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Pippa McGeoch
@literacypippa.bsky.social
Senior Literacy Consultant at Literacy Tree
We #TeachThroughaText 📚

🌐 https://literacytree.com/
We’re in Hollywood Primary School, Birmingham for a second day this week. Today we’re running live, in-person planning surgeries for class teachers to help get the best out of our #TeachThroughaText approach @literacytree.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Golden feathers bringing the magic at our staff meeting on adapting planning @lingfieldprepschool today #teachingthroughatext #literacytree #firebird #saviourpirotta #sentencestripsgamechanger #scaffoldingwriting #rosenshine #zoneofpromiximaldevelopment
October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So lovely to see Grangehurst Primary, Coventry adopting the ‘Bring and Brag’ style of book-looks between staff. A great way to share and celebrate each year group’s achievements in writing so far this year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today has been a jam packed day: looking at book recommendations, working on guidance notes and reflection points for our Writing Root on Stonewall by Rob Sanders #TeachThroughaText and writing blog content!
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Back in school today face to face with the brilliant team at St Mark’s. Co-planning, looking through books and admiring some of the lovely displays and work children have already completed 4 weeks into the school year! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Gorgeous to see Discovery Points immersing Y1 and Y2 children in new texts #theoddegg #toysinspace Classrooms were hives of purposeful talk, ambitious vocabulary and collaborative learning + pretty excited children, eager to write! #workingwalls
@blackheathprepschool
#teachthroughatext
#literacytree
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thank you to the team at The British International School of Kuala Lumpur @nordanglia.bsky.social for hosting our visit this morning. The balance of nurture, community, excellence, academics, the arts, sport, values and so much more makes for an incredible setting! @literacytree.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Fabulous to work with school leaders in Kensington & Chelsea this week, who are banging the drum for empowering children to find and express their own voice. #impactoforacy = hot topic
#neilmercer
#cambridgeuniversitypress
#oracyascurriculum
#keeplearning
September 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Today, we were @vangoghprimaryschool - well, what a start to the new school year! Kicking off with the fabulous whole-school Writing Root #flowerblock, written by the wonderful #lanishabutterfield, the children are immersed! Incredible displays, writing and working walls - so much to celebrate
September 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We are delivering our #TeachThroughaText in Year 1 sessions today - member schools this morning and EEF schools this afternoon. It’s dragons galore with @emmayarlett.bsky.social and Dragon Post ✉️ GORGEOUS book!! 📕 @literacytree.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A joy to kick off my ‘Finding Their Story’ book clubs in both Stanley Grove and Jerry Clay Primaries today, both part of @accomplishmat.bsky.social A 4-week book club to help children find the books that make them tick the most #lovewhatIdo 🥰📚
September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What an incredibly strong start Belmont School in Harrow have got off to! Look at these displays spotted around school. Truly celebrating all writing and allowing children to become authors 📕 🖊️ #TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It was super fun delivering a session for @lb-southwark.bsky.social today for new English Subject Leads. We talked priorities, strategies and action plans. Next session: 25th November for all English leads in Southwark where we’ll consider what the New Writing 🖋️ Framework means for our schools 🏫
September 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Today was @literacytree.bsky.social
#TeachThroughaText day 1 for year 2 teachers. Member schools joined this morning & our EEF cohort had their session this afternoon… in excess of a phenomenal 80(!) teachers attended to discuss literary cultures, audience & purpose and The 🐻 & The Piano 🎹 🌹
September 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Another full day of meeting our lovely new schools online as they access our onboarding process ☺️. Looking forward to supporting such ambitious and passionate teachers and leaders on their LT journey! #getcreative @literacytree.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We are LIVE! Live planning today, that is. Such a treat to work with new teachers and some familiar faces too. Our 15-minute, fortnightly sessions are available FREE for member schools and bookable via your dashboard 🏫 @literacytree.bsky.social Let us help you #TeachThroughaText
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September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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A joyful day of meeting some of my new Literacy Tree schools today as they have their initial onboarding meeting with me as their link consultant. Great to meet so many new schools from across the UK in one day and really looking forward to supporting them moving forwards! @literacytree.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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We’ve been at St Paul’s Primary in Walworth today seeing gorgeous books - evidence of children loving writing 2 weeks into their new term! @literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We’re thoroughly enjoying our visit to Warmington Primary School in North Northants today. We’ve planned long term, daily and everything else in between to #TeachThroughaText in their mixed-age classrooms. Instant publishing on special paper all the way @literacytree.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@literacyhannah.bsky.social Thought you might like to see this! It’s grrrrreat!! 🐅
Year 6 classroom was destroyed by a ferocious but majestic tiger! Pupils discussed and debated poaching and wrote eye-catching fact files with a range of captivating expanded noun phrases - what a great start Year 6! @literacypippa.bsky.social Can We Save the Tiger🐅 @brunswickparkps.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Busy busy busy! Year 6 have categorised and organised our classroom book shelf! It seems we love to enter the world of fiction! Who wouldn't! 🤗🤩 @brunswickparkps.bsky.social @literacypippa.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It’s a joy to return to High Peak in north Derbyshire today. We’re launching at Padfield Community Primary with the beautiful Fox 🦊 and the Star 🌟 by Coralie Bickford Smith… the school setting is perfect for being out in nature! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We’re thrilled to be launching at South End Juniors School in Rushden today using The Wilderness but first just LOOK 👀 at the gorgeous learning environment here…#TeachThroughAText @literacytree.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We’re excited to be spending the day at Kilby CE in Leicestershire! An introduction to Spelling Seeds so embedded spelling opportunities can be capitalised upon across their small school setting 🏫 🖊️ #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It was super tricky to whittle down the many books we’ve kindly been sent by publishers for our August edit. SO much choice! Here are just six brilliant, newly or soon-to-be published children’s books. Blogpost coming soon! @literacytree.bsky.social @peters-books.bsky.social #bookblogger #kidlit
July 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM