Just updated my WEBSITE, where you'll find lots of fun stuff, including FREE poems & info about performances, school visits, etc. Have a look around, & feel free to share: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social @marymyatt.bsky.social #BookSky #poetry #teaching

Joshua Seigal | Official Website

Website of award-winning poet, author, performer and educator Joshua Seigal. Contains free poetry, and lots of information.

joshuaseigal.co.uk

✨️ Well aren't I lucky? A treasure found in Foyles on the Southbank on my way to the @theclpe.bsky.social CLiPPA Poetry awards. What a way to start the day! @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social

Primary schools 📚️ inspire a love of reading and enrich your pupils' cultural capital at our upcoming author events. Book your seats now before they're gone 👉 tinyurl.com/kb4tybpn #PrimaryTeachers #ReadingForPleasure #ChildrensBooks #CulturalCapital

🚃 Making my way to Manchester for the @natecommunity.bsky.social Conference. 💭📚 I'll be talking KS2-KS3 transition, offering helpful approaches to support ambition and inclusion for all pupils. #BuildInNotBoltOn 👋 Hope to see you there! @openingdoors.bsky.social @thecockerill.bsky.social

@poetrybyheart.bsky.social What an incredible experience feeling the power of poetry delivered so well and in such a setting by students and teachers. It is a privilege being at the Globe. @lauraspargo.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social

This is so exciting and well be wonderful

David Litchfield@dc-litchfield.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh Bluesky friends…I haven’t told you about this. How exciting? Hope to see some of you there this Christmas 🐻🎹

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

NEW BOOK NEWS 💫✨ I can’t wait for you all to meet ‘Little Ghost & The Robot’ in shops this October 👻🤖❤️ published by Quarto Kids/Frances Lincoln Children's Books

@hywelroberts.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social Many thanks to all three of you. Throughout our Y6 writing moderation meeting today, we kept referencing the work that we have accomplished through support, advice & resources from you. Thanks again.

Such a privilege for the team to be at the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference! Thanks!

Great to speak to @openingdoors.bsky.social team and @poetrybyheart.bsky.social at the fabulous @englishassociation.bsky.social conference

Free resource on close reading. The journey to understanding should be exciting and full of dialogues! See below videos.files.wordpress.com/gD2H7H5I/cur...

My ongoing brief recordings of turning points in my career which may get you reflecting on issues today is now in one place below! Enjoy! searchingforexcellence.co.uk/turning-poin...

Turning Points

I’m enjoying a very long career and it’s time to reflect upon the big turning points and learning points along the way! I hope each theme will still be relevant to today for you and mak…

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Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Just booked my ticket for the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference, Senate House, June 13th. A core of us from the @openingdoors.bsky.social team will be on our stall over breaktimes, flying the flag for rich, creative English for all 📖✏️🧞‍♀️🧚🕵️‍♀️🧛‍♂️

My best known poem. Feel free to use/share! #EduSky #BookSky #BackToSchool @openingdoors.bsky.social @marymyatt.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social ⬇️

Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now!@joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello everyone! I am Josh, a poet, performer and workshop leader. Do please visit my website for lots of fun, FREE poems and resources: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk. Below is one of my best known poems, which is one of the many on my site. I hope you enjoy, and do please gimme a follow! #EduSky #poetry

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-conferenc... 👇See you there!

@thinktalkleah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just booked my ticket for the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference, Senate House, June 13th. A core of us from the @openingdoors.bsky.social team will be on our stall over breaktimes, flying the flag for rich, creative English for all 📖✏️🧞‍♀️🧚🕵️‍♀️🧛‍♂️

Top class event and I’m proud to be supporting and sponsoring it! @englishassociation.bsky.social 👇

@thinktalkleah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just booked my ticket for the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference, Senate House, June 13th. A core of us from the @openingdoors.bsky.social team will be on our stall over breaktimes, flying the flag for rich, creative English for all 📖✏️🧞‍♀️🧚🕵️‍♀️🧛‍♂️

A fabulous blog on reading: danapalubiak.substack.com/p/what-we-lo...

What We Lose When Reading Becomes Smaller

When reading is reduced to skills, children lose the chance to think deeply. A classroom moment about what reading is and what we risk losing.

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@juliesargent.bsky.social @angelajenkins.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social @poetrybyheart.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

Thanks Kew Green for your response! It’s the final session in a series of insets, a great way to embed a richer curriculum! We have all enjoyed it! @lauraspargo.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

I think when I’m hobbling around without my own teeth and original knees I’ll still be buying #joetoddstanton books. His latest is a wonderful story told in his own incredible illustrative style. My favourite? Quite possibly. #picturebooks #thelostrobot #teaching

I had no expectations for Dicken’s Great Expectations, but after less than 100 pages in I gotta admit that I’m hooked. I would’ve never picked this up if it wasn’t on my list of “classics everyone should read”. And that’s exactly why I’m doing this.

"When I sit down and write something, I feel I’ve got somewhere. I feel better after doing it. Also, Rupert says I’m intolerable if I’m not working so if I wasn’t writing it would drive him insane." - lovely interview with Alan Bennett by @emmavj.bsky.social:

Playwright Alan Bennett: ‘I have a fear of books’

Now publishing his fourth collection of diaries, the 91-year-old legend of British letters talks about shyness, ‘feeling every minute’ of his age and the surprise of finding love

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‘As spring arrives, there are reasons to feel optimistic about the future of English, but at the same time, some longer-standing features of the subject remain worth reflecting on,’ says NATE Director, @thecockerill.bsky.social, in our March updates. mailchi.mp/8c7214ddbb78...

Day 2 at London Book Fair with @publishingwales.bsky.social ✨

One thing that our secondary school librarian said to me a while ago is that she's seeing a sharp reduction in the number of children that have a library card, despite primary schools pushing reading & doing library visits.

"My interpretation with King Lear over the course of the unit has changed, but in a way that has allowed me to grow overall." I love seeing students getting used to the idea of an evolving interpretation being a good thing 😎