Continuing the fight for my grandads carehome NOT to be shut down. The Labour Party can you hear the residents of Erewash? We NEED your support now more than ever. Adam Thompson MP

Our Jayne Barry went to a meeting of the Socialist Party in Bolsover last night. They are campaigning to save Thomas Colledge care home from closure.

Derbyshire County Council is due to consider shutting learning disability centres and units derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/de…

Don’t shut down 8 care homes and 7 day centres in Derbyshire?! 2 in Erewash alone! That would be my recommendation? Let my palliative stage Grandad stay in his carehome. You will be hearing from my local MPs The Labour Party Natalie Fleet MP Adam Thompson MP

Today with the help of chat-gpt, my GCSE Art & Design focused on critiquing contextualised articles related to their individual areas of interests they shared in week 1 such as photography, tattoo design ect. ⭐️

Moan all you want about AI for teachers, but where else can I get a visual representation of a poem made in seconds?

The English Association popular #EnglishFE teach meet is back! Gathering Voices #FE is back in March 2025! Join educators Kirsty Haughton & Roberto Garcia Lopez as we share best practice within the resit classroom. 🖱️ Sign up here to join us: lnkd.in/eNVv2bDa

The English Association popular #EnglishFE teach meet is back! Gathering Voices #FE is back in March 2025! Join educators Kirsty Haughton & Roberto Garcia Lopez as we share best practice within the resit classroom. 🖱️ Sign up here to join us: lnkd.in/eNVv2bDa

Whether you are an experienced educator or new to FE, we welcome you! 📅 Date: Monday 16th June 🕒 Time: 4:30pm  📍 Location: Online (Zoom) 🖱️ Sign up here to join us: lnkd.in/e9RUUprY

This is a wonderful and important newsletter from English Association 👇🏻I am grateful to have been able to contribute to it - I am looking forward to the online follow up discussion with everyone in June 🤩

skillsworkshop.org/resources/nett… 🌿Nettles🌿 reading, writing, SLC for L1-L2 Eng and ESOL. Three substantial texts accompanied by a wide range of comprehension questions, formal letter task and RECIPES! With grateful thanks to Colleen Kelly. ✅✅✅

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First, where has Craig Barton Tips for Teachers YouTube channel been all my life? Second, this is a fantastic procedural framework from Michaela Katharine Birbalsingh for implementing mini- whiteboard routines. This is what makes a school effective. EVERYTHING is done with intention.

Breakfast materials for Language Paper 1. drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

These gratitude jars might look small, but you'd be surprised at all the memories Ss manage to fit in them! 🫙 Inspiration via T Jamie Pimentel (teachinganddreaming on IG) instagram.com/p/DCsTu3oSYRq/

skillsworkshop.org/resources/l12_… Huge thanks to Sarah Handcock for this magnificent 12 week plan for L1-2 FS English Reading. 11 PPTs with starter, main activities (inc copious links to videos, other Skillsworkshop reading resources, etc.) and plenary for each lesson. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🌅 Many thanks to new contributor Julie Bleach for this timely and very topical summer solstice resource 🌅. PDF & accompanying PPT cover many aspects of E3-L2 reading & writing. Great for end-of-term and post-exam classes.✅✅✅ skillsworkshop.org/resources/summ…