Excellent research seminar, courtesy of the International Literacy Centre, with cake and subtle Nordic humour. 😉🇸🇪 #DLL @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #WeAreIOE #LoveUCL @sineadh.bsky.social

Been on mind to - I will :)

Although some practitioner voices are represented (primarily through the involvement of subject leads from multi-academy trusts), there is relatively little input from subject associations or researchers with expertise in areas such as emergent writing, spelling development, and the role of talk.

Exclusive: DfE’s new Writing Framework will “bore the pants off children,” says literacy expert whom it namechecked.
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Prof Debra Myhill, cited as someone contacted in writing of the document, says it is “appalling”.

Re-reading DfE's seemingly ever-more-controversial Writing Framework. Includes this unfootnoted statement: "Because children learn to read more quickly than they learn to spell, it is important that their reading must not be held back by whether they can spell accurately" What?

2nd national handwriting association! I joined this year and wish I had earlier :)

Ah thank you! I've spent the last two days writing about emergent writing and revisiting the rubric. I used it with graduate students and it's being used in research at the moment as well.

Spent time getting annoyed again at a lot of the statements but the writing was cathartic :)

The NORM Corpus - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies The NORM Corpus consists of more than 5000 student essays collected in the research project Developing national standards for writing. A tool for teaching and learning (The NORM Project). The essays were written by pupils in school years 3, 4, 6 and 7 in comprehensive school. The corpus contains more than 1.1 million words.

I was talking about the great work my colleagues in Norway did on the norm project. They collected samples of writing to see what children could do... then set standards www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

Thank you @damsoned.bsky.social ! I think this is the one -
@writingrocks.bsky.social

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I contributed to @ioe.bsky.social #thankateacherday today. I thanked my PhD supervisor for teaching me to take a leap without knowing the answer.... giving up everything to travel to the US to do a PhD... and teaching me how to be a researcher

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵!!

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@elresearchsch.bsky.social @flissj.bsky.social @melissapren.bsky.social @juliangrenier.bsky.social @sineadh.bsky.social @theeef.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk

Teachers knew what children needed to recover from the pandemic – but their insights were ignored Wellbeing and school absence should be priorities now.

📖 Educators had clear insights into supporting students post-pandemic, but their expertise was often overlooked, argue @alicebradbury.bsky.social, Gemma Moss, and @sineadh.bsky.social. Read more:

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Would you like to learn more about supporting children’s language and… | East London Research School Would you like to learn more about supporting children’s language and literacy in early childhood classrooms? Join us for a special online event with Professor Shayne Piasta and Dr. Sinéad Harmey 🗓 T...

Please consider attending this interesting webinar via @elresearchsch.bsky.social

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Join us!

Really looking forward to exploring early writing at the @elresearchsch.bsky.social conference at the end of May!

The amazing @sineadh.bsky.social will teach on the @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #DLL BA Early Childhood Education! Come join us at the IOE!

#edchat #education #earlyyears #EarlyChildhoodEducation #WeAreIOE #LoveUCL

Looking forward to teaching on the BA ECE next year!

Sinead Harmey with crossed arms in a skirt and a red top in front of the IOE building's wall.

1/ "I started my career as an early years teacher in inner city Dublin working with young children in their first year of school. Learning how to teach these children to read and write was challenging but the challenge pushed me to learn more, and ultimately, follow a path into research..."

How a project with families is boosting children's writing right from the start - Nursery World How an early writing project has been working with researchers, schools and communities to encourage the literacy skills of children. By Caroline Vollans

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😌Introducing our new column, 'A moment to ponder...' by
Caroline Vollans
❤️‍🩹The first topic on this article focuses on the importance of feelings and supporting children to recognise their emotions.
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#earlyyears #education #educators #EYFS

How a project with families is boosting children's writing right from the start - Nursery World How an early writing project has been working with researchers, schools and communities to encourage the literacy skills of children. By Caroline Vollans

Really happy to see this article about our wonderful Write from the Beginning project @flissj.bsky.social @doctorchungie.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @elresearchsch.bsky.social

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Tickets for the 2025 UKLA International Conference are now live! With Keynote Speakers including Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Dominic Wyse, and Anežka Kuzmičová, this year's Conference is not one to miss. Tickets available via Oxford Abstracts: register.oxfordabstracts.com/event/35751

Happy International Women's Day from the International Literacy Centre @ioe.bsky.social @doctorchungie.bsky.social #weareIOE

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This is a wonderful edition of Literacy @writingrocks.bsky.social ✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️

Working with parents and teachers in the nursery classroom to give the best start in writing | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society An IOE project led by Dr Sinéad Harmey collaborated with families and their nursery school in East London to create strategies that develop children’s writing skills from an early age.

A project led by @sineadh.bsky.social, collaborating with families and their nursery school, shared and compiled strategies to develop children’s writing abilities.

By engaging with East London communities, the team aim to bridge gaps between research and practice.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2025/...

Really excited to have received a UCL East Community Engagement development grant to continue this work in East London with @flissj.bsky.social @doctorchungie.bsky.social @elresearchsch.bsky.social

Really pleased to see the review on learning disruption and learning loss I wrote with Gemma Moss feature as one of the 10 pieces of research from the last ten years chosen for inclusion in the British Educational Research Association (BERA) 50@50 @ioe.bsky.social

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