Jo P@bsky.social

Yes please

Nothing more to be said!

As an English teacher, I love this! Though don’t love the warnings…

Finished it though!!

Happy New Year! I always swear that I will get my marking done before the last weekend of the holidays…and here I am…marking…

Surely there is room for.all sandwiches!

Home Giving a voice

If you don’t know it - it is tootoot.co.uk

It is anti bullying week and we are relaunching Tootoot. Has anyone got any suggestions for encouraging students to use it?

Really useful- thank you for the link

Your cat clearly loves you…I have Mr Cantankerous

Updated #proofofcat I think I might have upset him…

Session even - oh for an edit button!

We had Progressive Masculinity come into school to deliver an excellent staff training sessions to help us understand how to help our students. Highly recommend them.

Thank you - that is really useful

‘Sawbones’ is very good.

That looks good. We are selective, so generally reading age is not an issue, but engagement is. So we are going to use the first three reading lessons to read ‘Sawbones’ by Catherine Johnson to see if we can engage them.

We are really concerned about reading and we are going to start with a class reader approach during our Year 7 reading lessons. Not heard of faster reading.

Thank you! Have been looking through them and downloading. The cover booklets are excellent.

Tackling it…obviously not encouraging it!

Morning. We are planning to focus on Misogyny this term and I have been putting together a reading list…it is not exhaustive. How do I attach it?

Aug 16, 1637: Playwright Ben Jonson dies in London at the age of 65. #OTD
https://buff.ly/3BPSKhj

And some of us are in professions where we don’t want to be easily found…teaching for example.

Our schools must play a vital healing role after the riots We and our pupils have witnessed horrific scenes - but we can't allow fatalism to define our response

'When they return to school, we will need to remind our children of all the love they saw this summer and the light that came through the darkness', writes Sir Hamid Patel
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Thank you. That’s brilliant.

I realised that after I wrote that comment…it looks good

That is great - thank you. My other ‘hat’ is as an English teacher.

Morning, this is brilliant- thank you!

Hi, I have just taken on this role and I am keen to connect.

We are going to introduce a diverse reading challenge for Year 7 and 8 that we have borrowed from another school. Will post a blank version once I have made it…

Morning, great to see so many teachers on BlueSky…it feels like a safer space.

I am currently looking for form tutor activities for our Heads of Year to pass onto their tutors - particularly if they have a DEI focus. Any ideas?