Blanching and storing my first batch of nettles for the year! 🌱 #GardenSky #gardening #foraging #cooking
MrsCReads
@mrscreads.bsky.social
Teacher of English, Reading Lead, MA English Literature. (Very) amateur writer. 📚 🌱 🐝 🐓 🐶 🌈 ✊🏿 🏳️⚧️
It’s been a terrible week for writing. But an excellent week for getting assessments marked. And the greenhouse tidied. I’ll take the wins where I can. #WritingCommunity #GardenSky
Librarians and teachers - my students want more manga in our school library. What recommendations do you have for secondary appropriate texts (11-16) and where can I get them for a reasonable (cheap) price? #BookSky #MangaSky #EduSky #manga #librarians #recommendations
2 days to go! Join us on Thursday 5 March to celebrate reading for fun ✨ Looking for last- minute resources and celebration materials? Head to our website for everything you need. www.worldbookday.com
💡NEW POST 💡 ‘What teachers think about disciplinary literacy’ “Teachers who experience teaching a young child to read with a phonics programme and early handwriting practice feels a world away from reading dense science texts or writing history essays.” alexquigley.co.uk/what-teacher...
What teachers think about disciplinary literacy
It can sometimes feel like primary school and secondary school teachers inhabit different worlds. It is no surprise then that teachers at different phases have diverging views and beliefs given their ...
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Earthseed, including The Book of the Living, was created by Octavia E. Butler
Today I learned that if you plant 6 Jerusalem Artichokes one year, you end up with 3,000 tubers the next year. Anyone got any recipes? 😂 #GardenSky #recipes #cooking #allotments
Rescue chicken Sarah (Connor) would like to announce that it finally feels like spring! 🌸 #rescuechickens #spring
I don’t normally post about stuff I’m watching but this is delightful. Gentle comedy is such a win. #BBC #SmallProphets #comedy
I am lucky enough to work for a wonderful Head. It reminds me of how important patience, acceptance, and inclusivity is towards staff as well as pupils. Teachers thrive when our needs are accommodated to where possible - which is only a positive thing for our pupils. #EduSky #educationUK
Today was a terrible writing day. It was a terrible writing day because I learned that rotten eggs can spontaneously combust. 🥚 All over the kitchen. 🤢 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Saturdays are for making fresh batches of kimchi while watching the rain. 🌧️
Make 45-minute meetings the norm in schools. Time is pedagogical capital. Shorter meetings sharpen focus, reduce overload, and give teachers more time for planning and student support. Use digital tools for pre-reading—keep meeting time for dialogue and decisions. #SchoolLeadership #EduSky
If you care at all about the state of education in the UK, please sign this petition. If this is passed, it will be catastrophic. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... #EduSky #education #teaching
Petition: Do Not Scrap the 1265 Directed Time Provision for Teachers
We are concerned about reports that the 1265 directed time policy for teachers may be scrapped. We feel teachers have faced real terms pay cuts, and view 1265 as the only thing protecting staff from e...
petition.parliament.uk
As the #NationalYearofReading gets underway, one school is reshaping how students see reading – making it social, visible & meaningful. A powerful model for building whole‑school reading culture & #ReadingForPleasure. @mrs-tremble.bsy.social explains how: buff.ly/TW8me8r #literacy #edusky
Reading culture: A secondary school response to the National Year of Reading - SecEd
How one school is transforming reading culture through pleasure, visibility & community in the National Year of Reading
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Feels like an appropriate weekend to share the fact that I have two rescue chickens named after Anne and Emily Brontë (we lost Charlotte last year) They are both beautiful, defiant, feral little things, which I hope would make the Brontës proud. #rescuechickens #wutheringheights #WriteSky
