I’m leading training on developing a curriculum for under 2s today for leaders in Herefordshire . We’re going to start with attachment and relationships, which is a pretty good place to start with any curriculum IMO.
Shakespeare Day is coming up - and we’ve made it easy for teachers.
Our Hot Topic supports pupils aged 4 to 14 and includes a booklist of modern-day adaptations, oracy and debate ideas, and cross-curricular activities.
Download here: https://loom.ly/jb7Uqrs
We’re thrilled to reveal this year’s CLiPPA shortlist! 🌟
Featuring works by Sean Taylor, Traci N. Todd, Sam Gayton, Simon Mole & John Agard, it's a true celebration of poetry’s power and joy!
Sign up to the Shadowing Scheme: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/clippa26
Fascinating little thread here showing some incomprehension by secondary teachers of displays that primary teachers are (in practice) expected to do!
My 16 year old was reminded of Mary Malone communicating with the mulefa in The Amber Spyglass, while I was making connections with Arrival.
Aha! Yes. I saw the film yesterday and enjoyed it a lot, but as a translator and polyglot, the ease with which these aliens were able to communicate with language was, ahem, horseradish.
Overall I thought ARRIVAL did a more nuanced job of conveying the challenges of first-contact communication.
✍️ "This is a tragedy for individuals, but also means our economy is missing out on a huge amount of potential talent."
The gap in attainment between richer and poorer pupils has lifelong implications - for both individuals and society.
It must be tackled ⤵️
Reading Project Hail Mary and this was my biggest question, good to see it analysed: arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
Thanks for sharing this article. I saw the film last night. So interesting and took me back to linguistics seminars at uni!
A black-and-white, head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Phyllis "Pippa" Latour. She is captured in a three-quarter profile, gazing upward and to the left with a contemplative expression. Her dark, wavy hair is styled in a voluminous 1940s fashion, and she wears dark lipstick. She is dressed in a dark, patterned blouse with a high neckline. The background is a simple, dark gradient, focusing all attention on her face.
Remembering the legendary #WWII spy Pippa Latour who outwitted the Nazis with a silk hair tie.😮
Six weeks before D-Day, she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy (age 23). Codename Genevieve, she bicycled across France selling soap while secretly transmitting 135 coded messages to London. (1/2)
Student work must not be fed into any gen AI that trains a llm.
There are many legitimate reasons why, including the issue of intellectual property.
Our Headteacher is retiring and we haven't appointed a replacement.
Three other local high schools need new HTs for Sept. I don't know yet if they've managed to appoint.
Few people seem to want the job. In fact, middle/senior leadership as a whole is not appealing to most.
It's a worry.
Hall of fame FT correction
Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.
This culture is ruining public services of all varieties. And making a lot of very unpleasant people very rich. It’s now clear that the current government doesn’t have the time, resources or even the will to unpick it.
Bellingcat is pleased to announce our work has received six Emmy award nominations. The winners will be announced in May. Here's a short thread on the work that we're proud to say has been highlighted 🧵
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer from his prison cell as quoted in Maryanne Wolf’s study of the reading mind in the digital age.
"Others might bring up that abomination of a sentence, ‘learning is change in long-term memory’, which just ignores most of the ways in which we use the word..."
I enjoyed this very thorough exploration of the visibility of learning, from @bernardandrews.bsky.social
Cherry blossoms in Japan.
Peace.
Now on the bbc. Thanks to the @neunion.bsky.social for taking this issue seriously and pledging to oppose censorship and the far right. Vital at all times, and limiting access to books feels especially cruel in the National Year of Reading @literacy-trust.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A motivational message for parents of small children: Read them to sleep. Wake up their world.
A motivational message for young readers: If you're into it, read into it.
A motivational message for older readers: Sink your teeth into a horror.
Go all in for the National Year of Reading 2026.
Love these messages, currently flooding every school in the UK for the National Year of Reading.
And the message is: anything goes. Read what you like. There's a book out there for you.
Read who you are.
#NationalYearOfReading #GoAllIn #BookSky
The Pears Foundation new report on Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools is well worth a read. It makes it very clear schools have become a frontline in the fight against conspiracy theories, and need serious support. counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk/Commission_i...
As part of its normal school curriculum Finland teaches school kids how to identify misinformation, assess credibility of sources and analyze media impact. Media literacy and critical thinking are not just studied in isolation but included as a strand in many different subjects.
Debunking edu-myths: Oral composition should replace early writing
writing4pleasure.com/2026/03/17/d...
This is beautiful. Seriously do read it. ☺️
The time has come to bring you the 2026 UKLA Book Awards Shortlist!
This year's list features a range of accessible and inclusive titles that really encourage reading for pleasure.
Find out more here: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
#kidslit #bookawards
