This is the Fe show with Sammy White.
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Hello, good evening everybody. Welcome along to the Fe show with me Sammy and we've got loads of exciting things coming up this evening.
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We've got our brand new host joining us, and so that's very exciting and we've got a new host called Jack joining us tonight.
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And Jack is Emma, wonderful human being and currently working in an Fe college as a support assistant. And so a truly truly rightful place from to be with us here at Jfm.
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An absolutely right for him to be with us on the Fe show as well. I don't think you can underestimate the importance of support staff, particularly in Fe at the moment, and I'm sure across all the education sections as well.
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But this is the official. My name is Sammy and we've got another bit as well coming up an from well from our well being expert Nick.
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He's recorded as a little section that will play out and then of course my car hostilis. We've got another little speech from her, so without further ado will make a start and will hear from police this evening.
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Buffer, but we're getting there. We're getting there.
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Okay, it will have to come back to an easy match against Jack. First will see will give it one more try and see if it will work.
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Okay, will come back to Leeds, it might, it might just randomly start playing as I'm talking.
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Well, it's gonna be done by Jones this evening.
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Jones contacted us via our website, so if you're listening to this thinking, I want to be part of this. I wanna join in. I've got something to say and please do just fill in our website.
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Otherwise known as Queen Elise.
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Today I will be talking about the challenges that I have overcome. I have a disability called cerebral palsy which affects my movement and coordination caused by a problem with the brain that occurs before, during or soon after birth.
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I wasn't breathing for seven and a half minutes at birth. The doctors had to turn off the life support machines, but.
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I'm again gasping for breath and they sound Husky.
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I was on life support for three weeks and a machine that assisted my breathing for two weeks. I was then winged off medication and tubes. I was finally allowed home to start my life.
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The doctors said that I would be significantly brain damage due to the amount of time I was starved of oxygen. They said my quality of life would be minimal. I would need 24 hour care for the rest of my life.
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They were unable to say if I would be able to smile, understand her food by mouth, sit, walk or talk at 8 weeks old.
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I shocked everyone. I responded to the toy and I smiled. The doctors were amazed. However, I was like a little ragdoll, very floppy.
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I was a year old when I was able to sit independently for five seconds, but alas, it achievement for me.
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I loved feeling my feet and used to always push down when being held.
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I had a walking frame at 2 1/2 years old. I walked into Dorchester Hospital and they couldn't believe it was me. I have always been in mainstreaming drivel.
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In primary I was successful and was made a prefect.
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In secondly, I applied for Prefect Talk, a training day and the interview. I was over the moon. I was made senior prefect. I took my GCS e's with Preston Academy. Now I'm not here till college throughout my school life. Teaching assistants have been a massive part of my life. It's important for me to meet them as part of the interview process.
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So staff are able to see how they interact with.
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We are all different and for me is finding the right balance with you.
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I think that's just wonderful. Thank you at least for that I think will be heard from there with teachers is so important and you know Elise Open Labour doctors said they just didn't know and that's it, isn't it?
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That's the thing about education will just don't know the potential of the person sat in front of us. Being a young person, being adult, we don't know where they're going to end up and what that potential isn't it.
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Our job, whatever our job is in education.
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It's our job to help them on that journey, and so if you are involved in education, popping the child, what is it you do as a job in education?
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If you win FA, what do you do in Fe Ann an if you're not in Fe and you don't know what he is, every is further education and we've got some international listeners further education. It's kind of like Community College in America, but it's not quite. It does a lot more different things and everything in between us.
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So before I leave this clip, finally played all of its own accord and they knew it would. It's one of those things it once you hit play.
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Or just have to wait, wait, WAIT, and then it'll eventually.
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Just play an I guess tonight just got.
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In touch with us at fire. The website.
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Now, if you're listening to this, be alive, will be is a podcast and you thinking I've got a story to tell.
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I think they really.
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Love to hear about whatever it is, as long as it involves education.
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We have a place for you to come share that story if you want to come share it with us.
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And all you need to do is head to jfm.co.uk filling the farm and do you want to share with us NA story as a guest in conjunction with the hosts on the show? Or do you want to Share your story and be a host on the show? Do you want to think about theme for show?
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I'm well, I can meet some people at the minute who want to theme their show around an English in further education, and they want to bring in vocational teachers. They want to bring an English teacher's ordering teaching assistant.
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Well, I will pray and dances in the chat. Do it absolutely. Everybody is welcome here at Joy FM. We would love to hear your stories.
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Like I say, if you want to be a guest, that's absolutely fine. And if you want to come on and host a show you know, invite your own guests on an we can support you with as much or as little support as you need with that.
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Or if you want to do what are well being expert knickers done this evening in order to send a Supreme record section were more than happy to do that as well.
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Can you just say that we don't do advertising? We don't do promotions and we don't monetise this in any.
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And this is purely because we enjoy sharing our stories and we enjoy hearing.
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From other people to it.
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From other people to.
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Someone coined the phrase earlier. I think it was Stacy Soul surfer, CPD and that's what we're trying to achieve.
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Here is surface CPD as you sat. Maybe this evening. Live on in surfer glass of wine in hand.
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Hopefully we're going to share some professional development points for you that you can take forward with your work, but more than that as well, hopefully you'll have something to say and share with us.
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Dance with Chinese takeaways be delivered well. I've left my other half downstairs to decide what today and I do believe that that will something similar to that will happen.
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At this house as well.
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So if you are listening like please do an pop into the messages and let us know what you up to this evening, what your role in education, why you hear what are you looking for, what you learn to hoping to hear from this evening and then I will ask some important questions.
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I'm going to play a couple of clips now and but my first important question is what did you do for you today? What did you do for you today for your own well being? Did you go for a walk?
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Did you take 5 minutes at lunch? What did you do for you today?
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For that will be in for you.
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And that just while we're thinking about that, we're just going to listen and to what Nixon influence and he's unwell being expert and I'm sure he's got loads of helpful things for us to share this evening.
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So Nick and is again he just contacted us via the website. He said he'd love to share things with us and they filled in the details and we had a little chat and we came up with this piece together.
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So again, we are here for you. If you've got something you want to share, please deal common. Share your story.
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Will being is such an important thing Nick really want to do this to cut through some of the noise he.
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Old it some of the.
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Noises some of the naysayers are well being an he wanted to share what he thinks while being could and should be like and for teachers.
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For every practitioners, variety managers for everyone in education, and he wanted to share that with us tonight. Nick is also done some events and as part of the dryer fee movement and the collective that is Jaya fee that I am involved with and they've been really well received as well.
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Did you say what he did for himself today? He took half an hour visits to his daughters were first ever first job ohh talks emerged Cos it is clean up. My little ones gotta birthday this week.
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Certain time to listen.
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Here we go. We've got nick. Let me just pause it and put it back to the beginning and I've got very limited options on the.
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Menu, but we'll go again.
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Time to listen.
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My name is Nick and I'm helping welding coach and it takes him.
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Talk to you about lobbying. I work as a health and wellbeing coach, and I've done that for a little while now.
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But prior to that I worked in higher education at the University of Sheffield where I was involved in developing strategies and initiatives that were designed implemented in order to enhance the wealth.
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Okay, for both staff and students I've got good sense of what it's like in education and the kind of things that are needed to make sure that we have positive impacts both on ourselves and our own well being. But also on those people that we work with and that we're responsible.
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I've been involved in Welby for quite a long time now and I'm really passionate about it and as well being, industry grows and it is a billion pound industry nowadays.
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The danger is that the personal feeling around well being gets lost, and the reason I do what I do is because I really want to make sure that as individuals we are aware of the things that can really impact on our wellbeing, and some of those could have really far reaching impact, positive and negative.
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On the web we live our lives, so today I'm just going to spend some time looking at those impacts, both positive and.
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I could save look at how we can enhance our welding and hopefully give you some food for thought at the takeaway and actually spend some time thinking about your own well being and the people that are around you so we can't really talk about welding without having some kind of definition of what well being is. And there are loads of death.
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Sessions and if you go out and Google that now, you will find allsorts of different things which is great and that's fine.
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You can go and do that, but what I would also encourage you to do is to take some time just to think about what well being means to you.
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And because the danger is that, well, be becomes this grey phrase, now that we use and we talk about. But it has to mean something to you as an individual to me as an individual, because without the individual connexion.
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It's going to make it much harder to make sure that we're putting things in place that I'm going to enhance our well being on a regular basis.
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So couple of definitions that I really like around well being that well being is about feeling good about yourself so that you can feel good with others and another one that I really like is that well being about finding the right place for your life, balancing your work, family and social.
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And they all come together in order to make sure that the life you lead is healthy and as happy as it can be. But now that's not to say that you're gonna go through life 100% happy and healthy all the time. Things get in the way. Life gets in the way and that can make it quite challenging. But if we think about what impacts are well being, we can then start, take steps in order to put things in place so that when we don't feel 100% or things are always going our way, which is what happens in life.
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We can be aware of that and actually be more prepared to deal with that and cope with that when it happens.
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So good to spend a couple of minutes now just looking at what impacts our well being. So there are lots of different things that I'm just going to give you.
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Five or six impact now that will impact you and people around you, and there will be an one is around being Reg.
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Physically active, making sure that you're going to make.
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A sizeable living, a healthy lifestyle.
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And that you actually admit taking some time tomorrow.
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And that doesn't mean you have to go to the gym five or six times a week. It's just about moving and taking positive steps to do that where you can.
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Second one will be eating a healthy diet and making sure that you're eating good, nutritious foods where you can do it.
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Again, that's not the savings account. Do yourself a little bit of flexibility and enjoy some treats now and again, but on the whole.
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Trying to have a healthy diet is a really good way to make sure that internal. If you're living well and that impacts the external there that we live as well.
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Sleep is increasingly becoming recognised as a really vital part of our well being, so making sure you get good quality sleep and rest is really important, and that's obviously been really difficult over the last year as we deal with the effects of kerbing and working from home and working remotely has made it much more difficult to get into a routine.
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And we've seen that sleep and rest have been impacted in a negative way by those different circumstances that we've been working him.
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Lincoln into a different circumstances that we've been in his financial security, and obviously that's been a real struggle for a lot of people with lots of redundancies and people.
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Not quite sure where their rules are going to lie with the changes that we've seen, so financial security is really important for our wellbeing and making sure that we feel in control of that to make sure that our lifestyle is still giving us what we needed to do.
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Forming positive relationships is another really important thing that we do, and whether that's at work or at home in our social lives.
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Having those people around us and a support network if you like is really important to make sure that we can give ourselves some help when we need it.
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We can't go through life always thinking that we can do things on our own, so creating that support, creating that network of allies is really important. And then the final thing.
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Give you to think about from a positive point of view is how you keep yourself mentally stimulated. And I don't mean you know working hard.
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Delivering sessions to your students are working hard behind the scenes to make sure that everything is up and running.
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What can you do to make sure that away from work your keeping your brain active last, allowing yourself to take some downtime from the day to day work that you all do.
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So there's some ways that we can positively impact our well be, but obviously, as you'd expect, there are also negative impacts in our welding, and these are the things that we really need to be equally aware.
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So things like kill House being aware of how we feel, how we operate, when will help.
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Taking that time so not always battle through when we don't feel as soon as we could take you some time for ourselves, and making sure that will recover.
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And again, you know we've covered and everything that we've dealt with, and I think that's really brought into sharp focus.
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How we actually look after our own health and hygiene and those kind of things linked into that then is stress and one of the leading causes as we know, avail health around the works. In particular is stress.
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Really all had to come to.
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Terms with lots of different stretches.
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Are facing left.
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Yourself and, but if that gets too much to deal with, obviously that then can start.
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Something else that we've seen over the last year is at increased sense of isolation from people I personally know. People have really taken, set, remote working and home working and have like.
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Not playing around as many people, but I also know people have really struggled with not having that day to day social interaction which featured in the workplace those water cooler moments where you just get to spend a couple of minutes and with someone with thoughts earlier about positive impacts and are welcoming and having those relationships.
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And this sense of isolation has really grown and can be a real worry for some people and can really have an impact on the way that people live their lives.
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Other things that can impact as there are environmental factors and these can be a little bit a little bit more difficult to control for us because we don't always have the answers to control some of these things, but being aware of the things around the environment, particularly working from home and what kind of environment you create for yourself to be able to work.
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And if you don't get that quite right and work slips into home, that can make it hard to switch off and then outside of things in the home, there are things externally that can really have an impact on those Europol live we see people struggle in winter months to keep themselves feeling good, so lots of these things and having this awareness is really important to make ourselves look after our own well.
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And then we talked about having positive relationships and the counter on a negative from is true as well. Poor relationships can have a real negative impact on our well being.
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Again, you know this last year we've really seen some people struggle where the relationships haven't been as strong as they could be and found that quite difficult to cope.
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So it can make life really difficult when we think about all the things that can impact our well being on both positive and negative front.
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So as we move forward with this and we start to try and think about how we can improve and enhance our well being, I like to use something from the new economics foundation that was launched maybe 13 or 14 years ago now and this is something you may have heard of and it forms the basis of lots of strategies, both individually.
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I'm in the workplace setting and it's the five ways to wellbeing, and is titled as Feeling good and functioning well.
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And the five ways to wellbeing that the new Economics Foundation identified, I find really, really helpful, either on an individual level, as I say, or taken into an organisational saying as well.
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So the five ways that they came up with are to connect. Make sure that we keep connected with the people around us with the world that we live in.
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The second one they came up with was be acting. We've already talked about the importance of being active on our well being, so just taking a walk, getting outside, getting some fresh air doesn't have to be.
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Anything super structured doesn't have to be going to the gym, but just taking time to make sure that you moving as much as you can do.
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And if you are taking that chance to get outside and maybe spend some time in the garden or go for a walk in the park, the third thing that you can then look up from the new Economics Foundation is take notice.
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Just be aware of what's around you. It can be really easy and I find myself doing this quite a lot is when I go for a walk and I say the dog out and I'll put my headphones in and I stopped taking notice of what's actually going on around me. And now that the weather starts to get a little bit nice.
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I find the impact of actually just taking headphones on just been aware of what's around. You really makes a difference to how I feel and hopefully if you try that it will have an impact on you as well.
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The fourth thing that we've got on the list is to keep learning, and that's really important to make sure that we're doing something just.
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Keep your brain active. We talked earlier about keeping mentally stimulated, so keeping learning finding something you find in new ways to do things and that might be anything you could be learning.
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And you recipe to cook. It might just reading a new book or finding a new author, or just finding something different but keeping ourselves mentally active is a really important one.
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And then the fifth thing that they came up with was give making sure that we give him back, and that can be anything that might be giving back to friends or family who supported you through difficult times.
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It could be giving back to a child. Say it could be doing something. Volunteering it just could be doing something within the organisation that you working.
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Just so that you're actually giving something of yourself that might then pass on and help other people as well.
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When we think about well being and we think about enhancing that for ourselves that we have to think about how we do without and to do that, it requires us as individuals to actually change. And the thing with changing our behaviour change in the way that we do things.
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Is that as people we find change quite difficult sometimes, and if you took a minute or two now to think about change and what that word comes in your mind, you're come with allsorts of words and some of those words may be quite negative.
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Some of those words may be quite positive, so change can be quite difficult and what I want to finish on today really is just looking at a few problems that we see quite a lot around health and well being when we try and make change.
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And so the first problem that we often see is that we look for short term fixes and we try and do things that might benefit hills for a short period of time.
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But realistically, these aren't things that are going to take us forward for a long time, and they're not things that we can do over a sustainable period of time. Short term fixes then lead on to the second problem that we often see.
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And this one is of commitment and a great example of this, and we probably didn't see it quite as much this year.
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But if you think about the new year and the start of 1st of January, people make New Year's resolutions and very often those are around eating more healthily or getting more active. And the example I'll give you here.
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Is some new joins a gym in the new year with the idea they're going to become more active?
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From what we often see there is that they start going to gym and then maybe go five or six times a week and to do that for two or three weeks and then realistically very few people go to the gym five or six times a week in that five or six times a week isn't sustainable, so it may be dropped off to a more manageable two or three times a week, which is absolutely fine by the way.
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But because that individual set their stall out to do five or six sessions a week, two or three start to feel like it's a bit of a failure.
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So already the negative thoughts and the self doubt comes in and the don't feel they can carry on doing what they are doing.
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And that then leads on to the third problem, which is what we start to do, isn't sustainable in the long term.
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So when we think about welding changes in lifestyle changes lead to our welding. We have to try and think.
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A long way ahead of ourselves. Maybe thinking a year ahead as to what we would like to do on the question.
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I would ask of anybody looking at making a lifestyle change. Orwell being changed would be can you see yourself doing this?
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Whatever that change. Maybe in a year's time. And if the answer is yes, that's great. Carry on doing it.
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If the answer's no doesn't mean the goal is wrong, it just might mean that you need to set some sub goals and work towards that girl. Because whatever we do, whatever positive changes we start to make.
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We have to be able to carry on over a long term period of time.
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The fourth problem, then, which is linked to this first thing, is that we found it really easy to give up.
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We give up too easily because things don't go our way or we didn't do the gym workout that we said we were going to do or we didn't give ourselves the downtime that we promised ourselves we would do.
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And then again, the self doubt spins them and we start to feel that we can do whatever it is that we set out to do.
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Or we can actually do the change that we set out to make. Then we feel like a failure.
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And then once we start to feel like we're failing, we find it really easy to give up my advice there.
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Would be that you only fail when you stop trying. You don't fail because you didn't stick to the plan, you fail.
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If you don't try and get back onto your plan and stick to whatever that might be and that could be around anything that could be around aware that you would be the way they eat.
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It could be the way that you exercise, but you only fail when you stop trying to make those positive differences, and the ones that used to help connect and then the final problem. I will leave you with.
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Is that it feels too hard and sometimes making change is hard and sometimes it does feel difficult and keeping a sense of what's important in keeping a sense of perspective with that is really vital.
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If we want to make these long lasting positive changes to our well being and our lifestyle, so having that understanding of why and one phrase that you're here quite a lot, and I use quite a lot, then coaching people are working with small groups.
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Is understanding your why? Why you making that change? Why do you want to become?
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More healthy or change things that are going to have a positive impact on your well. Be all the way that you work and when you start to figure out why then it makes it much easier to know what and how you're going to do those things.
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But don't think why comes easily. Why doesn't always come naturally? And it definitely doesn't come easily and sometimes you have to spend some time thinking about what that why is.
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But once you understand why it does make it easier to know what the changes are going to be.
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How are you going to do it and then become more sustain?
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So I'm going to wrap up there for today. I hope this has been a really interesting listen for you.
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I'm Nick as I said at the start I have my own business which is active foundations, so feel free to leave us comments or get in touch.
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I'd be really interested to know if you come up with your own definitions. Orwell being and I hope to speak to you again, so thank you very much for taking the time to listen to this and I will hopefully see you all again soon.
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Bye for now.
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Oh, that was wonderful and big. Thank you to Nick.
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For doing that far is it? I took so much from that.
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I talk a lot about finding you, why and why that was quiet. I don't know. I've got no controls at this end where I would not help him, so apologies if that was quiet for you.
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But yeah, finding you why is a really big thing for me.
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I recently bought an exercise bike for under the desk for whilst I'm working can I see myself doing in a year's time?
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Absolutely I can see myself sitting here.
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Pedalling for an hour a.
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Day whilst I'm reading my emails.
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Before I start my work everyday.
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So I've committed to that. I've got a colleague, Jackie Russell, who does something similar and she says can you commit to doing one thing everyday even if it's just stretching and so for her I committed that would stretch properly everyday.
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And I have done that everyday for a year. So yeah, it's really important, but thank.
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You Nick for that so.
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Very excited like Catherine called in Live during that clip and that's it. That's as easy as it is. You hit that Colin Button and you can call in and chat to us on air Now.
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And Catherine had a wonderful at idea. I think she's been doing with her class project about the canal and River trust. So let's bring Catherine.
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Hello Catherine.
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Hello Sammy, how are you?
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I know why I'm here.
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No, I did not.
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We go for it.
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Tell us about this project then.
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Do you know it's been the best thing ever because of corvid map? Mother had planned to do a charity fundraising unit.
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Yeah, and then also when it comes to this year with ******** they do not like what can I do?
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That's cause it's safe and where we are. We've got the Leeds Liverpool Canal and the River Aire literally metres from our college. And as I write I'll go down there and that was my only thinking. I only picked it because.
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Of course it affects most crowded surfing. Let's get the students out, and it's turned out to be the best project ever. We've made a.
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When was made a calendar with their photographs?
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So I've been taking my understand on the canal walking up to the locks toward fault warfare parts.
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I thought second photographs and then also have been out plus window in the canal. Never trust and plastic challenge collecting plastic.
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But what's been amazing is like you've been like talking bout well being and stuff taking learners out and you know what we want worried about time coz you know that you know would take him out for her morning and then just laughing, chatting and experiencing their what's around them is just amazing.
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Alright, sounds great.
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Yeah.
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Some trainers
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Sounds really good, and it sounds like they really enjoyed it as well. Tell us about the plastic challenge. I don't think I know about that.
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That is.
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So we will learn.
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About plastic, you know. So let U mobile phones take about. Think it was like 1000 years or something to like disintegrate. You know on plastic bottles or a few 100 years account number exactly.
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Times so we decided, well, you know this. Obviously this plastic all around us. So the challenge was let's go see what's out there and let's clear it cause we don't want it litter in our community.
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So the first of all like what we're going past it picking or no, and then once they got the little grabbers, have absolutely loved her. And then we made Tick tock videos. Yeah, I couldn't look anymore awkward in these tick Tock video.
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But without the right good time book for their well being, it's just been so calm and not a screen then not under pressure to get stuff down.
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Written down, it just had time to enjoy and take in and learn, and all those communication skills and all those you know, support you know contributing to their community being so powerful and so lovely for them. The fight was wonderful.
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Alright, sounds great, just found this. Do you want to just explain a bit?
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About the students that you work with.
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Yeah, I work with 16 to 19.
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Year olds and.
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Ethnic coloured boxer Anite each level in vocational studies, so we do lots of different units were not subject specific so we do a lot of media. I thi public service allsorts on our course which is looking nice and varied.
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Sounds wonderful and she wanted to share a bit about how cool did went for those learners as well. How did that work out?
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Do you know what in the end it worked out?
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We got there, you know like any.
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Other school college organisation. We had our challenges.
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But you know what? We all went above and beyond and alone as they did fantastic, you know. And it was difficult being on line, but we adapted, you know, we changed timetables round, you know, to make it more manageable and we've got there.
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You know in a couple of weeks time they have finished all the units and the first the units that we plan to do had it not been covered and they've still got.
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There, so I'm so proud of.
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And stuff that I T skills. Obviously we've been online have shot up, so actually this being born this is there which has been great.
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That's great to hear.
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And I just, well, I've got you as well. We are working together on the Google Certified Coach programme at the minute.
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How are you finding that?
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Do you know I am excited? I am very excited I.
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Thought I've got three Guinea pigs.
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But I'm ready up.
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You know I'm not well. We're going to start after Spring Bank are going to get all the grades into the exam bars and then.
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We're going for it, but I am so excited about and I just think that is it's the perfect step in my development learning to court. But that's.
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So different just telling someone how to do somethings a whole new scale an I think that's being, you know, it's been really good Sam there is this is this joy FM because like last night wasn't at school show with Darren and learning you know all about the data you know and maybe using that don't grow as your search engine.
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You know, and if I even tried that today so far, but about thinking we just learning so much from this show that then we can bring into our core chain and into the classroom. So thanks for setting all this up and running.
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No thanks, Catherine right I'm gonna let you go and do whatever you were doing, but thank you for calling in.
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Well.
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Come.
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It was wonderful to hear from Catherine. Then if you wanna join the conversation, just call him like Katherine did and we'll have a chat Anne and lovely to hear that Catherine dipped into the school.
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Sean took something out of that and this is a conversation.
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One of the other car has an hour having.
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Last week and did Leonard, who is part of the IT Department who hosts the Ed texture on Mondays here. Andre FM.
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Dave was saying that he took a lot from last week. Sophie show with me on the oncologist crew when I was talking to Doctor Who Minecraft and we were talking about values driven practise and Dave was saying that he would never have picked to listen to and ephixa
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I don't know why it feels like the best form of education. I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking.
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But that's it in what we're facing.
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Now is we're facing a challenge. How do we?
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How do we bring people in to listen to Jai FM?
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How do we tell everyone that we stand for everyone in education and we want everyone to come share their stories? But then how do we theme it so that you know what's coming up?
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But then how do we tell you that we've got very content that you're going to really enjoy on the show, and you know this Surface CPD concept that Catherine mentioned and that Stacey mentioned the week before.
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We're hoping to bring CPD to your home. So how do we package it so that everyone feels that they can dip in and out of different shows so well?
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Maybe number people.
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Working on this journey together and something that you just wanna talk about that I've been doing this week is I've done an Ed tech demo CC.
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There's a crossover then coz this is meant to be Fe show and I'm already talking head tech but if you know me I can't stop talking and take your two things. I like to talk about ad tech and maths and we talk bout both Anne and add.
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Doesn't live demos this week or month whiteboard.com math whiteboard without the Essar the wrong spelling.
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An an it's a great collaborative whiteboard an its web based Anne and I'm a huge fan of web based things at the moment for the digital divide an some shocking shocking statistics and tools of the day to come out today from the National Education Union.
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Whether you're in the any you are not. If you cheque it out on Twitter and you can put your post code into their and search engine and they will tell you what percentage of children in your local area live below the poverty line.
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So if you search for the NEU Union on Twitter or myself, what the truth math on Twitter and tweet about just four came on air tonight?
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I will post code in and tells you what percentage of children in your local area live below the poverty line.
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Can't even get into how bout is okay or how that makes me feel? I think I've used lots of angry face emojis when I tweet about it earlier and I also tweet it that I needed to take some action. So tweeting about how to donate to food banks, either by taking EM.
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At food in or by making a one off donation and also Save the Children, I thought would be a good place to send my money today.
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So I did. I sent someone to Save the Children as well. That's not going to fix the problem. I'm going to fix the problem, but it I have to.
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I felt like I had to be doing something so that any use campaign is pretty post code in email your MP and tell you NP that it's not okay that this many children in your local area live below the poverty line. If any of you have done it, popping the messages, what percentage? It wasn't your vocal area.
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I think the most staggering was somewhere my friends on Twitter put Mi living quite an okayish area and it's come out of 40%.
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40%.
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1110 children open on his drive and therefore people for those children gonna live below the poverty line. Anna can't can't can't get into that. I really can't coz.
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We've only got 20 minutes left this year and I've still got Jack and jacks clips to play.
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More than that, I can't get into that because.
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Stuff that's not joyful an were all about the joyful part of education. So where I was going with this was I do a lot of work around.
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How do we bridge that digital divide? How do we make things more accessible for students? And I say accessible as in if they don't have stable Wi-Fi, how can they engage and Catherine said that her students had adapted and everything and eventually worked out OK, and I think everything will probably eventually work out OK, but currently.
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I have a student on my GCSE maths class who cannot engage with my lessons online.
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Because in 2021, as an adult learner.
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They don't have stable Wi-Fi at home, so they can't stream my lesson. They can't join the meeting, did not watch my videos coz they have to wait for the sisters to top up their phone to give them more data. And again that's not a child. That's an adult, but that can't be okay either.
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So a lot of my work comes into how do we address this? How do we build things that are more accessible and one of the most popular things we've done is and the gift thing.
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So we've talk with teachers about how to model using GIFs, gives useless data, then a video. So you winning that way. But also it lightens the cognitive load for students to process.
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But why did this week was mathwhiteboard.com? Because its web based, you don't need an app. You don't need the latest operating system on your phone and that's the next divide that comes in. You know if we do have students with Wi-Fi, other can get on, have stabilised that device. How new is that device? Help today is that device.
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So much whiteboard and.com is web based collaborative whiteboard. If you take the math part out in just put in your head, it's just a collaborative whiteboard that's web based, already its winning. It does a really cool thing where if you drag a PDF onto it and it will.
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And set the PDF as the background on the whiteboard so you drive for example a 10 page example clip that's in PDF format.
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And again, we can discuss whether it's right or wrong. The exam booklets are a PDF of the 10 pages long another time.
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But you drag that 10 page PDF onto math whiteboard and it split it open. It will put page one on one frame page.
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Two on another Page 3 and another.
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And what it will?
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Do is says the background, so then you can.
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Scribble over it like a collaborative whiteboard.
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You can pick up the drawing pen and you can draw all over it.
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So already for me that's winning because its web based. You don't need fancy equipment and you can just print it off and I've been using it to invigilate exams, so I sent it to the students with their link.
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They then write all over it, added invigilate because I can see what's happening on their whiteboard live at my end.
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And then they just print it off as a PDF at the end as well. So I was doing some devils of math.
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Whiteboard Now was asked what makes it win for me and I was going into all the maths features. I mean it just some really cool maths features.
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Like you can write in y = 2 X plus one. Hope nobody switches off. Now going into proper maths.
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But if you want y = 2 X plus one and then switch with your finger, it will draw the graph of it for you.
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So you can start to explore the meanings behind the algebra rather than practising the algebra. And if you wrote half and three six it'll colour code it because they are equal.
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But if you were at half and 3/4 at the colour coded to tell you that it's wrong so much, why bother with me for lots of things, but ultimately what it means for me for is that its web based because we have this problem and it is a global problem I've just contributed to a book.
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Called amplify learning.
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An in that I looked at American statistics and I looked at the census data from 2018 and.
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You know significant portions of the American population with a salary of 30,000.
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Dollars a year don't have access to Wi-Fi at home.
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I get you talking about 40%, so it's a global problem in in some of the wealthiest countries in the world.
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So math whiteboard wins for me because it's web based and that's where I was going with that. And also I was going with that is that that's a bit of edtech here in the Fe show.
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And that just shows.
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What we do here at Joy FM.
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We celebrate all.
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The joyful things and try and share.
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And CPD Ann and opportunities to learn from everyone. Because everyone in education is what we stand for and what we mean by that is everyone in education as in the cleaner in the school is involved in that child's education. Their evidence in high morals, hard work ethic.
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The receptionist in the school is involved in the education because if they don't do their job, the rest of the school doesn't run and the teacher is involved in the education because they plan and they share the content with the students and their parents were involved in that education too because they pick up the slack when they get home.
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So everyone in education, but also everyone in education, because we are all always in education and we're all always learning. I've learned so much from.
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Listening to the other shows last night with them.
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Darren, like Catherine said, talking about the data and privacy and made those so much richness in that on Monday Mr Light bulb himself, Mr Caffrey on the air texture with Dan Mum Leanne. I also got going on that action as well from ALDI.
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And you know, hearing from and cafe. If you are anywhere interested in enter key is like one of the leading lights in the field, so it was really interested to hear.
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Him, and I've seen it, Dave is done. The National Education union. An percentage of children in poverty and so that is a national education union.
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You'll find it on my timeline on what the trick baffled Twitter, or you can follow national Education Union on Twitter and it's on there afew.
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The MPs are stacked tweet as well, so you might find your local MP has already got hold of it too.
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And So what we're going to do?
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About it, you don't need to be in.
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The end U and I'm.
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Not advocating that you join me.
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Any you can you use your own personal, try some just sharing this campaign with you.
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Amanda's put it in you put post code in. It tells you how many children in your area live below the poverty line and they've got 40%.
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Again, you are not ten children in front of you. Four of those live below the poverty line.
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So the end of the campaign is to email your local and pay deficit is going to do that now I'm sure. Thank you at this way our day of hope. It's on schedule send.
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Email your local MP and let them know that this isn't okay for you if that's what you think and feel, but I also tweet it as well, but I had to take some personal action over this today, so I.
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Again, I saw some new food by tell. I'm gonna send my day off this week going. That's different food banks and cause I keep quite regularly to one of them by missing school.
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But I want to spread it out a bit more and then I donated some money to Save the Children as well and he can't specifically doing it to Save the Children UK as well.
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I learned today as well, so if like me you want to take some affirmative action over this campaign as well as emailing your MP in just a couple of ideas for you there.
Sammy
So very exciting time now and I'm going to play a little Jingle and then hopefully we're going to hear from Jack. Can you host an here? All the Fe show Jack has joined the and colleges crew.
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So we'll just play the little social Jingle.
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And then we'll go into Jack.
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We RJ FM. Keep the conversation going. Join us live by the popping up wherever you get your podcasts after the show at joyfm.co.uk and on Twitter, we are Joy FM. Everyone in education.
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Sammy
And that's it. Everyone in education. So Jack, like I said at the beginning and Jack is a support member of staff in a College in the UK.
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So he is in a College in Fe and he's joined the and colleges crew and we call ourselves the and colleges crim.
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Ohh there we go is ready to go we call ourselves the and colleges crew just because during the pandemic pretty much all the time.
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But especially during the pandemic, when anything was announced about education, it was and this will be it for schools.
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And colleges, and so it's just a little play on that for the and colleges crew. So let's hear from Jack and new member of the and colleges crew here on Joy FM.
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I am the creator of positively Sara Palsy. Another come see you with little information series on Sara Palsy. For those that don't know. So there's four different types I've got posted by pledging.
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Which means stiffness.
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The muscles and it can mean a strange walking gait is ataxia Sara palsy.
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Asteroid Sara Palsy and mixed cerebral palsy, which means mixture of both.
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Level 4, sorry.
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And these effects different names of the body in different parts. So my part is I have tight joints and tight muscles.
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Thomas in the joints and muscles and one of the main issues I only talk to you today for those who don't know.
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Is that I struggle with fatigue, so that means.
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Battery on the iPhone on it an Apple Phone.
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I shall leave going around so much **** waste can wear my energy.
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So for most people, for me walking its equipment, doing for me, doing the four times the amount, so see something like to manage and I used crutches or wheelchair.
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And I.
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I'm quite determined, so I welcome greatest possible. I want to keep my legs is flexible and supple as possible, but I use wheelchair for.
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Long trips out and when things are you inside.
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I don't ever let my disability stop me, which is something I have to manage and she's afraid the first in a series of little information I want to share.
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And just so people are more aware and raising awareness so it would be great if you could come and view my page and I like spreading positivity.
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And put a smile upon his face. So it's been lovely talking to you and hopefully see you full videos by guys. I have one.
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So wonderful that Jack John.
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So wonderful that Jack.
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When does M this evening like I said and Jack is a support member of staff in a college at the moment. So he came towards an for the feature for that he also.
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Champion's positive cerebral palsy. And you heard from him. Now the challenges that he faces an but it doesn't always stop him if you cheque him out and then you can meet all our hosts on our website. Soenjoyfm.co.uk with playing a little game at the moment of two truths, one Lie and Jack's just emailed his in now. So that will be going up when I finish on the air this evening.
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I mean, it could be all our hopes on there, but Jack is positive, positive cerebral palsy on Instagram and he does little videos everyday and that's how we came across him.
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And just a really lightens your mood. He really changed. You will be shot such a positive message and we just felt it closely aligned with our values here at Joy FM and Co.
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Incidentally, Elise has cerebral palsy as well, but at least came towards because she's so positive about being a student in an Fe college. And if you listen to this and the thinking I'm a student in a college.
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Will come on in.
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We'd love to hear from students.
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And we'd love to work with you. Would love to have you contributed and like I said at the beginning, you can either prove, record something, perhaps with your tutor, and send it in to us to be played out.
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All that we can work together with you to create a space. Leta, Colin.
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Live on the show as well to join him.
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Anne.
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So we covered.
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Quite a lot this evening and our Catherine Matthews will call. That would be great. Catherine there.
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Undercard syndicate they can be called something that be wonderful with colour quite a lot this evening and we heard from Elise at the beginning with her positive message we heard from Nick with ease while being tips, and Nick was saying find your way.
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I.
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Ask yourself, can you see myself doing this positive change in a year's time? Something that I stuck with me on that.
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And you know whatever it is that you're going to make a **** You know if I said, I'm going to give up chocolate, I can pretty much guarantee I'm not Mystic to that in a years time, because Christmas and Easter will have happened, so those were heavily involved on my birthday. So there are three events where chocolate features very heavily, so I know it's not going to help.
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But it's about making that change and making important to you and finding you. Why? So some really lovely tips from Nick an earlier and also an Nic.
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And for sharing about being aware of your impact in your impact on others. And they also said Emma Bout were missing those water cooler moments and be the positive or negative impact.
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And it's something that struck with me. Recently I was chatting to someone I was saying and more conscious of my conversations now.
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I don't think I used to come home and say it to my other half, or you'll never guess what I spoke to such and such on the way to the loo today at work.
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Such such in such a way to photocopy and then it's lunch such as such in the queue for coffee at lunchtime.
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I didn't, I just say I had nice day, did you? Dear? But now I'm working online and I've been working along along time now and I'm staying on line and more conscious of these conversations now carving out time to spend with my friends. So in my own attempt to leave you with a positive message this.
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Evening.
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Is trying to find your why carve out time to cheque in on people so we covered an well being we hopefully it will just have from Jack.
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We had an impromptu call from Catherine Ann how wonderful work with the rivers and canals and in West Yorkshire where students have been picking up plastic data when they got back in the building.
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The walls have been removed, probably full of cold are probably bread coming out.
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Touching things it be touching this Whitby touching the thing one. It'll be what it.
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That'll be what it is, and we covered that. I talked about Edtech and a bit about the digital divide, and I've shared with you the any use campaign and then briefly touched on the research colleges group that launched this week.
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So there are 10 founding colleges in that, and they're aiming to raise the profile of practitioner research and bring it to the forefront.
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And so if you've not checked out any of the events there was alive YouTube event this week, please cheque it out. Research colleges group TCG, and if you.
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Interested in research? There is an Fe? Research me on Friday.
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Today is Wednesday recording this so Friday the 21st. There is nothing research week this week as well. If we search start to think it might be your thing you think it might be something you might be interested in.
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So if it's.
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All okay with you, and we're going to end this show this evening. Thank you very much for joining and May thank you, Catherine for calling and thank you for being here and we RJ FM and will be back on Monday with the Edtech show, an annual captures Monday to Wednesday at 7:00 PM.
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Welcome to jfn everyone in education. This is the Fe show with Sammy White.
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