Teach-Secondary-Issue-14.5

YEET This one’s a bit of a slowburn, and something that a few of youmay have already encountered a while ago, but it seems like an appropriate time to acknowledge the growing use of this splendidly pithy term for ‘throwwith considerable force’. As is so often the case with emergent slang in the post-internet age, accounts vary as to where it came from, but the general consensus, insofar as there is one, seems to suggest that it originated inAfrican American vernacular, before rapidly spreading via all the usual social media conduits some time around themid-2010s. But why‘yeet?’ Is it meant to be onomatopoeic? A contraction of some kind?Who knows.All that really matters is that it’s amodern grassroots wordwhich, for once, isn’t an obnoxious insult, or designed tomake the uninitiated feel affronted, or old or both (I’m looking at you, ‘rizz’). It’s just a quick, punchy (and if appropriately deployed, very funny) way of referring to a simple action that we’re all familiar with.And that’s lovely. Thinkofanumber... Teach Secondary’s digest of the latest goings-on in the profession... The newsletter What arewe talking about? The Barclays LifeSkills Investment Resource Hub BEAT THE BUDGET The UNINFORMED teacher’s guide to… 30% of students state that attending a school trip influenced their choice of GCSE options Source: ‘School Trip Index Report’ produced by PGL Beyond WHAT THEY SAID… “We see more immediate benefits and fewer risks from teacher- facing use of generative AI” – DfE policy paper, ‘Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education’ DO SAY “He only went and yeeted that ball into the sun!” Who is it for? KS4/5 students What’s on offer? Four lesson plans and accompanying resources – including an explanatoryvideo and a fully playable board game – aimed at familiarising 16- to 19-year-olds with the processes and risks involved in making business investments. Where is it available? tinyurl.com/ts145-NL1 45,000 PE hours have disappeared from secondary school timetables since the London 2012 Olympics Source: ‘2025 PE and School Sport Report’ produced byYouth Sport Trust “What shall I do with this absurdity...” DON’T SAY 2,500 general and special needs classroomassistants are employed on temporary contracts after working in their roles formore than four years Source: Unite ONE FOR THE WALL “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible” –MayaAngelou 06 teachwire.net/secondary