Mary H-P
@litliverbird.bsky.social
English leader. Former School Improvement Officer. 30th year in education. Passionate about high standards, Language and Literature and reading for all. Apparently ‘formidable’
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When half term starts with a delivery from your publisher! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social
Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
When half term starts with a delivery from your publisher! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social
Thanks to @bloomsburyed.bsky.social for the advance copy. ❤️ @gwenelope.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social
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English teacher:
Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy...
#edchatie
Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy...
#edchatie
Vacancy for English teacher — Julian Girdham
We have a vacancy for a full-time English teacher, starting in September 2025.
www.juliangirdham.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
English teacher:
Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy...
#edchatie
Vacancy for a full-time permanent teacher at our school:
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/vacancy...
#edchatie
Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am looking for recommended reading on ‘I do We do You do’ in English teaching, please. Grateful for all suggestions. TIA
April 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am looking for recommended reading on ‘I do We do You do’ in English teaching, please. Grateful for all suggestions. TIA
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Link to shop: www.s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Iceland Cricket | S66 Sports
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March 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Link to shop: www.s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
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@greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way...
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@greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way...
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Getting Out of the Way
Much of my adult identity was bound up in being a teacher. For over 20 years I had lived my life by bells and terms and assessment deadlines. Most of my friends were teachers (that is still the cas…
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February 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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@greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way...
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@greeborunner.bsky.social explores why you sometimes just need to get out of teachers' way...
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One conversation can make such a difference.
February 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
One conversation can make such a difference.
Is ‘Journey to the River Sea’ more suitable for kS2 or KS3? Thanks
January 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Is ‘Journey to the River Sea’ more suitable for kS2 or KS3? Thanks
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Happy New Year! Just a quick reminder that I offer online and face-to-face GCSE English assessment, advice, tuition and training, specialising in the Eduqas qualifications. Have a look here to find out more. hughlester.wixsite.com/hughlester
#eduqas #teamenglish
#eduqas #teamenglish
Home | Hugh Lester: GCSE English assessment and training
Hugh Lester GCSE English assessment and training.
hughlester.wixsite.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Happy New Year! Just a quick reminder that I offer online and face-to-face GCSE English assessment, advice, tuition and training, specialising in the Eduqas qualifications. Have a look here to find out more. hughlester.wixsite.com/hughlester
#eduqas #teamenglish
#eduqas #teamenglish
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Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!
Let the Oxford English Faculty help with your new year resolutions:
1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters
2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith
3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition
#PoetrySky #BookSky
Links below👇
1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters
2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith
3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition
#PoetrySky #BookSky
Links below👇
January 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!
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Agree with this. We need to help teachers make better decisions not make the decisions for them. This isn't just being nice. Prescription usually doesn't work beyond basic agreed stuff around procedural routines. Even these will be subverted if people don't understand the reasons.
Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher's personality and desire for autonomy; let's celebrate that. @walkthrus.bsky.social teacherhead.com/2024/01/07/e...
Evidence-informed teaching has to be built around each teacher’s personality and desire for autonomy; let’s celebrate that.
A theme I find myself exploring a lot is the need for teachers to feel that they can be themselves in their own classrooms, expressing their personality and enjoying teaching, doing things they fee…
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January 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Agree with this. We need to help teachers make better decisions not make the decisions for them. This isn't just being nice. Prescription usually doesn't work beyond basic agreed stuff around procedural routines. Even these will be subverted if people don't understand the reasons.
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“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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December 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
Lovely English teachers - what do you have as ‘seminal world texts’ in your KS3 curriculum? Thank you
January 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Lovely English teachers - what do you have as ‘seminal world texts’ in your KS3 curriculum? Thank you
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As 2024 draws to a close, we’re reflecting on a standout moment: @samiraahmed.bsky.social's inspiring school visits⭐
We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure
We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure
December 31, 2024 at 1:50 PM
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re reflecting on a standout moment: @samiraahmed.bsky.social's inspiring school visits⭐
We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure
We’re now giving UK schools the chance to win copies of THIS BOOK WON'T BURN and INTERNMENT by sharing this post! A thread 1/3 #ReadingForPleasure
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1/? Yes, you need a menopause policy.
📝 You need it because you have a legal obligation to support employees through perimenopause and into menopause.
📝 You need it because it enables you to consider what that support might look like - and put reasonable boundaries on it.
#Edusky #UKEd
📝 You need it because you have a legal obligation to support employees through perimenopause and into menopause.
📝 You need it because it enables you to consider what that support might look like - and put reasonable boundaries on it.
#Edusky #UKEd
December 31, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜
December 2, 2024 at 1:28 PM
i have secured funding to run a summer school for secondary school teachers on language and social in/justice. it'll be over 3 days and involve teachers engaging with linguistic justice theory and applying this to practice. more details soon but feel free to express interest!💜
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To our incredible authors, without whom we wouldn't be half the company we are:
@patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social
And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!
@patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social
And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
To our incredible authors, without whom we wouldn't be half the company we are:
@patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social
And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!
@patrickcragg.bsky.social @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @litliverbird.bsky.social @amy117.bsky.social @mrs-denglish.bsky.social @mrsmacteach33.bsky.social
And we have The Quotation Bank: The Tempest coming in March!!
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The curriculum should be there to serve pupils, not teachers, argues @greeborunner.bsky.social
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The curriculum should be there to serve pupils, not teachers, argues @greeborunner.bsky.social
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Whose curriculum is it anyway?
I am aware that some of the things I am about to say are going to be considered controversial by some. That is why I want to begin by clarifying a few things. First, I believe that teachers are inc…
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December 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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The curriculum should be there to serve pupils, not teachers, argues @greeborunner.bsky.social
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The curriculum should be there to serve pupils, not teachers, argues @greeborunner.bsky.social
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Having a debate about this: what constitutes a Scheme of Work? Particularly in English. Love to hear your thoughts.
December 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Having a debate about this: what constitutes a Scheme of Work? Particularly in English. Love to hear your thoughts.
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'King Lear' scene by scene:
11 podcasts covering the play.
Just one left to come, on the final scene.
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...
11 podcasts covering the play.
Just one left to come, on the final scene.
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...
The 'King Lear scene by scene' series — Julian Girdham
Links to all the podcasts and transcripts from the ‘King Lear scene by scene’ series.
www.juliangirdham.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
'King Lear' scene by scene:
11 podcasts covering the play.
Just one left to come, on the final scene.
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...
11 podcasts covering the play.
Just one left to come, on the final scene.
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/the-kin...
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📖 Litdrive CPD 📖
Dickens: This informative session from Mary Hind-Portley and Fe Brewer looks at whether A Christmas Carol is a religious or secular text and more. 🐝
Find it here: https://buff.ly/49m1kpi
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish
Dickens: This informative session from Mary Hind-Portley and Fe Brewer looks at whether A Christmas Carol is a religious or secular text and more. 🐝
Find it here: https://buff.ly/49m1kpi
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish
December 7, 2024 at 8:00 AM
📖 Litdrive CPD 📖
Dickens: This informative session from Mary Hind-Portley and Fe Brewer looks at whether A Christmas Carol is a religious or secular text and more. 🐝
Find it here: https://buff.ly/49m1kpi
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish
Dickens: This informative session from Mary Hind-Portley and Fe Brewer looks at whether A Christmas Carol is a religious or secular text and more. 🐝
Find it here: https://buff.ly/49m1kpi
#LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish
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One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading.
Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason.
Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason.
Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 PM
One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading.
Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason.
Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason.
Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.
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Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.
November 16, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.
@greeborunner.bsky.social is one of my role models. Thank you Zoe for all you do for English and English teachers.
November 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
@greeborunner.bsky.social is one of my role models. Thank you Zoe for all you do for English and English teachers.
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To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.
Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.
You have until noon on Sunday 17th November
Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.
You have until noon on Sunday 17th November
a man wearing a floral sweater says " and good luck with that "
ALT: a man wearing a floral sweater says " and good luck with that "
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November 13, 2024 at 9:09 AM
To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.
Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.
You have until noon on Sunday 17th November
Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.
You have until noon on Sunday 17th November