THE BOOKS ARRIVING! Must mean it’s Reading Week next week 🥰📚LordswoodBoys

The Reading Cafe ☕️ open for business at LordswoodBoys today! Free hot chocolates while the boys enjoy a range of books and magazines!

Hot date with the laminator tonight, 2 weeks till show night!! LordswoodBoys 🦁

We absolutely LOVED having @ClaireFayers with us for our Reading Week, she delivered an amazing author Q&A and a story writing workshop in the library. Thank you for being part of our Literacy drive Claire! The boys were so inspired to be creative.

Y11 intervention season in full swing! Small groups, lots of discussion, high impact, a really different kind of teaching and I actually adore it!

This half term’s ⁦LordswoodBoys⁩ Literacy Newsletter is here! Showcasing all our proudest achievements on our Literacy Journey ❤️📖 sites.google.com/lordswoodboys.…

Last half term I absolutely loved working with Y9 on their poetry. They wrote poems called “Dear People of the World” about challenging stereotypes. Thomas wrote about being “short” but fierce in the Ice Hockey rink! Words are beautiful ❤️

We absolutely loved having Theatre Company KATCH 22 visit LordswoodBoys and perform their version of Macbeth to the students - the Q&A session at the end was so engaging and students loved hearing their thoughts about the play! Some lovely questions from our boys too! 🎭

HOW DO I GET A PLANE!?!!!!

On Monday my book club turned one year old! A year ago I got 35 strangers together in a cafe to drink wine, eat cheese and talk about a book. One year later we are still loving it every month! Was lovely to celebrate with my lovely gang who are no longer strangers but friends❤️

I can confirm no one was interested in my monologue about how Jaws is an allegory for greed… they all just sang baby shark. #WorldBookDay2024

My interview with Teach First about teaching training, the ECF & why I’m glad ECT is 2 years now 💫 teachfirst.org.uk/stories/making…

💥 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 💥 We’ve only gone and finally got ourselves a WEBSITE!!! 🥳🥳🥳 It’s basic at the moment, but it will grow! We have a couple of blogs from our members with more in the pipeline! Elena Russell theliteracycommunity.com/2024/06/15/boy…

I love this blog from Elena Russell - it’s a really generous share talking about something which has worked at her school 📚

📣 I loved writing this for the wonderful ⁦Jennifer Webb⁩ for the brand new ⁦⁦TheLiteracyCommunity⁩ All about how ⁦LordswoodBoys⁩ supports reading for pleasure ❤️ Boys don’t read. Rising to the 150 challenge! – The Literacy Community theliteracycommunity.com/2024/06/15/boy…

An absolute honour to be asked to speak at the British Dyslexia Association conference this year about Living Literacy and how we’ve implemented strategies that support our most vulnerable readers 👩‍🏫 thank you so much to everyone who came! #BDA24