Mrs Burton-Gardner

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Just met Rachel selling her book 📕 n the street - giving her story wings. As a new author, it’s hard to break through but she’s determined. Looking forwards to reading the book. @rebauthor1

One of my boys read your book in 24 hours - not a voracious reader but adored your book! He’s onto my signed copy of the First year now. He’s produced this scrapbook page in response. Hope you like it! @OpenUni_RfP @EarlyTrain

One of my boys in y5 loved Looshkin and has spent many hours completing this book review for our reading scrapbook! I thought you Might like it @jamiesmart ! @OpenUni_RfP @_Reading_Rocks_

When your 11yr old goes to their first opera and loves it - and is asked to make notes! Love these so much… 🤣 @GarsingtonOpera @WritingRocks_17 #WritingforPleasure for reference - our yr 6 play is Matilda.

Excited that I have a new collection on its way - published early September.

Here they are in all their glory! Congratulations to all the 2025 Spark! Book Award Winners and a huge thank you to all the children and young people who read the books, entered the competitions, came to the author visits and voted for our winners! ✨📚🏆

Amazing visit from @CressidaCowell today. So inspiring! We are so lucky to have welcomed you into our school. Yr5 are loving their project about HTTYD and the whole school is so excited to see the new film! Thank you! @HachetteUK @OpenUni_RfP

🌆Evening! 👀Check out the questions for TOMORROW EVENING's #PrimarySchoolBookClub📚 24.06.25 with @Struan_Murray, author of #PrimarySchoolBookClub📚 Pick #Dragonborn🐉 🔁RT! 🔖Join in using the#⃣for #PrimarySchoolBookClub between 7-8pm! @PuffinBooks

And the voting time is up! TJS have loved being part of the Spark awards, and being a judge for shortlisting was an amazing honour for me. Our votes have been cast and our favourites chosen - will everyone else agree? @sparkbookaward @OpenUni_RfP @RumbleCoral

Lots of thoughts about our @sparkbookaward shortlists this year! The countdown is on...! Which will be our winners I wonder? @RumbleCoral @tompalmerauthor @OpenUni_RfP

Got to love a story map! This is a key part of our process up to the end of key stage 2. My drawing has not improved though - thankfully the kids are usually better than me! The his is a map for a persuasive letter about dragons based on How to train your Dragon.

It’s all about HTTYD by @CressidaCowell -Y5 applied to be dragon trainers today - will they be accepted?! Next up - training guide creation! Can’t wait for Cressida to visit later in June. What an author visit to finish the year! @PieCorbett @WritingRocks_17

A snapshot-2025, 2021 and 2018 from yr 5,4&6 respectively. Interesting to see which books appear in each &how their choices changed! can see how our Reading For Pleasure work has expanded range&genre. Always sparks a great session of book talk too! @_Reading_Rocks_ @OpenUni_RfP

Will loves the Dungeon Runners series &created a double page review of books 1&2 for our reading scrapbook. The books are working their way round our class quickly. Highly recommended by William! @sparkbookaward @OpenUni_RfP

At the printers - our new, practical, stepbystep guide to planning creative units for teaching writing - comes with a set of 10 plans and links to 25 film clips. Out very soon:

Final Push! @grahamandre @_MissieBee @Toriaclaire @CassHT @pastelteacher @MrsHeadteacher @CNicholson_Edu @SCHOOLSNE @domesticdeluxe @SarahFarrellKS2 @MrMCGrammar @BexHeadTeacher @TeachingYear6 @JanayBrazier @Year6T @LiftSchools @MrsP512 @thinkteachtype @MrsJ_Y6 @OonaghKelleher

Join author Matt Goodfellow (@EarlyTrain) for an event about THE FINAL YEAR, celebrating its Carnegie Writing Medal shortlisting. Suitable for ages 9+. Sign up now: scholastic.co.uk//matt-goodfell…

A real treat today with Andy Griffiths visiting us. Almost all of the kids have read at least one of his books&he did not disappoint! They loved every moment. Funny, engaging and a real celebration of silly! Thank you @Our_Bookshop for organising! @OpenUni_RfP #readingforpleasure

Having just spent a delightful afternoon reading Mission Manta Ray, I can safely say that @PhilipKavvadias’ goal to make each book in the Microraptor series 12.22% more bonkers than the previous one has undoubtedly been achieved!!! This second book in the series more than lived…