Lift Lessons
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We are all about supporting spoken language so students can access science. Home to science video resources and also Concept Cat.
Yes, we sell stuff but it is a passion project first and foremost.
#STEM #oracy #vocabulary #DevLangDis
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Yes, we sell stuff but it is a passion project first and foremost.
#STEM #oracy #vocabulary #DevLangDis
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We created our science videos and resources after recognising as teachers that vocabulary was a major stumbling block for many of our students. We invested a lot of time (and money!) into making the animations look cool as well as being effective liftlessons.co/science-home
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As the NHS struggles to cope with the surging flu outbreak, some suggest shutting schools as a fire break. But as Covid taught us, this would have huge ramifications for both children & families. That decision should only ever be taken if it has become impossible to staff a school safely.
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As the NHS struggles to cope with the surging flu outbreak, some suggest shutting schools as a fire break. But as Covid taught us, this would have huge ramifications for both children & families. That decision should only ever be taken if it has become impossible to staff a school safely.
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In the last decade 21 countries have
been able to grow economically while reducing emissions including Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico & South Africa.
US, Japan, Canada and most EU countries consistently achieved decoupling in the decades before & after 2015
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
been able to grow economically while reducing emissions including Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico & South Africa.
US, Japan, Canada and most EU countries consistently achieved decoupling in the decades before & after 2015
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In the last decade 21 countries have
been able to grow economically while reducing emissions including Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico & South Africa.
US, Japan, Canada and most EU countries consistently achieved decoupling in the decades before & after 2015
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
been able to grow economically while reducing emissions including Australia, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico & South Africa.
US, Japan, Canada and most EU countries consistently achieved decoupling in the decades before & after 2015
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Does your school have a great #PastoralCare idea that deserves recognition?
ENTER/NOMINATE NOW! 'Pastoral Development of the Year' Award🏆
Enter the National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education 2026 here: https://www.napce.org.uk/national-awards-for-pastoral-care-in-education-2026-entry-now-open
ENTER/NOMINATE NOW! 'Pastoral Development of the Year' Award🏆
Enter the National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education 2026 here: https://www.napce.org.uk/national-awards-for-pastoral-care-in-education-2026-entry-now-open
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Does your school have a great #PastoralCare idea that deserves recognition?
ENTER/NOMINATE NOW! 'Pastoral Development of the Year' Award🏆
Enter the National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education 2026 here: https://www.napce.org.uk/national-awards-for-pastoral-care-in-education-2026-entry-now-open
ENTER/NOMINATE NOW! 'Pastoral Development of the Year' Award🏆
Enter the National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education 2026 here: https://www.napce.org.uk/national-awards-for-pastoral-care-in-education-2026-entry-now-open
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I also had a positive experience in A&E recently. 4 hours, a CT scan to check for brain bleed and stroke, loads of tests. Sent home with - Labyrinthitis, which was awful but not as bad as they initially thought.
All for free.
Privatising the NHS would be tragic.
All for free.
Privatising the NHS would be tragic.
December 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I also had a positive experience in A&E recently. 4 hours, a CT scan to check for brain bleed and stroke, loads of tests. Sent home with - Labyrinthitis, which was awful but not as bad as they initially thought.
All for free.
Privatising the NHS would be tragic.
All for free.
Privatising the NHS would be tragic.
Amazing story, but needs to come with a health warning for anyone with a fear of heights 😦
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Video shows moment skydiver cuts himself free from tangled parachute
Australia's transport safety investigator has released video footage of a skydiver cutting himself free from his parachute after it became snagged on a plane wing in mid-air.
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Amazing story, but needs to come with a health warning for anyone with a fear of heights 😦
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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This is unacceptable.
We already know children with speech and language challenges are being unfairly punished at school.
Two million children are facing this – children need support, not sanctions.
✍️ Sign our petition and change this today!
https://bit.ly/3KoEm97
We already know children with speech and language challenges are being unfairly punished at school.
Two million children are facing this – children need support, not sanctions.
✍️ Sign our petition and change this today!
https://bit.ly/3KoEm97
‘Rigid’ behaviour policies under fire in safeguarding review
‘Zero-tolerance’ discipline risks harming vulnerable students at London academy, finds independent report
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is unacceptable.
We already know children with speech and language challenges are being unfairly punished at school.
Two million children are facing this – children need support, not sanctions.
✍️ Sign our petition and change this today!
https://bit.ly/3KoEm97
We already know children with speech and language challenges are being unfairly punished at school.
Two million children are facing this – children need support, not sanctions.
✍️ Sign our petition and change this today!
https://bit.ly/3KoEm97
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Excited to promote this new book from Sue Woodward and Janella Christie of the Trinh Foundation Australia. "A way with words" chronicles the development of the #slp #SLT profession in Vietnam. #bskyspeechies
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Excited to promote this new book from Sue Woodward and Janella Christie of the Trinh Foundation Australia. "A way with words" chronicles the development of the #slp #SLT profession in Vietnam. #bskyspeechies
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Wow! When an experienced teacher writes a summary of our work (without any input from us) and it is so spot on we know we are getting it right.
Thank you to Claire Stanley from Goodway Nursery School and @midlandssph.bsky.social.
Concept Cat is now one of @theeef.bsky.social's promising programmes!
Thank you to Claire Stanley from Goodway Nursery School and @midlandssph.bsky.social.
Concept Cat is now one of @theeef.bsky.social's promising programmes!
🐾 Concept Cat is a new EEF Promising Programme, recognised for boosting early verbal concepts in nursery settings.
Goodway Nursery School's Claire Stanley shares how careful implementation, staff training, and playful sessions helped children make impressive gains.
Read: tinyurl.com/px5453et
Goodway Nursery School's Claire Stanley shares how careful implementation, staff training, and playful sessions helped children make impressive gains.
Read: tinyurl.com/px5453et
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Wow! When an experienced teacher writes a summary of our work (without any input from us) and it is so spot on we know we are getting it right.
Thank you to Claire Stanley from Goodway Nursery School and @midlandssph.bsky.social.
Concept Cat is now one of @theeef.bsky.social's promising programmes!
Thank you to Claire Stanley from Goodway Nursery School and @midlandssph.bsky.social.
Concept Cat is now one of @theeef.bsky.social's promising programmes!
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I read 80 books this year! Check out my entire reading list and some ideas on how to read more books here:
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I read 80 books this year! Check out my entire reading list and some ideas on how to read more books here:
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
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I wrote for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the special needs problem highlighted by the budget and the big political battle over it coming next year.
share.google/kTTENR1gX4Y4...
share.google/kTTENR1gX4Y4...
Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education | The Observer
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November 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I wrote for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the special needs problem highlighted by the budget and the big political battle over it coming next year.
share.google/kTTENR1gX4Y4...
share.google/kTTENR1gX4Y4...
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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#SEND need to be a little higher up the government's agenda. Time for a little activism!
Read the report: speechandlanguage.org.uk/how-to-spend...
Sign up to send the report to Rachel Reeves.
speechandlanguage.eaction.org.uk/fight-for-or...
Read the report: speechandlanguage.org.uk/how-to-spend...
Sign up to send the report to Rachel Reeves.
speechandlanguage.eaction.org.uk/fight-for-or...
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#SEND need to be a little higher up the government's agenda. Time for a little activism!
Read the report: speechandlanguage.org.uk/how-to-spend...
Sign up to send the report to Rachel Reeves.
speechandlanguage.eaction.org.uk/fight-for-or...
Read the report: speechandlanguage.org.uk/how-to-spend...
Sign up to send the report to Rachel Reeves.
speechandlanguage.eaction.org.uk/fight-for-or...
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Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
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One week to go until next week's Word Aware whole school vocabulary course. Suitable for teachers of all types as well as SaLT. Tried and tested, so you know it will impact on children!
Online and good value.
thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...
Online and good value.
thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
One week to go until next week's Word Aware whole school vocabulary course. Suitable for teachers of all types as well as SaLT. Tried and tested, so you know it will impact on children!
Online and good value.
thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...
Online and good value.
thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...
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💡Don’t forget to join tomorrow’s Wednesday webinar!
⏰4-5pm
📲Register here: tinyurl.com/2p9jd8my
#earlyyears #education #abrighterstart #teaching #nursery #practitioners #ShREC #teachers
⏰4-5pm
📲Register here: tinyurl.com/2p9jd8my
#earlyyears #education #abrighterstart #teaching #nursery #practitioners #ShREC #teachers
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
💡Don’t forget to join tomorrow’s Wednesday webinar!
⏰4-5pm
📲Register here: tinyurl.com/2p9jd8my
#earlyyears #education #abrighterstart #teaching #nursery #practitioners #ShREC #teachers
⏰4-5pm
📲Register here: tinyurl.com/2p9jd8my
#earlyyears #education #abrighterstart #teaching #nursery #practitioners #ShREC #teachers
Vocabulary is crucial to accessing science, but it is abstract and challenging for many. Lift Lessons resources make all of the difference. Check them out today. Free 7 day trial too.
www.naplic.org.uk/membership/
www.naplic.org.uk/membership/
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Vocabulary is crucial to accessing science, but it is abstract and challenging for many. Lift Lessons resources make all of the difference. Check them out today. Free 7 day trial too.
www.naplic.org.uk/membership/
www.naplic.org.uk/membership/
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 15
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 15
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💜What does it mean if your sibling has DLD?
This books explains a diagnosis & gives them words to explain it to others.
💛 Looks at skills they have as a sibling & how to look after themselves.
💜 Available via online retailers.
My brother has DLD amzn.eu/d/8Hyb20V
My sister has DLD amzn.eu/d/dbF0oIT
This books explains a diagnosis & gives them words to explain it to others.
💛 Looks at skills they have as a sibling & how to look after themselves.
💜 Available via online retailers.
My brother has DLD amzn.eu/d/8Hyb20V
My sister has DLD amzn.eu/d/dbF0oIT
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
💜What does it mean if your sibling has DLD?
This books explains a diagnosis & gives them words to explain it to others.
💛 Looks at skills they have as a sibling & how to look after themselves.
💜 Available via online retailers.
My brother has DLD amzn.eu/d/8Hyb20V
My sister has DLD amzn.eu/d/dbF0oIT
This books explains a diagnosis & gives them words to explain it to others.
💛 Looks at skills they have as a sibling & how to look after themselves.
💜 Available via online retailers.
My brother has DLD amzn.eu/d/8Hyb20V
My sister has DLD amzn.eu/d/dbF0oIT
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At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
This is a pleasant surprise.
10 countries have 100% renewable electricity. Including 4 in Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
10 countries have 100% renewable electricity. Including 4 in Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of countries by renewable electricity production - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a pleasant surprise.
10 countries have 100% renewable electricity. Including 4 in Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
10 countries have 100% renewable electricity. Including 4 in Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children this half-term! If, like, me, you're looking for some easy, fun, educational activities to do, let me remind you of this thread of FREE videos of TOYS you can make, all of which work using some sort of scientific principle and involve some ENGINEERING
Fellow parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children over half-term! Here is a thread of videos showing TOYS you can MAKE at home from scrap stuff you probably have lying around. First, the utterly delightful "balancing bird" alomshaha.com/balancing-bi...
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Parents! Carers! Anyone looking after children this half-term! If, like, me, you're looking for some easy, fun, educational activities to do, let me remind you of this thread of FREE videos of TOYS you can make, all of which work using some sort of scientific principle and involve some ENGINEERING
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🚨 Wide gaps in waiting times for a SEND diagnosis by socio-economic background 🚨
Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents.
More from our work on the SEND system 👇
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents.
More from our work on the SEND system 👇
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🚨 Wide gaps in waiting times for a SEND diagnosis by socio-economic background 🚨
Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents.
More from our work on the SEND system 👇
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
Our new research shows that middle-class parents have shorter waiting times for formal SEND diagnoses than working-class parents.
More from our work on the SEND system 👇
www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
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Last week we celebrated DLD (developmental language disorder) awareness day which was much needed.
Huge thanks to Stephen Parsons for writing a guest blog on this subject. Please share!
#DLD #dyslexia #neurodiversity
louiseselbydyslexia.com/guest-blog-d...
Huge thanks to Stephen Parsons for writing a guest blog on this subject. Please share!
#DLD #dyslexia #neurodiversity
louiseselbydyslexia.com/guest-blog-d...
Guest Blog: Developmental Language Disorder: what it is, how to identify it and how it is linked to dyslexia. - Louise Selby Dyslexia Specialist
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is one of the most common yet least known neurodevelopmental conditions, affecting around two children in every classroom. Like dyslexia, it runs in families, has...
louiseselbydyslexia.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Last week we celebrated DLD (developmental language disorder) awareness day which was much needed.
Huge thanks to Stephen Parsons for writing a guest blog on this subject. Please share!
#DLD #dyslexia #neurodiversity
louiseselbydyslexia.com/guest-blog-d...
Huge thanks to Stephen Parsons for writing a guest blog on this subject. Please share!
#DLD #dyslexia #neurodiversity
louiseselbydyslexia.com/guest-blog-d...
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Already starting to think about next year! #DLDday 2026! 💛The post by @official_jfhasselbaink & @laurenmayoakley feels like something major has happened this year.💜 I’m sure he has been inundated with requests already!! (Both welcome to join us in Brum next year!!) #devlangdis #birmingham
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Already starting to think about next year! #DLDday 2026! 💛The post by @official_jfhasselbaink & @laurenmayoakley feels like something major has happened this year.💜 I’m sure he has been inundated with requests already!! (Both welcome to join us in Brum next year!!) #devlangdis #birmingham
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#DLDday is wonderful!
But we need to keep raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) so we can have a far bigger impact.
Sign up to become a RADLD ambassador.
radld.org/get-involved...
#DevLangDis
But we need to keep raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) so we can have a far bigger impact.
Sign up to become a RADLD ambassador.
radld.org/get-involved...
#DevLangDis
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#DLDday is wonderful!
But we need to keep raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) so we can have a far bigger impact.
Sign up to become a RADLD ambassador.
radld.org/get-involved...
#DevLangDis
But we need to keep raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) so we can have a far bigger impact.
Sign up to become a RADLD ambassador.
radld.org/get-involved...
#DevLangDis