We’re in Hollywood Primary School, Birmingham for a second day this week. Today we’re running live, in-person planning surgeries for class teachers to help get the best out of our #TeachThroughaText approach @literacytree.bsky.social
Pippa McGeoch
@literacypippa.bsky.social
Senior Literacy Consultant at Literacy Tree We #TeachThroughaText 📚 🌐 https://literacytree.com/
Golden feathers bringing the magic at our staff meeting on adapting planning @lingfieldprepschool today #teachingthroughatext #literacytree #firebird #saviourpirotta #sentencestripsgamechanger #scaffoldingwriting #rosenshine #zoneofpromiximaldevelopment
So lovely to see Grangehurst Primary, Coventry adopting the ‘Bring and Brag’ style of book-looks between staff. A great way to share and celebrate each year group’s achievements in writing so far this year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
Back in school today face to face with the brilliant team at St Mark’s. Co-planning, looking through books and admiring some of the lovely displays and work children have already completed 4 weeks into the school year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
Gorgeous to see Discovery Points immersing Y1 and Y2 children in new texts #theoddegg #toysinspace Classrooms were hives of purposeful talk, ambitious vocabulary and collaborative learning + pretty excited children, eager to write! #workingwalls @blackheathprepschool #teachthroughatext #literacytree
Thank you to the team at The British International School of Kuala Lumpur @nordanglia.bsky.social for hosting our visit this morning. The balance of nurture, community, excellence, academics, the arts, sport, values and so much more makes for an incredible setting! @literacytree.bsky.social
Fabulous to work with school leaders in Kensington & Chelsea this week, who are banging the drum for empowering children to find and express their own voice. #impactoforacy = hot topic #neilmercer #cambridgeuniversitypress #oracyascurriculum #keeplearning
Today, we were @vangoghprimaryschool - well, what a start to the new school year! Kicking off with the fabulous whole-school Writing Root #flowerblock, written by the wonderful #lanishabutterfield, the children are immersed! Incredible displays, writing and working walls - so much to celebrate
We are delivering our #TeachThroughaText in Year 1 sessions today - member schools this morning and EEF schools this afternoon. It’s dragons galore with @emmayarlett.bsky.social and Dragon Post ✉️ GORGEOUS book!! 📕 @literacytree.bsky.social
A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚
What an incredibly strong start Belmont School in Harrow have got off to! Look at these displays spotted around school. Truly celebrating all writing and allowing children to become authors 📕 🖊️ #TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social
It was super fun delivering a session for @lb-southwark.bsky.social today for new English Subject Leads. We talked priorities, strategies and action plans. Next session: 25th November for all English leads in Southwark where we’ll consider what the New Writing 🖋️ Framework means for our schools 🏫
Today was @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText day 1 for year 2 teachers. Member schools joined this morning & our EEF cohort had their session this afternoon… in excess of a phenomenal 80(!) teachers attended to discuss literary cultures, audience & purpose and The 🐻 & The Piano 🎹 🌹
Another full day of meeting our lovely new schools online as they access our onboarding process ☺️. Looking forward to supporting such ambitious and passionate teachers and leaders on their LT journey! #getcreative @literacytree.bsky.social
We are LIVE! Live planning today, that is. Such a treat to work with new teachers and some familiar faces too. Our 15-minute, fortnightly sessions are available FREE for member schools and bookable via your dashboard 🏫 @literacytree.bsky.social Let us help you #TeachThroughaText
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A joyful day of meeting some of my new Literacy Tree schools today as they have their initial onboarding meeting with me as their link consultant. Great to meet so many new schools from across the UK in one day and really looking forward to supporting them moving forwards! @literacytree.bsky.social
We’ve been at St Paul’s Primary in Walworth today seeing gorgeous books - evidence of children loving writing 2 weeks into their new term! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
We’re thoroughly enjoying our visit to Warmington Primary School in North Northants today. We’ve planned long term, daily and everything else in between to #TeachThroughaText in their mixed-age classrooms. Instant publishing on special paper all the way @literacytree.bsky.social
@literacyhannah.bsky.social Thought you might like to see this! It’s grrrrreat!! 🐅
It’s a joy to return to High Peak in north Derbyshire today. We’re launching at Padfield Community Primary with the beautiful Fox 🦊 and the Star 🌟 by Coralie Bickford Smith… the school setting is perfect for being out in nature! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to be launching at South End Juniors School in Rushden today using The Wilderness but first just LOOK 👀 at the gorgeous learning environment here…#TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social
We’re excited to be spending the day at Kilby CE in Leicestershire! An introduction to Spelling Seeds so embedded spelling opportunities can be capitalised upon across their small school setting 🏫 🖊️ #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
It was super tricky to whittle down the many books we’ve kindly been sent by publishers for our August edit. SO much choice! Here are just six brilliant, newly or soon-to-be published children’s books. Blogpost coming soon! @literacytree.bsky.social @peters-books.bsky.social #bookblogger #kidlit
We’ve a jam-packed day today - already underway - of lives and onboards. SO lovely to meet teachers all over the country and beyond to help start their stories! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
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So many gorgeous newly or soon-to-be published books 📚 received from publishers via our partnership with @peters-books.bsky.social … We can’t wait to sit down with a cuppa and curate our August literature review! @literacytree.bsky.social #bookbloggers #picturebooks #middlegradenovels #kidlit
We loved visiting Grangehurst in Coventry earlier this week. So many gorgeous writing displays. Here’s their take on Flotsam by David Weisner… such a clever way of theming a display board to match writing’s audience and purpose! 📷 🐟 🌊 @theliteracytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
Today we’re giving our Writing Root for the poignant, FArTHER, a little glow-up. Written & illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith, the book won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2011. In our Root refresh, expect even more detail than before to help you #TeachThroughaText @theliteracytree.bsky.social
🌈 Book 24 for #PrideMonth: Jamie by @ldlapinski.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤A powerful, heartfelt story about identity, friendship & finding your voice as a non-binary teen. Honest, uplifting & essential reading. 🌟 #Jamie #LGBTQBooks #PrideMonth #RepresentationMatters @cilip.bsky.social @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social
Today we’re putting the finishing touches to our Online Launch 🚀 Training Day: join live or purchase a whole-school recording. This could be how you start YOUR story. Book via your dashboard ⬇️ @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
