Only 10% of boys aged 14-16 read daily for pleasure, UK study finds

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‘Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign. The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Happy New Year!

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*NEW* for AQA Lang P1 from June 2026 onwards: ✅ The Day of the Triffids Specimen paper and a PPT slide deck with resources, scaffolds and model answers, like so 👇 Repost and help yourself 😊 www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...

⌛ Delayed indicative funding allocations for schools will be published 'shortly', the education secretary has said, partly blaming June's spending review for the hold-up

Just taking a moment to read and reflect on the CAR. There are many general statements that are welcome such as the recognition that sequences of learning differ between subjects, the nat curriculum is a tool, teachers are the curriculum makers etc. A few thoughts on the English/literacy bits.

New 'stepping stone' resit qualifications, V-levels, a 16 to 19 funding review and an education 'auto-enrolment' from school will all be introduced under the government’s skills white paper. Here's everything school leaders need to know...

‘If students grow up in systems where integrity is negotiable, they won’t just lose faith in schools’: one former international teacher highlights the risk of the slow erosion of integrity in schools

Again, iGCSEs - which aren't available to those in state schools - gain a possible advantage. While I don't disagree with open book (learning quotations is a waste of learning time), this just widens the gap and creates further inequality in an already unfair system. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

To boost learning & reduce workload... Agree the toolkit: ↓

All set for tomorrow!

Olo edu people. Does anyone have a writing mat for creative writing and analytical writing they could kindly share with me so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Happy to share resources back. @englishassociation.bsky.social @literacyengine.bsky.social Thank you in advance.

Teachers: here's your Sunday night checklist: ✅️ lanyard ✅️ keys ✅️ alarm ✅️ passwords

Yep

Exclusive: The names, addresses, phone, national insurance and passport numbers of school staff members may have been 'compromised' in a cyber attack on the IT provider of a firm that maintains background check records for schools schoolsweek.co.uk/school-staff...

Important enough for a 17-page report. But not important enough to count as part of their grade on their understanding and use of language.

Absolutely

Food for thought

📈 How did your subject perform in this year’s GCSEs? @jasminenorden.bsky.social and @cerysturner.bsky.social dig into today’s results data… #GCSEResultsDay2025

Ofqual declines to say how many papers were affected or provide more details about a major cyberattack that took place earlier this year, affecting GCSE exam papers from two major exam boards

Year 7 KS3 recommended reading list of books for school pupils aged 11-12 including books by Malorie Blackman, Louis Sachar and Elizabeth Laird #YAlit #ukedchat schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...

Great graphic novels for 12-16s including stories by Tony Medina, Terri Libenson, Raina Telgemeier & Rob Williams. #kitlit #YA #YAlit #ukedchat #RfP schoolreadinglist.co.uk/secondary-ks...

A good news story! 'Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Now that teacher pay rise costs are confirmed, school leaders can finally get to work finalising their budgets. But just how tough is that task this year? 🤔 7% of leaders told us it’s impossible to balance the budget, and another 43% said it’s harder than last year.

Exclusive: Exam entry fees will rise at a greater rate than school funding again next year, with England’s largest exam board putting up the price of some language GCSEs by over 8 per cent schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-over...

A recent national survey by Pearson gathered insights from over 800 secondary English teachers. Is GCSE English still fit for purpose? From Pearson’s #LetsTalkEnglish campaign. [Link] bit.ly/3GAKAAy

#poem #poems #BookSky #poetry #poetrylovers #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Wrote something earlier this year on Musk (and other techbros) inability to understand sci-fi. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Homoioteleuton, anyone? My colleague who is marking GCSE English scripts reports that she is having to look up the meaning of quite a few obscure terms. It seems there's still a tendency to teach unnecessary terminology to students.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/su... Two Reads and a Dream - our cost-of-living-friendly summer reading challenge Also: 📚🔥🚀 Booktious 🃏🎉✨ Free card game to encourage #readingforpleasure Kickstart your #summerreadingchallege #teachersofx #kidlit

This was so good! Plus it's at The Natural History Museum so you can also go look at the cool dinosaurs 🦕

Do your pupils find Shakespeare or An Inspector Calls impenetrable? Here's a list of accessible graphic novel versions of English GCSE texts schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list... #teamenglish #teachersofx

More of this tone please 😏

So, both the Curriculum & Assessment Review *and* the final Ofsted framework are due in September now? 😵‍💫 That’s going to make for a lively party conference season!

NEW BLOG: Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent) learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/05/maki... #engchat #engchatuk

Quick question: How are schools finding their Year 11s at the moment?

Last calls for anyone considering changing schools. Applications close Wednesday. Please share with your networks.

www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v... We're looking for an English teacher for September. Friendly, supportive department, small school, great kids. Closing date for applications is Wednesday.

Our website: scribblebibble.com #writing #education

Did you know this about English & Media Centre? It's not a commercial organisation - it's an educational charity, with a tiny staff, offering as much as it can for free, doing loads of advocacy for the subject & offering a very wide range of support for teachers!

www.teachinherts.com/find-a-job/v... We're looking for an English teacher for September. Friendly, supportive department, small school, great kids. Closing date for applications is Wednesday.

After 2+ years, many rewrites & piloting, I am so pleased that this has been published! A free, online training programme for non-specialist secondary practitioners about the development of reading. Includes practical strategies that can be adapted for any classroom. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Like many teachers I sometimes ask myself why I bother, is it worth it, should I do something else? Then I wake up to a msg from former pupil, thanking me for always being supportive of LGBTQI+ & for posting support on socials. Because to that pupil, it made a difference. It's nice to be reminded

TryThisTeaching.com/toolkit A little bit of inspiration? An idea? A resource? A strategy? A website? All free! For any age/stage/phase! #EduSky