🚨 15 DAYS TO GO 🚨 A recent spate of illness means I missed a week of these... Today's post for the upcoming Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social is short and sweet. The Dedication page - one for @litdrive.bsky.social and @ttradioofficial.bsky.social English folk...

🚨 22 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Today's post for the upcoming Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social is a case study by Amy Staniforth on: Designing a Secondary English Curriculum Inspired by @marymyatt.bsky.social, @alexjquigley.bsky.social and @funkypedagogy.bsky.social,

🚨 23 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Today's post for the upcoming Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social reveals a *HUGE* DISCOUNT OF 35% OFF any pre-orders. Use the code LEADING35 on Bloomsbury.com. This offer expires on 12.02.26. Grab it while you can! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

🚨 24 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Today's sneak peek of Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social from Ch4 - Spiral curriculum and Schema-building. When leading secondary English you have so much freedom and flexibility of what to teach and when to teach it at KS3...

🚨 25 DAYS TO GO 🚨 Today's sneak peek of Leading Secondary English @bloomsburyed.bsky.social comes from Ch3- Upholding the Law. A range of ideas for robust quality assurance practices: ✅ Deliberate Practice ✅ Spotlights ✅ Book Looks ✅ The 4 Rs Pre-order now: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leading-s...

Received my advance copies of 'Leading Secondary English' from @bloomsburyed.bsky.social today. A great feeling to finally hold it in my hands! 😍 Out on 12 February. Pre-order now: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leading-s...

One of my favour bloggers, and this is a cracking one @clairestoneman.bsky.social. As someone who has attempted to be a voice at the table: spoken at conferences, written a book, whilst working in a school full time, it's hard. And frankly, I can't do it all, anymore. My voice is quieter.

Be like @laurenteacheng.bsky.social. Pre-order Leading Secondary English today for 30% off. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leading-s...

Arriving on Blue.Sky with all the gear and no idea but I just pre-ordered @haledonal.bsky.social 's Leading Secondary English and that seems like something to celebrate #cpd #leadership #secondaryenglish

🚨Interested on how we developed our Literacy Strategy and the famous @TrinityAcademyL's Literacy Toolkit? @trinity_mat is offering an opportunity to to come to TAL for a professional visit morning on 16 October to hear all about it! www.trinitymat.org/professional...

PERSONAL POST: I've had a challenging few months in terms of my health. What started as a viral illness, triggering a drooping eye lid... has led to a diagnosis of a rare (especially for someone my age) autoimmune disease: myasthenia gravis. There are early signs of ... 1

This is 🔥 Definitely worth the buy

If you want to pre-order Leading Secondary English with @bloomsburyed.bsky.social, you can get 30% off until 11 July. Don't wait! 🙏🙏🙏 As a first-time author, pre-orders make a huge difference! @litdrive.bsky.social #EduSky #EdUK #TeamEnglish Link to where you can pre-order below:

It's starting to feel a little bit more real now... Cover inspired by @TrinityAcademyL's colours! 💜🌟 Published by @bloomsburyed.bsky.social.

Brilliant day yesterday @litdrive.bsky.social conference. Huge thanks to @nikkicarlin1.bsky.social for organising and such a brilliant range of speakers. Highlights included @xris32.bsky.social and @haledonal.bsky.social Also loved having the opportunity to present on #LiteraryLenses

Due to personal circumstances, I have had to turn down opportunities to speak at conferences, deliver webinars or write articles this academic year. I deliberately did not book anything in / have been much quieter on SM ... but when @litdrive.bsky.social's conference got postponed /1

Great to meet Melissa Lambert today at Trinity Academy Leeds! We connected over our shared passion for #multilingual learners, exchanging ideas & strategies to better support our students. Huge thanks to the phenomenal @haledonal.bsky.social , Lucy Bisset & Adam Levick for sharing their expertise!

Absolutely delighted to be speaking about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and how they interconnect in English. Pop along to Room 225 in Session 4 to come and listen! #LitDriveCPD25 @litdrive.bsky.social

🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️ We are thrilled to share that Donal Hale will be speaking at our National Conference #LitdriveCPD25 in March! 🐝 Who are you coming along with? We would love to hear from you! Tickets here: https://buff.ly/3XNnlI7 #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

It was a pleasure to sit down to record this podcast for @trinity_mat's Sparke Sounds. I discuss my career and journey to leadership, including the best decision of my career: becoming CL, English @TrinityAcademyL. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0rV6...

Today, I did something I never thought possible... I (finally) delivered the manuscript for Leading Secondary English to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social. 64,500 words. 8 incredible case studies. 1 dream (almost fulfilled!).

🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️ ICYMI yesterday - we are thrilled to be able to share the full speaker schedule for our national conference on 29 March at Aston University🐝 Find the list of speakers and session titles here so you can start planning your day! 🔈 https://buff.ly/40D00KH

Does anyone have one of these for English teachers? #UKEd #EduSky #TeamEnglish

#UKEd #EduSky #UKteaching I'm keen to give this platform more of a go as Twitter descends further into bin fire territory... I really miss seeing posts from #TeamEnglish. Some of the regulars from the golden age of blogs / sharing resources / discussion on Twitter never appear here... Help?

It was a pleasure to sit down to record this podcast for @trinity_mat's Sparke Sounds. I discuss my career and journey to leadership, including the best decision of my career: becoming CL, English @TrinityAcademyL. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/0rV6...

Tomorrow we welcome over 100 teachers to our Recruitment Evening @TrinityAcademyL! There's still time to join us! You'll see: ✅️ Expertly crafted curriculums ✅️ Outstanding T + L ✅️ Booklets ✅️ Efficient marking policy ✅️ Culture

On Wednesday we welcome prospective candidates for September 2025 @TrinityAcademyL. Next year we are at full capacity with Y7 - 11, so this is the last chance to become a founding member of our wonderful school. We are looking for (amongst other roles): Deputy CL, English 1/2

A bittersweet change in bio for January for me! I'm so excited to get my teeth stuck into all things Teaching and Learning @TrinityAcademyL, but will miss leading the powerhouse of the English Department. The purple baton is passing to you @missbury.bsky.social

Today, I did something I never thought possible... I (finally) delivered the manuscript for Leading Secondary English to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social. 64,500 words. 8 incredible case studies. 1 dream (almost fulfilled!).

I cannot wait to reveal the jobs @TrinityAcademyL that will be available for Year 5 on Monday! Some HUGE opportunities! Keep an eye out and consider joining us on our remarkable journey! #RewritingtheNarrative #Year5

I'm in the final stage of writing the manuscript for Leading Secondary English, ready to hand over to @BloomsburyEd in a few weeks! Collating the case studies (from some actual GENIUSES), finalising referencing and with a bit more text to add it'll be done! 🥳

A thoroughly enjoyable, and most importantly, USEFUL KS4 Book Look today @TrinityAcademyL. We had a model where we do this openly, with full transparency of the process for all, and completed COLLABORATIVELY. If Carlsberg did English departments... 💜🌟

I am speaking at #LitdriveCPD25! My session is entitled: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment: How they interconnect in English. To book tickets for you and your English departments, click www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1016588552... @litdrive.bsky.social #LitdriveCPD

FIFTY TWO leaders and teachers are visiting @TrinityAcademyL for our first Education Professional Day tomorrow. I can't wait to tour delegates through Morning Recall, a Learning Walk, then deliver a presentation on our TAL Literacy Strategy with @_MrLevick. 💜🌟

I adore TAL and the work of their inspirational staff, such as @haledonal.bsky.social They have established a juggernaut of education just out of the centre of Leeds. They *are* the Northern Powerhouse!

I adore Read with a Rule from our @TrinityAcademyL Literacy Strategy. ✅️ Teachers expertly modelling the reading process. ✅️ The increased focus and purpose of students. ✅️ Accountability for students actually reading. #ReadwithaRule

It was a joy to lead our first of three KS4 Masterclasses of this term with this powerhouse of a team @TrinityAcademyL. 💜🌟 The commitment, the passion, the striving for excellence was palpable! #KS4Ready #YearoftheTiger

A year ago today, I welcomed this little one into my life! Excited for all that lies ahead for her! Happy Birthday Quinley!

I am speaking at #LitdriveCPD25! My session is entitled: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment: How they interconnect in English. To book tickets for you and your English departments, click www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1016588552... @litdrive.bsky.social #LitdriveCPD

🧵 Writing Stamina 🧵 Our KS3 curriculum spiral curriculum model means we have taught writing structures from word --> sentence --> paragraph level. We focused on mastery, rather than throwing students into extended essay writing too soon. Some of the concerns others had were ... /1

Had my three year old's and 11 month old's Parents' Evening tonight. Was lovely to hear that 3yo is developing phonemic awareness, but I channelled my inner @_MrLevick when I asked: "Is it worth me doing more explicit teaching of graphemes, maybe more digraphs at home?" 😬

I spoke at the inaugural @litdrive.bsky.social National Conference and I am delighted to be speaking again! It's a wonderful day and jam-packed with brilliant speakers offering excellent CPD. Get your tickets NOW! #LitDriveCPD25

🗓️ #LitdriveCPD25 🗓️ Tickets for #LitdriveCPD25 are now on sale! Our national conference will be held at Aston University, Birmingham on Saturday 29 March. Joining us? Tag us to let us know! 🐝 Get your tickets here: https://buff.ly/4egekhH #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish @Team_English1

We re-launched Home Learning last Friday for 2024 / 25. Our first week using @SparxReader with all of KS3 (720 students) @TrinityAcademyL saw the first deadline draw in at 7pm this evening. The results are in ... 🥁🥁🥁 Year 7 ... 99.6% Year 8 ... 99.6% Year 9 ... 98.3%

❓️Want to visit my school, Trinity Academy Leeds? ❓️Interested in all things LITERACY? ✅️Come join us on Wednesday 20th November! Adam Levick and I will be presenting on our Literacy Toolkit and Intervention to Support Struggling Readers. 💜🌟 #RewritingTheNarrative #CPD #EduSky ##TeamEnglish

I'm so excited to be delivering a keynote at the FSD Conference (RAISING ACHIEVEMENT) alongside @funkypedagogy.bsky.social TOMORROW! Having spoken at 2 / 3 of these conferences, @amy117.bsky.social will have organised a cracker. I may have stolen a clause from our school's mantra for my title!

Every year our staff complete an anonymised staff survey benchmarked against 250 trusts and over 3,000 schools. I'm delighted that our results place us in the top ten nationally for workload balance and wellbeing. Workload balance is essential for retention and recruitment.

Had the pleasure of delivering staff training today on the implementation of our Golden Toolkit @TrinityAcademyL. Five pedagogical tools employed to support the needs of our vulnerable learners to strengthen our Wave 1 provision delivered through Deliberate Practice. 💜🌟

The artefact (booklet, slides etc) is not the curriculum. Co-planning time is the key ingredient.