I'll be hosting a 500 Words BBC Live Lesson at 11am on 24 September for primary schools. Tell every teacher you know! #BBC500Words #BBCLiveLessons

Teaching AQA GCSE Norman England? Don't miss OUP's free webinar in association with AQA & English Heritage Tues 23 Sept 4pm! Aaron Wilkes will draw out the key points to focus on from the 2026 version of the AQA Historic Environment resource pack on Pevensey Castle. ow.ly/77QZ50WQfvB #HistoryTeacher

It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose. #MosaicMonday

And we’re off! Happy #MathsWeekScot everyone! Teachers, here’s the links again with everything you need to know for the week. Daily Events Overview bit.ly/MWSSchoolsEv... Schools Hub with all relevant competitions, learning resources, videos & more mathsweek.scot/schools #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

📣 Calling #TeamEnglish Do you teach AQA GCSE English Literature? Would you like to win an interactive workshop on Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet for your students? Enter here for the chance to win a Study Boost workshop at your school with Shakespeare's Globe and Oxford Revise! 👉 ow.ly/50vy50WM2UQ

It's seven years today since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.

Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers! This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes. Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...

A terrific poem by @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social Great for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social theme #Play, playing with dialect words and phrases from his home town in the #midlands. @englangblog.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

And here's something for Child Language Development theconversation.com/why-listenin...

Happy 10th Birthday! Supporting Read Write Count and seeing our books in the hands of young children across Scotland is one of the favourite parts of my job - looking forward to them receiving The Ballad of Cactus Joe this year @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social @clivemcf.bsky.social 🌵📚 @

Win Thunderboots in Bookbug's Book of the Month competition! ⚡🥾⚡ Written by ‪@naomijones1.bsky.social and illustrated by @familyofbeasts.bsky.social‬ this brilliant book could be yours if you enter Bookbug's competition by 30 September. 🤞 www.scottishbooktrust.com/competitions...

It's ‘Read a Book Day’ today! 📚 Check out the reviews of maths related kids books on our website, and find your next story to read! www.mathsweek.scot/families/books #MathsWeekScot #ReadABookDay #KidsLit #KidsBooks #MathsTales #UKMathsChat #tmwyk

Hooray for Bookmarks! 🙌 No need to 📍 any more! Can we have drafts next pretty please? @bsky.app

When my daughter sat her A levels she didn't think she'd be going back to school in Sept! She got into her first choice uni, decided to take a gap year, applied for a teaching assistant role in a primary school, starts today. So proud of her, it'll be challenging but fun! Any tips for new TAs? #UKEd

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍 From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

#Booksky #Readersky #Books #Reading

☀️ Seen any surprising maths on your summer break? From angles in architecture to patterns in tiles - maths is everywhere! 📷 Don’t forget to snap a photo and use #MathsOnHoliday to share it with us

We are overjoyed that people love our mean goose enough to give him an award - thank you to all the judges of the #AlligatorsAward and congratulations to @alexlatimer.bsky.social and Team Gordon @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social! Gordon really does Win It All 🪿🪿🪿🏆

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Thanks all. So far, the lists of school visit authors are: Primary go.bsky.app/5u2ArqX Secondary go.bsky.app/EDt42ua I will keep adding to them :)

Wonderful to see three @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social titles on this @wainwrightprize.bsky.social longlist of beautiful picture books! 🪁 The Colour of the Sky by Layn Marlow ❄️ Flow with the Snow by @bobtregoning.bsky.social & Oliver Averil 🌳 The Wild by Yuval Zommer #UKKidLit #KidLitUK #UKEd #EduSky

I would like to think that Ozzy, Prince, George Michael, and David Bowie are performing one hell of a phenomenal gig right now in the afterlife.

You can tell it's the end of term... kids finished school at lunchtime and it's POURING with rain this afternoon! #EduSky #UKEd

What happens when my daughters & I join forces to find beach treasure at Old Hunstanton. Please note the middle finger pebble bottom right. Apart from that very special find we left this treasure on the beach.

I’m so pleased to be able to welcome @bobtregoning.bsky.social into The Reading Realm to talk about his new book THE ROCK FAMILY BAND! #KidLit #PrimaryEduSky #BookSky #LGBTQ thereadingrealm.co.uk/2025/06/05/t...

✨🐦 KERFUFFLE BIRD is out this week!!! 🐦✨ Illustrated by Gwen Millward @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social Huge thanks to Gerry Smith for the FAB Kerfuffle Bird song 🎵 & to @imogencarter.bsky.social @familyofbeasts.bsky.social @marcelafwrites.bsky.social for the reviews 💗💛💚 Available to pre-order now! 😍

We used Numicon to explore different ways of making 10! 🔟 We’re working on our number bonds to become more confident and say them as quickly as we say our name. Quick recall helps us become super mathematicians! ➕🧠

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but we can take at least some solace in the fact that bakeries, libraries, cafés, bookstores, museums, and Oxford commas exist.

VIVA GLASTONBURY!

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Knife-sharpened pencils Artist: Harry Wingfield, Second Picture Book, 1970 (And yes, it is a painting)

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty! Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 🏺

Whoa Black Betty

It would be amazing to get this message to Hook Norton Primary and maybe even to Mrs Padbury. Go on Bluesky - you can do this!

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a seaside cottage during a thunderstorm whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

Has there ever existed a person who has a “to read” pile who has actually finished that pile before adding to it? Or is it the case that if you have such a pile, it is prohibited by some law of nature for it to ever go down to zero?

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: a painted wooden toy #horse on wheels. The head is pierced at the eye for a pull-string. I can still remember my pull along dog and how I used to take him for walks in the yard. From Karanis, #Egypt, 1st- 4th c. AD. 📷Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Someone just cancelled plans on me for this evening. I’m wondering if I should send them a thank you card.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

You are your own little plant. Water yourself, speak to yourself nicely and bloom 🪴 Image: www.instagram.com/mordenstation

The 2025-2026 YEAR GROUP Recommended Read lists have launched today! Browse the new lists here: ➡️➡️ www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/re... 🎉 New selections of 50 recommended books for each primary year group 🎉 Updated printable posters & checklists 🎉 New authors and illustrators added

Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

#ReggieRabbit returns with a third case to solve #RobberyattheMasquedBall @swapnahaddow.bsky.social illust. Becka Moor @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social - with its blend of graphic novel and fiction it’s #RedReadingHub’s #kidlit #fiction book of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-deJ

A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks. Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD. From the collections at the Museum of London. 📸 me 🏺 #archaeology

That comma could lead to a coma…

Commas are important! Couldn’t agree more. Spotted outside The Oxford Wine Company today 🍷 #Oxford

Thrilled to get a copy ahead of tonight’s launch with Sita Brahmachari & @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social at Goldsmiths. @andrewemc.bsky.social was lucky enough to read an advance copy & recommends this as a must-read for secondary students