Bronwen Duggan

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Radical with Amol Rajan - Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell) - BBC Sounds Children’s author Katherine Rundell on the crisis of reading amongst kids.

Katherine Rundell on why every school needs a library AND a librarian www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What’s the point of learning English? Students often ask why we study literature, and there isn’t always an easy answer. But, in a way, this is exactly why it’s so important, argues this international school English teacher

Convincing students about the importance of studying English literature isn’t always easy – but it’s a subject that perhaps teaches the most valuable skill of all, writes teacher Jack Dempsey

Yep

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There's not enought time!

This is often the response when I'm talking about why we aren't underpinning our lessons with reading high quality texts.

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Graphic with the Carnegies logo and the books shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing. Text Reads 'Medal for Writing'.

📣 Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing! With a focus on marginalised perspectives, these books highlight diversity and empathy ✨✍️
Congratulations to the exceptional authors shortlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🏅
Delve into the books here: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/writing-shor...

Carnegies 2025 Shortlisted Books Carnegie Medal 2025 shortlists for writing and illustration - recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools.

Carnegies 2025 Shortlisted Books 📚👍🏼
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#kidlit
Shortlists for the Carnegie Medal 2025 and Kate Greenaway award 2025 - recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools....

A bag from Salted Books in Lisbon. www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/01/this...

Happy #worldbookday #worldbookday2025 Let’s celebrate teachers as readers. What YA books are you going to recommend to your pupils and trainee teachers today? I’m starting with Silver by Olivia Levez! A cosmic love story for the ages 👩‍🚀🌟

over three years we worked closely with a group of English language high school teachers who were committed to anti-deficit practices for combatting language stigma and discrimination. this article documents their efforts and describes what became possible: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cordelia from King Lear

Text reading 'longlists are announced' with the Carnegies logo, website carnegies.co.uk and #Carnegies2025

It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨
View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis...

A group of students smiles at the camera while holding up Carnegies shortlisted books.

🌟 Registration for the #Carnegies2025 Shadowing Scheme is now open! 🌍📚 Group leaders, bring the world’s best book club to your students—read, review, and cast votes on the shortlisted books together this spring!

Sign up your group today 👉 carnegies.co.uk/take-part/
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Photo of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan standing in front of Piccadilly Lights that's featuring the following message: London is, and will always be, a place for everyone followed by the image of a heart.

I want to remind Londoners that our city is—and always will be—a place for everyone.

We’ll continue to celebrate London as the diverse, open and welcoming city it is.

Taking part in #PoetryByHeart for the first time? Our 4-step approach takes you from launch to uploading your entries & is designed so you can follow it exactly or adapt it to a unit/SoW. Enjoy!

https://umbraco.curator.poetrybyheart.org.uk/media/45tobb5z/pbh-4-step-teaching-approach-v3.pdf

We've just published our Impact Report for the last academic year 2023/24. Take a look on the First Story website: firststory.org.uk/download/fir...

A huge THANK YOU to our schools, writers, partners, volunteers and funders for making our transformative programmes such a success.

Image of writer Kit de Waal

📢 ICYMI 📢

We are so excited to share that the guest speaker for our Annual Salon in Brussels is the incomparable @kitdewaal.bsky.social

Not only is Kit a brilliant writer, but we feel she embodies our values of supporting writers, building inclusive community and having fun along the way✨

What has the biggest impact on children's life chances? It's not their test scores, or socio-economic background. It's READING FOR PLEASURE! So whatever else you do, please never stop sharing books with kids, and helping them to read. It will change their lives forever. #literacy #reading #books

Thankful to have found the Bluesky community.
After a couple of days working online, reminding myself that this is on the doorstep has been reenergising.
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#natureconnectedness #findingbalance

The Nat Literacy Trust survey on Reading for Pleasure shows a big dip! 4 recommendations (my paraphrase):
1. Prioritise reading not as a means of evaluation
2.Include texts that resonate with children
3. Make time for independent reading
4. Make reading a 'social' not just an individual thing. 1/

Rethinking reading for pleasure: A personal view The National Literacy Trust released their Children and young people’s reading in 2024 report earlier this month, identifying that just 1 in 3 children aged 8-18 read for pleasure in their free time. ...

My thoughts

A starter pack for those interested in English teaching here.

go.bsky.app/M4WaetA

I'm hunting down every last one of you lovely ITE / ITT folk. I'm mainly relying on people's bios to determine who might want to be included here, so if I've missed you, let me know and I will update this list.

Reposts appreciated 👍

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