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A fantastic lockdown activity to keep everyone active! 🏀🟢🔴 Here is my attempt! I will be setting this as a whole school challenge next week! 🙌🏼😊Thank you @Alex_Bramley3 for the challenge! Free app - HomeCourt #edutwitter #lockdown

🚨 This 'state of the nation' report - Education at the Crossroads: Shaping a system that works for everyone - was published today & is a MUST read for all leaders working in education. Link to report ⏬️ fed.education/fednationaledu… #edutwitter #schoolleadership #Schoolleaders

Incredibly proud moment to step out in the @ITLWorldwide team colours to do some speaking at the incredible BWMAT Fest this week. Had to pinch myself to spend so much time with people I have for such a long time respected & admired from afar. The welcoming, inclusive family feel…

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I can’t believe that tomorrow is the third anniversary of Times Tables Ninja (Key Stage 2) being published! To celebrate, I’m giving away a copy of the book. To enter, please follow me and like and retweet this tweet. UK only. Entries close on Sunday 13th July at midday.

🚨 2025 KS2 SATs Results: All you need to know @_MissieBee analyses and discusses the KS2 SATs 2025 results, raw score boundaries, trends since 2017, and what they mean for your school. #LbQ primary.lbq.org/hub/2025-ks2-s…

What a joy it was to open the library named after me at Churchfields Primary School in Beckenham, just two streets away from where I was brought up ❤️⁦#ComingToEngland @ChurchfieldsPri⁩ ⁦@MacmillanKidsUK⁩ ⁦@ColinThomasWebb⁩

Hands down the best thing we have ever bought for the garden. I am so glad we bought ours before the heatwave so we were ready. My son hosted a pool party today - for some reason our garden is very popular!

Mayowa and the Sea of Words (currently @Waterstones childrens book of the month) by Chibundu Onuzo is a brilliant magical book but a whole lot more: social responsibility, politics &current affairs make this a prominent book for children @KidsBloomsbury tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/may…

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School silly season is well and truly here! Anyone else feeling rather busy….😂🙋🏼‍♂️

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Our school librarian has wrapped up these books to encourage children to find their genre… children were very excited!

🔔 These FREE one-page guides are now available to download directly from my website. Useful for PD, sparking professional conversations, and deepening understanding of evidence-informed practice—grab all four! 🙋 Equitable/Accountable Questioning 🔩 Hinge Questions ◻️…

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I have a new book out in paperback called The Life Impossible.

🚨 Just over 2 weeks to go! 🚨 🎓 Curriculum Stay & Play 🗓️ Thurs 3rd July | 9am–3pm 📍 Benton Park Primary, Newcastle 💷 £75 incl. lunch 🔗 bit.ly/4jlEp0P Observe lessons, explore task-rich curriculum, & leave with a sequenced unit. #Curriculum #TaskDesign #CPD

As teachers, we are often told WHAT to teach but not always HOW to teach it! Effective teaching includes retrieval practice (recalling information), interleaving (mixing different topics rather than teaching topics in “blocks”), scaffolding (providing temporary supports) and so…

Published today - Inspiring Creative Writing - a guide to fiction planning. Comes with link to 25 film clips of teaching. Available now: shop.talk4writing.com/products/inspi…

🥰🥷New Resource - Fluency Grids 🥷🥰 📲 bit.ly/4456Z2x Vocabulary Ninja is super-excited to launch our latest resource series…Fluency Grids. Each bundle comes with many, many slides, multi-print slides and answer slides! #maths #fluencygrids #primary #edutwitter

🥷 NEW - Quick Comps - CONTINENTS - Topic Bundles 📚📝 💻 - bit.ly/43Cp71B 📚 Each bundle had 5 unique texts and questions 📙 Original non-fiction texts 📈 Text levelled via Lexile Levels. ⏰ Complete in 10-15 minutes #reading #comprehension #teacherresources