Thank you for the book National College of Education . It was a fabulous read, what book shall I read next? #NCE #OurNCEJourney #Masters #SeniorLeadership #PsychologicalSaftey #Reading #BooksForEducation

📢🚨 NEW BLOG: Sentence-level instruction: Our viewpoint “In school, writing sentences has become a hot topic, and rightly so. We make many demands on children in their writing lessons….” writing4pleasure.com/2023/09/29/sen…

This week was a long year.

So lovely to hear! Treasured libraries ❤️ rather than untouched displays. It is how you use them that is key. 📚

Listen up! 🎧 It's #InternationalPodcastDay! To celebrate we're sharing our most popular episodes. This one looks at how to plan maths lessons using an episodic 'ping pong' approach 🏓 ncetm.org.uk/podcasts/why-a…

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth every weekday this October I shall draw attention with a Tweet to a children’s book either about Black experience, or written and/or illustrated by a person of colour. (Painting by John Jones from johnedwardjones.co.uk.)

Our final Athletics profile is a great contribution from ꜱɪᴇɴɴᴀ’ꜱ ᴄᴘ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Sienna participates in athletics, swimming, gymnastics, skiing, climbing & more! A huge inspiration to many 💚 cpsport.org/cp-awareness-m…

Our Year 6 librarians braved the wind and rain this afternoon and went off to deliver Poetry Post around the village. Over a hundred households received a handwritten poem through their letterbox. We also gave one to a very excited delivery driver, who said it had made his day!

📽️ “Knowledge of your pupils is key to understanding the level of scaffold to provide and when to adjust them.” Rachael Cattrall, cognitive science specialist introduces a new Voices from the Classroom video featuring St Matthew's Allerton's Sophie Law. Watch: eef.li/ESL2TQ

The importance of stories is backed up by findings from cognitive science. If we agree with Daniel Willingham that our ‘brains privilege story’ then it follows that learning is likely to be deeper if we incorporate stories into our curriculum planning. /3

How well do you know your science of learning? Take the quiz, then post your score. Link in next tweet ⤵️

Don't let's underestimate what pupils with SEND are capable of! There's plenty of evidence that they enjoy doing demanding work. Yet how often are we tempted to make things easy? I'll be sharing how we can offer all our pupils a rich curriculum, including those with lower

The Play Matters team have now signed off on the final edits and the doc is done. It’s a positive portrayal of Play. A free document for educators, parents and professionals who value play in Early Childhood. Out soon Ofsted Department for Education Kate Silverton Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷

“The kids who lacked a sense of belonging didn’t have a feeling of identity and status linked to doing well in school,” he explains. “So they had to find other ways to develop that sense of identity and status.” #attendance #article tes.com/magazine/teach…

For all the English Leads out there…the week is almost done! 😂😬🤯 #WBD25

Absolutely, in my art lesson this week they all met the learning outcome but I still needed evidence of adapting/supporting them…they didn’t need it!! ♥️

One pagers from back in the day. CPD, educational psychology, models of engagement, and reframing behaviour series. Download from my drive drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

The power of story to make the curriculum accessible for all our pupils, including those with SEND Too often we can be tempted to think that pupils with additional needs aren’t able to access a rich, demanding curriculum. Fortunately, the research is on hand to help us! While

New base for the visualiser. Quick breaks for children to reflect on their work…

This model might help with reflections on how we best support disadvantaged learners in our schools: