Finally here! Looking forward to some weekend reading @triciamoss.bsky.social @missis-scs.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social

OUT NOW It’s publication day for the first two books in the How To Lead It series for primary subject leaders. The science edition by @kirstysimkin.bsky.social and English by @triciamoss.bsky.social and @missis-scs.bsky.social are available to order. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/ho...

🚨 It’s a BIG day for brilliant books! Out now: 🧠 Times Tables Like a Ninja 👑 Terrible True Tales: Tudors ⚔️ Terrible True Tales: Vikings 🔥 How to Lead it: Primary Science & Primary English 💛 Creating Belonging in the Classroom Grab them while they’re fresh! 📚✨ #NewBooks

So excited to see the launch of this series - it’s a pinch me moment - but here is my latest book for all you wonderful primary geography leaders! Thank you @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the adventure! ♥️🌍

If you fancy 30% off How To Lead It, Primary English or any of the other brilliant books in this series, pre-order by 11th July to take advantage of the Bloomsbury summer sale! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/search/?q...

I’m really excited to share that I’ve written a book with the awesome @missis-scs.bsky.social for primary English subject leaders. Huge thanks to @jonhutchinson.bsky.social for his wise words and support along the journey!

I’m delighted to have contributed to this series! @triciamoss.bsky.social and I wanted to bring together everything we wished we’d known back when we were starting out in leadership of the English curriculum. We hope How To Lead It, Primary English does just that for primary English subject leaders!

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

For those interested in my researchED #rED24 presentation on the links between poor reading and poor behaviour, the slides can be found here: 1drv.ms/b/c/05a10243... #EduSky #UKEd

NEW - on how internalised racism is real and impacts on whole lives open.substack.com/pub/bennieka... #EduSky #UkEd

Sign up to tickets below 👇🏽

Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here! primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...

Look at this book pile. How am I meant to get anything done?

Today I met an alpaca and I now want an alpaca with every fibre of my being.

It looks like there’s been another big increase of edutwitter people joining today - so if you’re looking to get started, you might find the thread below useful 👇🏼

📍Welcome to #SciTeachingUK 🟢Post here to discuss the pedagogy & teaching of science subjects in schools (11–18), by including the hashtag.

This week on #TDaPE, I'm joined by @suchmo83.bsky.social and Neil Almond as we explore 'the phonics of maths': whether a comparison can be made and what this could mean for #schools. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... youtube.com/shorts/6dxXl...

Can we have a #TeamEnglish roll call on here? How many of us have made the move?

We are here!

I got a detention for saying hello/thank you/lending someone a pen etc

“At its most effective, line management is professional development”

2. And this is my start at solutions. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/p...

ResearchED Milton Keynes tickets are now live on eventbrite! Hosted Milton Keynes Academy part of Creative Education Trust Buy your tickets below, with speaker announcements coming soon! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...

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Years ago a teacher asked me to write something for a Year 7 assembly to encourage students into nerdy learning. These are the positive words that came out… lauramcinerney.com/on-why-i-lea...

“If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that’s how you know you’re on board the ship that serves hors d’oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, whilst others are out at sea, swimming or drowning” 💙📚

schoolsweek.co.uk/unions-slam-...

Interesting paper from @zpardos and @ShreyaB82657013, "ChatGPT-generated help produces learning gains equivalent to human tutor-authored help on mathematics skills" that finds ChatGPT can be as effective as human tutors for math help. 🧵(1/5)

Statutory homelessness stats for Jan-March 2024 are out and remain grim. 6.1% increase in applications since Jan-March 2023. 117,450 households in temporary accommodation, up 12.3% on March 23, and 4.3% on the previous quarter. This level of increase is unsustainable. www.gov.uk/government/s...

'When they return to school, we will need to remind our children of all the love they saw this summer and the light that came through the darkness', writes Sir Hamid Patel ❤️‍🩹 schoolsweek.co.uk/after-the-ri...

Absolutely brilliant and thorough blog on oracy and writing.

I shared this six years ago in advance of teaching a session on education philosophies. I've seen people say recently regarding the curriculum review that "our first step is to agree on aims". I'm not sure this is going to happen as people have different ideas of the purpose of schooling.

Excellent blog on the potential of LM to develop people…

This fresh start feels as good as time as any to share the first blog piece that I’ve written for years. Sets out the work that we’ve been doing at the Reach Foundation with clusters of schools around the country. On whats missing from curriculum coherence. www.reachfoundation.uk/insights/edu...

Great to see teachers joining. See lists and feeds e g. #UKTeaching #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation

Joy, gentle friends, joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

Hello!

Bluesky feels a bit like old-school Twitter and so it seems fitting to use my first post to share something I wrote a few years ago about why lists of content in a curriculum are always more complex than they seem.

One of my first blogs on curriculum - all about designing an English curriculum - I don’t think I’ve changed my mind on much of this since - that may be a good or bad thing… Curriculum as Tapestry: A Process for Weaving Together a Curriculum aclassroomofonesownsite.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/c...