This was terrific - every English teacher and everyone involved in education policy should listen!
22.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In fairness, it was national testosterone day on Monday and I mentioned it in our staff meeting.
20.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I missed it too. Too busy washing my hair
20.11.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m wondering if any children’s publishers need a freelance writer to write reading scheme books for them or branded picture books etc? I’ve written reading scheme books for Star Wars and Disney before! Any shares would be amazing!
#BookSky #KidLit
16.11.2025 18:12 — 👍 13 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Not read Babel yet. Done Yellowface and enjoyed but feel a bit meh about this one
16.11.2025 11:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes. A bit of a showy book. Look I have read some books
16.11.2025 00:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book cover - Katabasis
Today’s reading. A third of the way in and I am not feeling it.
15.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Occasional 10
Carl Hendrick, Barbara Oakley, George Saunders, Audrey Watters, Marc Watkins, Andrew Campbell, Daisy Christodoulou, Bennie Kara, Alan Jacobs, Jonathan Gibbs, Peps Mccrea and more.
The Occasional 10: excellent newsletters.
open.substack.com/pub/juliangi...
15.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Good schools make good teachers
What kind domains, wicked traps and school culture mean for improvement
NEW: Good schools make good trachers
If teachers don’t always improve with experience, the problem isn’t them. It’s the environment. Schools that get better do so because they make feedback clearer, practice more deliberate, and culture more trustworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
13.11.2025 06:24 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Agree with Michael. We did that
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We didn’t have merits but we were ranked in the year group for everything. Horrible when I think of it now. 124 out of 133 for PE.
11.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For me, it was escape. Coming from a small Welsh village where everyone knows your business, I wanted to escape it all. I saw education as my way out.
11.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you, Joshua
11.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cracking blog on English homework
11.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Brilliant. Thank you.
11.11.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy birthday! Great choice of music
11.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Clear out toys now!
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Thanks Adam. Been threatening it for a bit now. I’ve deleted by Twitter account so haven’t shared on there, but feel free to do so.
11.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Women writers of WW1: three poets and four poems ⤵️
www.douglaswise.co.uk/.../women-wr....
Many Sisters to Many Brothers, by Rose Macaulay
Munition Wages, by Ida Bedford
The Shadow, by Rose Macaulay
The Sisters Buried at Lemnos, by Vera Brittain
09.11.2025 10:18 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eleven years after the fall of Troy,
We, the old men - some of us nearly forty
Met and talked on the sunny rampart
Over our wine, while the lizards scuttled
In dusty grass, and the crickets chirred.
Some bared their wounds;
Some spoke of the thirst, dry in the
throat,
And the heart-beat, in the din of battle;
Some spoke of intolerable sufferings.
The brightness gone from their eyes
And the grey already thick in their hair.
And I sat a little apart
from the garrulous talk and old
memories,
And I heard a boy of twenty
Say petulantly to a girl, seizing her arm:
"Oh, come away, why do you stand there
Listening open-mouthed to the talk of old
men?
Haven't you heard enough of Troy and
Achilles?
Why should they bore us for ever
With an old quarrel and the names of
dead men
We never knew, and dull forgotten
battles?"
And he drew her away,
And she looked back and laughed
As he spoke more contempt of us,
Being now out of hearing,
And I thought of the graves by desolate
Troy
And the beauty of many young men now
dust,
And the long agony, and how useless it
all was.
And the talk still clashed about me
Like the meeting of blade and blade.
And as they two moved further away
He put an arm about her, and kissed her;
And afterwards I heard their gay distant
laughter.
And I looked at the hollow cheeks
And the weary eyes and the grey-
streaked heads
of the old men -nearly forty- about
me;
And I too walked away
In an agony of helpless grief and pity.
(Richard Aldington, 1929)
Richard Aldington's Epilogue to Death of a Hero.
Always worth revisiting on Remembrance Sunday.
09.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 142 🔁 36 💬 11 📌 2
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things You have...
In WW2 a 19 year old sent his mother a poem. He sadly died; but the poem endured. It’s a long term favourite with our schools via ‘OD to Quality Writing 10-13’ .I’ve just heard it read out at the British Legion Festival on bbc.
John Magee lives on! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157986...
08.11.2025 21:25 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Book cover
Single cover
Today’s reading and listening.
08.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not heard anything.
06.11.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
*find
06.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writer of satire (Private Eye/Dead Ringers) and Murder. New book ‘Lies and Dolls’ is out now in all good bookshops. 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much' is also there, probably nearby. Graphic novel ‘The Furnace’ out eventually.
lanceparkin.org, lancejparkin@gmail.com
he/him
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Parkin
born 327.78ppm
Maths and Economics teacher. VP. Semi-fictional cyclist and runner.
New Zealand writer/artist living in the UK. Comics, storyboards, commissions, yadda-yadda-yadda.
Website: https://www.scott1gray.com/
Art prints for sale: ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57
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Primary Schools' English Adviser at Cambs CC School Improvement Service.
Open University Teachers' Reading Group Leader.
NATE Primary Officer.
Educator, Connector, Expert in Evidence-Informed Practice at Scale
AI & Tech Consultant | Keynote Speaker | Latin Educator | Passionate about culturally responsive, community-focused classrooms that empower learners through innovative language education.
Former secondary English and Media Studies Teacher
English GCSE tutor
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The Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, chaired by @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social
Providing a blueprint for a national entitlement to oracy education.
Educator, author and podcaster, BSc #ComputerScience, MA in #Education, Teacher Trainer, Tutor and Lecturer, #TeamCompSci #caschat, I'm #Autistic and #ADHD and a LGBTQ+ ally, mental health advocate, proud supporter of DEI.
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Mum of 3, Secondary Headteacher, Maths teacher, sometimes a runner. My opinions are my own.
Roses are red
Poetry's sus
All your base belong to us
🧭 Director of Insights and Strategy
🏫 CELT School Improvement Team
👨🏫 Deputy Headteacher at Penrice Academy
🔬 Former Head of Science
📚 Curriculum, Assessment and QofE
https://linktr.ee/Doug.OBrien
CELT Director of Secondary Education. Exceptional staff, creating exceptional opportunities for our exceptional young people.
Professor of Literacy Education
Literacy Researcher
Advocate for the ART and SCIENCE of Teaching Reading
Teacher of English | KS4 Lead | Examiner | Parent
Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
Deputy Headteacher
Starting headship Sept 2025
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