This is really important ... salary & job titles are important to a lot of people but job satisfaction, mental, physical health & balance are absolutely essential to everyone 😁🥰👌🏻 Credit to lizandmollie

Shout out to every teacher trying to take a home covid test but has to keep restarting the 30 min countdown because they can’t stop snacking or drinking 🙃

I’ve been doing a bit of planning around my next Mindfulness unit entitled ‘Every emotion is ok.’ This resonated with me. Particularly the last two verses. Shannen Doherty ECS Amy Forrester Sophie Bartlett Miss Newton Kat Howard Spark1ingsugar 💫 Ritu Ganguly-Khan @Nicola_M_N_

If you haven’t read this excellent blog by Doug Lemov about the forgetting curve you really should! “The Forgetting Curve is a highly useful & also imperfect tool but one educators should know” teachlikeachampion.com/blog/an-annota…

My mum (the absolute star) told me off yesterday with words that are only just taking: You cannot go around changing other people’s views and opinions all the time - exhaustion lies that way. You can stand firm in your own, be a solid example and let the contagion begin.🤔

An excellent morning of personalised and tailored CPD with Sarah from I am a Clever Writer mapping out the progression of writing skills across school. Can’t wait to get started!

Had a bit of interest in the maths pathways again recently. I’ve created (based on white rose) year group maths pathways and ‘block’ pathways for whole school coverage (inc some book links). Drop me a dm if you’d like a copy.

🚨 Competition 🚨🎉 My FIFTH book is published next month ... I am very excited but before then I’m hosting a competition to win all 4 of my books. Simply retweet this tweet to enter - that’s it! Easy! Random winner picked & announced 23.08.21 Good luck! 😁👍🏻 📚

Beautiful modelling going on in Y3. Teacher setting the expectations for handwriting.

KS2 teachers (particular upper KS2) can you share pictures of how you set up maths areas/lessons with manipulatives please. Looking for inspiration in this area to improve my practice.

Poorly designed slides can destroy your presentation. Here are 9 must follow rules to create slides that pop and keep your audience engaged:🧵👇

I've gained a lot of new followers over the last few days so thought I'd highlight some of the resources that I have made that could help you all...

Year 4/5/6 teachers: If you’re planning to use the NCETM PD materials next year in maths, please check if I have what you need below 👇🏼 before reinventing the wheel! PPTs and worksheets :)

If you're teaching in year 6 this year, this fraction 'cheat sheet' might be helpful. Where possible, I've tried to include representations to reinforce there concept, but it's more aimed at revision once the skills have been taught. dropbox.com/s/wupgeaxxi9br… #edutwitter

If there are any Year 6 teachers out there who are interested in improving their arithmetic scores, a few years ago we changed how we practiced arithmetic and it’s worked brilliantly for us.

Thoroughly enjoying facilitating on the ECT year 2 programme for Arthur Terry Teaching School Hub & SCITT . Feeling really inspired after listening to such a wide range of passionate individuals at today’s conference!

In the most basic terms, reading lessons involve a mixture of reading text and responding to it (i.e. discussing text or producing written responses). And I think that in many (if not most) primary schools the balance between these two things is *way* off. A thread... 🪡