I still can’t quite believe it but last week I was offered my first headship! Will be starting as headteacher of a fantastic primary school in Leeds from September! #dreamcometrue

We've been busy adding more content to Steplab: 📹 229 new model videos 🚸 Split videos by Primary and Secondary 🥅 Three new goals 🛝 Improved our EYFS and KS1 curriculums 🗣️ Strengthened our rehearsal tasks 💻 Join us this Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:00, to find out more: bit.ly/49TWAYk

Increasingly schools are codifying how they see great teaching. We did this by designing a Blueprint, allowing us to align teaching practice and sequence professional development like a curriculum. Here is a summary of how we did it: 🧵 #EduSky #EdLeadership

If you were to add more reading time into a primary timetable, what would this look like? Independent reading? Listening to a teacher read? Following along to a teacher reading? A mixture? I'm curious as to which might have the most impact for children who need more reading miles #edusky

At John Charles Centre for Sport for Day 2 of Dyslexia for Lead Practitioners Training. What a view of Leeds!

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Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has significant implications for multilingual learners as they face unique cognitive challenges during the learning process. Here's how to manage them ⬇️ #edusky

A must for all reading leads & reading teachers. Workshops for every phase (EYFS to sixth form). Bespoke workshops include: phonics; Ofsted; reading beyond phonics; reading culture; assessment; reading for pleasure; supporting readers with SEND & more roundhay.eventbrite.co.uk

It's here! The Headteacher Starter Pack. Want a whole lot of headteachers on your timeline? Here's the starter pack for you. Includes deputy heads and assistant heads, heads of school and retired colleagues. Experience, wisdom, compassion, connection & beauty all in one package. go.bsky.app/9jJ5dKQ

Are you a headteacher, serving or retired, a deputy or and assistant Head? Of so, could you comment on this thread and I will put together a head teacher starter pack. Please Repost for maximum reach.

A must for all reading leads & reading teachers. Workshops for every phase (EYFS to sixth form). Bespoke workshops include: phonics; Ofsted; reading beyond phonics; reading culture; assessment; reading for pleasure; supporting readers with SEND & more roundhay.eventbrite.co.uk

Over the last few weeks we've launched: 📸Photo uploads 📹New model videos to bolster our Primary, History and Science curriculums 🇫🇷New specialist curriculum and models for French teachers 🧑‍🏫Refined our TA curriculum ❓Want to make the most of these? 👉 Join our webinar: bit.ly/3BGoSbN 💻

I had a very exciting meeting this morning planning my session on teaching reading in KS2.We would love to invite friends and colleagues to our school to share what we’ve learned over the last few years about teaching reading from EYFS>KS5. Bookings can be made via roundhay.eventbrite.co.uk #EduSky

I had a very exciting meeting this morning planning my session on teaching reading in KS2.We would love to invite friends and colleagues to our school to share what we’ve learned over the last few years about teaching reading from EYFS>KS5. Bookings can be made via roundhay.eventbrite.co.uk #EduSky

Great start to the day running beside the Thames this morning. Now it’s time for a fantastic day thinking curriculum and achievement at the PIXL Primary National Conference 🙌

Want to join the conversation? Mary Myatt and I will be running a session on, 'Fingerprint Culture'... building for belonging in the new year. We'd love to see you there... Free webinar, Monday 23rd September 4-4:45pm huhacademy.typeform.com/FMV-23sep24?... Suitable for all settings.

Starting Saturday strong! 🥇🏃#BeYourOwnCheerleader

Fingerprint Culture: Building Belonging @creativehigg.bsky.social and I will be exploring how to build for belonging in the new academic year. Free webinar, Monday 23rd September 4-4:45pm Suitable for all settings. Register here! huhacademy.typeform.com/FMV-23sep24?...

We’ve been working hard to create excellent resources to help you hone your coaching observation and feedback skills. Sign up and join our 3 live interactive I do, We Do, You do coaching webinars starting on 04/09 at 4pm here 👉 bit.ly/3MfK1eC

*NEW BLOG POST* School Improvement | Tiny Gains saysmiss.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/s... #EduSky #Edublogshare

I hope this has some impact: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...

Here's a reshare about one of my favourite topics in education: developing children's vocabulary! It's a visual summary of the main ideas from Bringing Words to Life - how to select, teach, practise and assess vocabulary. #EduSky PDF Link: www.marcrhayes.com/post/bringin...

Here's a reshare about one of my favourite topics in education: developing children's vocabulary! It's a visual summary of the main ideas from Bringing Words to Life - how to select, teach, practise and assess vocabulary. #EduSky PDF Link: www.marcrhayes.com/post/bringin...

Best of luck to everyone involved in results day today! #EduSky

🆕 platform 🆕 blog A blog and a request to grow our collective knowledge on how best we can support edu leaders in being EVEN better. Team work makes the dream work 🙌🏼

Our young people are human beings first and learners second There can be a tendency to focus on the second at the expense of the first When the intellectual trumps the emotional More below on the exciting programme with @creativehigg.bsky.social & others marymyatt.substack.com/p/finding-my...

Good Morning #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary Resharing my blog based on my MSc study into teacher expectations, what we mean by 'high expectations' and how to act to make the most of the expectancy effect. www.marcrhayes.com/post/highexp...

**NEW THREAD TO BLOG** Thread to Blog | Dyslexia saysmiss.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/t... #EduSky

Scaffolding writing in Key Stage One (Or for any novice/early writers) morgsedu.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/s...

Interested in #BrewEd? Whether you're thinking of attending, would like to offer a session or could be persuaded to run one, pin this feed and easily keep up with all the conversations. bsky.app/profile/did:...

These are such a great resource for busy Y6 teachers - they save so much time! A real gift from Sophie! ✨

Good Morning #EduSky! Sharing my blog on curriculum sequencing in primary humanities. There are examples across history, geography and RE about how we can organise the curriculum to help pupils remember key ideas and develop their understanding over time. www.marcrhayes.com/post/curricu...

Jean Mandler in her pretty wonderful paper Stories, Scripts and Scenes: Aspects of Schema Theory, talks in quite some detail how the structure of schemas is vertical (and hierarchical) while that of mental models (action, in time, sequential) is horizontal.

Snapshot history of schemas.

Saying hello to everyone I’ve connected with today! It’s been both nostalgic + a breath of fresh air! Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues old and new 😊 Hope you’re all having a great summer ☀️ Here’s a photo of my lazy dog, Luca, to continue the positive vibes 😊

I don’t want to go back to the bad place so if you’re part of the edu-exodus & looking for people to follow, I’m going to start a little thread of some familiar faces from edutwitter already posting here. Please tag people to this thread as I know it’s tricky to get started when you first join.👇🏼

There are now so many teachers migrating from twitter that it’s impossible to keep up - which is brilliant but I’m definitely missing lots of lovely people! So - if you tap on the Like button on the post and look at who’s there, you can follow them and follow their follows etc…👇🏼 #EduSky

Primary teachers, take a look at theteacherscollection.com to see the range of books we suggest for all KS1 & KS2 subjects (including KS2 French). All linked to NC objectives; free to search the collection.

My new book is available to pre-order! I’m so excited, I loved writing it - and it addresses the key ways we can think about diversifying the curriculum meaningfully! The Diverse Curriculum amzn.eu/d/7WEavIq #EduSky #UKteachers

Really love this. I’m always so inspired by historians sharing their thinking around curriculum. This from Marc: ‘When we read or hear stories, we rarely remember them word for word. Rather, our mind creates a mental model and it is the residue of this model which we can indeed remember.’

For lots of lovely book recommendations, follow @teacherscollection.bsky.social

First post on BlueSky - I'm getting a bit of nostalgia from when I first joined Twitter as a teacher back in 2014. Seems fitting to share on here this blog I wrote earlier this year 😀 www.marcrhayes.com/post/powerfu...