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Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature is one of the books already chosen for #NewIllustrationOfTheDay that is also in the 2026 Empathy Lab selection of books to make us kinder, which has just been announced. See the full selection on empathylab.uk/rfe/ @whatonearth.bsky.social @empathylabuk.bsky.social

What a fabulous experience for the young musicians! Inspiring a love of classical music by watching highly skilled artists perform #artsmatter #lovestc @marymyatt.bsky.social @royalphilsoc.bsky.social @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social

Equity means planning for our first 20%, not a 'bottom 20%.'

Design lessons around pupils with SEND and those who are disadvantaged, and you reduce barriers for everyone.

Get it right for those who need the most and learning improves for all. 🐝

On cultivating belonging:

“We need to do the work, the inner work, to reflect, to learn & to grow, in order to be able to do the outer work where we show up, stand up & speak out.”

And @hannahwilson.bsky.social’s book can certainly support us as we do this. Thank you, Hannah.

TRAINING | WhenTheAdultsChange The home of relational practice based on the work of Paul Dix

New training packages. Dripfeed inclusive behaviour change www.whentheadultschange.com/training

Thank you to all those primary teachers filling this in for us! If you are involved with KS2, we'd love to hear from you! Please share @ruthswailes.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social

Attendance and behaviour hubs: 29 more lead schools revealed Schools Week obtains list of additional lead schools, with several more due to be announced this week

Exclusive: The names of 29 more schools that will become lead schools for the government's attendance and behaviour hubs programme have been revealed

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Should we still care about curriculum? Should we still care about curriculum? This is a question I am hearing more and more over the last few months. And it concerns me. Prior to the Ofsted focus on curriculum very few conversations wer…

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Is the curriculum turn turning back again? Is curriculum still a priority in education? @greeborunner.bsky.social takes a look.

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Why Teachers Need Recovery, Not More Resilience - EdSurge News Teacher burnout has reached crisis levels, and proposed solutions often miss the mark. Another professional development session on self-care. Another ...

Why Teachers Need Recovery, Not More Resilience #EdTech
Teacher burnout has reached crisis levels, and proposed solutions often miss the mark. Another professional development session on self-care. Another webinar on stress management. Another reminder …

Currently at three hoops in trees and a Frisbee on a roof.

Fabulous interpretation of a timeline 👏

"THE BIG GREEN BOOKS 500 CLUB"

I started this last July.

Thanks to you, we've been able to send £500 of books to two schools.

We're now close to the next £500 (thanks!).

If you're a school and you could do with £500 of books, check this out.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...

Deployment and Dialogue: Engaging Teaching Assistants to Improve… Engaging teaching assistants in the deployment of teaching assistants

Deployment and Dialogue: Engaging Teaching Assistants to Improve Practice

How leaders can provide meaningful opportunities for TAs to discuss their perspectives, ideas, and concerns. researchschool.org.uk/bradford/new...

Love the vibrancy in these images. Great work! 👏

EAL Strategies and Great Ideas - The Bell Foundation EAL Strategies and Great Ideas The Great Ideas pages are a collection of different strategies that any teacher could use in their classrooms to support learners who use EAL. Many of the teaching resou...

Theses strategies from the Bell Foundation are brilliant for supporting English language learners as well as those with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) #DevLangDis

www.bell-foundation.org.uk/resources/gr...

Thanks to @katestarrslcn.bsky.social for reminding me of these today also

Classics for children Classics for children with titles by E.B. White, John Masefield, Somadeva, Michael Rosen, Jenny Nimmo, Vijaydan Detha & Sane Guruji.

Classics for children including titles by E.B. White, John Masefield, Somadeva, Roald Dahl, Michael Rosen, Jenny Nimmo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Vijaydan Detha, Rosemary Sutcliff, Jacqueline Woodson and Sane Guruji. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/class... #teachersofX #kidlit

We now have a sitar and more
... visit the music room next time you are in.

Confessions of a Primary Head: End Formal Observations - Third Space Learning Headteacher Clare Sealy explains why she ditched formal lesson observations in her primary school

Completely missed this excellent blog by @claresealy.bsky.social when it came out. Amazing to me that many primary schools still do formal lesson observations when they are better alternatives.

thirdspacelearning.com/blog/why-my-...

Reading aloud as intellectual inclusion Well hello there, and welcome to update #167!

New post

Reading aloud as intellectual inclusion

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Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

Pupil Insights: understand your pupils, strengthen your culture Phil Stock discusses the challenges of identifying pupils' non-academic needs & our new service to help support leaders.

In our latest blog Phil Stock discusses the challenges of identifying the non-academic needs of our pupils and how our new service can help support leaders.

Read on & sign-up for next month's webinar to learn more: researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...

Excellent texture too.

Apparently the best Spooks reference in an educational blog! Have a read and see what you think? ⬇️

🚨 Wide gaps in waiting times for a SEND diagnosis by socio-economic background 🚨

Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents.

More from our work on the SEND system 👇

www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

Coming soon... Well hello there, and welcome to update #161!

Curriculum Conversations: A Reference Pack for Senior Leaders

Coming soon

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Great understanding shown. Really like your ideas here for task design. Thanks for sharing.

Fabulous artwork and ideas created after studying inspirational people celebrated as part of #blackhistorymonth

Truly cosmic. Fantastic to see. Thank you for sharing 👏