Really enjoying listening to Katriona O’Sullivan’s book ‘Poor’ It seems odd to enjoy as it’s such a heartbreaking true story- important messages about how we support children & young people esp when they are living in poverty & chaos Everyone deserves a chance and to #belong#Justgivethemapen
"It is important that we, as teachers, start to consider what oracy means for us within our subjects. In order to do so, we need to understand what oracy is & what it isn’t." @greeborunner.bsky.social@tesmagazine.bsky.socialwww.tes.com/magazine/tea...
A curriculum for spoken language is on the way, so we should take the opportunity to really explore how we talk in our subjects, says Zoe Enser
I have really enjoyed listening to Bob Mortimer & others reading this on my commute this week and finished today Great follow up to The Satsuma Complex - if you haven’t read either yet you probably need to ‘have a think around that’ 🐿️🥑🍊
Great to meet with T&L/CPD lead colleagues today to discuss our Trust’s Responsive Teaching:Connecting Learning priorities for 2024-25 and beyond #Belonging#Oracy#InstructionalCoaching#LearningWalkthrus#FinhamParkMAT
“Noise begets noise… When you call a register, or answer a question or tell a student across the class to get started, you break that spell and the other students – whose attention has not yet concretised around their task – start to bubble up too.”
Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made a short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map. youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?...
YouTube video by Christopher Such
Males ascend the school senior leadership ladder with fewer years of teaching experience than females according to @TeacherTapp.bsky.social#womened
I sometimes get asked about the common issues I see across primary schools and the kind of support I offer as a result. This brief blog explains this stuff. This is my first new blog on Blue Sky so reposts much appreciated. primarycolour.home.blog/2024/09/08/h...
Warning: Parts of this blog are going to feel like an advertisement for my consultancy work and books. This is unavoidable as I have written this for those who ask me about the issues relating to read...