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Julie Sargent
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Independent Primary English Consultant based in Oxfordshire. Co-author of Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary English: Pitching high and including all.
www.innovateducation.co.uk
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✨️ Wonderful to see the Opening Doors books at the @openuni-rfp.bsky.social and @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reading for Pleasure Conference in Milton Keynes today.

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October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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💡Poetry, prose & penny dreadfuls. A wonderful way to end the afternoon, hearing how @ipatedu.bsky.social have created exciting writing opportunities using the Opening Doors strategies.
The OD team are feeling inspired!
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October 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📚❤️ Could there be a better end to the day than taking the "blue book" (i.e. everything you need to know about Opening Doors) to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social?

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October 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Step into great texts - Melbourne Primary share their journey! @openingdoors.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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juliesargent.bsky.social Julie Sargent @juliesargent.bsky.social · Oct 7
Penn Wood sharing their journey of Opening Doors through high quality texts - inspiring! @openingdoors.bsky.social #Openingdoors
October 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Penn Wood sharing their journey of Opening Doors through high quality texts - inspiring! @openingdoors.bsky.social #Openingdoors
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Tomorrow! 👇
I’m incredibly proud of our schools! They are about to demonstrate how excellence for all is being delivered by teachers across the UK
Thanks @englishassociation.bsky.social

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October 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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It’s #NationalPoetryDay! Celebrate with this free resource from Leah Crawford that will help your pupils delve into poetry, explore its meaning and try their own hand at it!

✍️ Download it here: buff.ly/y4DImlx

📚 Discover the #OpeningDoors series: buff.ly/zOT9Hzz
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Diary filling fast for the ‘Opening Doors’ team including @juliesargent.bsky.social for @greenshawtrust.bsky.social next year; @thinktalkleah.bsky.social for Worcester LA and DCAT; Angela Jenkins for Kew Green; @lauraspargo.bsky.social for @hallsvillesch.bsky.social and Willow Green in Bedford
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Plenty of new course offers for this term and early spring. Exploring the writing and reading frameworks, with practical workshops to support! www.innovateducation.co.uk/new-events
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Fantastic news! We loved having you speak at our Trust the other year. Always great to see Opening Doors principles being used in the schools I visit.
September 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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agentapostrophe.bsky.social Tyke Teacher @agentapostrophe.bsky.social · Sep 15
Fantastic news! We loved having you speak at our Trust the other year. Always great to see Opening Doors principles being used in the schools I visit.
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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So exciting!
Sign up now or, if you are out of range, contact me about starting your own! @agentapostrophe.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @hdesilva.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social
thinktalkleah.bsky.social thinktalkleah.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social · Sep 5
*NEW* Opening Doors CPD Hub at Burford School nr Marlow Buckinghamshire launches Nov 5th with yours truly. How do we include all children in a rich and ambitious English curriculum? It's where the Becky Francis CAR will take us...join us for face to face creativity and collaboration.
September 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Free resources with full ‘Opening Doors’ units up front for you!
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Free Resources
Example Units So many teachers are asking about the ‘Opening Doors’ series as a whole that I thought I would post some full units for you to peruse and use from ‘Opening Doors to …
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September 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Thanks @englishassociation.bsky.social for a fabulous conference. I was privileged to receive a Fellowship! What a joy to meet Tim @poetrybyheart.bsky.social and @mattobin.bsky.social (great panel work!) Kirstie Hewitt, @jennyrichards.bsky.social et al. @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was terrific!
June 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Looking forward to the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference today featuring the inspirational @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social I’m privileged and proud to become a Fellow of The English Association! @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Today we started @odstschools.bsky.social writing project ‘Write from the Start’ - looking at creative approaches using high-quality texts to develop oral composition. @ianfrost28.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Fabulous - proving that there is a way of delivering an inspiring English curriculum and developing fundamental skills for writing.
lauraspargo.bsky.social Laura Spargo @lauraspargo.bsky.social · Jun 10
🐂 What a joy to be in Birmingham again, ready to deliver another practical & collaborative Opening Doors session!
❤️📚✍️ Today - poetry, prose & excellence for all!
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June 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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juliesargent.bsky.social Julie Sargent @juliesargent.bsky.social · May 21
What does Opening Doors look like in reception and Y1? Last week, I delivered an Opening Doors session exploring just this. It was lovely to get this feedback today ‘It was a fantastic meeting and left us all feeling excited about moving forward with opening doors with our younger children.’
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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What does Opening Doors look like in reception and Y1? Last week, I delivered an Opening Doors session exploring just this. It was lovely to get this feedback today ‘It was a fantastic meeting and left us all feeling excited about moving forward with opening doors with our younger children.’
May 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Excellent! Thanks Gary @natefeed.bsky.social
I think @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @myf1990.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @funkypedagogy.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social will enjoy this
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Free!
Recording plus slides of last night’s ‘Reading for Pleasure and Growth’ webinar! #openingdoors
Please circulate.
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Reading for pleasure and growth: a fresh perspective from a network of UK schools | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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If you are looking to embed grammar teaching within writing units of work and through high quality texts, please do check out these units of work.
Video Planning guidance — InnovatEducation
English planning writing units for KS1 and KS2 using texts Leon and the place between Red reading Hood Vanishing Lake Lost happy endings
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April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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For all the English teachers and grammar enthusiasts out there…
krissychula.bsky.social Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6
This is high art
April 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM