Bravo! Poetry By Heart stars @hayfestival.bsky.social 👏👏👏

@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social check this out. Your poem being performed by an 8 year old in front of 1000 people @hayfestival.bsky.social What a joy!

Tomorrow she’ll be performing at The Globe in London. From 3500 entrants to @poetrybyheart.bsky.social Good luck!! @voice21oracy.bsky.social @worcesternews.bsky.social

Our Speechmaking event today was a resounding success. Children from reception to year 6 made speeches about how much we ❤️ Worcester @voice21oracy.bsky.social

@isingpop.bsky.social You have rocked our world today. Thank you ❤️

Hey that’s us! We are looking forward to this 😍

Worcestershire’s first Primary School to be an Oracy Centre of Excellence - that’s us! We are over the moon. Thank you for the support @voice21oracy.bsky.social @worcesternews.bsky.social

10 years ago we set out to drive a big, irreversible change in the education system: enable every child to use their voice to thrive in school, work & life by ensuring oracy is given the same status as literacy & numeracy in schools across the UK. Read our impact report 👇 voice21.org/publications...

This is SO wonderful! What a brilliant idea and I'm deeply honoured that you've chosen Measuring Me for this. I wish all the children a fabulous reception year and many years of happy reading. ❤️ @littletigeruk.bsky.social

This is such a brilliant initiative and I couldn't be more delighted that Measuring Me! has been chosen to help welcome reception children beginning their school lives. Good luck to every single one of them and happy reading!

Fifty copies of Measuring Me by @nicolakent.bsky.social for our new Reception children. Delivered by hand to their front doors creating a reading community before they even step foot in the building!

School communities are increasingly what binds us together and we have pretty brilliant one #colourrun

A rapidly growing number of schools are choosing to prioritise oracy in their development plans. We spoke to Voice 21 Oracy School @stbarnabas.bsky.social about their multilayered approach to leading oracy. Read more below 👇 voice21.org/lessons-in-o...

@hayfestival.bsky.social you never let us down. Another great experience for our children. We’re inspired!!

Adored this wonderful little inter-generational story. “Last House in the Row” is a truly beautiful story of unlikely friendship. @lesleyparr.bsky.social has a delightful way with characters and Hayley and Boo (Lillian, my nan’s name) are no exception. Truly lovely. @barringtonstoke.bsky.social

If you are interested in having a voice about reading comprehension and how it is taught, follow the link below and get involved. 😊 @lashaps.bsky.social @ovendenlaura.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/dams...

Thank you to all the St Barnabas team for your leadership and being part of the oracy mission.

Here we are ❤️

Welcome to our Year 3 Roman Museum. The children loved speaking as historians, being tour guides and sharing exhibits. Inventions, mosaics, emperors, Boudicca, green screen adverts, Celts vs Romans dance and so much more. @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Our Year 6s wrote to @tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social about car idling outside schools. They are worried! Today, each child was sent their own personalised letter in reply. Thank you Tom! @worcesternews.bsky.social

Famous at last! ❤️ @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Ever wondered how schools can develop oracy leadership? 🤔 At Voice 21, we've supported thousands of schools to build capacity for oracy leadership. Read our latest blog in where we speak to @stbarnabas.bsky.social about their multi-layered approach to leading oracy 👇 voice21.org/lessons-in-o...

Just lovely to see the children’s joy & confidence coming from oracy education & @stbarnabas.bsky.social team’s work with @voice21oracy.bsky.social and our good friends @poetrybyheart.bsky.social ❤️

Our work on #Oracy is changing our world. Check out the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social children blowing the audience’s socks off at a big parent celebration yesterday @voice21oracy.bsky.social @amygaunt.bsky.social @kateparadine.bsky.social

Such a treat to have author Nicola Davies in school today. We have been wowed by the zoological facts and beautiful illustrations, we’ve even learned to sing like a blue whale! 🐳

Well done to everyone learning poems for the #PoetryByHeart competition! Great to see the concentration, collaboration and enthusiasm - thank you! 👏❤️

We are deep in to learning our poems by heart for @poetrybyheart.bsky.social the performance skills are sophisticated!! @voice21oracy.bsky.social #Oracy #Poetry

Check out this concentration during our @harrietmuncaster.bsky.social workshop today. Year 3 are Big Isadora Moon fans!

Our young people have real vision for the future and I want to see them enabled to bring change in our city - so it was great to welcome a group from St Barnabas to Parliament! www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2491932... @stbarnabas.bsky.social

An amazing day with our historians @ukparliament.parliament.uk What a brilliant opportunity to see Oracy and Democracy in action. We’re inspired @voice21oracy.bsky.social @worcesternews.bsky.social

👾LAUNCHING TODAY!!👾 “An invaluable resource.” @charliehacking.bsky.social / @theclpe.bsky.social “sparks the conversations we need to be having about the stories we tell and how we tell them” Jeffrey Boakye @darrenchetty.bsky.social @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social

Great to have @AntClerici in school this morning to launch the @Bikesummit design competition. @BikeWorcester you should see our designs!! #BikeSummit

Absolutely adored this prequel to “When the Sky Falls” “The Dawn of Adonis” by @philearle.bsky.social is a truly brilliant breathless run across London as Nettie and Toff flee with the baby Adonis from Goliath Deeds, one of the most terrifying villains I’ve come across in any children’s book. Fab!

A quick reverie about #Botheredness www.independentthinking.co.uk/resources/si... Please share (if you like it)😃

Our Ofsted report is out today. We are very proud of our school community. Have a read on our website. st-barnabas-primary.worcs.sch.uk

Back to doing school visits this week and loving it! Being a children’s author is such a gorgeous job. I got asked this week what i would tell my 8 year old self and what’s my favourite thing about story writing, among a zillion other fabulous questions.

“Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love” by #JosephCoelho and friends is a wonderful beautiful and creative book. The tales are an amazing collaboration between word and art. Full of brilliant visual storytelling and wordplay. An amazing resource to get children thinking and writing. #PictureBookPage …

TEACHERS: In need of some fun, FREE poems? You'll find plenty on my website - www.joshuaseigal.co.uk - including one of my best known poems, below. Might be handy for #WorldBookDay! Enjoy. #BookSky #EduSky #poetrycommunity @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

We are very proud to have been awarded the Equal Access trophy for our work on girls’ football. Check out this group of future Lionesses celebrating @worcesternews @England @EnglandFootball @Lionesses #thisgirlcan

Sorry, but I really hope people who love THE WILD ROBOT movie know it was inspired by my book. It's mentioned in the credits but most people don't read that stuff. If you love the movie you should check out the book! There's more to the story and it's a quick read.

Thanks for saying! Say hello to Year 6

Brand new books for children from Barrington Stoke to get 2025 off to a great start for budding bookworms Something for everyone by Vashti Hardy, @gill-lewis.bsky.social and Jenny Pearson #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/01/02/n...

This is a bit special. The perfect combination of words and illustration from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and Benjamin Phillips. Thank you for adding something so important to our Year 6 reading.

Our @opal-cic.bsky.social playtimes have transformed play filter at school. Children choose and it’s leading to lovely friendships and happy smiles!

No 7 in my #FavePicturebooks24 is… “The Last Zookeeper” by @storybreathing. The visual storytelling in this book is utterly extraordinary, it’s rich in pathos and emotion without a single word. A modern day Noah’s Ark. A Magical #WordlessWonder. #PicturebookPage

Our #DailyMileSantaRun was a blast yesterday @worcesternews.bsky.social

What a night at the National Teaching Awards. Massive congratulations to our silver award winning Headteacher.

Whoop we’re off to London to the National Teaching Awards ❤️ www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2475545...

A great #Maths workshop this morning with our community. Great maths conversations all over the place! @voice21oracy.bsky.social

Check that out for a Friday after school club! Pumping music, flashing lights and a bunch of year 1 and 2 children having the time of their lives!