Uta Frith has a long and highly esteemed research role in autism. This article is a valuable exploration of where our understanding of the types of autism is now and whether the concept of a smooth spectrum remains appropriate.
04.03.2026 07:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Variations on a theme.
The English nerd in me is fascinated by how they manage to make every sentence syntactically plausible.
English teachers in particular - you’ll love this: ‘How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change’: www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
26.02.2026 07:33 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
This month's #UKLALucky13 is Chicken Hill!
Three hilarious and off-the-wall stories in one full-colour graphic novel from debut talent @beccyblake.bsky.social
RT to win a copy + goodies!
Applications to become a Teacher Judge for the UKLA 2027 Book Awards are now open! This year we're looking for teachers within travelling distance of MANCHESTER!
Interested? Follow the link to find out more.
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Post something green
27.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gearing up for World Book Day in Y1
27.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The image features a promotional banner for a Speech and Language UK webinar about the Schools White Paper. It reads: "Understanding the Schools White Paper. Join our webinars for families and professionals to understand what's changing and what it means for you." The background shows the Houses of Parliament in London.
Want to understand how the proposals outlined in the white paper impact children with speech and language challenges?
We’re organising FREE webinars for educators, speech and language therapists and families to talk everything through.
Sign up here➡️ https://bit.ly/46gTkpm
SEND is a relationship of the child to services. Disabled in one place and not in another.
Same when a wheelchair user goes to the Albert Hall as opposed to their adapted home. Disabled in one place and not another.
Some random evidence, linked to a dubious conclusion and then a solution that just rewords something that has been in use for many years, with some buzzwords.
All to sell a new book. 🫣🤷♀️
Ummmmm….
I do worry about articles like this..
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Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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Yesterday we posted a series of blogs outlining the direction we would like curriculum reform to go in and airing some of our concerns about where it might go. Here's an additional blog focusing on assessment www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/curricu...
11.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Had this on my shelf for far too long but so glad I picked it for my half-term read. It would have been even better if I’d read it in Lisbon. A quirky tale with endless twists and turns and such an array of characters!
19.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free people read freely - unless you live in a council where political interference puts a stop to it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
19.02.2026 07:19 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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What do children think writing competency is? 🤷♂️✏️
What does good writing at school look like in their eyes? ✏️🤷♂️
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Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question.
Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?
Let’s hope so.
Our children deserve better than these out-dated views.
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Every woman in the country should look at this, understand it for what it is and vote against Reform.
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My anemone’s anemone
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🧵So, what works when teaching reading comprehension in the classroom? To a whole class?
I dedicated a entire chapter of my Phd thesis to exploring the literature on this.
In fact, we do not know a lot about what works when teachers teach, to whole classes.
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It could be framed more positively.
'There is so much that family's can do to develop their children's vocabulary and reading, from reading together and vocabulary games, to little chats on the bus.'
I know this is supposed to be raising awareness and helping… but I am not sure it is. 🙄
@wordaware.bsky.social what are your thoughts?
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This is why we slowed down our phonics learning and built in a school wide reading for pleasure programme (thank you @teresacremin.bsky.social and team). CLPE has helped us to shift away from atomised grammar and we have 'every place is a reading place' nooks and crannies all over. Our kids ❤️ books.
09.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating report on the impact of the Science of Reading - findings in a US context reveal the need to move beyond surface level understanding of texts to focus on developing robust comprehension.
09.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A brilliant series of think pieces about English curriculum reform.
Now is the time to reinvigorate English in the ways outlined here which reflect the spirit of the CAR.
I know exactly which children I teach will love this short book about families, social media and negotiating it all.
08.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My 91-year-old dad has just recovered from it but lost a lot of weight.
08.02.2026 14:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to teach critical thinking
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