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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now!

@joshuaseigal.bsky.social

Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk

833 Followers  |  180 Following  |  106 Posts  |  Joined: 25.11.2024  |  1.9544

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Just received a message about this. I've read and loved many of these titles, so seeing Jakub in the mix is very heartening. Go for it, yr 6!

18.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Won’t we all feel delighted when 90% of small children can ‘read’ non-words like ´bon’ ´nip’ ´glop’ ´trib’ and ´choop’ in their phonics test. Such a help in developing their comprehension of written text & fostering a lifelong love of reading!

18.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

If you're free for an hour on Monday, do come along! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social is always worth listening to.

18.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to the winners & all those highly commended in The HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards 2025. Find out who has been crowned & how they have built a reading community in their school or library. 👏 #EduSky @openuni-rfp.bsky.social

booksforkeeps.co.uk/58089-2/

18.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Wishing everyone a great weekend. Need some fun, FREE poetry? Have a goosey at my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk

17.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Fish and chips is Portuguese -Jewish in origin I believe

18.10.2025 10:46 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A good few sales last week, 14 lovely reviews, 100% 5* ratings! So glad that it’s being received so well. I hope that EY, KS1 and 2 teachers might be buying copies and sharing poems with classes! Lots of ones for joining in & for sparking own writing. www.amazon.co.uk/Snap-Poems-C...

18.10.2025 07:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Brighton! Families! Join us at #Komedia on Saturday 18th, for comedy excellence from @katiepritchards.bsky.social, @joshuaseigal.bsky.social, @annasoden.bsky.social and sketch duo Shelf! (Then December brings Sunjai Arif, Lil Wenker and @howardread.bsky.social!)

🎟️ www.komedia.co.uk/shows/comedy...

17.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Wishing everyone a great weekend. Need some fun, FREE poetry? Have a goosey at my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk

17.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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⭐ COMING UP ON 17 NOVEMBER ⭐: Join Kim Moore in an exciting workshop that will explore the vital art of the line break: how it shapes rhythm, breath, emotion, meaning and echo.

Book your ticket here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/line-b...

17.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

@ent3c.bsky.social you might find this interesting

17.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We're launching a Working Group for primary teachers passionate about literacy, and creativity. We’ll be sharing ideas, tackling challenges and celebrating what makes primary English teaching so inspiring. We’d love you to join us!

Contact jddclarke@hotmail.co.uk for details.

17.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Finchley! KIDS! See you at #artsdepot on Sunday 19th for double gig goodness with @alexanderybennett.bsky.social, @zafarcakes.bsky.social, @jamesrosscomedy.bsky.social and @bechillcomedian.bsky.social! Stand-up! Silliness! Really impressive eyebrows waggling!

🎟️ www.artsdepot.co.uk/event/comedy...

17.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Just wrote a poem inspired by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social. Normally I self-publish my 'grown up' poems on my blog, but I might send this one out to a few magazines or summat

17.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My best known poem has been added to this Indian curriculum textbook, meaning it will groaned about by a whole generation of children #BookSky #EduSky #teaching

08.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Football Poem for Kids: Substitute Me. Metaphor Poem for Kids.
YouTube video by Inspiring Poems For Kids & Students Football Poem for Kids: Substitute Me. Metaphor Poem for Kids.

Fellow poetry friends, I'm trying to breathe new life into my old Youtube channel. I need more subscribers. Please help x

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlqw...

16.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Y6 are SPIES this term- after successful application letters, they’ve completed mission 1-investigate a super soldier-friend or foe? All agents gave their best& loved selecting or inventing their hero. Purpose through immersion &role play can work! @writingrocks.bsky.social @piecorbett.bsky.social

16.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel DOG PEOPLE (Photo taken in San Francisco, with Alcatraz in the background) Some people are people people, other people are dog...

Daily poetry prompt: This page on my blog has had 265 visits today! I'm wondering why. What kind of a person are you? brian-moses.blogspot.com/2020/04/dog-...

16.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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#206 Race Science is Back. It Never Went Away. Play #206 Race Science is Back. It Never Went Away. by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

You want it darker?

The latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social looks under the rock where all the creepy crawly ideas of racial pseudo-science are alive and well.

16.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Brimstone butterfly, greenish yellow colour

Brimstone butterfly, greenish yellow colour

Clouded yellow butterfly on clover

Clouded yellow butterfly on clover

Bumblebee and honeybee on pink flower

Bumblebee and honeybee on pink flower

Violet carpenter bee drags pink clover flower to the ground

Violet carpenter bee drags pink clover flower to the ground

Bosnia's last warm days and it's a mad, colourful #pollinator sugar scramble.
#bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH

16.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Poetry is truly alive - the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award event yesterday was a delight. Young people from 135 countries entered - various judges read over 28,000 poems! Here are 2 of my favourite winning poems - one will break your heart, one will make you smile. @poetrysociety.org.uk

16.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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The Republican Plot to Destroy Education Research Elon Musk and the Trump administration have gutted the Institute of Education Science.

You probably know little about the Institute of Education Sciences, but it's the research and data arm of the Dept of Education. Or it was, until Trump obliterated it. And if you don't have good data, you can't make good decisions. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:

16.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 73    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 4
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Overjoyed with this feedback I got after a school visit this week ☺️ #EduSky #BookSky

16.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Overjoyed with this feedback I got after a school visit this week ☺️ #EduSky #BookSky

16.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Lesson plan for today:
1️⃣ Visit Stand 52 at the Schools North East Summit
2️⃣ Chat with the Bloomsbury Education team
3️⃣ Bag a 30% discount on brilliant books
4️⃣ Win prizes 🎁
Optional homework: tell a friend 👋

#SNESummit25

16.10.2025 08:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees

Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results

If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

15.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 595    🔁 173    💬 19    📌 9

The poetry of Joshua Seigal

16.10.2025 07:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The deep impact bullying has on a child doesn’t end when the bullying stops, it clings onto parts of them for the rest of their life. Many adults talk with pain - or can’t talk at all - about the bullying that happened to them in the past. Bullying is for life, not just for schooldays. #antibullying

16.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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