Mrs Spence
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Assistant Headteacher, English and Oracy Lead in Worcester
Couldnāt be happier. Iāll be there as chief cheerleader!
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
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Itās me! Looking forward to seeing you there.
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5 months ago
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St Barnabas CE Primary
5 months ago
Worcestershireās first Primary School to be an Oracy Centre of Excellence - thatās us! We are over the moon. Thank you for the support
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
@worcesternews.bsky.social
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Nicola Kent
5 months ago
This is such a brilliant initiative and I couldn't be more delighted that Measuring Me! has been chosen to help welcome reception children beginning their school lives. Good luck to every single one of them and happy reading!
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Nicola Kent
5 months ago
This is so thrilling to read. I hope they enjoy Measuring Me and that they have a brilliant start to their school careers! Thank you for choosing my book and for giving such important priority to a love of reading and books. ā¤ļø
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Fifty copies of Measuring Me by
@nicolakent.bsky.social
for our new Reception children. Delivered by hand to their front doors creating a reading community before they even step foot in the building!
5 months ago
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This is a special read. Thank you
@theclpe.bsky.social
for alerting me! šŗšŗšŗā¤ļø
6 months ago
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Voice 21
7 months ago
Thank you to all the St Barnabas team for your leadership and being part of the oracy mission.
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
7 months ago
Here we are ā¤ļø
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St Barnabas CE Primary
8 months ago
Famous at last! ā¤ļø
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary
7 months ago
Our Year 6s wrote to
@tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social
about car idling outside schools. They are worried! Today, each child was sent their own personalised letter in reply. Thank you Tom!
@worcesternews.bsky.social
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
7 months ago
Welcome to our Year 3 Roman Museum. The children loved speaking as historians, being tour guides and sharing exhibits. Inventions, mosaics, emperors, Boudicca, green screen adverts, Celts vs Romans dance and so much more.
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St Barnabas CE Primary
8 months ago
Our work on
#Oracy
is changing our world. Check out the
@poetrybyheart.bsky.social
children blowing the audienceās socks off at a big parent celebration yesterday
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
@amygaunt.bsky.social
@kateparadine.bsky.social
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Poetry By Heart
11 months ago
Everyone who takes part in Poetry By Heart knows the impact it has on young people. We want to celebrate that and everything
#poetry
can do in a film - an uplifting reminder of why the arts are integral to our society. Find out more and how you can help š„
poetrybyheart.org.uk/news/help-us...
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Voice 21
8 months ago
Yesterday, the Curriculum and Assessment Reviewās Interim Report was released ā but in a baffling omission, it doesnāt mention oracy or speaking, listening and communication. Here's why this mattersš
voice21.org/voice21respo...
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Voice 21 responds to the baffling omission of oracy in the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report - Voice 21
https://voice21.org/voice21responds/
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Geoff Barton
8 months ago
The view from here: great pleasure today to attend the
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
āSpeaking Summit,ā reflecting on the next stage of our
#oracy
journey. Well done to
@kateparadine.bsky.social
& team. A bonus to bump into oracy commissioner Jeffrey Boakye:
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Voice 21
8 months ago
Everyone is talking about oracyāor so it seems. But what actually is oracy? Our head of learning impact and influence
@amygaunt.bsky.social
explores the history of this timely question in
@seced.bsky.social
's best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools š
voice21.org/so-how-do-we...
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So, how do we define oracy⦠ā Sec Ed - Voice 21
https://voice21.org/so-how-do-we-define-oracy-sec-ed/
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Home after an inspirational day
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
#SpeakingSummit
So much sense being talked by Estelle Morris, Jeffrey Boakye and the royalty of
#Oracy
@kateparadine.bsky.social
@amygaunt.bsky.social
8 months ago
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St Barnabas CE Primary
8 months ago
Such a treat to have author Nicola Davies in school today. We have been wowed by the zoological facts and beautiful illustrations, weāve even learned to sing like a blue whale! š³
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
9 months ago
We are deep in to learning our poems by heart for
@poetrybyheart.bsky.social
the performance skills are sophisticated!!
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
#Oracy
#Poetry
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
9 months ago
Check out this concentration during our
@harrietmuncaster.bsky.social
workshop today. Year 3 are Big Isadora Moon fans!
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Simon Smith
9 months ago
Love this debut from Portuguese writer
#InesViegasOliviera
. āThe Duelā is a profound and thoughtful tale of letting go of past conflicts and seeing beyond the hate. Two men duel but one just keeps walking. Change in palettes show the change in thought and outlook. Quietly great
#PicturebookPage
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St Barnabas CE Primary
10 months ago
Our Ofsted report is out today. We are very proud of our school community. Have a read on our website.
st-barnabas-primary.worcs.sch.uk
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St Barnabas C.E. Primary School, Worcester ā Our motto is āInspire, Nurture and Achieveā as we know that in the right environment each child can reach their full potential
https://st-barnabas-primary.worcs.sch.uk/
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
10 months ago
We are very proud to have been awarded the Equal Access trophy for our work on girlsā football. Check out this group of future Lionesses celebrating @worcesternews @England @EnglandFootball @Lionesses
#thisgirlcan
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Geoff Barton
11 months ago
As
@nationaltheatre.org.uk
ās Artistic Director Rufus Norris says: ā#Oracy should be the fourth āRāā:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
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Make oracy the fourth āRā of education, theatre boss says
Rufus Norris, the outgoing head of the National Theatre, wants children to learn oral language skills across the curriculum
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/28/make-oracy-the-fourth-r-of-education-theatre-boss-says/
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St Barnabas CE Primary
11 months ago
Our
#DailyMileSantaRun
was a blast yesterday
@worcesternews.bsky.social
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Andy Shepherd
11 months ago
XMAS GIVEAWAY š I love Christmas & so do the dragons!šš Do you have a dragon lover in your family? Why not pop a dragon treat under the tree for them! Just follow me & reshare this post to be in with a chance to WIN all SIX books in
#TheBoyWhoGrewDragons
series! Winner picked 13/12 UK only
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St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Well that was fun! Such unbridled joy from adults and children.
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St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
It is the Worcestershire Debating Competition at school tomorrow with our local MP, City Mayor and the CEO of Voice 21 as judges. Itās going to be BIG!
#Oracy
#UKParliamentWeek
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Worcestershire Debating School at school this afternoon. Brilliant
#Oracy
skills on display from a group of brilliant children. What a way to mark
#UKParliamentWeek
with
@kateparadine.bsky.social
Tom Collins MP and the Mayor of Worcester. Thank you for donating prizes
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Welcome
@voice21oracy.bsky.social
and
@amygaunt.bsky.social
to Blue Skyā¦weāve been waiting for you to arrive!!
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
We now have some new
#Oracy
roles in our PE lessons. Our sports coaches are supporting children to be reporters, explainers, referees, judges and coaches.
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St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Check that out for a Friday after school club! Pumping music, flashing lights and a bunch of year 1 and 2 children having the time of their lives!
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
A great
#Maths
workshop this morning with our community. Great maths conversations all over the place!
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Whoop weāre off to London to the National Teaching Awards ā¤ļø
www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2475545...
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Mrs Spence
St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
What a night at the National Teaching Awards. Massive congratulations to our silver award winning Headteacher.
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Mrs Spence
Every one of our new children have had Frank and Bert personally delivered to their houses. One of our best grannies has knitted us our own Frank and Bert with their own special bag to keep them safe. Bring on back to school time!
about 1 year ago
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Dr Debra Kidd
12 months ago
I'm going to set up a starter pack for 'People who are experts in Oracy (and not just jumping on a bandwagon)' shortly. I need to convince a couple of people over here from twitter too! Let me know if you are highly skilled in dialogic and exploratory talk and how.
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St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
Hello Bluesky peopleā¦our first post. Happy to be here.
#Education
#Teaching
#Firstpost
#Newbies
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St Barnabas CE Primary
12 months ago
UK Parliament Week incoming. Weāre hosting the Worcestershire Debating Competition- itās going to be a good one.
#Oracy
#Debating
#EduSky
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Dr Anna Nolan
about 1 year ago
This is gorgeous. What a wonderful welcome š„°
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Every one of our new children have had Frank and Bert personally delivered to their houses. One of our best grannies has knitted us our own Frank and Bert with their own special bag to keep them safe. Bring on back to school time!
about 1 year ago
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Jon Biddle
about 1 year ago
Have just finished rewriting the overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. It's still a work in progress but please feel free to use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet:
padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...
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A little jaunt in to Birmingham to see the Benjamin Zephaniah street exhibition. Go while you can, finishes soon.
about 1 year ago
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James Theo
about 1 year ago
Unsurprising. Some of the people banging on about how nice this place is and how awful Twitter is happened to also be some of the worst behaved people on Twitter.
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Carl Hendrick
about 1 year ago
One thing I find nauseating about Blue Sky is the notion that this is the "good place" and everyone congratulating each other on being so lovely and wonderful. People are people, wherever you go.
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James Durran
about 1 year ago
I've been working a bit on modelling, as a key element of effective
#adaptive_teaching
, so here is a new blog post collating some thoughts on how it can be planned for.
#EduSky
#UKEd
#UKEDU
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Modelling and how to plan for it
The current focus on āadaptive teachingā has meant that the craft (or art) of teacher modelling has rightly been foregrounded, as a crucial mechanism for making learning accessible. Interestingly, whe...
https://jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/13/m..
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Itās not often I come across a John Burningham that I donāt know but this charity shop find is a special one. I love the photography/sketch illustration.
@smithsmm.bsky.social
I bet you already know about this one?
about 1 year ago
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Rachel Higginson FCCT
about 1 year ago
It's an honour and a joy to be working with
@marymyatt.bsky.social
Emmanuel Awoyelu, Christian Foley and an incredible technical and artistic team on 'Finding My Voice', the whole school approach. Can't actually believe this will be alive the schools in the UK and abroad in September!
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Early morning on my hills with this great listen from
@amdassu.bsky.social
walking and reading feels like a good use of time
#Kidlit
#Malvern
about 1 year ago
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