SecEd Podcast: Our new episode offers practical ideas & #teaching techniques for engaging students in the work of William Shakespeare. How to introduce his plays – penetrating the vocabulary – how to make #Shakespeare enjoyable – what to avoid & much more: buff.ly/EgEDVOy #teachers #education

Currently reading: The Lamb by Lucy Rose.

Watched Hamnet. Will need 3-5 business days to recover. #hamnet #film

Burnout sucks. Any tips for getting out? Asking for a friend. #burnout #edusky #neurodiverse

BPPV strikes again so I’m being looked after. Not sure about this guy’s qualifications but he’s cute. #dogs

Practical Magic x The Honey Witch Two sisters develop the ability to sense love and are able to determine a person’s true love… for everyone except themselves ✨ With Big 5 Editor interest #QuestPit #Q #A #YA #F #R

TANGLED X PRINCESS BRIDE X STARDUST 💘 He fell first (literally), she fell harder ☀️Golden Retriever MMC meets 🌑Black Cat FMC 🐦‍🔥🐉 Mythological creatures ft. Chinese/Italian beasts 🗡️ Impossible quests ✨Intertwined curses & a trickster slug #questpit #NA #YA #F #AG

HAZELTHORN X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH Journals of a Familiar Hawthorne has never left the cathedral. Raised in silence and prepared for a future he doesn't understand, everything changes when he meets Violet, a witch with wild dreams of escape. #questpit #W #YA #H #LGBT

THE LIBRARIAN’S SECRET #Questpit #YA #SFF #R #H #Q “Your paths are tightly bound (…) but there are few more miles to tread. You will break each other’s hearts before the end.” 🕯️Demons, death, and dark academia. 🕯️Time travel. 🕯️An underdog rebellion. 🕯️LGBTQ+ lovers to enemies.

WHAT THE THORNS REMEMBER #Questpit #W #A #DF #H Written as a gothic folklore alternative to seasonal cosy fiction. 💫 An outcast raised by witches. 💫 A girl who sees visions of death. 💫 A priest who hungers for power. 💫 A farmer with who hears the secrets of the earth.

So what is #Questpit?

This is why I moved to Ellipsus (please don’t reply to this and tell me they secretly use AI too…) and I absolutely love it.

Been teaching for nearly 13 years. Some days, you feel like you’re back to year 1. Today is one of those days. Always humbling. #edusky #teaching

🚨New Blog🚨 Closing the Disadvantage Gap We must not confuse disadvantage with inability. What interventions can we use to close the disadvantage gap & equip students with the rich knowledge they need to comprehend the curriculum & the world around them? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

It’s that point in the January Half Term where I accidentally fall asleep at 7pm and stay out cold until my alarm goes off the following morning. #teachertired #edusky #education

🌟 NEW POST 🌟 ‘6 strategies to support shared reading for students with SEND’ 1. Least to most prompts 2. Reading comprehension strategies 3. Using ‘wh’ words 4. Vocabulary examples/non-examples 5. Picture-plus 6. The CAR model alexquigley.co.uk/6-strategies...

I’m at the point in my life where my wild treat to myself is buying a quince and a medlar tree. I am beyond excited. #gardening #trees #nature

Rachel is so Lady Macbeth coded. I keep waiting for her to tell Stephen to screw his courage to the sticking place. Love her though. #traitorsuk

Traitors being on half an hour later means I had time for a pre-finale nap before the excitement begins. Yes, I am that old. #traitorsuk #traitors

🚨New Blog Alert🚨 Get Reading Into It We examine some of the barriers to reading for pleasure, and dig into some of the classroom practice that puts reading on the sideline. There's also 5 Top Tips to get reading into your lessons! literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/20...

Happy Friday! We’ve made it through week 3 which was only 52 days long! #eduSky #WriteSky #Friday

He’s such a good boy. #dogs #bordercollie

WHISPERS FROM THE MUSE — Inspiration for Word Weavers & Dream Chasers #sherrybriscoe #amwriting #authorlife #books #creativewriting #indieauthors #writer #stories #writingadvice #writinglife #writingtips #bookaholic #bookworms #ilovebooks #ilovereading #goodreads #creativity #bookstagram

It’s not often I get to teach new Shakespeare plays so getting stuck into a brand new Julius Caesar SOW with Yr8 was a treat this morning. And yes - I did get asked if Caesar invented the salad… #edusky #education #teaching #shakespeare

Writers - if you could commission another writer to write a niche book, what would you ask for? I’d ask for a Western but female-led. All cowgirls. Chop out the rampant problematic stuff. Just give me girls in Stetsons having a great time. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Teaching teenagers for a living, it’s easy to forget they’re still children. Teaching a full day of PSHCE reminds you of that. The world is so vast and full of horror and they are still quite small. Meaningful conversations alleviate the fear. #education #teaching

Tsundoku: A Japanese word for the art of collecting books and letting them pile up in your home, likely to never be read. (So, you know, most of us readers.)

The perks of owning chickens: I get to watch chickens while I work. The downside of owning chickens: I start to watch chickens INSTEAD of working. #chickens #procrastination

#Literacy isn’t just for English lessons, it’s the key to success in all subjects – especially in the #science classroom. Anna Mapley – @hfleducation.bsky.social – explores practical strategies to help students master scientific vocabulary: buff.ly/BWJF9df #teachers #teaching #STEM #edusky

Apparently my tiny little town was the only part of Europe experiencing cloud last night… #aurora #europe

In our library, we’ve started some great work with a local community magazine this year but this definitely gives more food for thought! #edusky #education #libraries

I’m not really a soppy teacher quote person but it’s been one of those Mondays and sometimes, it does you good to remember… #education #teaching

And then there’s me, with classroom windows that won’t open beyond an inch… 😅

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Recommendations for dog-friendly campsites in Cornwall? Would take good views and environmental back-to-basics ethos over anything fancy (no hot tubs or pizza vans required)… the simpler the better! #camping #cornwall #hiking #nature #dogfriendly #tourism

I always thought we weren’t ready for sentience. Huge evolutionary advantage, but a near-fatal shock to our poor ape brains. So we invented religion to explain death, comedy to explain life, and fiction to explain time.

Infuriating! Also explains why people are easily duped. "...majority of Gen Z parents are not reading aloud to their young children because they view it as a chore. Many college students cannot make it through an entire book." theconversation.com/deep-reading...

The novel and film "Hamnet" is based on the interesting fact that, in Shakespeare's time, the letters "l" and "n" were used interchangeably. Which is going to radically alter my reading of "Kilg Near."

Having returned to Discworld in the last year, I couldn’t agree more.

Question from newbie writer: how do you ensure that Beta Readers don’t just… steal your work? In complete agreement that I should be getting feedback but feels very scary just sending your book-baby to a complete unknown… are there legal protections? #writingcommunity #betareaders #writerchat

An article I wrote for @booktrust.org.uk! 😊💓 www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme... #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky

NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2024/06/read...

I will never have a better start to a weekend - a rhubarb and custard pastry for breakfast. #weekend #patisserie #breakfast

I love this. It also articulates the difficulty of unseen texts in exams and the challenges faced by disadvantaged students. #educhat #literacy #reading #englishteacher

Shirley Jackson was right. No live organism can exist sanely for long under conditions of absolute reality.

Faithful to Traitors. #Traitors #BBC

This is Indy. He just made history as the first dog to win a major acting award. He won the Astra for Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller after starring in the supernatural horror Good Boy. 14/10 congrats Indy

You’ve gotta be the kid screeching two notes on a violin before you can be the adult performing a musical masterpiece. #writing