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Martin Winward

@winward3.bsky.social

Deputy Headteacher at Colton Hills Community School, Wolverhampton. Philosophy, theology, psychology, and ethics are my interests. ❤️ running, cycling, and most of all, swimming. Former Headteacher. #UKEd #UKteaching

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Building Bridges with the Area Model: From Multiplication to Algebra A Planned and Purposeful Journey of Multiplication (and Beyond!)

@claresealy.bsky.social be interested to hear what you think, all started with you getting @lasalleed.bsky.social in to work with us! fantasticmaths.substack.com/p/planned-an...

05.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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What are we teaching when we teach writing? Writing is really, really hard. Learning to write even more so.  Robert Kellogg – cognitive psychologist and author of The Psychology of Writing – describes writing as the cognitive equivalen…

New blog!

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20.05.2025 15:20 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

Bluesky do your thing. Who is the wonderful woman who presents at researchEDs on evaluating CPD? First name begins with B think. Ideally she is on here too!

20.01.2025 17:48 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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a group of men in suits and hats are walking down a street and one of them is smoking a cigarette . ALT: a group of men in suits and hats are walking down a street and one of them is smoking a cigarette .

#rEDBRUM TIX ARE GO GO GO

GRAB YOUR TICKET AND A BIG DOLLOP OF @daisychristo.bsky.social @tombennett71.bsky.social @didau.bsky.social @drchendrick.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @teacherhead.bsky.social @claresealy.bsky.social AND THE REST OF THE GANG

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31.01.2025 20:32 — 👍 16    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
Attention, meaning & mastery The questions every teacher needs to answer every lesson

Like every other bugger, I've decided to give substack a go.

First post....

Attention, meaning & mastery
The questions every teacher needs to answer every lesson open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

13.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
States of Guernsey Careers: Teacher of Maths (93767)

Great job opportunity here teaching maths in gorgeous location.

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03.05.2025 08:57 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats

Every teacher changes lives. Train to teach with us and inspire the next generation.

https://buff.ly/4fn0Pxe

#traintoteach #getintoteaching #teachinessex

19.01.2025 10:10 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Very sad. I spent 6 years and my colleagues a few more taking our able and gifted students to the Isle of Wight. Let's hope PGL can safely secure the three…

19.01.2025 10:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
States of Guernsey Careers: Teacher of Maths - St Anne's School, Alderney 1 (92621)

Great job in unique location

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12.10.2024 19:19 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Free examples - The Teachers' Collection Free examples

Hello to our new followers!
We suggest books for all National Curriculum subjects & PSHE, with accompanying planning including key questions, activity ideas and signposts to resources, as well as cross-curricular links & key vocabulary.
Free example units here!

23.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazing webinar earlier today with @claresealy.bsky.social

What are the links between oracy & literacy?
How is speaking easier than writing & how is it harder?
What's "sentence-based idiom"?

More from Clare primarytimery.com/2024/06/21/t...

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26.11.2024 21:22 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
Y4 Geography D1
YouTube video by Opening Worlds Ltd Y4 Geography D1

This is how knowledge-rich works. Rich, connected schema transform what and how pupils access the next stuff, unlocking fascination, heightening attention and thereby transforming inclusion. Our latest video from #OpeningWorlds, this time about Year 4 geography.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETA...

30.11.2024 18:55 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2
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Why is everything broken, and how do we fix it? With special guest Sam Freedman They Behave For Me · Episode

NEW EPISODE

Absolutely fascinating podcast with special guest
@samfr.bsky.social!

This is absolutely 100% not to be missed. A deep dive into how education policy is made, why everything is broken, and how we fix it. Tune in and share!!

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29.11.2024 07:23 — 👍 42    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 10
States of Guernsey Careers: Deputy Headteacher (93002)

Fantastic opportunity to make a difference in secondary special school for learners with learning difficulties.
DM for more detail.

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04.01.2025 09:54 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Low oral reading fluency at end of KS1 Sobering findings via FFL Data Base. Campaigning to get essential,rigorous foundational phonics teaching complete by end of yr 1 allowing for fluency,recitation,poetry,bk reading,outdoor play,arts,communication ++ @claresealy.bsky.social @geoffv.bsky.social

12.12.2024 13:10 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Why we need to teach our students to argue properly In an age full of arguments, there can be huge value in fostering constructive disagreement in our students - for life and for learning, writes Alex Quigley

"..by reducing their overconfidence & getting them to think more carefully." @alexjquigley.bsky.social in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/tea... 2/2

09.10.2024 10:09 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Snow Hill, next stop!

12.10.2024 06:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am speaking at Research Ed tomorrow about what VAR tells us about education...

06.09.2024 19:09 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Behaviour and the new class- top tips from Tom Bennett The new term has started. Behaviour is perfect! Or maybe not. Wherever you are, here are some of the fastest strategies to get it right.

NEW ONLINE TRAINING: Behaviour and the new class. The most effective strategies you need to get the behaviour you need from a new class. Sept 23rd, 4-5:30pm. Live webinar with Q&A

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17.09.2024 20:25 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ResearchED National 24: ‘Spiralling Curriculum’ Slides ResearchED National Conference, 2024 - What a day! I cannot ever thank Tom Bennett or Helene Galdin-O'Shea enough for the outstanding work they do with ResearchED and, in particular, the amazing peopl...

**NEW** ResED National 24: 'Spiralling Curriculum' Slides perspected.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/r...
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My slides are now available to download. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk; also to @tombennett71.bsky.social and @hgaldinoshea.bsky.social for making such an inspiring movement in education.

08.09.2024 13:24 — 👍 27    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 0

I am excited to be joining the ELP5 group today for the launch. #education

12.10.2024 05:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #6,168,653, Martin Winward ‪@winward3.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 15, 2024"

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #6,168,653, Martin Winward ‪@winward3.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 15, 2024"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,168,653!

29.09.2024 08:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trying a new personal knowledge resource in our Yr7 wisdom unit - “What did the Ancient Greeks believe about wisdom and are their ideas relevant today?”

Pupils complete a questionnaire on wisdom at the start of the unit. This produces an initial piece of writing.

#TeamRE
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13.09.2024 15:35 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 2
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Assessing Oracy - the next phase What we have learned from our trial, and what we are planning next

Read more about the findings from the first phase of our oracy assessment project, and how you can take part in the next phase.

substack.nomoremarking.com/p/assessing-...

12.09.2024 16:57 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Resting up after being on duty!

07.09.2024 07:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's an admin day. Enjoying learning more about Class Charts linked to Provision Map in support of our young people. Webinar and training videos for me on this windy Tuesday morning! #SEND #education

27.08.2024 10:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#teaching #AP Enjoyed catching up on favourite chapters this morning in readiness for year ahead and fresh look at AP as part of our inclusive offer.

24.08.2024 10:23 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a beautiful 🧵. I feel the same. It brings all the emotions of making a new home – nostalgia and excitement, rolled into one. Thank you Jenny. 😘

20.08.2024 20:59 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Very good!

24.08.2024 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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