Charlotte Y6 worked hard on this, picking out sinister details and bringing them alive with a tight focus on making each word earn its place. "Bruised clouds lurking, As bare trees await." Pie Corbett Jamie Thomas Talk for Writing Sandgate Primary: Talk for Writing Training Centre

Great to be back with St George’s C of E on Sheppey today for the last day in our Talk for Writing Fiction project. Superb growth in the quality and depth of narrative teaching across the school, led by enthusiastic teachers and leaders. Pie Corbett

"I know you like sausages and blue." Isabelle, age 4 What could speak love more than a ❤ beneath the crotch. Happy Father's Day, folks

This is an incredible book filled to the brim with practical support for planning a Talk for Writing unit Jamie Thomas Pie Corbett! ✨✨✨Briar Hill Primary School

But she seems like such a nice girl... 😆 Isabelle, age 10 at Sandgate Primary: Talk for Writing Training Centre, practising getting the reader on side in a persuasive argument. Jamie Thomas Pie Corbett Talk for Writing

Martha Y2 enjoyed this character-focused unit. I asked her about her sentence of 3; she said Y2 learnt about that last term. "The roof was covered in seaweed, the walls were covered in barnacles and there was a shell for the doorknob." Pie Corbett Talk for Writing Jamie Thomas

Isabelle said she wanted to practise her numbers before starting school next week. She's now testing mine.

Busy morning so far back with the wonderful team at Langley Green Primary School running my favourite inset day on effective shared and short burst writing. Always love coming back here. Talk for Writing Pie Corbett

Bit of a treat to visit the The Education People English Conference today to present a Talk for Writing workshop on using story invention to enrich oral composition. Pie Corbett Jamie Thomas

Fundamentally the principles of Talk for Writing below this key note - a useful session to get teachers thinking about how teachers might move from models to children’s own writing.

Delegates are diving into workshops! ✅ Kendra Choubandi explores ways to inspire purposeful extended writing. ✅ Jamie Evans shares how story invention builds oral composition. ✅ Rory File – Cultivating writing for pleasure through inclusive, culturally responsive practice.

Took the family camping this weekend. Back at school in Reception yesterday, Isabelle drew a picture of our time away, taking particular care to capture the colours of the sky.

Once a week story invention from reception... Oral composition. Followed by children drawing and retelling their own stories - that would be about 12 stories by now.

And we're back. Great day in Norfolk with Norwich Road Academy yesterday, a school I worked with during covid. Great people & a productive day. Didn't take pictures, so here's one of Isabelle's latest impromptu stories. Going to work on the suspense. Pie Corbett Talk for Writing

Our newest display to help children, parents and visitors to the Talk for Writing Training Centre to see the journey through the Early Years at Sandgate Primary. Pie Corbett Jamie Thomas