That was a cracking Halloween costume by my youngest

The latest post in our series "What's in a Word" is out now. @sammywright.bsky.social examines the phrase 'knowledge-rich' which has a proper meaning, but around which a lot of other more vague and unsubstantiated ideas have accrued... www.edge.co.uk/research/wha...

From 12 mins 30 secs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@twinklresources.bsky.social are launching a new podcast series for leaders and teachers, and episode 1 is here! It was great to pick @sammywright.bsky.social's brain on the shape and texture of English schools. www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1hjk03 @twinklbeyond.bsky.social #twinklbeyondenglish

School trip to flamingoland

Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Something new… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!

Out today in paperback! open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year. www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...

Going on holiday tomorrow. By the time I’m back, this will be out in paperback! Reviewed in every single broadsheet, the mail, new statesman when it was published last year - “brilliant”, “entertaining”, “insightful”, “essential” - please pre-order! www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...

Clark’s hands are together in his lap. “Me brother was born when I was 10. But he lived with me mam years before that.” He looks up. His eyes are wide, and he has that faint smile still. “Actually, I thought them having a child it might change, but it didn’t.” open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

First look at the paperback - and I’m just blown away by seeing al the amazing quotes on the cover

Paperback soon out… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Thank you to @sammywright.bsky.social for this brilliant review of @johntomsett.bsky.social’s new book! 🌟 Learn all about the attributes and behaviours that make an outstanding teacher in This Much I Know About Truly Great Secondary Teachers. Out now! 📘: buff.ly/Vkizg1O

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Good. I’m glad to see this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We said goodbye to year 11 yesterday. It involved a guard of honour, photos of their schooldays, lots of firm handshakes and teary hugs, and a choreographed song by five staff involving photo masks of SLT. This post says why the soppy stuff can be pretty important. open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

We said goodbye to year 11 yesterday. It involved a guard of honour, photos of their schooldays, lots of firm handshakes and teary hugs, and a choreographed song by five staff involving photo masks of SLT. This post says why the soppy stuff can be pretty important. open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Does assessment fail the test? @trivium21c.bsky.social & I discuss the current state of assessment. Apologies for my helpless paroxysms at about 3.30 mins open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

Farewell assembly for year 11 today - seems like a good moment to post this about thr importance of community rituals open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

#ThankATeacherDay Thanks @historylecturer.bsky.social (And Kim Needle, Graeme Trotter and the much missed Henry Marsh)

Here’s something that didn’t make it into the final edit of Exam Nation… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Here’s something that didn’t make it into the final edit of Exam Nation… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Something for the weekend open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

Latest post - this time an extract from my novel, Fit, which was an attempt to write about the kids I felt I failed. open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

I put this one up on Substack. It’s a version of what appears in Exam Nation - but includes a chat with Patrick, who was cut from the book, but who I have indelible memories of during my one and only attempt to teach the condom lesson for PSHE. substack.com/@sammywright...

🚨The NHS says it has a shortage of blood and is asking all of us - can we donate our blood - it’s looking for 200,000 new donors to come forward Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things you can do Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk

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Thought I’d pop an old story on this too - there’s often a crossover between what I write as fiction and as non fiction substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I’m dipping my toe into substack - the idea is i’ll start posting stuff as i progress in researching my new book… open.substack.com/pub/sammy733...

I put this in a reply then realised I had never posted it in the first place! journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

Some random thoughts. Please shoot down. 1. Each exam paper covers all topics in a syllabus. Pupils have to sit two different papers and they get the best of the two grades.

Whitley bay is full of surprises.

This should be really useful…

One of our Let Teachers SHINE winners has just launched this new online teaching resource.

The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

I increasingly believe in the need for a new leftist party.

I increasingly believe in the need for a new leftist party.

Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

Interesting to speculate on the impact of making languages gcse significantly easier than others but leaving its prominence in performance tables untouched. It would boost entries straight away - and while those who passed would pass at a lower level, there’d be a lot more of them…

It seems about time I shouted a bit about this book. It came out 4years ago, and has done me proud - getting me picked up by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social and then Bodley Head. But more and more the themes of it seem to hit a nerve right now. 1/ www.waterstones.com/book/fit/sam...

Just researching the new book, and starting to get very excited. It’s going to be a long process, but I’m already learning so much.

Planted a tree.

⛓️ 'As a long-term supporter of academies, the persistent myth that they achieve better results because of their "freedoms" frutrates me'   Sir Alan Wood has his say on the schools bill debate 👇 schoolsweek.co.uk/lets-put-an-...

I love blossom.