Lovely to interview Guy Claxton last week as he helps us to look beyond the outdated 'working memory/longterm memory' warehouse metaphor of learning. It's a model that has stripped joy from learning, ignoring motivation, emotion and body and we can do better. educationappg.org.uk/wp-content/u...

This is why we slowed down our phonics learning and built in a school wide reading for pleasure programme (thank you @teresacremin.bsky.social and team). CLPE has helped us to shift away from atomised grammar and we have 'every place is a reading place' nooks and crannies all over. Our kids ❤️ books.

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Imagine if JK Rowling threw the energy and resources she spends on harassing trans people in the name of 'protecting women and children' at rich men trafficking children for sex.

Perhaps it’s a social media ban on the over 60s we should be considering 😬 Or maybe we could have politicians who actually take on the tech companies who actively direct groups of people to radicalising content online and fail to moderate.

Very proud that middle child's work is soon to be exhibited at Home in Manchester. homemcr.org/whats-on/gab...

Just saw an old bloke on the telly wondering around in his tweed, rambling on about loving collecting war memorabilia and staring longingly into the sunset and I thought it must be a daytime TV funeral ad. But no, it was a @reformuk.bsky.social party political broadcast. 😂😂

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.

We're looking for a great teacher of French at our brilliant school. Even better if you can also teach either German or Dutch. Details here! www.britishschool.be/jobs/teacher...

Cherwell District Council has become the first of Oxfordshire’s principal councils to leave X (formerly Twitter). Council leader Chris Brant said “Elon Musk's platform no longer meets the standards we expect for public engagement.”

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

hello new people, & welcome to the place where you don't feel actively complicit in the End Of Days. & to all those suddenly starting to use accounts they set up ages ago, promise it's got busier since you were last here...

This is going to be a lovely day - I've just booked my train! Come and join us at BrewEd/WomenEd www.wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Det...

Many more people need to do this.

Last snowy, snuggly day before we head back to work tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing the children and staff and hoping this is it now and we won't be having the 'will we/won't we' snow day dilemmas this week

“Circumventing” the law by… being open to anyone? Remarkable! It’s just like the time I circumvented the Civil Aviation Act by travelling to France on a boat…

It's making me angry now. If you're working with young people and still have a presence on X, you are literally propping up a platform that will create photos of naked children for perverts on request.

Happy New Year's Eve everyone. If you are a teacher (or indeed anyone) still posting on X, I have a suggested New Year's Resolution for you. Stop! If you agree, please REPOST here and on X if you maintain an account there. open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful. Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round. Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

On duty today outside the toilets. One cubicle. One child in cubicle shouting "My poo won't come out!" One child outside cubicle crossing his legs shouting "My poo is coming." How was your day?

Do join us on Tuesday for this free seminar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-to-r... it’ll be useful! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @raesnape.bsky.social @primarychamp.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social please share! All welcome!

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers". Read on for more... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Oh, Scotland 🤦

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Zeeland. What a stunning day.

Monschau, Germany. Felt like we'd dropped in to Fairytale Land.

This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.

Manchester economy thrives as other UK cities face growth challenges, Oxford Economics finds. www.business-live.co.uk/economic-dev...

>> A diagnostic alternative to ks1 #maths tests that help establish what KS1 children know and can do: atm.org.uk/news/ks1-tas...

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

Bit depressing really that the end result of a wholescale curriculum review is "we'll have a bit more oracy and loads more tests." Where is the vision and ambition?

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to see Bradford showing the little fascist Matt Goodman the door on #BBCQT - is it too much to hope that people are starting to wake up?

I guess they take the online safety and wellbeing of young people seriously here.

Heads up for #earlyyears peeps and all those interested in #maths and young children My new book due for publication May/June 2026 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I'm tired of seeing discredited metaphors like 'architecture' and 'computer' to describe how the brain works. This description of the human brain is so very limited and lacking in complexity, creativity or even accuracy, that the pedagogy that is claimed to serve it must be equally flawed.

I will never understand why this doesn’t make more people quit X.

What are the chances that if the question were the other way round, the answer would be a resounding yes from Express readers?

Our Year 2 children understand this.

It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.

Book Week next week and we're welcoming Matt Goodfellow, Katya Balen, Liz Million, Paddy Donnelly, Leo Timmers and Nathalie Dieterlé into school to work with our children. What an amazing end to this half term.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...