Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales
Retired teachers. Back on supply! Proud to have responded to The Call! Purveyors of Hope. Everything you imagine us to be. An allegory. Rutland Joined December 2021-
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This week's Old School Assembly Hymn is more modern (relatively!) than many of our choices. "I, The Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I Am)" was written in 1979 and first published in 1981. This melodic, popular song is based on Biblical verses from the books of Isaiah and 1 Samuel.
For more than two years, we've been compiling weekly jukeboxes, with songs requested by our wonderful community of followers. Our latest collection is "The Lighthouse" - seven hours of uplifting music to help you through the weekend.🎵 open.spotify.com/playlist/0mGyz…
Today the government, paraphrasing the coroner, chose “Transparency and ease of message” over “teacher welfare”. If they had to use a single word, we wish they’d chosen ‘Compassion’. Care of Julia Waters, the words of #RuthPerry, someone we knew, loved and respected:
L is for Look-in magazine. 🙂 Thanks, Rich!
L is for Look-in magazine. 🙂 Thanks, Rich!
It's a little hard to know how to express my disappointment at today's news about inspection. Ofsted says it's listening. But even IF the inspectorate is listening, the Government is tone deaf. The childcare & education professions, and the nation's children, deserve better.
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3K Followers 554 Following A blog about mental health & the outdoors https://t.co/3OMd1CfboF #actuallyautistic DMs always open for anyone struggling. All views are my own@RetirementTales I'm still an atheist, but I do love a nice hymm
@RetirementTales Here we go: Our school is set in a fair scene, May our lives too be fair. Like arrow straight and needle keen, May we reject the false and mean, Nil nisi optime. (School motto) FYI our school was in Redditch on the River Arrow & was famous for its needle industry.
@RetirementTales Makes me cry. Every.Time. Beautiful hymn 🥹
@RetirementTales ...an old fav - if only we adopted this way of living?! #hope
@RetirementTales I love that hymn. Always makes me cry.
@RetirementTales We still sing this at church a few times a year.
@RetirementTales I love this - one of my favorites.
@RetirementTales Reminds me of taking my bigger ones to mass when they were little. Always a favourite of ours
@RetirementTales I just got choked singing it out loud it also reminded me of my children’s RC primary lives and special services in church.
@RetirementTales I can’t remember the tune of the verse, but I sang the chorus in my head whilst reading! One of my favourite school hymns
@RetirementTales As a kid I loved "Onwards Christian Soldiers" and "Rock of Ages" For Christmas add "Adeste Fideles". I heard Bing Crosby sing the Latin version on a 78 and have loved it ever since
@RetirementTales And what a wonderful tune. Especially for Here I am Lord, it is I Lord ….
@RetirementTales Lovely hymn, though the intros are endless. It's easy to come in too soon, both at the start and halfway through a verse.
@RetirementTales Still got the guitar chords for this in muscle memory! Karaoke version here: youtu.be/2zr9SMm1glI?fe…
@RetirementTales I love this Hymn and I had to sing it all the way through 🤣🤣