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Teacher of English and drama. Curriculum Leader. Double bassist. SuASO. Eclectic taste in music and books. Klausketeer. Le Carré. Liverpool FC. Given to quoting ‘Morse’ / ‘Endeavour’.
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Everybody's still talking about #oracy: my recent visit to Ely College, exploring how - in an age when everyone is cross about everything - we can help young people to learn how to disagree agreeably ... www.itv.com/watch/news/l...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

As we discussed within @oracycommission.bsky.social, there’s an urgency to increasing #oracy education - helping all young people to listen actively & critically, to disagree agreeably, and to engage in democracy … www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

‘It’s the engineer I’m after, not the oily rag.’ (‘Endeavour’) Fred gets all the best lines and Roger Allam sure knows how to land them. 🤣

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This year, I’m focusing much more on teaching listening skills and it’s yet another example of something I wish I’d thought more carefully about 20 years ago. I’ll get there in the end.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Today is World Read Aloud Day (www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-r...). Here's my @oracycommission.bsky.social conversation with @waterstones.bsky.social Children's Laureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social about why reading to children matters so much: open.spotify.com/episode/7wwF...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

Great to see momentum continuing to grow for introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE - it just needs green light from government! A brilliant way to help restore nature, improve young people’s physical & mental health & fill the green skills gap.

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

‘Breturn’ gets my vote. ✅

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Plan for the weekend: waffles.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Taught one of those lessons today which leave you feeling that you’re doing ok. Nothing wow. Iambic pentameter. Lots of clapping, tapping and choral speech. Lots of talk. Hardly any writing. (Not that there’s anything wrong with a writing lesson, of course.)

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Watching ‘Death on the Nile’ with David Suchet. He’s fabulous, particularly when he allows you to glimpse the anger and menace just below Poirot’s geniality.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Creative writing is an extraordinarily wonderful thing. It keeps offering up new revelations. The online workshop I'm doing, an hour a day for a month, is not only making me write loads & loads & building my confidence, it's also giving me fresh insights that I can take into my education work... 1/

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

#FavouriteDiscs Favourite first symphony? Here’s my choice. Today anyway…

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Watching the old BBC ‘Tinker Tailor’ again. Bloody marvellous. That opening sequence in which the four ‘suspects’ are introduced. Virtually no dialogue and yet it’s absorbing. One of the all-time great TV series.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments