@sheilawinstanley.bsky.social
Sub basic proficiency in Teeline shorthand speed| lots of drama| using tech & close reading to teach students English Lit & English Lang| broadcast journalist| writing stuff in notebooks and making a lot of voice notes
ICYMI - A blog from the EMC Archives
'Teaching Writing: Putting Intentions Before Technique', in which EMC's Barbara Bleiman argues that a focus on meaning and intentions should come before a focus on form when teaching writing.
Read here: buff.ly/XbcgRCQ
‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4
14.08.2025 18:14 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Sylvia Young, RIP
A dream school timetable: Monday- Wed: 📚📖👨🏫
Thursday & Friday: 🎭🕺🏻🩰🎤🎼
Led by a woman who taught all her students the importance of hard work
and learning their lines.
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If you've never read Persepolis here's your reminder to read Persepolis
22.06.2025 04:51 — 👍 872 🔁 354 💬 6 📌 1"jealous/ grapes"
The green - with- envy ones; furious red ones? I'll keep this image, Barbara, when I'm on the fruit & veg aisle
UK Cabinet Office AI event: we've just been shown typical planning docs from the Housing dept. Narrative seemed to be these docs are cumbersome, problematic. For me, they're nostalgia, story, ideas: the feel, the font, the layout. Like Lloyd George medical reports and library cataloguing cards...
04.06.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The concerns in @domwyse.bsky.social's blog chime with those we raised after the publication of the interim report into the curriculum review. Links to both here
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/evoluti...
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...
Over ONE THOUSAND of us are live streaming the @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social Zoom on AI for gov comms. As a writer, comms person and English tutor, I'm here for it along with plenty of earl grey, cake, paper notebooks and pens. 🫖🍰✍️
04.06.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0LOVING this & the disco we're having in the kitchen. 🪩
29.05.2025 18:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0GCSE prep:
Ten days to go before GCSE English Lit paper 1 and suddenly…there is much note - taking, focus, questions & thinking. It’s a joyful time to teach.
I love the raised beds…with added names. A nice touch! 👏
24.04.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Crap!”
When you win a mini free -write exercise ( inspo: 5 little items in 3 mins)…
My students love this sort of stuff but I definitely love it more and this is exactly what I’ll be doing with them for GCSE English prep this week.
Front of Burgh House, Hampstead, lit up with fairy lights and wisteria.
Illustration by Helen Oxenbury Alice Through the Looking - Glass, Lewis Carroll, as part of Burgh House Hampstead exhibition, 2025
Helen Oxenbury, Illustrating the Land of Childhood exhibition, Burgh House, Hampstead, 2025
21st May 2025 Talks & Tours with Dr Amy Miller, Burgh House, Hampstead, London
Dr Amy Miller, curator @burghhouse1704.bsky.social Hampstead, is doing some interesting work on illustrators. Currently: Helen Oxenbury: Illustrating the Land of Childhood & May 21st, Kate Greenaway & Helen Allingham #booksky #illustratorsky #reading #family #childhood #whatsonlondon
24.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1/3: This looked promising - a clay pipe with a fair bit of stem intact. Follow the thread to see the video as I pick it up and see what more there is to it...
15.04.2025 06:02 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
A photo of Henry and me alongside our tour dates: 1st May Reading: Concert Hall 2nd May Cambridge: Corn Exchange 3rd May Manchester: RNCM 4th May: Melton Mowbray: Melton Theatre 5th May Birmingham: Glee Club 6th May Northampton: Derngate 8th May Whitley Bay: Playhouse 9th May Harrogate: Harrogate Theatre 10th May Worthing: Pavilion Theatre 12th May Newcastle-under-Lyme: New Victoria Theatre 13th May Ludlow: Assembly Hall 14th May Liverpool: Royal Philharmonic 15th May Stratford-upon-Avon: Stratford Playhouse 16th May London: Hackney Empire 17th May Hastings: White Rock Theatre 20th May Taunton: Brewhouse 21st May Cardiff: Glee Club 23rd May Halifax: Victoria Theatre 24th May Sheffield: Octagon Centre 27th May Lancaster: The Dukes 28th May Stockton-on-Tees: ARC 29th May Burnley: Mechanics Theatre 30th May St Albans: Alban Arena 31st May Ashford: Revelation
Three weeks' today, I’ll be heading off on tour with the brilliant Henry Normal, armed with a bunch of new poems, plus some old ones, too.
If you’re nearby and fancy coming along, you can get tickets here:
brianbilston.com/events/
Parents and educators - there are a lot of discussions in publishing about how to improve reading for pleasure. Is there anything you wish publishing would do more of? Or just understand about kids and reading? Any insights from teaching/parenting of what gets kids reading? #KidLitUK #Edusky #KidLit
10.04.2025 06:57 — 👍 161 🔁 71 💬 113 📌 11A drum, a drum.
Macbeth doth come.
What is micro poetry? Let our Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe explain all as today marks the launch of our 2025 micro poetry competition.
@uniofmanchester.bsky.social @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
#poet #poetry
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gr0U5...
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
22.03.2025 08:01 — 👍 476 🔁 162 💬 19 📌 28Just to say that like every year it's so nice to see your kids dressing up as Learning Languages in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2019) for World Book Day. Keep the pics coming!
06.03.2025 10:03 — 👍 225 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 2"This isn't something that's just nice or lovely. It's something fundamental to becoming a human being."
Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social shares why reading is a right for every child. #ReadingRights
“Reliance on Instagram influencers can only get you so far. We still need Our Mutual Friend.“
The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis
There’s nothing like Haiku bingo on the theme of Fish & Chips with @lauriebolger.bsky.social 🐠🍟✍️ open.spotify.com/episode/5cTo...
03.12.2024 21:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
