It was fantastic to share the wise words of Christine Counsell, Jon Hutchinson and Josh Vallance at #SBPGeelong I loved hearing about how more schools are embarking on their journeys towards implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum.

In answer to your question Aimée Tinkler FCCT . How does our sense of belonging affect our cognitive function? Also, thanks to you Sue Costello for your quote. thebelongingcollective.blog/2024/09/10/bel… Westcountry Schools Trust

Our new season: cross-genre collaborations, world premieres and Cathedrals of the East. We move through genres from bluegrass, jazz and electronics to folk and classical. Programmes rethink the concert experience, with immersive surround-sound concerts in the east’s Cathedrals.

Are you an #ECT wanting to enhance your #Primary curriculum journey? Then join The PTI ECT Certificate! Funded for PTI schools. Designed to inspire curiosity, excitement and wider thinking around ‘subject’. Alison Peacock Mary Myatt Clarke&Witt Steve Brace 1/2

Cat has been incredible in taking my vague pie in the sky idea and turning it into a reality. Please support Catherine Priggs LambHeartTea (she/her) Richard Kerridge Geraint Brown Kath Goudie and Tim Jenner with their History Half Marathon in honour and memory of the wonderful Helen Snelson.

Completely fixated by this!

The overwhelming demand due to the INCREDIBLE interest* in my researchED presentation on the links between poor reading and behaviour problems, has left me shocked and speechless! The slides can be found here: 1drv.ms/b/c/05a102437e… * one person

Using reconstruction drawings to introduce the Industrial Revolution - Drawings of the same place in 1750,1830 and 1890 to set students thinking and asking questions about the Industrial Revolution. See link at thinkinghistory.co.uk/index.html

What is progression in a well-planned, knowledge-rich KS2 history curriculum? Why is the ancient world enthralling, illuminating and enabling for children? Londoners doing #Openingworlds, you've still time to book with Haringey Education Partnership for Tuesday pm: hepbookinghub.co.uk/calendars/

Not much beats a cosy evening in with a compelling mystery! I requested Murder at Wintertide on NetGalleyUK and it was a perfect story- danger, mystery and clever children at the heart of it all! Nosy Crow Fleur Hitchcock = same name on all social media. myshelvesarefull.com/2024/09/15/mur…

Okay, so this is my first effort at a 'hook' using story. I wrote it to see if I can try and emulate the great work being done by Christine Counsell and Steve Mastin, whose talks on stories I was greatly pleased to attend last weekend. Let's see how it goes! #historyteacher

A new blog from me on the teaching of writing and, in particular, whether a focus on practising forms should come first, or a focus on meanings and writers' intentions. My discussion looks especially at the teaching of the sentence. englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teaching-…

We tried to say farewell to Helen Snelson today. I’m not sure I managed to. It was glorious York day and a beautiful service. There is a space in the world which was so full of of joy, wisdom, laughter, love and energy which now isn’t. We’ll keep buggering on, Helen.

They do. Move on. State schools should set up debating clubs, says senior Eton leader | Secondary schools | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/2024…

Hugely impressed by this new enterprise - new choral music by living composers, with scrolling videos to hear / see the pieces, instant downloads / licences, and written with performers in mind. Worth exploring, I’d say… ⬇️

Looking for trust-wide primary leadership in a setting that properly understands knowledge-rich, cultural breadth and moral purposes of education? I absolutely love working with Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust. Complete joy. Check it out.

An excellent planning meeting with Christine Counsell today. Watch this space…. #Intentionality #ReadingDepth #Ambition #ReadingAcrossTheCurriculum Conference pending!

Inspired by the work of Christine Counsell et al myself and Mr Bassett have been doing some work on stories for Making of America - OCR B - really well received by my students this week. Encoding the information like this really helps ideas/themes stick #historyteacher OCR_History