Anna Iliffe
@ariliffe.bsky.social
Trust Primary Curriculum lead. Previous Deputy Head & English lead with a passion for life, learning, the arts, theatre, animal welfare, the outdoors, English and providing life experiences that help pupils discover who they are and who they want to be.
Christmas came early when I got to spend an hour with @suchmo83.bsky.social planning @celtacademies.bsky.social new primary reading curriculum. Chris is so generous with his time and expertise.
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Christmas came early when I got to spend an hour with @suchmo83.bsky.social planning @celtacademies.bsky.social new primary reading curriculum. Chris is so generous with his time and expertise.
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Tired to the very bones of my being from this term but proud that we made this happen for our little people last week.
Tired to the very bones of my being from this term but proud that we made this happen for our little people last week.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Tired to the very bones of my being from this term but proud that we made this happen for our little people last week.
Tired to the very bones of my being from this term but proud that we made this happen for our little people last week.
Feel like a child at Christmas waiting for the Curriculum and Assessment Review so much of my pending projects are halted waiting for this to be released.
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Feel like a child at Christmas waiting for the Curriculum and Assessment Review so much of my pending projects are halted waiting for this to be released.
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After 14 months heading the government’s curriculum review, Becky Francis reflects on control, compromise – and finding the right balance between ‘firebrand’ and ‘technocrat’
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‘I dream the curriculum every night’: Becky Francis profile
Becky Francis reflects on control, compromise, and finding the balance between ‘firebrand’ and 'technocrat'
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October 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
After 14 months heading the government’s curriculum review, Becky Francis reflects on control, compromise – and finding the right balance between ‘firebrand’ and ‘technocrat’
schoolsweek.co.uk/i-dream-the-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/i-dream-the-...
Gifts from our garden. 🌺 🥚 🫐 🍯
Love this time of year. Getting the winter stores ready before the term. Back to school garden preparations have begun.
Love this time of year. Getting the winter stores ready before the term. Back to school garden preparations have begun.
August 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Gifts from our garden. 🌺 🥚 🫐 🍯
Love this time of year. Getting the winter stores ready before the term. Back to school garden preparations have begun.
Love this time of year. Getting the winter stores ready before the term. Back to school garden preparations have begun.
End of an era. Teacher; lead of computing, history, arts, personal development, English, curriculum& assessment; lead teacher;assistant head;deputy head, Trust Deputy Head. 15 years; 4 classrooms; 1 office; 4+ schools: one constant - St M. Onto the next exciting chapter: Primary Curriculum lead. 🖤💛
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
End of an era. Teacher; lead of computing, history, arts, personal development, English, curriculum& assessment; lead teacher;assistant head;deputy head, Trust Deputy Head. 15 years; 4 classrooms; 1 office; 4+ schools: one constant - St M. Onto the next exciting chapter: Primary Curriculum lead. 🖤💛
Incredible working week full of curriculummy things that make my heart happy. Yellow weather warning is right on time for further exciting curriculum mapping projects accompanied by my zoo including the latest two foster kitties. Genuinely can't wait. ❤️ #curriculumjoy #animalsandeducation
July 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Incredible working week full of curriculummy things that make my heart happy. Yellow weather warning is right on time for further exciting curriculum mapping projects accompanied by my zoo including the latest two foster kitties. Genuinely can't wait. ❤️ #curriculumjoy #animalsandeducation
What a gorgeous Englishy week - writing framework released and some further training with @suchmo83.bsky.social and the English Hub.
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
What a gorgeous Englishy week - writing framework released and some further training with @suchmo83.bsky.social and the English Hub.
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The problems posed by LLMs for education are immediate and obvious, and the promised benefits remain untested and uncertain. But I see one way that LLMs may inadvertently improve student thinking.
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How ChatGPT Might Inadvertently Improve Student Thinking
In the past few weeks some articles in high-profile publications have alerted people outside of education to a problem teachers have thought about nearly continuously since late 2022: students use lar...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The problems posed by LLMs for education are immediate and obvious, and the promised benefits remain untested and uncertain. But I see one way that LLMs may inadvertently improve student thinking.
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'A slimmer, deeper curriculum'
What does the primary sector need from the curriculum and assessment review? ‘We need depth, inquiry and the space to wonder,’ writes @collegeofteaching.bsky.social CEO @alisonpeacock.bsky.social
What the curriculum review should do for primary schools
Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching, reflects on a recent talk from Sir Kevan Collins about how to solve the systemic challenges in the primary sector
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July 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
'A slimmer, deeper curriculum'
Interesting insight. Every pupil deserves better.
It's interesting that 75% passing Reading tests is a sign of a great success in phonics and reading teaching, but 72% passing Writing is a sign that we need a "first step towards transforming" writing teaching
July 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Interesting insight. Every pupil deserves better.
Anyone who knows me knows that today will have brought me great joy: data AND the long-awaited writing framework.
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Anyone who knows me knows that today will have brought me great joy: data AND the long-awaited writing framework.
July 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Looking forward to tomorrow
We're delighted to be welcoming over 500 leaders to the University of Warwick for our #SummerConference #BetterForEveryone.
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Looking forward to tomorrow
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We're delighted to be welcoming over 500 leaders to the University of Warwick for our #SummerConference #BetterForEveryone.
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
June 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We're delighted to be welcoming over 500 leaders to the University of Warwick for our #SummerConference #BetterForEveryone.
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
The day has started with a tribute to David Price OBE from @shonogh.bsky.social and Valerie Hannon.
#IfNotUsWho #WholeEducator
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.
With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.
June 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.
With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.
Love the dichotomy that is my life.
Last weekend I was volunteering at RCS with the alpacas; this weekend - St Austell Children's Literature Festival.
Yesterday I had three authors in my van; today I have Supertato; and tomorrow there will be a goat. 😂
📚 🐐 🦙 🥔 ❤️ 🏫
Last weekend I was volunteering at RCS with the alpacas; this weekend - St Austell Children's Literature Festival.
Yesterday I had three authors in my van; today I have Supertato; and tomorrow there will be a goat. 😂
📚 🐐 🦙 🥔 ❤️ 🏫
June 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Love the dichotomy that is my life.
Last weekend I was volunteering at RCS with the alpacas; this weekend - St Austell Children's Literature Festival.
Yesterday I had three authors in my van; today I have Supertato; and tomorrow there will be a goat. 😂
📚 🐐 🦙 🥔 ❤️ 🏫
Last weekend I was volunteering at RCS with the alpacas; this weekend - St Austell Children's Literature Festival.
Yesterday I had three authors in my van; today I have Supertato; and tomorrow there will be a goat. 😂
📚 🐐 🦙 🥔 ❤️ 🏫
Balance and cross-disciplinary work obviously hugely important but on a practical level we need to plan an achievable curriculum that 'fits' and allows for depth of learning so I'm interested to hear others views.
May 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Balance and cross-disciplinary work obviously hugely important but on a practical level we need to plan an achievable curriculum that 'fits' and allows for depth of learning so I'm interested to hear others views.
Curriculum experts! We are reshaping our Trust's primary curriculum. Keen to make it balanced, research-informed and thoughtful. Lots of reading and thinking taking place ahead of the review. A really reductionist question but what weighting of time do you think each subject should receive and why?
May 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Curriculum experts! We are reshaping our Trust's primary curriculum. Keen to make it balanced, research-informed and thoughtful. Lots of reading and thinking taking place ahead of the review. A really reductionist question but what weighting of time do you think each subject should receive and why?
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It’s an oldie but might still be a goodie!
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As it’s the final leg to #SATs time I’m resharing my #grammar one pagers.
I used them as part of teaching, homework & revision.
The children liked the simplicity!
#education #Year6
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As it’s the final leg to #SATs time I’m resharing my #grammar one pagers.
I used them as part of teaching, homework & revision.
The children liked the simplicity!
#education #Year6
April 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s an oldie but might still be a goodie!
bit.ly/InFGr
As it’s the final leg to #SATs time I’m resharing my #grammar one pagers.
I used them as part of teaching, homework & revision.
The children liked the simplicity!
#education #Year6
bit.ly/InFGr
As it’s the final leg to #SATs time I’m resharing my #grammar one pagers.
I used them as part of teaching, homework & revision.
The children liked the simplicity!
#education #Year6
Fantastic morning of CPD with colleagues across Cornwall, including my husband 😂. Lots of thought-provoking discussions and insights.
A wonderful start to our AI in Education conference in Cornwall #InspiringSW
May 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Fantastic morning of CPD with colleagues across Cornwall, including my husband 😂. Lots of thought-provoking discussions and insights.
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A wonderful start to our AI in Education conference in Cornwall #InspiringSW
May 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A wonderful start to our AI in Education conference in Cornwall #InspiringSW
Anything to do with the "value" of using cold tasks *shudders*. Let's make the children show us how much they don't know before we teach it. It's nothing or next to nothing. Surprise. A wasted lesson.
May 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Anything to do with the "value" of using cold tasks *shudders*. Let's make the children show us how much they don't know before we teach it. It's nothing or next to nothing. Surprise. A wasted lesson.
I have some of the best 'over my laptop' views going. Good excuse to pause and look up.
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I have some of the best 'over my laptop' views going. Good excuse to pause and look up.