest of the day: "It smells of onions in here, Ms". #Teaching #Education #SecondarySchool #CarolAnnDuffy #Poetry #Poem #Onions
Nos da pawb / goodnight all