When students look at me with a puppy dog face and say: “This is hard,” I say, “That is fantastic. That feeling of ‘hard’ is the feeling of your brain developing, strengthening and growing”. 💪 -Jo Boaler, Stanford University Youcubed Jo Boaler ❤️

Having a fantastic morning with @HIASEnglish. Training to use their Reading for Comprehension Toolkit is making me really excited!

Wise words, wise lady ❤️ Professor Deborah Eyre High Performance Learning

For the eighth day of my TEN DAYS of GIVEAWAYS, I’m giving away 10 copies of my first activity book, Give This Book a Title, and 10 copies of each of the three books in my EngiNerds series! EDUCATORS, LIBRARIANS, and PARENTS: RT and follow to enter to win!

Gah! What a WONDERFUL story from @HantsSLS book award! I can’t wait to get into ‘concern for society’ using this as a stimulus with my year 1s! High Performance Learning

How have we, as teachers in 2021, not eliminated the need for constant trimming?? There should be an option for printing on slightly smaller paper or exercise books need to be made slightly bigger. Let’s make this happen please

As we have 2 school sites with one still growing, it’d be awesome to be able to get some great quality texts in our growing library! Castle Hill Primary School

I’ve been holding on to this for too long. @Emma_Tarrant1 and Kate Fleming are TWINS. There, I said it. Where my Bstoke Eng peeps at? Can I get a whut whuuuuuuuuuut #lineofduty #sorrynotsorry

Fluent thinking today about our upcoming animals topic. Child wants to know what sloths dream about. Me too, kid. Cracking question! High Performance Learning

Words to describe me by a year 1 child. Whilst my firm favourite is clearly “suspicious”, how many VAAs can you see? All of them are definitely my greatest strengths, so I’m thoroughly pleased that the children can see me modelling them 😍 High Performance Learning Professor Deborah Eyre

WOOOHOOOO here we go! 🤩🥳

A child began whisper-singing “it’s coming home” and within 2 seconds I had 30 screaming 6 year old hooligans and I wasn’t even mad about it #itscominghome

I think I've taught for 145 half-terms now. None have been tougher or more challenging than this one. If you work in a school, you should be very proud. And very tired.

TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS, here's the next #giveaway! I have accumulated so many awesome books, but I can’t keep them all 😩📚 so I’m giving away 15 bundles over Twitter, Insta & my e-newsletter. 😎 Includes a poster & stickers from my own books! Just FOLLOW & RT by 11/30.

Eagerly awaiting the tweet naming this week’s winners 👀👀👀👀👀 #winnerwinnerchickendinner

Never underestimate the power of your book recommendations as a teacher. I brought in 5 books today that I love and nearly had my arm ripped off before I could even put them on the shelves.

Half term fun (I loooooooveeeeeee booooooooks)

One of our year 5 children has recently lost her mum. We were writing persuasive letters in English this week and she wrote this gorgeous letter. Any kind of message or response would be amazing. Please share. DUA LIPA Ashley Booth Mathew Tobin Talk for Writing Jamie Thomas

Irregardless of individual SATs results, I am so proud of my class. They are absolutely cracking kids. Every one of them. They are incredible role models for younger children and I am in awe of how they’ve grown this year. Don’t know how I’ll cope when it’s time for goodbye 🥲