Alex Neophitou

🎉 GIVEAWAY WINNERS 🎉

Slightly delayed… but perfectly timed, four weeks since Learning to Lead Computing launched!

Congrats to:

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🟦 @neophitoua.bsky.social

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Carousel is excited to be a sponsor and delighted that @andrewpercivaled.bsky.social will be speaking about retrieval practice in primaries!

#TDaPEManchester is fantastic CPD and all for an excellent cause, so be sure to get your ticket to Manchester if you haven't already!

Here's the full schedule featuring sessions from @misssdoherty.bsky.social @alexgingell.bsky.social @mralmonded.bsky.social @scottinghatt.bsky.social @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social @playfulclassroom.bsky.social @taylorda01.bsky.social @neophitoua.bsky.social ...

Just a week to go until sales end for #TDaPEManchester, so @annahackett.bsky.social and I explored the sessions on offer in this week's #TDaPE

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All proceeds will be donated to Crohn’s and Colitis UK and tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...

An early start for me today!

Looking forward to meeting Funmi Alder in real life and looking at humanities!

If you are interested in the work I do with schools, feel free to get in touch. Always happy to chat!

#education #teachingandlearning #developingpedagogy #curriculumdevelopment

I'm on my travels this week! And the sun is out too!

It's also a chance to take my new travel cup out and about Stephanie!

Northampton, Wokingham and Bolton this week, with some other online bits in between!

I'll be there! Looking forward to being part of a great event!

Looking forward to the next #TDaPE conference. This time it’s #TDaPEManchester and I’ll be there talking about the importance of getting teacher development right!

Handwriting can feel like a lost art. But research shows that strong handwriting skills improve memory, learning, and cognitive development.

At The TDaPE Conference in Manchester, Neil Almond will explore how schools can make the most of it.

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...

#TDaPEManchester

Delighted to be presenting my research at #TDaPEManchester next month! #EdChatIE

Improving KS2 writing isn’t just about classroom strategies—it’s about system-wide change.

At #TDaPEManchester, @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social will discuss lessons learned from the Norwich Writing Project and driving meaningful change at scale.

Get your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...

How can teachers cultivate curiosity and help students think more deeply?

At #TDaPEManchester, Camilla Spurr will share practical strategies for embedding metacognition in the primary classroom to build self-reflective learners.

#CognitiveScience

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This looks like an excellent event. ⬇️

📚 Knowledge organisers: a tool for retrieval practice or just another worksheet?

Join Adam Woodward at #TDaPEManchester as he explores the research behind retrieval practice and how knowledge organisers can be effectively implemented in primary classrooms.

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...

🔴⚪ What can 100 red and white beads do for your students?

Join @rekenrek101.bsky.social at #TDaPEManchester for a hands-on exploration of the 100-bead rekenrek and how it transforms number sense in KS1 and KS2. Say goodbye to mess, hello to mastery!

🎟️ Register:

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I have a new travel cup!

It's also sunny! 🌞🌞🌞

That's all for now...

Happy Friday everyone!

If you are interested in the work I do with schools, feel free to get in touch. Always happy to chat!

#education #leadershipdevelopment #teachingandlearning #developingpedagogy #curriculumdevelopment

This week I've been delivering ITAP week 3 for student teachers on Best Practice Network's ITT programme.

It was all about scaffolding, and this group have been great. It's the third week I've had the pleasure of spending with them this year (albeit virtually), and they are so reflective.

Building a connected curriculum — New Education Outlook I spend a lot of my time talking about or thinking about the primary curriculum, whether it’s a specific subject area, or looking at how staff can develop teaching and learning approaches across it. A...

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#edusky

I've been plugging away at more speaking and listening resources today with Clive Davies!

Aspects of talk, scaffolds for supporting children to articulate themselves and their amazing knowledge... its all in here!

Available from Focus Education soon so watch out for it.

Its all for a good cause! And it's great for the kids 👍

Brill!

Unless you live in Saddleworth, you won't understand, but the #christmastractorrun is a spectacle that passes right outside our house every Christmas Eve!

It's a marvel to be seen @saddleworth_independent

#merrychristmaseve #merrychristmas

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@fiveguysofficial.bsky.social milkshake to break up the annual Chrimbo shopping trip to the Trafford Centre yesterday.

Love a five guys milkshake - I ended up with two 🤣

I know it's a Sunday...

And it's also the holidays...

But I'm enjoying working on these graphics!

It's all for a Speaking and Listening curriculum that @Clive_FocusEd is writing!

If you want to know more, I'm free after Xmas 😜

#curriculumdevelopment #speakingandlistening

Whether you're feeling like the grinch or Mr/Mrs Clause, if you're finishing term today, well done for getting through the wonderful Christmas madness!

Have a lovely Christmas and a well-deserved break!

And yes, both images are me dressed up... who knows what I'll be dressing up as next Christmas🤣

Last night, the new elves (Jingle and Jangle) decided to play a new game.

The card left out, a history question - my favourite!

But it's got me thinking... what a great starter game to play with a class to see if they can remember simple chronology.

AI working it's magic on my LinkedIn profile. Reckon it just about sums me up!

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This picture is a throwback to last year, but today I reprised my role as Santa as part of my 3 part plan for dressing up this season!

This Saturday, I'll be grinching it up again at my daughters' school's Christmas fair!

I'm beginning to get a bit of a rep... which was completely unintended!

Vocabulary: Developing Progression Across the Wider Curriculum (CPD Vi Most educators will agree that reading is one of, if not the most important thing to learn for children to develop their knowledge and understanding across all areas of the curriculum. A big part of t...

Exciting news!

I delivered some training around vocabulary earlier in the term, but if you missed it, it's available on demand here:

www.focus-education.co.uk/products/bri...

#edusky

Lots of work on DT units of learning today! Year 1 complete. Year 2 is on its way!

Just dropped the girls off at brownies.

Now chilling with this little pup by the fire with a bit of Netflix.

Happy Monday!