📚To celebrate being just 3 weeks from publication, I have a lovely new copy of Times Tables Ninja to give away! For your chance to win, simply like and retweet this tweet. 📚 Bonus entry if you comment your best maths joke! ✖️➗ Closes midnight on Thursday 23rd June. UK only.

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Had an amazing time at Jason Manford last night. Definitely had to remortgage the house to pay for the drinks at the AO Arena though 🥂😫 #churchbangers

A 5% pay award will result in teachers' pay being worth on average 25% less than in 2010. We think you deserve better. Agree? Back the ballot for a #BetterDealForTeachers

Hi all, Tomorrow’s CPD is on Behaviour Management. You will be told that when students misbehave, it is your lesson planning and delivery that is the problem, not the children. The session is expected to last just three hours and is entitled: They’re always fine for me. Thanks x

Word of the day is ‘quafftide’(16th century): a one-word announcement that it’s time for a drink.

The Council is urging dog walkers and those using outside water venues to be alert following the Avian Flu outbreak. No new bird deaths have been reported but people should still keep dogs on leads and not touch sick or dead wild birds. Report dead birds to Defra: 03459 335577.

This is ideal for task design in reading or writing lessons 📝 Tried it out with the opening of The Island at the End of Everything - it automatically generates a great selection of vocab activities, has word level analysis… I could play around with it for ages!

A thread on common misconceptions about phonics & reading fluency, how they are spreading and the issues being caused for schools and, ultimately, the children within them: 🧵

I've written quite a few threads about reading over the past few years. Here are some of them. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

On the balance between reading and responding to text in reading lessons: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On reading aloud while pupils follow along in their copy of the text: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On the reasons why whole-class teaching of reading is a sensible default and why this doesn't mean *never* teaching small groups: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On the importance of class sets of books: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On teaching comprehension (including a dodgy metaphor): x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On how much writing we might want to include in reading lessons: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

On the balance between reading and texts responses in reading lessons: x.com/Suchmo83/statu…

If you've got a spare minute to watch this, I'm really quite excited about it! I don't sound it in the video, but that's only because it's nap-time upstairs for the 2yo. Example objective: mathsbot.com/objective?id=4…

💡 We’re recruiting primary schools to take part in a trial of the Key Stage 2 Reading Fluency Project, designed to support struggling readers’ reading comprehension. Find out more: ow.ly/Hjcg50Qp9W1

"Las Meninas" is one of the most revolutionary (and mysterious) paintings in history. At first glance it might not be obvious why. But when you notice its little details, everything unravels… (thread) 🧵