Mr Tarrant

Pupil voice this week on reading for pleasure with an external…. One kid twisted the questions back and started making “tbr” lists for the adult after quizzing on their preferences and likes!

I’m still in recovery from the ending of Darkling…..years after

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,176,283!

Very interesting- well worth a look!

Some utter belters there! We have had a mild argument in school about Aveline jones, and which one is the scariest… personally I found vanishing very creepy in concept!

It’s a bit concerning that the ability to give high level advice seems to have become a badge of success. And people love racing to collect badges.

Rabbit and Bear books are not-quite-chapter books. Heavily illustrated, but utterly beautiful to read. Enough jokes for the adult reader too (bear returning from the woods looking sheepish etc)
The princess Mina books are really nice as a step toward chapter books too.

Vivid and imaginative take on magic, and a wonderful way to open young people’s eyes to the wickedness of colonialism. Lots going on here, and a complex series of plots makes it a Y6 challenge, but there is a real depth of magic and history to explore.

Fiction, non fiction or both?

I’m loving the fact my email has no numbers or strange contortions in it… “how have you got such a simple one?” The young ‘uns ask…

Teaching AHT, but we share a headteacher… when they are elsewhere, I’m the “on site” in multitasking mode!

Can’t stop winning!

Have the picture on the left as “before” and problem solved.

My own child asked why I have white starting to appear on my face… gulp.

On it….. thank you!

Very different official title but that’s me half of the week…. Similar niche abyss…

Ooooh… yes please! We have had a leaky roof this summer so my author wall needs some updating!

Work of Loki?

I’ve thought about Wolf a lot since reading it earlier this summer, and it just won’t go away. Hits every button perfectly. Such wonderful world building as humans look to eke out a new world after forces ruin the old one. Just like North. Both seem apt to post on here rather than the old place..

Brilliance

Last year this was already a stunning resource- thank you so much for sharing. Brilliant stuff, raised our assembly game a long way!

Utterly amazing work. The wonderful cocktail of a short read that is also a slow builder…. 7 ghost stories told through the mechanism of a stately home tour, each hitting in a different way. Just perfect- a true rival for the masterpiece that is “Freeze”…

Fascinating read. Amnesic main character discovering the world around her, (horror free)dystopia for MG, lots of interesting food for through with the rise of AI and great grounding for big Sci-fi questions. As always, another smashing Vashti Hardy story.

My thoughts exactly. Scary how much we lost

It’s the subject that just follows me around from school to school!

An exciting romp through a gamified dungeon. In this world Dungeon Running is a spectator sport, with wonderful commentary from a couple of orcs bookending the chapters. Great themes of friendship and underdogs having their day. Perfect for LKS2 with enough tongue-in-cheek jokes for the older reader

Sounds like we have pretty much identical job descriptions! (Apart from y6 still here)

Whispers it quietly… it feels like peak edutwitter…

3 platforms in an evening…. Getting wild in my old age

Snap!

Deep beath…
AHT who likes a good book, Google-ness, time saving tech things and have dabbled with maths.