✨️ Wonderful to see the Opening Doors books at the @openuni-rfp.bsky.social and @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reading for Pleasure Conference in Milton Keynes today. @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social #ReadingForPleasure

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💡Poetry, prose & penny dreadfuls. A wonderful way to end the afternoon, hearing how @ipatedu.bsky.social have created exciting writing opportunities using the Opening Doors strategies. The OD team are feeling inspired! @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

📚❤️ Could there be a better end to the day than taking the "blue book" (i.e. everything you need to know about Opening Doors) to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social? @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social #edusky #primaryenglish #reading #writing

Step into great texts - Melbourne Primary share their journey! @openingdoors.bsky.social

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Penn Wood sharing their journey of Opening Doors through high quality texts - inspiring! @openingdoors.bsky.social #Openingdoors

Tomorrow! 👇 I’m incredibly proud of our schools! They are about to demonstrate how excellence for all is being delivered by teachers across the UK Thanks @englishassociation.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/opening-door...

It’s #NationalPoetryDay! Celebrate with this free resource from Leah Crawford that will help your pupils delve into poetry, explore its meaning and try their own hand at it! ✍️ Download it here: buff.ly/y4DImlx 📚 Discover the #OpeningDoors series: buff.ly/zOT9Hzz

Diary filling fast for the ‘Opening Doors’ team including @juliesargent.bsky.social for @greenshawtrust.bsky.social next year; @thinktalkleah.bsky.social for Worcester LA and DCAT; Angela Jenkins for Kew Green; @lauraspargo.bsky.social for @hallsvillesch.bsky.social and Willow Green in Bedford

Plenty of new course offers for this term and early spring. Exploring the writing and reading frameworks, with practical workshops to support! www.innovateducation.co.uk/new-events

Fantastic news! We loved having you speak at our Trust the other year. Always great to see Opening Doors principles being used in the schools I visit.

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So exciting! Sign up now or, if you are out of range, contact me about starting your own! @agentapostrophe.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @hdesilva.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

Free resources with full ‘Opening Doors’ units up front for you! searchingforexcellence.co.uk/free-resourc... @juliesargent.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social

Thanks @englishassociation.bsky.social for a fabulous conference. I was privileged to receive a Fellowship! What a joy to meet Tim @poetrybyheart.bsky.social and @mattobin.bsky.social (great panel work!) Kirstie Hewitt, @jennyrichards.bsky.social et al. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was terrific!

Looking forward to the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference today featuring the inspirational @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social I’m privileged and proud to become a Fellow of The English Association! @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

Today we started @odstschools.bsky.social writing project ‘Write from the Start’ - looking at creative approaches using high-quality texts to develop oral composition. @ianfrost28.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social

Fabulous - proving that there is a way of delivering an inspiring English curriculum and developing fundamental skills for writing.

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What does Opening Doors look like in reception and Y1? Last week, I delivered an Opening Doors session exploring just this. It was lovely to get this feedback today ‘It was a fantastic meeting and left us all feeling excited about moving forward with opening doors with our younger children.’

Excellent! Thanks Gary @natefeed.bsky.social I think @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @myf1990.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social will enjoy this

Free! Recording plus slides of last night’s ‘Reading for Pleasure and Growth’ webinar! #openingdoors Please circulate. englishassociation.ac.uk/reading-for-...

If you are looking to embed grammar teaching within writing units of work and through high quality texts, please do check out these units of work.

For all the English teachers and grammar enthusiasts out there…

OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! I'll be at Bampton Library tomorrow, Weds 9th April at 2pm with the whole story of Life on Earth - and it's FREE!!! bamptoncommunityhub.org/event/roll-u...

😄🚪Another exciting @openingdoors.bsky.social day in Birmingham! ✍️📚 I cannot wait to see the joy for reading and writing! @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social #edusky #richtexts #excellenceandequity ##primaryenglish #curriculum

Fabulous to see this post by @shellygeeson.bsky.social sharing the impact of using ambitious texts to develop a rich English curriculum and applying the Opening Doors principles and strategies. @crownhousepub.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social

Do take a look at some of the fabulous work produced by a school using The Lost Happy Endings unit. My favourite sentence - You have penetrated children’s souls with sorrow! www.innovateducation.co.uk/new-page-3-1-2

Do check out these planning units. CPD and English planning working in tandem. Suitable for ECTs looking for guidance and teachers who are looking for some new, innovative approaches for English!

Thanks Knightwood in Hampshire plus teachers from five other schools for the launch session of a new #openingdoors hub! @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social

Do check out these planning units. CPD and English planning working in tandem. Suitable for ECTs looking for guidance and teachers who are looking for some new, innovative approaches for English!

What a fabulous review. I am so privileged to be part of this. High-quality texts are key to an ambitious and accessible English curriculum!

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It's UNESCO World Poetry Day Friday March 21st. Download my *FREE* learning journey here on the sensitive theme of force migration - with huge thanks to @crownhousepub.bsky.social and poet/writer/zoologist Nicola Davies #OpeningDoors @openingdoors.bsky.social leahcrawford.com/poetry-as-a-...

What a day with Kings Academies Gomer and Rowner Junior! @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social

Impact of #openingdoors 👇👇👇👇 @hallsvillesch.bsky.social you popped up as the title picture! @lauraspargo.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social searchingforexcellence.co.uk/impact-of-op...

Part 2 of our weekend round up of book reviews for you. Thank you @stephenconnor.bsky.social Kalpa Ghelani, Anne Bradley, Helen Dearing @juliesargent.bsky.social and @stephenjdilley.bsky.social for your reviews: justimagine.co.uk?s=

I love that unit. It’s so accessible, yet at the same time offers such challenge!

Great response and some inspired writing from Crown Wood and Wildmoor Heath staff @greenshawtrust.bsky.social Emily Dickinson spread some ‘Dear March’ personification! @lauraspargo.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

Me too! The impact of this approach and engagement of children is phenomenal. Creative approaches, rich texts, access for all. We see great outcomes across a wide range of schools!

Pupils at St Laurence C.E. Primary School have been busy writing some brilliant spine-chilling stories inspired by Wilkie Collin's 'The Woman in White'! ✍️ Read them here: buff.ly/CIXfNTe Inspired by Part 1 Unit 1 of #OpeningDoors to Quality Writing: buff.ly/n2mg5ew @openingdoors.bsky.social

Do check out these planning units. CPD and English planning working in tandem. Suitable for ECTs looking for guidance and teachers who are looking for some new, innovative approaches for English!

Wow! Such a brilliant review of #OpeningDoors to Ambitious Primary English in the 'English 4-11’ magazine. 🌟 This book will help you make primary English vibrant, creative & challenging in your school 📚👇 buff.ly/WnJdal2 @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

#Free# Do register now to hear from myself, @thinktalkleah.bsky.social and our invited guest Director of English at Carlton Academy Trust, Jennifer Webb, @funkypedagogy.bsky.social We are exploring ideas from our UK network on ‘Reading for Pleasure and Growth’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-fo...

@openingdoors.bsky.social Y5 have been working with The Magnifying Glass. They’re really proud of their efforts as they found writing using imagery really challenging at the start of the year.

@thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social Making magic talk! 👇

Prop for today’s training session!

Thanks to @lauraspargo.bsky.social for these fantastic comments on the #OpeningDoors series! 🌟 These books are a treasure trove of resources for English teachers that will help pupils produce quality writing, developing literacy skills and a lifelong love of reading in the process: buff.ly/3ApBz54

How fantastic. St Laurence, part of @odstschools.bsky.social has had some writing published by @crownhousepub.bsky.social! @ianfrost28.bsky.social @sadoldbag.bsky.social