"He's done everything he could to break down this country, and now he's going off to tell everyone abroad how broken we are." Nigel Farage loves the UK so much, he flew to America this week to tell Congress how awful it is. Is this patriotism?

Delighted this edition is now out with 64 contributors!! @primaryenglish.bsky.social @primaryteachew.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @rogmcdonald.bsky.social Built to last with classroom teachers voices too!

Booking now LiVE for our Oct. 18th Conference! tinyurl.com/bn6d2x3m Milton Keynes 🎈Do Join us! 🎈@openuni-rfp.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @readingrocks.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social An engaging reading community focused day 🎈@uklitassociation.bsky.social

Wonderful @openuni-rfp.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social Student Teacher #readingforpleasure Ambassadors presentations tonight! From universities across the country! Future Reading Teachers! @rogmcdonald.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social

In his latest piece for the Church Times, @stevechalke.bsky.social argues that alongside national conversations about masculinity, violence and smartphones, we need a conversation about the spiritual health of our young people. 👉 Read more here: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/topics/young-people

Don't miss out on a chance to apply to be in the 2025/26 cohort of schools working towards the prestigious UKLA/OU Reading for Pleasure Quality Mark. The Quality Mark is open to Primary and Secondary settings which have RfP developed across the provision. www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

The DfE has updated its SEND guidance for school governing boards. Highly recommend reading. Includes signposting to some useful additional resources & a checklist for governors. www.gov.uk/government/p... #SEND #Inclusion #schools #schoolleaders #schoolgovernors

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

In just over a week's time the @uklitassociation.bsky.social online national conference is happening, do join us for a fab morning and taking about the potential for literacy to break boundaries and help children and young people navigate the world we are in ukla.org/nc25/ #EduSky

🗣️We are looking for a new Director of Programmes. Are you a proactive and collaborative leader with a deep understanding of the educational landscape? We want to hear from you👇 www.prospect-us.co.uk/jobs/190952-...

Check out these stunning titles ! www.empathylab.uk/RFE Wonderful to be an Empathy Lab judge alongside @jonnybid.bsky.social @rcharlesworth.bsky.social and many more!

The next Open University/UKLA RfP conference takes place in Doncaster on Saturday 29th March. Fantastic keynotes from author Sufiya Ahmed and @teresacremin.bsky.social, plus some exciting workshops. I'm already looking forward to it! More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-fo...

UKLA Literacy Special Issue: The Writing Realities Framework and New Directions In Writing Research, Instruction And Learning is guest edited by Ross Young, Felicity Ferguson, and Doug Kaufman and now available online: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414369/2025/59/1

We currently have spaces for schools to take part in our 2025/26 professional development course 'Professionals: Implementing Change'. Our Professionals: Implementing Change programme is a bespoke, research based, CPD programme directed to professionals and delivered within your setting.

Tom Doust is talking about the importance of imagination in the primary classroom. It is live now- if you would like to come along just pop me an e-mail [email protected]

Primary and secondary colleagues, we are holding a Reading for Pleasure CPD event which will include information about the National Reading for Pleasure Quality Mark from the Open University and UKLA. If you are interested, please do sign up.

Do join us in Doncaster in March! Practical, inspirational and evidence informed we’ll share ways to profile choice and voice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-fo... Bookshops + Sufiya Ahmed too! @jonbiddle.bsky.social @imogenm16.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

Reminder! OU/UKLA Reading for Pleasure Quality Mark Introductory Session is happening on March 25th. Interested in taking part in the Quality Mark? Want to access research-informed CPD on Reading for Pleasure? Make sure to get your ticket. https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/70023

“Morag was a seminal figure in putting children’s literature on the map as a field of academic enquiry.She initiated an undergraduate programme in children’s literature.. became the thriving Centre for Research in Children’s Literature” Remarkable work & legacy. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Have you got your tickets for the 2025 UKLA National Conference yet? Taking place over Zoom on Saturday 1st March, and with a brilliant line up of speakers and workshops, it certainly is not one to miss.

The @justimaginecentre.bsky.social team put on some amazing free events for pupils & school staff. On Thursday, they're running a poetry session with @jamescarterpoet.bsky.social, @bardymum.bsky.social, Simon Lamb & Stephen Lightbrown. One not to miss! Details here: justimagine.co.uk/evening-in/w...

A year's worth of picturebook assembly suggestions that have a focus on diversity, equality, inclusion and empathy. Hopefully it's of use, even to just dip into occasionally. The link is here: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r... #edusky

We're really looking forward to the @uklitassociation.bsky.social 60th Conference (27 - 29 June 2025), 'Beating the Odds, Changing Futures' - the call for papers is open until 5 Jan. A journey of empowerment, beating the odds, and collectively changing futures for the better! ukla.org/ic25/

So sad to hear about Morag Styles. Her research into children's picturebooks have been pivotal to my research journey. I was star struck when I met her & she was so kind. I was lucky to sit on @uklitassociation.bsky.social's academic book panel she chaired, she was generous with her time & advice.

Many edu people have been pointing out for 10Y+ that England has this problem, &have taken a huge amount of abuse on ‘EduTwitter’ for it. Some of us were even surveilled by the Tory DFE for so doing- @ruthswailes.bsky.social. Time to lance this abscess. #EduSky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you weren't able to make the Newsletter Live event about #ReadingforPleasure and poetry, I'm pleased to say it's now up on YouTube! youtu.be/OOWaxSl2xOQ?... #EduSky #teachers

Superb article ftom @natashadevon.bsky.social. She’s also a must follow on @bsky.app substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Have just made a couple of updates to my Reading for Pleasure Padlet. Ideas for staff meetings, teaching resources, links to a map of children's bookshops, suggested picturebooks to use in assemblies, templates for surveys, and lots more. I hope it's useful. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.

The latest #ReflectingRealities report from @theclpe.bsky.social is out today. It's a hugely important read. For the first time in the past seven years, the survey reveals an overall drop in the percentage of racially minoritised characters featured in children’s books. clpe.org.uk/research/clp...

If you have any interest in children's books, the #ReflectingRealities research done by @theclpe.bsky.social is absolutely essential reading. Look out for the new report tomorrow - and here's all their research so far: clpe.org.uk/research/ref...

When writing success criteria goes wrong writing4pleasure.com/2023/05/12/w...

My most recent contribution for Teach Secondary on how we can support and influence reading in adolescence. Nudge, don’t shove! (on pg 35) cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...

Terrific opportunity for a fully funded PhD in volitional reading/writing! wels.open.ac.uk/research/res... Do pls share widely - we’re open to personal passions+questions @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @whatsfsaid.bsky.social

Looking forward to Bismha Afzal talking as part of Islamophobia awareness month. Message me for joining link if interested.

@teresacremin.bsky.social and Scholes' concise articulation of the benefits of #ReadingforPleasure is brilliant: increased vocabulary; improved narrative and descriptive writing; better text organisation; increased grammatical accuracy and textual cohesion. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"It's done more bad than good." Fuse ODG tells @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social that he believes Band Aid is responsible for Africa losing 'trillions of pounds in revenue.'

Very much worth 10 minutes of your time to listen to the ever sound musings of @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social, with a run down of 10 things the Oracy Education Commission have learnt since their launch. The jingles too - chef’s kiss. Complex issues but not impossible. open.spotify.com/episode/3ZDd...

Hello, new BlueSky followers. In April, I was proud to be asked to chair the Oracy Education Commission. You can read our final report ('We Need to Talk') here: tinyurl.com/yr9pp9af And there are dozens of podcast conversations exploring #oracy in its many forms: open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJKk...

Looking for some non-fiction books for your classroom? Our brilliant Librarian Phoebe, has chosen her favourite non-fiction texts from our Power of Reading collection, to celebrate #NonFictionNovember! Watch this video to find out more...

This was such a wonderful session. @rogmcdonald.bsky.social’s students are always so enthusiastic, reflective and engaged as we talk about the importance of poetry and walk through a range of poetry activities. Sessions that live in my memory and bring a smile as I think of these students in schools

The School of Education is proud to present an exciting and inspirational line-up for the annual Primary Partnership Lecture Series – continuing with Bismha Afzal who is the Schools Coordinator for Educate Against Islamophobia.

University of Greenwich students developing their knowledge of children's literature - brilliant conversations focused around powerful literature.

Fantastic day for the University of Greenwich BA QTS students at the amazing CLPE with a session on poetry with the brilliant @charliehacking.bsky.social

Got a lot on this padlet: padlet.com/rruddick9zra... and a few different ones on this list: uk.bookshop.org/lists/great-... Big hits are usually the investigators, Pablo and splash, bunny vs monkey, peng and spanners, bumble and snug, Hilda, happy hills and mighty jack.

Are you interested in bespoke CPD for your school where sustainable change is made? We come to you and work with staff on identifying research areas which make a difference. Contact me for more information youtu.be/D8RoCgQaRec

Thrilled to put hashtag #imagination at the heart of the latest edition of Future Minds and to have contributed a couple of articles on creative learning and AI and imagination. Thanks to our friends the LEGO Group and William Ford School for contributions: sites.google.com/view/cleapss...

Are you from a Primary or Secondary school where reading for pleasure is securely developed? If so, you may be interested in the UKLA and Open University Reading for Pleasure Quality Mark. Come to our CPD and information session on Tuesday 25th March 2-4pm to find out more www.trybooking.com/uk/DZPF