Simon Baddeley

If those reports are going to be written by AI (as I saw loads of on here this year) they are absolutely 0% useful.

Even just Googling stuff brings up an AI explanation of it before any links now.

Gears of Thought September 2025 - The Literacy Engine Gears of Thought - September 2025 You must be logged in as a Gears of Thought member to download these resources. All texts in one handy document for easy printing. Only the Teacher Answer Booklet con...

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September includes:
⚙️Princess Diana
⚙️The cultural significance of Star Trek
⚙️Microtransactions in video games
⚙️The discovery of penicillin

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And that's a wrap on the 2024/25 school year!

40 weeks
160 topics
320+ texts
40 Debate Drive resources
The launch of Development Cogs

What an epic year!

See you in September for our biggest year yet! We can't wait to share what we have planned! 🙊
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A few weeks ago, we joined 5.8 million other metal heads to watch his #BackToTheBeginning show on live stream. It felt like both a celebration and a farewell. Absolute legend.
#RIPOzzy 🤘💔

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What if we assume students don’t read at home? - The Literacy Engine What if we assume students don't read at home? We’ve blogged previously about the myth of “Reading for Pleasure” and how some of the interventions we try in order to make students read in their free t...

It is brilliant to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social launching the 2026 Year of Reading.

Our programme is built with secondary aged students in mind who do not read at home. For them, access to books is not enough. It needs a whole school response.

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Development Cogs - The Literacy Engine Development Cogs Log In as MEMBER to Download Try A FREE Sample Extended reading and study of non-fiction texts provide a powerful and evidence-based method for teaching PSHE, SMSC, British Values, an...

Development Cogs maps at least one of our resources against objectives in:
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✅️ SMSC
✅️ British Values
✅️ Citizenship

Using non-fiction reading to drive personal development and debate can turn your Tutor Time into a reading powerhouse!

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Our knowledge rich non-fiction reading programme lays the foundations on which literacy skills are built.

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Growing up in the 80s and 90s really was an epic time musically, wasn't it? That Prodigy set was 🔥!
#Glastonbury2025

This show from The Prodigy should have been lifting the roof off the Pyramid stage right now.
#Glastonbury2025

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Two full years of knowledge rich, extended reading resources laid out in full.

Your 2025/26 membership gives you access to every single one of the 640+ resources immediately. And another 320 across next academic year!

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The role of Form Tutor is absolutely immense in its diversity. Helping students comprehend & navigate the complex issues of the world around them is at its core. We equip tutors with the resources & strategies needed to succeed in this crucial role.
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How big is #Glastonbury2025?

If my school was in the centre, it would cover the whole of our community! 😲
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This week, our students are reading about:
🎶 Glastonbury
🛳 The Windrush Generation
🎤 Michael Jackson
⚖️ How the US government should work

How do your students start their day?
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two men standing next to each other in a black and white photo taken in 1945 ALT: two men standing next to each other in a black and white photo taken in 1945

Oasis night on BBC2 taking me right back to the 90s. What a time to be a teenager!

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Our programme is built on the best evidence available around successful whole class reading strategies.

From Rosenshine to the EEF report on improving literacy in secondary schools, we take strategies proven to work and harness them across the curriculum.

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I genuinely hoped that I'd be wrong about the School 21 approach because I just really liked the idea that there could be lots of different sorts of good on one happy ecosystem. I'm pretty confident this is just utopian thinking now though.

On keeping ones head when all around . . . you know the rest

How to lead teaching and learning in a time of change As schools await the findings of the ongoing curriculum review and the introduction of a new Ofsted framework, leaders should concentrate on their school’s core values, writes Zoe Enser

Schools are in limbo as they await the outcome of the curriculum review and the introduction of a new Ofsted framework. So, how should leaders react to this uncertainty? @greeborunner.bsky.social‬ shares her advice

The new approach to School 21 seems to be to run it like a normal school, but to rebrand common approaches used perfectly well in other schools.

And so ends another radical rethinking of how to run a secondary school, not with a bang but with a whimper.

Until the next one comes along...

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Development Cogs - The Literacy Engine Development Cogs Log In as MEMBER to Download Try A FREE Sample Extended reading and study of non-fiction texts provide a powerful and evidence-based method for teaching PSHE, SMSC, British Values, an...

Development Cogs is our personal development blueprint, mapping our resources against PSHE, SMSC, British Values, and Citizenship objectives.

Your students will explore challenging topics via extended reading and structured discussion across the curriculum.
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Reading Practice: Can we “Just Do It”? - The Literacy Engine At the ResearchEd National conference on 9th September this year I had the privilege of attending a talk by Rob Coe on Instructional Coaching and how it requires deliberate thought, planning, structur...

One of the core reasons we are seeing Tutor Time reading programmes lose momentum is the "just do it" effect.

Reading to students requires carefully planned & evidence informed strategies that empower teachers to become successful teachers of reading.
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Join me at #ResearchED National in September where I'll be busting some "Reading for Pleasure" myths, giving you a guided tour of some key evidence, and applying it to a practical solution for across the curriculum.

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Weirdest thing. At that same moment a freak gust of wind blew something in my eye. 😭

Leaving gift from some Yr11s.

I had the Batman and once used it as a pointer under the visualiser. We were sad that I didn't have a minifig for the red pen when reading the balcony scene.

They got me a Lego Batman Juliet! 😍🥰🤩