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I dropped a pot of paint outside my parents' house and this happened. Could do with a second coat.

Black Hole Cinema Club by Christopher Edge - an absolute belter of an adventure which immerses you into the world of cinema and so much more. Can't wait to kick the new school year off with it as our whole class "Love of Books" reader.

Delighted to be running a £20 gift card giveaway with @bookshop_org_uk. To take part, just like and share this post, which has a link to my list of inclusive picturebooks to use in assemblies, by 8:00pm on Monday 26th August. Good luck! #Edutwitter uk.bookshop.org/lists/pictureb…

7 days until The Fluency Factory is officially launched! 🎉 To celebrate we’re giving away 10 books over 10 days. 🎁📚 Just RT to win! BOOK #3 -Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet

Oasis tickets secured in the pre sale. Extremely excited. Now if the entire school year can just fly by...

Viva charity shops: £2.50 for the 3.

Still do this now. The note cards are *so* effective for building a positive classroom culture (and those who get them can choose if they take a cushion to put on their chair for the day too!)

Book recommendations shelf igniting that reading for pleasure culture. Thanks Jon Biddle

The *best* charity book shop haul from Guild Care Worthing for quite some time. 10 books for £2 (two quid)!

We're hooked on poetry at the moment. Our "Love of Books" time today was dominated by children wanting to read poems from Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 among others (as well as sharing their own they'd written). Poetry is dynamite.

We finished Wildsmith yesterday as our class reader which went down a storm and got lots of them into similar stories which have flown off the shelves - plenty of Vashti Hardy 📚 as well as @Lillustrator among others. We're off to The Land of Roar next!

Fancy an Edutwitter Community giveaway? The awesome guys at Bluecow Education have kindly donated a Brewdog Advent Calender (it’s never too early!) for one lucky Edutwitter community member! To enter, drop them a follow, like and repost! Winner will be drawn at random on Sunday!

This week, we've: Baked white bread and shortbread Coded computer games Written battle speeches Performed poetry Danced to Elton John It's been brilliant. But... ...is it half term yet?