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EnglishScotland @englishscotland.bsky.social · Jan 24
Hello and welcome to English and Literacy Scotland on Bluesky. Join us for chat, CPD, and one of the biggest online English and Literacy resources in the country. Find us on MS Teams and request to be added.
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The Herald's Christmas appeal, in association with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social, asks you to give a child the gift of reading 📗

GET INVOLVED: www.heraldscotland.com/opin...
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
englishscotland.bsky.social
Happy Friday from all of us at #EnglishScotland
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
We ❤️ Scotland's bookshops!

If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops.

🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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gerardbeirne.bsky.social
"The poem is a seagull resting on a pier at the end of the ocean."

Jack Spicer
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
englishscotland.bsky.social
The future of education? #EnglishScotland
chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...
ChatGPT for high school teachers
Teachers from across the U.S. shared chats they use for lesson planning, research, and administrative tasks. Tap a chat to get started.
chatgpt.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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sqanews.bsky.social
📣We're recruiting markers for the 2026 exams!

Foster, a Technical Education and STEM teacher, says marking has benefitted him in many ways.🙌

The chance to share advice with colleagues has seen him return to marking year after year.

Learn about current opportunities: info.sqa.org.uk/4nTXN7s
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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schoolreadinglist.bsky.social
80 children's and teen books about World War 2, including nonfiction, fiction, playscript & poetry titles by Michael Rosen, Bali Rai, Tom Palmer, Emma Carroll, Sufiya Ahmed, Liz Kessler, Mal Peet, Anne Frank, Ruta Sepetys & more. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/world... #teachersofx #kidlit
World War 2 books for children and teens
Children's and teen books about World War 2 with titles by Michael Rosen, Bali Rai, Tom Palmer, Sufiya Ahmed, Michael Morpurgo & Anne Frank
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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tesmagazine.bsky.social
Attempting to motivate students with warnings like ‘you won’t get a decent job without good GCSEs’ can backfire, says @mrenglishteach.bsky.social – here, he shares some alternative approaches
Do ‘fear appeals’ really motivate students to work harder?
Warning pupils about the consequences of not putting effort into their studies can backfire, writes Mark Roberts, who shares some alternative approaches to motivate classes
www.tes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
In case you haven't heard. . . It's Book Week Scotland! ❤️📚💛

Browse the many exciting events happening in your area throughout the week (many of which are free to attend) on our website: 

www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland 2025
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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asls.org.uk
Andrew O’Hagan & @moonjets.bsky.social on Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, & Bournemouth in this @lrb.co.uk podcast. When James first came to Skerryvore – RLS’s home, named for a Hebridean lighthouse – the maid mistook him for a carpet-fitter…
#RLSDay #C19
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www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Andrew O’Hagan and Thomas Jones · Semi-Recumbent in Bournemouth
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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heraldscotland.bsky.social
Help us share the magic of books this Christmas with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/opin...

@salmondsalmond.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
englishscotland.bsky.social
This is a great idea for keeping book displays current. #EnglishScotland
orkneylibrary.bsky.social Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 17d
Like #CelebrityTraitors, our Traitors display is done and has now been replaced with a #StrictlyComeDancing display. 💃🕺

The banished labels have been replaced by glitterballs.

The books have changed.

@claudiawinkleman.bsky.social endures. 🕺💃
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
englishscotland.bsky.social
Have a good week everyone. #EnglishScotland
a cartoon of a boy and a girl standing next to each other in front of a house .
ALT: a cartoon of a boy and a girl standing next to each other in front of a house .
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November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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asls.org.uk
The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …
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A green wall. On it is a piece of another wall, cut out to encompass a mural by Alasdair Gray. On the left, a red semi-heraldic Scottish lion rampant is sitting at a table, using a laptop computer. One foot is under the table grasping a computer mouse (which resembles a real mouse, apart from the cable coming out of its nose and linking it to the laptop). A scroll of paper emerges from the laptop's screen, and the lion is using a quill pen to write on it. The scroll has handwriting on it, saying words wards wurds Scots Scottish Scotch Scoatch Caledonian The scroll rolls out of the top of the laptop screen and across the rest of the wall, becoming a banner reading SCOTTISH Books
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚

The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...

This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground. Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above. Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
englishscotland.bsky.social
Get cosy with a book this week. #EnglishScotland
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-...
#RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite
The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents The Road to Mons Gaupius: Alan Montgomery
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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suecowley.bsky.social
I think if you ask parents and carers what they want from an education, a lot of them would prioritise their children being happy. Not to have fun all the time but just to feel good about going into the setting. We mustn't lose sight of that. ♥️
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#EnglishScotland
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
englishscotland.bsky.social
Really interesting thread on reading for enjoyment. ⬇️ #EnglishScotland
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Oct 26
It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
There is a silver bullet for childhood happiness: a love of reading
Bestselling children’s author Katherine Rundell says to reverse the reading crisis we must let young people rediscover the enjoyment of books — whatever they may be
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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asls.org.uk
In front of me a girl with bare feet,
in a beribboned dress, picks white
flowers in a field somewhere near Pompeii…

—Stewart Conn, “Springtime”
from IN THE KIBBLE PALACE, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1987

#Pompeii was destroyed possibly #OTD, 24 Oct, 79CE
#Roman #archaeology #poem #poetry
Stewart Conn Springtime In front of me a girl with bare feet, in a beribboned dress, picks white flowers in a field somewhere near Pompeii. Each day I look at her, head straight, right hand outstretched as she delicately plucks the stem. Was she there that night the lava flowed, birds shrivelled in the sky and lovers turned to ash, where they lay? If so, what had she done to deserve it? I wonder, will it ever be Springtime again, the blood flow freely; or has man blighted all hope of recovery? We are on borrowed time, you and I and have been from the outset. All that is left, is to live lovingly. “Flora” da Stabiae, Villa di Arianna inv. 8834 www.museoarcheologiconapoli.it A Roman fresco from Pompeii. Painted on a green background, a young woman, wearing a loose, flowing robe of white and yellow, walks away from the viewer. In her left arm she carries a basket of flowers; her dress slips off her right shoulder as she reaches out to pluck a shoot from a tall flowering plant beside her.
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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“It was one of the last autumn days when the leaves were falling in little gusts. They fell on the children who were thankful for this excuse to wriggle and for the allowable movements in brushing the leaves from their hair and laps.”

—Muriel Spark, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
#BookWormSat
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"If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now, though six years older than the man himself." She leaned against the elm. It was one of the last autumn days when the leaves were falling in little gusts. They fell on the children who were thankful for this excuse to wriggle and for the allowable movements in brushing the leaves from their hair and laps. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. I was engaged to a young man at the beginning of the War but he fell on Flanders Field," said Miss Brodie. "Are you thinking, Sandy, of doing a day's washing?" "No, Miss Brodie." "Because you have got your sleeves rolled up. I won't have to do with girls who roll up the sleeves of their blouses, however fine the weather. Roll them down at once, we are civilized beings. He fell the week before Armistice was declared. He fell like an autumn leaf, although he was only twenty-two years of age. When we go indoors we shall look on the map at Flanders, and the spot where my lover was laid before you were born. He was poor. He came from Ayrshire, a countryman, but a hardworking and clever scholar. He said, when he asked me to marry him, 'We shall have to drink water and walk slow.' That was Hugh's country way of expressing that we would live quietly. We shall drink water and walk slow. What does the saying signify, Rose?" "That you would live quietly, Miss Brodie," said Rose Stanley who six years later had a great reputation for sex.
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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📖 'Many students who could write with flair fail to do so because they cannot memorise or recall textual references…'

A major exam provider is making all its English exams open-book – could others follow suit?
Cambridge to make all IGCSE English literature exams open book
Students already had the possibility of consulting drama texts in the exam but, in future, all Cambridge IGCSE literature in English papers will be open book, including prose
www.tes.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Its day therteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: plooter
drmdempster.bsky.social Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2553...

@jamesmcenaney.bsky.social
It might seem counter-intuitive but we must give teachers less classroom time
Teachers were promised a reduction of class contact time by ninety minutes per week. This was the pledge that really mattered – the one that could…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM