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NEW FREE POST Why almost everyone is wrong about the curriculum fillingthepail.substack.com/p/why-almost...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you want to see our fantastic kids taught Macbeth by English supremo @didau.bsky.social, come along to @researchedbrum.bsky.social on 8th March held at my lovely, unassuming, properly comprehensive school in south-west Brum #rEDBrum Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched...

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My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

What's your takeaway from this? The most effective feedback is focused on the learner's task, their processing of it, and their self-regulation. Download and share our free eBook on feedback! 👇 https://buff.ly/3WfKVxf #EduSky

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

📢 We're hiring a PRIMARY SPECIALIST (part-time or full-time; we're flexible)! If you have a background in primary teaching and ❤️ retrieval practice then please do apply here ⬇️ uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk... Email [email protected] if you have questions.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone who’s interested, here are my 5 favourite albums of 2024: 1. Prelude to Ecstasy, Last Dinner Party 2. 2093, Yeet 3. Alligator Bites Never Heal, Doechii 4. Romance, Fontaines DC 5. Brat, Charli XCX

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

NEW FREE POST Mossbourne on the BBC New details emerge fillingthepail.substack.com/p/mossbourne...

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Stanley Road Primary School Writing Curriculum  As teachers know, you can’t teach a child to write (well) in a lesson, a term, or even in a year. Alas, it takes years. Nor can you wind the… https://masteringwritingmastery.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/stanley-road-primary-school-writing-curriculum/

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

In Dover today. Cold.

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Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.

submitted 103 days ago • 19 comments

Finished with The Odyssey, it’s on to Julius Caesar and various other speeches and persuasion now. We saw a version this summer so I think this will work well for us. Big thanks to the Ormiston team for making these freely available (@didau.bsky.social, @tomrees.bsky.social)

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Ofsted It’s hard to understand how smart people can come up with plans that look, on the face of it, so stupid. The logic for retaining any kind of grading system is fatuous. (Parental choice is a chimera.) The that these judgments can be meaningfully increased is …eccentric. 1/2

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

My @schoolsweek.bsky.social piece on curriculum reviews. If we learn from 35 yrs of them, we might avoid the ever-recurring problems. But without strong subject-curricular training, espec for senior/system leaders, the finest rubric will still feed old distortions. schoolsweek.co.uk/what-a-natio...

submitted 132 days ago • 8 comments

Really loved reading George Duoblys's second book, Is Nothing Sacred in the School? Not sure I agree with everything but it really made me think hard. Love this idea: "If each lesson is a disciplinary rite, then the curriculum is a rite of passage." www.amazon.co.uk/nothing-sacr...

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English specialists: want to work in one of the country’s biggest Trusts, helping us reach our goal of providing a best-in-class education to children around the country? Take a look and get in touch…

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

My job - Senior Lead for English at Ormiston Academies Trust - is up for grabs. An amazing opportunity for someone to consolidate implementation of English across the MAT mynewterm.com/jobs/4106/EDV-…

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Prelude to Ecstasy by The Last Dinner Party is the best new album I’ve listened to in quite a while

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