🚨⚙️NEW RESOURCES ALERT⚙️🚨 November Gears of Thought is now live! ⚙️ European Convention on Human Rights ⚙️ Conspiracy Theories ⚙️ Freddie Mercury ⚙️ The ISS How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/gear…

Please carry on doing so Sam. It’s a source of endless frustration that many people, some within our profession themselves, continue to claim teachers are well paid despite the evidence staring them in the face.

Leaders in secondary schools, please. Do you track the reading of your pupils from Yr 7 using a tool like GL assessment or similar?

Ellie Kildunne is just in a different class here. Absolutely incredible. #RedRoses #WRWC2025

Superb performance. Congratulations Red Roses! Simply brilliant 👏 #RedRoses #RWC2025

We enter October this week and #BlackHistoryMonth Our students will read about: ⚙️ The Race Relations Act ⚙️ The Bristol Bus Boycott 1963 ⚙️ Mae Jemison ⚙️ The European Convention on Human Rights How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/gear…

I'm hoping and praying that whoever gets the contract to write the oracy element of the curriculum knows the difference between curriculum and pedagogy. Tell us what students need to learn, and what they need to know but hands off how we need to teach it.

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We featured Jane Goodall's work in April this year as one of our inspirational individuals. The world is a better place thanks to her work. #RIPJaneGoodall literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/gear…

We are grateful to our partner schools for all the hard work they put in to ensure the Thinking Reading programme is a success. (image via LinkedIn). Well done to everyone who made this happen. All of us at Thinking Reading love hearing these stories.

Considering the amount of time & effort that is devoted to home reading projects & sustained silent reading in schools, you'd think they'd have more impact. The just don't unfortunately. If you are still using them, drop us a message & we'll help you better harness that time.

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I'm worried the next big education 'fad' may be whole-school coaching. It is an extremely powerful method of staff PD, yet it isn't suitable for all contexts (as is true of most things in education). Yet it seems to be being shoe-horned into a range of contexts, and

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Week 6 and our diverse topic choices are: ⚙️What is "Fair Trade"? ⚙️The 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott ⚙️Vladimir Putin ⚙️Have you ever wondered why different cultures celebrate the harvest? How do your students start their day? literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/gear…

Happy #WorldTeachersDay2025 from all of us at The Literacy Engine. Celebrating the literacy engineers that drive literacy forward every day. Literacyengine.co.uk

I get really frustrated reading things like this. Aside from the "leading voices in literacy" not including any actual teachers, there is never any actual practical advice for teachers. With section headings like "Empower" and "Enrich" it desperately needs "by". "Enrich by..."

Phone cameras are crazy. Just a free hand shot when I took the dog out.

Before students can do any thinking, they need something to think about. Fill them with knowledge as a priority, especially so in literacy. Knowledge of the world around them and component knowledge of the language. Knowledge is the Bedrock of Literacy 👇 Link in 1st comment 👇