We’re in Hollywood Primary School, Birmingham for a second day this week. Today we’re running live, in-person planning surgeries for class teachers to help get the best out of our #TeachThroughaText approach @literacytree.bsky.social
Golden feathers bringing the magic at our staff meeting on adapting planning @lingfieldprepschool today #teachingthroughatext #literacytree #firebird #saviourpirotta #sentencestripsgamechanger #scaffoldingwriting #rosenshine #zoneofpromiximaldevelopment
Pictures 2 teachers in school, looking at children’s writing outcomes
Pictures a teacher in school, looking at a pupil book
Pictures a teacher in school, looking at a pupil book
Pictures 4 teachers in school, looking at children’s writing outcomes in books
So lovely to see Grangehurst Primary, Coventry adopting the ‘Bring and Brag’ style of book-looks between staff. A great way to share and celebrate each year group’s achievements in writing so far this year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
Oh wow!! Love this 🥰 @literacytree.bsky.social
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Back in school today face to face with the brilliant team at St Mark’s. Co-planning, looking through books and admiring some of the lovely displays and work children have already completed 4 weeks into the school year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
Gorgeous to see Discovery Points immersing Y1 and Y2 children in new texts #theoddegg #toysinspace Classrooms were hives of purposeful talk, ambitious vocabulary and collaborative learning + pretty excited children, eager to write! #workingwalls
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Thank you to the team at The British International School of Kuala Lumpur @nordanglia.bsky.social for hosting our visit this morning. The balance of nurture, community, excellence, academics, the arts, sport, values and so much more makes for an incredible setting! @literacytree.bsky.social
Fabulous to work with school leaders in Kensington & Chelsea this week, who are banging the drum for empowering children to find and express their own voice. #impactoforacy = hot topic
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Today, we were @vangoghprimaryschool - well, what a start to the new school year! Kicking off with the fabulous whole-school Writing Root #flowerblock, written by the wonderful #lanishabutterfield, the children are immersed! Incredible displays, writing and working walls - so much to celebrate
We are delivering our #TeachThroughaText in Year 1 sessions today - member schools this morning and EEF schools this afternoon. It’s dragons galore with @emmayarlett.bsky.social and Dragon Post ✉️ GORGEOUS book!! 📕 @literacytree.bsky.social
This is so lovely and so important too!
Picture of comics and magazines, used as a springboard for conversations.
A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚
What an incredibly strong start Belmont School in Harrow have got off to! Look at these displays spotted around school. Truly celebrating all writing and allowing children to become authors 📕 🖊️ #TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social
… and put plans in place to ensure implementation ⭐️
It was super fun delivering a session for @lb-southwark.bsky.social today for new English Subject Leads. We talked priorities, strategies and action plans. Next session: 25th November for all English leads in Southwark where we’ll consider what the New Writing 🖋️ Framework means for our schools 🏫
Gorgeous! Such a great way of celebrating writing 🦋 ☺️
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#TeachThroughaText day 1 for year 2 teachers. Member schools joined this morning & our EEF cohort had their session this afternoon… in excess of a phenomenal 80(!) teachers attended to discuss literary cultures, audience & purpose and The 🐻 & The Piano 🎹 🌹
What gorgeous displays! The guitars!! 🎸
Welcome Aboard sign. Purple/blue in colour.
Another full day of meeting our lovely new schools online as they access our onboarding process ☺️. Looking forward to supporting such ambitious and passionate teachers and leaders on their LT journey! #getcreative @literacytree.bsky.social
We are LIVE! Live planning today, that is. Such a treat to work with new teachers and some familiar faces too. Our 15-minute, fortnightly sessions are available FREE for member schools and bookable via your dashboard 🏫 @literacytree.bsky.social Let us help you #TeachThroughaText
Oh goodness! These children can WRITE! Such brilliant content and for so early on in the school year too! 👏
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A joyful day of meeting some of my new Literacy Tree schools today as they have their initial onboarding meeting with me as their link consultant. Great to meet so many new schools from across the UK in one day and really looking forward to supporting them moving forwards! @literacytree.bsky.social
We’ve been at St Paul’s Primary in Walworth today seeing gorgeous books - evidence of children loving writing 2 weeks into their new term! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
We’re thoroughly enjoying our visit to Warmington Primary School in North Northants today. We’ve planned long term, daily and everything else in between to #TeachThroughaText in their mixed-age classrooms. Instant publishing on special paper all the way @literacytree.bsky.social
@literacyhannah.bsky.social Thought you might like to see this! It’s grrrrreat!! 🐅
This is SUCH fabulous writing. Love that the children have written with such a sense of audience and purpose and the publishing!! Gorgeous!… a tiger in school, though! Eek! 🐅
Busy busy busy! Year 6 have categorised and organised our classroom book shelf! It seems we love to enter the world of fiction! Who wouldn't! 🤗🤩 @brunswickparkps.bsky.social @literacypippa.bsky.social