📝 Unknown CS Lewis poem on whisky and warm blankets discovered telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

Funding opportunity BERA

Another terrific funding opportunity for schools and colleges from the British Curriculum Forum and BERA: 'Meeting the challenge of Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning':
bera.ac.uk/award/bcf-curr…

Nice work MMLL Cambridge

#otd 1742, the first performance of Handel's #Messiah took place in Fishamble Street in Dublin. This is the opening of the Hallelujah chorus from our manuscript, copied in the 1760s & full of intriguing details on contemporary performance!

Always lots of entries (and winners) from Northern Ireland schools passionate about pastoral care. Take a look at the range of categories. Still time to enter! CCMS Info Controlled Schools' Support Council (CSSC) Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ NI Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) NAPCE

Great to see a new edition of BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research 'out there'. Such an important document in articulating vital principles of responsible and accountable democratic research. bera.ac.uk/publication/et…

'That Early-Eastering Crocus' by my friend Paul Mariani:

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away

—Robert Frost, born #OTD in 1874

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Rather chuffed to be included in this lovely literary circle … 😊

🌼 As the flowers and trees begin to sing, #Cambridge welcomes the arrival of spring

📷 Lloyd Mann

A floral tribute: my sonnet ‘Primrose’ for #PoetryDay2024 #SpringEquinox #InternationalDayOfHappiness
More Primrose Poems at my blog writinghome.blog/2021/03/07/pri…

New blog post…when things don’t go to plan.
writinghome.blog/2024/03/13/wha…

“Show me a child who doesn’t want to hear a story and tell it back. We put them through a utility education and say that the arts are a luxury. The arts develop our natural creativity. If creativity is a luxury, then being human is a luxury.”

Jeanette Winterson, being brilliant.

‘If big themes are tragic, happiness
blooms in small corners…
and we have laughter while we have the light.’

Grey Gowrie - from Gardener’s Tale

Which languages do you teach at #primary school? According to @jayneduff from ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ we teach these! Data fresh from #languagetrends2024 survey here for us at #LW2024 ⁦British Council Schools⁩ #all4language #mfltwitterati #alllanguagesmatter

🥳Our day started with Mr Beacom's assembly considering so many places we can go to within books. From Narnia to Wonderland to Hogwarts! We also heard about a girl called Mina from Afghanistan UNICEF UK+discussed how fortunate we are to have 1000s of books to enjoy & learn from!

A modern reflection on the challenges and inspiration offered by the #Beatitudes from Swarzy deyah Rachael
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Lovely story by Elaine Mitchell #education

This is #StDavidsDay Here is a little poem and post from this day 2022. Still relevant.
writinghome.blog/2023/03/01/the…