Asking teaching staff to complete online CPD just to 'keep them busy' is a waste of everybody's time. For CPD with a lasting impact, encourage them to use some of the weeks ahead to read children's books: fiction, poetry, picturebooks, non-fiction, graphic novels, etc.

I start my live CPD sessions for teachers tomorrow evening at 7:30pm on my YouTube channel youtube.com/c/thetrainings…. Please come along and join in and think of some good questions. Wine and slippers are advised! NB: Just for grown ups. All free. Pls RT. #teachershelpingteachers

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This is dangerously naive. How can a date be set for schools to re-open (mid May here) when none of the essential requirements listed by Mufti Hamid (school staff testing, anti body tests) are going to be available?

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So proud of the commitment of all the staff at Dussindale Primary School during these difficult times; a school is so much more than a physical building and the children are always in the staff’s hearts and minds #TeacherAppreciation2020

So do I - Thank you Adam Boxer

Very happy to see this appear in a street near my house.

The Teachers' Reading Challenge is now up and running! Visit the website teachersreadingchallenge.org.uk and find out how to get involved. Great way to improve your knowledge of children's books and develop R4P practice. The Reading Agency Reading for Pleasure 🧶

We've got a couple of vacancies at Moorlands Primary in Norfolk for after Christmas, one in Y1/2 and one in Y3/4. It's a genuine pleasure to work alongside the staff there and the kids are just fantastic. Plus, we like reading. Lots of reading. Please RT. educationjobfinder.org.uk

Have teachers not had a hard enough week already??

As well as a set of class novels (check our pinned tweet) we’re also giving away a novel a day that we feel is important in terms of diversity, every day until launch day. Today is Front Desk by Kelly Yang - this is a MASTERPIECE! RT + follow to win. Announced tomorrow.

Graphic novel help: we have a small selection in school but would love more- can anyone recommend a few that would be suitable for LKS2? Thank you 🙏 Richard Ruddick Jon Biddle

Have created a Padlet with links to some of the various RfP resources I've put together over the past few years (maps, surveys, booklists, articles, etc). Will keep adding to it. Hopefully it's of use to people. #ReadingForPleasure padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/woa…

I’m looking for some suggestions for read aloud novels for year 5. Something fairly short and light hearted to start with would be ideal. Thank you 🙏 📚Jon Biddle Simon Smith

There's the age old discussion again on Teacher Facebook about whether it's useful to teach and track reading 'skills' such as inference and prediction etc. I'd say it's not only not useful, it's borderline impossible to do so at much more than surface level.

Loved thinking about the levels of sophistication through manipulating audience and purpose in information texts today. Writing for a circus owner… what a hoot! Great thinking Faraday Talk for Writing

Our librarians had a great time at Bookbugs and Dragon Tales bookshop yesterday. They chose some fantastic books for the library for all year groups. Thank you to Bookbugsdragontales📚 for organising such a lovely afternoon for our children.

I've spent the last few years working with hundreds of schools, enough to spot some patterns and (I hope) to write some useful threads over the coming months. Here's the first one... In my opinion, what do primary schools commonly get wrong with their reading lessons? 🪡