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Created this Oracy booklet for KS3 to use over the holidays! It’s designed to: ✨ Build powerful vocabulary ✨ Speak with clarity & confidence ✨ Improve discussion & listening skills I’d welcome any feedback!! drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobi…

🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process. 👊 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy…

‘Golden 5’ secondary literacy strategy @researchED1 #rED23 A 3 year whole school strategy to create a culture of ‘We are ALL teachers of literacy’ - promoting love of reading and empowering teachers to effectively thread disciplinary literacy into their curric and practice 1/10

📚 GIVEAWAY TIME! 📚 The Scaffolding Effect by @MrsBallAP & @lamb_heart_tea is out now! Full of practical ways to support every student. Want a free copy? All you have to do is: ✅ Follow us 🔁 RT this post The winner will be announced on Friday, 1st August, at 2pm. Good…

“When did nerves become anxiety? When did being down become depression? Some children face real challenges, but many need resilience. We’ve got to teach that, or we will fail so many” Alun Ebenezer, headteacher, speaking this week.

🎉 Steplab Summer Reads – Book #1 Win Responsive Coaching by Josh Goodrich - plus a Steplab bundle (mug, pen & notepad)! Josh is Steplab CEO & former teacher/leader with deep coaching expertise. To enter: 1️⃣ Follow 2️⃣ Like 3️⃣ Share 📘 Winner announced on Friday!

To help my students with the Because But and So sentence expansion activity, from #TheWritingRevolution, I created the following template. Download for Free. justtwoteachers.com/the-writing-re…

Only 2–3% of books published in the UK are translated. Yet, reading international voices can transform the way we see the world. Discover why translated literature belongs in your book club: readingagency.org.uk/read-around-th… What’s one translated book you’d recommend to every reader?

Bringing pleasure to reading lessons through writing “If we want to attract children like bees to the idea of writing for pleasure, we must treat our classroom as a field and fill it with the sweetest of nectar – good literature.” writing4pleasure.com/2025/07/18/bri…

That’s a wrap! ✨ A highlight this year was leading Write Ever After, a KS3 story competition. I ran an assembly + library workshops & crowned 3 winners 🎉 Ofsted (Mar 2024) said “reading’s improved but writing needs more focus” so this felt like a step in the right direction ☺️

IT’S HERE! The Writing Framework has landed! 🚨 IT’S A BELTER! A powerful blend of explanation and practical advice for teaching writing, both transcription and composition. “The best moments during writing are when pupils are so absorbed in their creations that they lose all…

🕹Competition time!🕹 To celebrate the fact that I've finally got my hands on a copy of my book, I want to give away a copy. Please like, retweet, and perhaps give me a follow to be in with a chance to win. amzn.eu/d/2oVrwRD

Interested in whole school Oracy practice? Here are some shares you may find useful. 📖My blog: yaminabibi.co.uk/post/creating-… 🎧My 3 part podcast eps with @tandteaching: open.spotify.com/episode/6AJXol… 📚My article for @SecEd_Education ‘s Oracy supplement: sec-ed.co.uk/content/downlo…

NEW BLOG POST Curriculum is a Collective Endeavour saysmiss.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/cur…

🗓️ These are the very first A4 ‘one-pagers’ I posted back in 2022! They were incredibly well received at the time and got more attention than I expected. Great to see how much this idea has grown!📘📗 More to come! 📥 You can still download the OG here: jamieleeclark.com/blog/one-pagers

This is so fascinating! Important longitudinal study on Key Stage 2 results and earnings. A MUST READ - Higher KS2 attainment is associated with higher lifetime earnings - Higher scores in Maths impact earnings more than English - Benefits from doing better in KS2 English…

As the year draws to a close, I'm sharing my Y6 reading folder (though there are some random bits in like some Y2 lessons) for free, which is full of Y6 whole class reading lessons. drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Plus my (very long) blog on how we teach it: mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/who…

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.