Jen Sutherland

Fantastic to kick off the term working with schools across the Wessex Multi-Academy Trust today. We explored evidence-informed pedagogical principles that support all children to be successful writers and then got stuck into trust-wide writing moderation. A jam-packed day! @literacytree.bsky.social

‼️ 📢 Exciting announcement: our Writing Root for 'Dragon Post' by Emma Yarlett is now LIVE on our website and ready for use! Spelling Seed coming soon...

A fiery story about friendship and asking for help. 🐉 🔥

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It’s a very egg-citing time for the Reception class at Weston Point Primary. Inspired by the brilliant book And Tango Makes Three, children are looking after some precious eggs of their own. And just like zookeeper Mr Gramzay, they are undertaking their very own Egg Watch! @literacytree.bsky.social

We can't wait! 🐉

We’ve just read the Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Report, and there’s so much to consider for the future of English & literacy teaching! 📚

Key Takeaways:
✔️ Transitioning from primary to secondary needs focus
✔️ Mastery of core subjects is essential...

The Year 5s at Dulwich Wood Primary have been busy writing play scripts this morning! Children have created an additional scene for The Tempest, thinking carefully about how they can convey characters' thoughts and emotions through dialogue and stage directions. @literacytree.bsky.social

So excited to be co-planning for one of our newest Writing Roots this afternoon at Branfil Primary School! Riddle of the Runes combines Viking history and Norse mythology with an intriguing mystery for children to solve through narrative writing. A real Y4 treat.🕵️ @literacytree.bsky.social

🚀 Primary schools—this one’s for you!
We’re inviting 130 schools to join a heavily subsidised, EEF-funded trial of Writing Roots, our book-based writing programme.📚

This is your chance to access £3,000+ worth of resources, books + training while contributing to a major study on writing engagement.

We are ready to go for our Shared Writing training this afternoon! We're excited to work with teachers across the country and beyond, delving into effective practice in modelling, scribing, supporting & editing writing and sharing our top tips! 📝 @literacytree.bsky.social

What a brilliant morning working with the Y5 & 6 children of Weston Point Primary Academy to plan our own Beowulf chapters. We've been busy creating our own monsters for Beowulf to battle and plotting out the key events of our stories. 🧌👹⚔️📖 Such creative ideas all round! @literacytree.bsky.social

Final stages of proofreading for our new Y5 #WritingRoot for Rumaysa: A Fairy Tale by Radiya Hafiza, launching by the end of this week! 🙌 Expect to find warning posters, villain’s lair adverts, diary entries and more before children create their own prequels! 📖 @literacytree.bsky.social

We love it when our member schools get in touch to share children's work with us! The Year 4s at Julian's Primary School have been inspired by the brilliant book Weslandia and have created their own mini-civilizations and brochures to go with these. 🤩🌴📖 @literacytree.bsky.social

Our Teach Through a Text training sessions are always such a highlight for the Literacy Tree team. Today, we'll be working with Year 6 teachers across the country and beyond to explore the brilliantly eerie and evocative text Paradise Sands. 🏨 🐬🦁Can't wait to get stuck in! @literacytree.bsky.social

It was such a privilege to join in with Year 5 English lessons at Dulwich Wood Primary School today. Children have been busy writing character profiles of Ignatius Sancho, capturing his talents as an actor as well as his powerful contributions to the abolitionist movement. @literacytree.bsky.social

We can't wait to get stuck into our Year 5 Teach Through a Text training today. We'll be working with teachers across the country and beyond, diving into our Writing Root for the incredible wordless picture book, The Whale. 🐋🌊🚣‍♀️ What a way to spend a Friday morning! @literacytree.bsky.social

📚Happy Book Publishers Day! It’s through partnerships between publishers (like small b publishing and Cicada Books), our book supplier (Peters) and our resource writers here at Literacy Tree that we can provide children with the tools to grow, imagine, and discover new worlds through reading.

We're absolutely loving these Reading Journey shared class books made by the pupils and teachers at Grange Primary School in Bermondsey. Such a creative way to capture children's enjoyment of and engagement with the wide range of wonderful texts they have read. @literacytree.bsky.social 📚👏🤩

Fantastic to kick off 2025 working with the Mount Pleasant Lane team in Hertfordshire! We delved into both our Writing Roots and Literary Leaves and looked at how we can use these to create confident writers and active readers. ✍️📖 It was an action-packed day! @literacytree.bsky.social

We are mightily impressed by these epic adventure stories inspired by The Odyssey, written and published by the Year 6 children at Goodrich Community Primary School. Fantastic idea to display these on string so anyone can help themselves to a brilliant read! 🤩👏@theliteracytree.bsky.social

We're really looking forward to working with the Marian Vian Primary team this afternoon to explore effective practice in shared writing. Flipchart paper, pens, post-its and a mini working wall at the ready! 📃✍️ @literacytree.bsky.social

Huge thanks to St George's Primary in Camberwell for sending us photos of their fantastic writing displays! Such gorgeous celebrations of children's published writing across the school. 🤩 👏 📝 @literacytree.bsky.social