Primary School Teacher | Dilton Marsh C of E Primary School | Head of English | Lover of PE and books.
South West, England
Joined April 2017
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New school librarians ✔️
New classroom library ✔️
New books to inspire my year 6s ✔️
📚 @clpe1 @_Reading_Rocks_ @PieCorbett #PowerofReading – at Westbury, England
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Come and join us on 22nd November to find out about Sounds-Write phonics and see lessons being taught across the school. eventbrite.co.uk/e/soundswri…
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Really enjoyed training today from @GuerrillaEd - our curriculum is a long way off but definitely something to strive towards. Also, what presentation format did you use?! – at Warminster, England
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Loved my fajitas tonight that extra little bit more thanks to @thelazyteacher 😂😂😂 had them at 8pm on the dot! Loved the CPD today 👍🏻 lots of great ideas 💡 – at South West, England
Learnt something new today: Great tip for getting children to identify active voice and passive voice is by adding ‘by zombies’ to the end of the sentence. If it makes sense, then it’s passive. If it doesn’t, it’s active! Easy for the kids to remember 😂 – at South West, England
I’m really looking forward to getting this up and running. We want to create an environment where the children can read what they want. If a child reads ANYTHING in the week, they will be able to contribute towards their class total. 📖 – at South West, England
A sneak peak of our upcoming Easter Reading Challenge 📚 We can’t wait to share it with you! There will be some great prizes up for grabs!
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The best thing about Twitter is the sharing of ideas and resources. It goes to show that teachers aren’t bothered about league tables and more bothered about improving their teaching. – at South West, England
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🌟WORLD BOOK DAY SCHOOLS GIVEAWAY🌟
Win these 5 brilliant #Usborne #middlegrade titles! Just follow us & RT to enter. UK only. Closes midnight
Mon 11 March #win #teachers #readingrocks
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As a treat for #InternationalWomensDay we're giving away a copy of the bestselling Women in Sport by @ignotofsky, published @wrenandrookbook!
Simply like & RT explaining which female role-model you think is essential we teach in schools? UK only, ends tmrw 7pm. #IWD2019
By the start of Term 5, every children’s book in our school will have a sticker in the front allowing the children to write their name to show that they recommend it. It will increase the amount of discussion about a book and finally allow us to monitor the most popular books 📖 – at South West, England
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Always, always, always – make time to read to kids. Just 10 minutes a day can CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER. I think story-time should be part of every school day, in secondaries as well as primaries! #literacy
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Great to see our local community supporting primary schools in the area. Thanks @Morrisons Westbury – at South West, England
A huge thanks to @Morrisons for our donation of books 📚 They will be thoroughly enjoyed by all our children. Some very excited children were eager to add them to our library. @WorldBookDayUK #WeLoveReading
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It was great to see the headteacher support my idea of our new ‘Book Wishlist’ for the children. It gives them an opportunity to select the books that they want to read and also the chance to update our school library after they’ve read them. 📚 @_Reading_Rocks_ – at South West, England
Pig Heart Boy by @malorieblackman has me speechless. Just finished it tonight. The children are interviewing someone who has gone through a transplant themselves on Thursday and have been thinking of questions they would like to ask. Hopefully they can do me proud. – at South West, England
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Pleased that we signed up to @clpe1’s Power of Reading. The quality of the books that are on offer are so powerful and meaningful to the children. In the long run, stories like this will last in the children’s memories and hopefully encourage them to become life-long readers. – at South West, England
Thoroughly enjoyed taking Year 6 out exploring our local countryside! ‘We wouldn’t have got the same work done in the classroom.’ ✍️ – at South West, England
Year 6 enjoyed their time out in the sunshine as a source of inspiration to write about feeling alive. We’ve taken chapter 1 from @malorieblackman’s Pig Heart Boy as a model text to improve our writing ✍️ we can’t wait to share them with you! #futureauthors
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I loved going into Year 2 today and seeing the children so excited to read this book. I had a queue of about 10 children ready to tell me their predictions! – at South West, England
Ash Class have begun their @clpe1 #PowerOfReading text ‘The Hodgeheg’ by analysing the front cover and predicting what the book will be about. We have some very excited children to begin reading this book! 📚
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Can anyone recommend some great maths story books to support both literacy and maths skills across KS1 and KS2? We got shown a couple today including How Many Jelly Beans? By Andrea Menotti and Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. @_Reading_Rocks_ @WhiteRoseMaths @clpe1 @TeacherToolkit – at South West, England
Really enjoyed my day listening to innovative and forward-thinking ideas from @daisychristo. Will begin to think how this might look at our school to improve the writing assessment process with the aim of making moderation more reliable and efficient for our teachers. – at South West, England
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