@TheWritingWeb

Writer-teacher supporting writing communities and providing bespoke CPD in schools. 🧡 #WritingRocks

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#TheWritingWeb nurtures young people’s enjoyment in writing. It provides them space, support and time to write for their own audiences and purposes. This insightful blog post from @TeresaCremin highlights why. teachersaswriters.org/genera…
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@s4hvmOct 22
Saw this a few days ago and it’s put a worm in my brain. Can’t stop thinking about it.
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The DFE writing framework has a whole section on oral composition and the importance of talk before (and as a tool for) writing!
Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷@MichaelRosenYesOct 22
Replying to @MichaelRosenYes @oldandrewuk @pdread68 @nunez_cabeza @EdSacredProfane @Peterhardwick17
Then, when every child is in school, they are in a speaking, listening, reading, writing environment, whether oracy is taught or not. There's talk about writing and reading. Much of the writing arises out of talk and uses oral forms eg contractions, dialogue...
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Look at this-my work has come back into fashion! Of course, it never went out of fashion at all. Communication and language are central to everything we do in EY ! It’s almost like we know about child development @MichaelRosenYes !
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976Oct 20
You used to be able to buy a stamp at the post box! This large King George VI post box has a stamp vending machine attached, so you can't use not having a stamp as an excuse for posting that birthday card late! #letterboxstudygroup
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Ian Cushing@ian_cushingOct 15
schools giving increased attention to language sounds good but it comes with many risks - the most obvious being the further entrenchment of deficit thinking. me and @choudrey_s anticipate this and how to resist it in our linguistic justice oracy framework doi.org/10.1080/00131911.202…
Lucy Powell MP
@LucyMPowellOct 14
“With AI on the rise, we need to go harder on the skills that makes us human, like oracy. That ability to articulate yourself confidently is central to success in work and life, but for too long it’s been a marker of privilege. Now it will become the right of every child.” Read more 👇 thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Ian Cushing@ian_cushingJul 6
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… An oracy framework for England’s schools: linguistic justice edition Open access and out now in Educational Review
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Buitengebieden
@buitengebiedenOct 19
When you understand the assignment but do it wrong on purpose out of spite.. 😅
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I’m delighted to see people objecting to the idea of assessing and/or examining oracy. However, some of those people have no objection to examining reading and writing.
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsocOct 17
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, what’s this then? Looks like #PostboxSaturday at Wookey Hole to me… 😄📮🚔🚨
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The Letter Box Study Group@lbsg1976Oct 17
The Penfold Postbox is an icon of our streets - so much so that replicas were made from the 1980s right through to the 2010s and put on our streets. This attractive green example bears a plaque commemorating its 2016 unveiling 10 years ago. #PostboxSaturday
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsocOct 17
Always time for a bit of letter sending and postbox spotting on a Saturday. Have a fab #PostboxSaturday everyone! ☺️📮⏱️🕰️⏰
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this hardworking trio: a pair of ERII pillars and an OG parcel box. They’re doing the heavy lifting for the former Gravesend General Post Office (1850), currently operating a skeleton service as a Customer Service Point. 💌 @letterappsoc
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Jon Biddle@jonnybidOct 16
All the Feelings in the Room by Diego Estebo is a brilliant book for introducing EYFS children to the language of feelings. The story takes place at Alma's party, when everyone who arrives is feeling different: excited, shy, proud, angry. It's perfect for developing empathy.
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Sam Strickland@SamStrickers181Oct 15
Key Stage 4 should be a 2 year, not a 3 year experience. We risk turning schools into exam factories. Of course exams are important but at the right time. KS3 should be about experiencing a broad curriculum & enjoying school.
Tes magazine@tesOct 13
Key stage 3 is ‘too often treated as a dumping ground for early GCSE preparation’, according to a new research report based on a survey of teachers – most of whom want change to this phase of schooling tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Key stage 3 ‘lacks clear purpose’, research finds

Newly-formed Early Secondary Advisory Group calls for a shared national vision for KS3 amid fears that Years 7-9 are a ‘dumping ground’ for GCSE preparation

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Emma Mitchell 💙
@silverpebbleOct 15
A tiny silver Edwardian barn owl charm is hidden in this photo. Your brain will release dopamine (helping you with motivation & mood) when you find her & searching among the flowers & leaves will help you recover from stress today:
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EPHRAIM ❣️
@Ephraim_SnrOct 15
Kids making fun of influencers just restored my faith in humanity. Nature is healing🤣
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Handwritten Letter@letterappsocOct 13
In celebration of our 9th birthday on 26th October, please can everyone write to Alistair Cochrane, CEO of Royal Mail, to tell him what letter writing means to you. The reasons I hear are so moving, I want him to know too. It’s FREEPOST, PO Box 76085, EC1P 1HA. Huge thanks! 🥳💌
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Sara Wahedi
@SaraWahediOct 12
I was walking to the building where I work in Oxford when I passed three young girls speaking Farsi and I couldn’t help but run back and ask if they were from Afghanistan. They said yes. It had been a few months since their arrival as refugees waiting in Pakistan, now studying at a local school in Oxford. I was swelling with emotion. These girls just escaped 5 years of gender persecution under the Taliban. Erasure of their schools. And are now in Oxford, studying freely. Thank you to the U.K government for giving them a second chance. As a former refugee myself, we all just need one chance, as Canada gave to my mother and I. Two sets of Afghan women, escaping two Taliban regimes, meeting in Oxford. All in the hopes of finding freedom through education.
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Phil Hoyeck
@PAHoyeckOct 11
Still one of the funniest philosophy anecdotes of all time
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