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Thomas Blaikie
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Life lessons: Should I correct my head’s mistakes?
Do you intervene if your headteacher makes a spelling mistake? Tes’ maven of manners, Thomas Blaikie, offers advice
23 January 2020
Life lessons: What if pupils don’t give me any gifts?
Tes’ maven of manners, Thomas Blaikie, offers advice on how to cope if other teachers get more Christmas gifts than you
12 December 2019
Life lessons: ‘Why is Corbyn like a geography teacher?’
Tes’ maven of manners, Thomas Blaikie, counsels a geography teacher fed up with being compared to the Labour leader
14 November 2019
Life lessons: ‘People ignore me in the staffroom’
Tes’ new maven of manners, Thomas Blaikie, answers questions of staffroom etiquette and classroom mores
17 October 2019