Happy #Caturday ! Cat sitting for Pedro who has the best box ever 💕

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer

Brilliant books focusing on empathy and inclusion 🤩

Excited to be planning my first #NoOutsiders lesson of 2025-2026 using this gorgeous book. New book, new year. Year 5 are going to love it!

More big event news! The UK Ghost Story Festival will be back in Feb/Mar 2026, and returning to its original venue at QUAD - Derby for three days of talks, workshops, interviews, panels and more! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/ukgho...

#BlackCatAppreciationDay Celebrating whilst cat sitting the most beautiful blackest of black voids - Elsie 💕

Love this so much!

#Caturday She really was the best cat 💕

Happy #Caturday from the purriest of kittens 💕

Everyone is welcome and everyone is safe at my school too. No one is the same but everyone is equal. #NoOutsiders

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Definitely the best thread this morning

Spent #Caturday with my gorgeous cat nephew 💕 there was a lot of purring

Missing Coco, who was the very best of cats, this #Caturday There’s a massive cat shaped hole in my heart

Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever! #literacy

#OnThisDay 1976 : The first episode of Paddington was broadcast on BBC1 #70s

When you ask people about the books that changed their lives, they almost always mention a children's book. They're the books that make us readers, shape us at the deepest levels, and stay with us FOREVER. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all! #kidlit #books

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.

Our first episode of Folkloring is up and you can find it at www.folkloringpodcast.com or all the usual podcast directories

🥳 Had The Rainbow Flag Award renewed 🥳

Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”

Happy #Caturday Yoshi (my cat nephew) who was very pleased I stayed over last night. Lots of purring - the best way to start the day 😍

I am not ready to have another cat. This year has been too hard. Today I am going to visit a cat rescue with the intention to volunteer there. I plan to leave without bringing a cat home with me. I can’t see what could possibly go wrong.

My sister in law died of cervical cancer last Christmas aged 41 leaving my brother a widower with 3 children aged 7, 6 and 2. This is amazing news. Vaccines are incredible. I wish it had existed when we were younger, how different things could have been.

Celebrating Biscuit’s 1st #Caturday with his Furever Home. My gorgeous boy, nitwit extraordinaire foster cat Biscuit has gone to live with his very lovely new family. They are over the moon, totally in love & he’s made himself right at home already ❤️ Don’t think I can foster again though 😫

#WhiskersWednesday Pedro has discovered catnip. Pedro is now as high as a kite 🙈

Back at work for 2 weeks now & I’m still continuing to prioritise my mental & physical health. 5 miles walked & gardening in the sunshine yesterday (first dahlia has finally flowered) & today has been a day of finishing the most beautifully magical book & avoiding the rainy world outside.

It's our first post! Do you love stories? Do you believe in their power in educational settings? Do you want to have fun sharing stories and putting joy back in the classroom? Please join us - we'd love to tell you more about what we do.

Morning on this grey Monday and I'm just about to start The Watkins Book of Urban Legends by Gail De Vos. What book(s) are you reading this week? #BookSky #amreading #tbr 💙📚

I’ve had 2 days at work & both days I have come home & exercised. It’s early days of the new year but I’m determined that this year I am going to be fitter, healthier and happier. The last couple of years have been horrendous. Got to get the old me back as much as possible because I miss her.

Serious post: Look after yourself this year. Doing ‘what’s best for the kids’ does not (and *must* not) necessitate the compromise of your health - mental and physical. It just isn’t worth it. *You* matter. Assert your boundaries unabashedly. You got this! #edusky

Back to work tomorrow. Going to miss my garden and being outside all day.

Please vote here! It would be amazing for an LGBTQ+ kids’ book to win! 24ue9pv2nj9.typeform.com/to/Oi5CIY9g?... #EduSky #PrimaryEduSky #LGBTQ #KidLit #Skybrarians 💙📚

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 …

Here’s the most gorgeous Elsie wishing you a Happy #Caturday !

For all your Flemish Folk Tale needs..

Happy #Caturday from the very handsome chap I am cat sitting for whilst his humans are away 😍

What is everyone’s first class reader in September? Mine is the always reliable Varjak Paw. Personally looking forward to doing the voices of all the characters, but mostly Jalal who ends up sounding like a 75 year old cockney geezer/Tony Harrison from the Mighty Boosh 🙌🏻 #EduSkyPrimary

A great starting point for teachers and leaders who wish to develop their knowledge of anti-racism #EduSky

Animal Farm was published on this day in 1945. Everything Orwell warned us about is now referred to as Orwellian, in an irony that can only be described as Kafkaesque.

Happy #caturday from my foster boy Biscuit ❤️🐾

These are brilliant books (Year 5 LOVED Nen and the lonely fisherman)

Teachers and school librarians, if you would like your pupils to come back to school to a letter from an author about the joys of reading, just email me at [email protected] #teacheruk #teachersofinstagram #schools #author #authorlife #readingforpleasure

Best way to get children reading is to read the books they recommend and recommend books to them. Finished this yesterday - it was recommended to me by one of my Year 5 class just before the summer holidays & it was brilliant! I’ve now ordered Black Hole Cinema Club… @christopheredge.bsky.social

I’ve come over from *whispers* the other side & already this feels so much nicer. ⭐️22 years teaching across KS1 and KS2 ⭐️In a previous life I was acting head & senco (but realised I was happier being in the classroom teaching) ⭐️Passionate about inspiring a love of reading