“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

This is an absolute stunner. Top drawer fiction. Brilliant world building, great characters, fantastic plot and story and stunning twists and turns. A must read.

This is a brilliant book to read aloud and share with a class. “POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme” by @fuse8.bsky.social and @atsurumi.bsky.social is a joyful anarchic romp through a host of nursery rhymes as the ever more disruptive interruptions cause chaos. Joyous fun with a class #PicturebookPage

Fave book I’ve read this year, funny, philosophical, beautifully plotted, redemptive and just truly lovely. It was wildly different to anything I’ve read in ages “The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest” by #aubreyhartman is a delight. @littlebrown.bsky.social

These look fab. 🤩

Look at this @fordy03.bsky.social 💕🤩

I'm doing a #FreeGiveaway of my latest book "The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching" to celebrate its publication! Repost this message to enter. Winner announced on 10th April. UK only. #EduSky #inclusion

🎈Happy 6th Birthday to Fox Lane Books 🎈 As a thank you for your support over the years, we’re giving away *6 extra* reward points for every £1 spent! That’s 11 points instead of the usual 5 📚✨Log in at FoxLaneBooks.co.uk to redeem £s on future purchases Thank you for being part of our journey🦊🧡📚

Our Planet has two Lungs, one is Blue the other is Green

Happy World Glacier Day!! As we enter into the International Year of #Glacier Preservation, we must: - redouble efforts to scale up political ambition for widespread emissions reductions - fight to prevent every tenth of a degree of warming - Ensure countries submit 1.5C aligned NDCs at COP30

The positive feedback on this free document has been overwhelming. The sheer number of downloads is evidence that people really want to understand and embrace the power of play. #PlayMatters Get your copy today: www.early-years-reviews.com/play-matters

Interim report for the curriculum assessment review is out today: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67d961...

Thanks @foxlanebooks.bsky.social So excited for my brand new books to arrive. Signed too! 📚 🧡 Hopefully one will become our new class read. Love this fabulous bookshop. Highly recommend. #KidLit #BookSky

Help #EduSky ! We have just finished the Nowhere Emporium and the kids absolutely loved it. What can we read next that they will love as much? It’s a high bar! Books for Year 5 suggestions please. 🙏🏻 #KidLit #Year5 #PrimaryTeaching

Help #EduSky ! We have just finished the Nowhere Emporium and the kids absolutely loved it. What can we read next that they will love as much? It’s a high bar! Books for Year 5 suggestions please. 🙏🏻 #KidLit #Year5 #PrimaryTeaching

On “twitter” I curated over 400 fab picturebooks from the last 8 years #PicturebookPage. Sharing a few faves here. “Aviary Wonders Inc” by #KateSamworth. Comes in the form of a catalogue to make your own bird it carries an important message about protecting the environment and fauna within it

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Love this. 😂😂😂

So sad to hear of the loss of the beautiful talent that was Roberta Flack. “The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage

Here’s the thing: women outperform men academically; on most desireable leadership traits women tend to outperform men; women are less likely to display problematic work traits; women score higher on measures of leadership effectiveness. 1/2

World Book Day has the most sustained impact when it's used as a springboard for developing a school culture of reading. This year, we're exploring Daniel Pennac's Rights of the Reader (beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake). Each class will develop their own set of reading rights and share them.

It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win. I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).

Last chance for this before I draw a winner tomorrow. ⬇️

🍭It's #SundaySweetener time! #BookGiveaway You might be hating the weather this month, but hopefully not this book! We're giving away a copy of 'I Love Books' by Mariajo Ilustrajo. For your chance to win: 🍬 Follow 🍬 Like 🍬 Tag friend 🍬 Repost for extra entry Winner announced Monday!

The first rule of Earth club is we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The second rule of Earth club is we need to cut all greenhouse gas emissions. Yes even those ones.

See you there! #geogchat #geographyteacher

When you’re on bus duty and a student opens the window on the departing bus to shout “look at that cloud cover” 👍🏻 🌍 #geographyteacher

Hey Folks! Tonight, we will be having trial on Blue Sky! Follow us here and search #PrimaryRocks from 8pm! Bring a friend to the friendly edchat!

All my #EduSkyPrimary people ⬇️ the wonderful #PrimaryRocks edchat is coming to #EduSky at 8pm GMT. Come and join in!

If you got any book tokens for Christmas, make sure you spend them at an independent bookshop. Here's a map with links to over 250 that are either children's bookshops or have very good children's sections.

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🍭 It's #SundaySweetener time! #BookGiveaway 📚To kick of the year, we're giving away 2 texts: "At Home in a Book" and "Tomorrow We Begin". For your chance to win these stunning texts: 🍬 Follow 🍬 Like 🍬 Tag friend 🍬 Repost for extra entry Winner announced Monday!

The Moon & Venus 🌙🌟 #art

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

Teachers - If you are looking for ideas to stimulate poetry writing in the classroom, or if you don't feel too confident teaching poetry, there are many tried and tested ideas on my blog plus lesson plans by guest poets to guide you through the process. brian-moses.blogspot.com

New Printable Pentomino Puzzle - an airplane this time! mathequalslove.net/pentominoes-... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky

For all who need a bit of new year inspiration or invigoration for guided reading, give this a read. #PrimaryEnglish #EduSky

School Reading List Children’s Book of the Month 📚👍🏼 https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-releases/books-of-the-month/ #kidlit The School Reading List compiles this list of recommended books monthly. This children's and YA books of the month list highlights new releases and editions of fiction …

Dear UK Government and local councils, please work to create more allotments. With more than 150,000 people on waiting lists, some waiting years, there are huge potential benefits for health, communities, wildlife, biodiversity, and for producing affordable fresh food without packaging & food miles.

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

Ha! No football. It ISN’T SATURDAY. Is it? #IsItSaturday?

The picture book about the fairy queen in this roundup sounds AMAZING!!! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d... @imogenrw.bsky.social

Swapping eating for reading. #KidKitSky #PrimaryEduSky

Oh bravo NASA! The #Parker Solar Probe lives!! It's back in communication range and has sent "a beacon tone... indicating it’s in good health and operating normally". Huge congrats to the engineering team who built it to sustain the brutal >1000°C temp 🥳🧪🔭 ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarp...

Want to go to bed but waiting for the Nottingham Forest game on MOTD. Beat Spurs and up to third but half an hour in and even behind Newcastle v Villa in the running order. How?? #NFFC #MOTD #BoxingDayTired

Charles Dahl's Dickens Chickens

I’m always amazed at the detail & accuracy in Palaeolithic cave art. The artists must have spent so much time observing the depicted animals. I couldn’t draw a bison in dark cave without reference. It makes me wonder if they made sketches or maquettes first w/ the animal in front of them.