Ms H
@bogaloboll.bsky.social
EY/Y1 teacher/leader from Bristol. Recently arrived from the other place!
Great opportunity to plea for more support for KS1 with this fantastic guidance. #KS1 #play #continuousprovision
Five years after its publication, Birth to 5 Matters (Bto5M) – Guidance by the sector, for the sector is to be reviewed to create an enhanced second edition. Read more: buff.ly/QTYZOfK #Bto5M #BirthToFiveMatters #BirthToFive #EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation
Birth to 5 Matters to be updated in a second edition — CREC
Five years after its publication, Birth to 5 Matters (Bto5M) – Guidance by the sector, for the sector is to be reviewed to create an enhanced second edition. An online survey has been launched to…
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Great opportunity to plea for more support for KS1 with this fantastic guidance. #KS1 #play #continuousprovision
Looking for an early writing rope diagram, thinking shoulder girdle strength, GPC, etc. I've made my own crude version but keen to see other ideas. #eyfs
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Looking for an early writing rope diagram, thinking shoulder girdle strength, GPC, etc. I've made my own crude version but keen to see other ideas. #eyfs
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99.9% sure I'm going to join @greenparty.org.uk but just querying education policy. 3 brief but big idea bullet points on education on their website, plus promise of universal childcare. Anything else I'm missing?
October 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
99.9% sure I'm going to join @greenparty.org.uk but just querying education policy. 3 brief but big idea bullet points on education on their website, plus promise of universal childcare. Anything else I'm missing?
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New blog
ruthswailes.com/handwriting-readiness-and-rhythm-finding-balance-between-policy-and-practice/
ruthswailes.com/handwriting-readiness-and-rhythm-finding-balance-between-policy-and-practice/
Handwriting, Readiness and Rhythm: Finding Balance Between Policy and Practice. - Ruth Swailes
When the DfE Writing Framework (2025) landed, many of us read the line about children in Reception being taught to “form lower-case and capital letters correctly” and felt that familiar flicker of ten...
ruthswailes.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We're playing staff cluedo for the first two weeks of term and it is disturbing how devious my lovely colleagues can be! Wanted to play it on for ages and it's going brilliantly. Highly recommended!
September 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We're playing staff cluedo for the first two weeks of term and it is disturbing how devious my lovely colleagues can be! Wanted to play it on for ages and it's going brilliantly. Highly recommended!
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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How do people manage the whole class all in on the first day?! 🤯 More importantly, that can't be beneficial for the children.
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
How do people manage the whole class all in on the first day?! 🤯 More importantly, that can't be beneficial for the children.
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1/ Michael Gove reshaped English education more than any minister since 1944. His reforms continue to structure the present despite many changes of Government. A thread.
August 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
1/ Michael Gove reshaped English education more than any minister since 1944. His reforms continue to structure the present despite many changes of Government. A thread.
Brilliant thread on how GMS is absent when actually it should be at the forefront. Ironically this new framework making me reflect and adapt planning to push GMS even more!
Yesterday I started a thorough critique of “The writing framework". It’s 150 pages long and there are only 2 very superficial mentions of gross motor skills that I can find. Not a single mention of embodied cognition. A shockingly poor and potentially dangerous omission at a time when we know more
July 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Brilliant thread on how GMS is absent when actually it should be at the forefront. Ironically this new framework making me reflect and adapt planning to push GMS even more!
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Exclusive: Ruth Miskin announces new handwriting programme for schools – days after government reveals new focus on handwriting, following her advice
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-mi...
Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-mi...
Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
Education Uncovered | News| Ruth Miskin announces "new handwriting programme" for schools – days after government reveals new focus on handwriting, following her advice
Rival phonics publishers furious about what they see as unfair commercial advantage given to Ms Miskin in formulation of DfE's new writing framework, which Ms Miskin denies.
educationuncovered.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Exclusive: Ruth Miskin announces new handwriting programme for schools – days after government reveals new focus on handwriting, following her advice
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-mi...
Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/ruth-mi...
Rival phonics publishers furious about what one described as “institutional capture” of DfE policymaking.
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Looking at this it seems possible that the “they all forget everything over the summer holidays” mantra is a myth. Fact is, they struggle to learn anything in the second half of the summer term.
July 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looking at this it seems possible that the “they all forget everything over the summer holidays” mantra is a myth. Fact is, they struggle to learn anything in the second half of the summer term.
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This is from the DfE writing framework about early mark making and quite frankly I think it's unevidenced nonsense.
"However, unlike babies babbling before they speak, ‘emergent writing’ is not a necessary stage that children have to go through before they can be taught to write letters and words."
"However, unlike babies babbling before they speak, ‘emergent writing’ is not a necessary stage that children have to go through before they can be taught to write letters and words."
July 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is from the DfE writing framework about early mark making and quite frankly I think it's unevidenced nonsense.
"However, unlike babies babbling before they speak, ‘emergent writing’ is not a necessary stage that children have to go through before they can be taught to write letters and words."
"However, unlike babies babbling before they speak, ‘emergent writing’ is not a necessary stage that children have to go through before they can be taught to write letters and words."
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The English Association also offers some scepticism/criticism of current versions of “knowledge-rich” approaches to English, despite the review having embraced this term. Both associations also critical of the phonics screening check.
July 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The English Association also offers some scepticism/criticism of current versions of “knowledge-rich” approaches to English, despite the review having embraced this term. Both associations also critical of the phonics screening check.
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Poverty is a political choice, and this Government could be making different ones.
Tax the super-rich properly. Don't punish disabled people.
Tax the super-rich properly. Don't punish disabled people.
The Government's own assessment says 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into poverty by its plans to change the welfare system.
Many Labour MPs are now doing the right thing and attempting to stop this cruel Bill.
Remember, poverty is a political choice.
Many Labour MPs are now doing the right thing and attempting to stop this cruel Bill.
Remember, poverty is a political choice.
June 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Poverty is a political choice, and this Government could be making different ones.
Tax the super-rich properly. Don't punish disabled people.
Tax the super-rich properly. Don't punish disabled people.
Rubbish half term weather doing wonders for my report writing! So much easier when there's no temptation of a sunny garden.
May 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Rubbish half term weather doing wonders for my report writing! So much easier when there's no temptation of a sunny garden.
Another study showing the positive impact of EY on lifelong outcomes. Why is it so radical to invest in something with proven impact? Big opportunity for this labour gov to be bold...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Another study showing the positive impact of EY on lifelong outcomes. Why is it so radical to invest in something with proven impact? Big opportunity for this labour gov to be bold...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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I wrote this last year but it’s worth sharing again. I heard a similar thing to this again today (not from colleagues in my own school) It’s so, so frustrating this viewpoint lingers. Insidious and deeply depressing.
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/c...
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/c...
Can you be a good teacher if you don’t have kids?
Yes, unequivocally. What a stupid question. Of course you can. Likewise, you can be a good school leader if you don’t have kids. But teachers who don’t have children are often treated differently i…
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I wrote this last year but it’s worth sharing again. I heard a similar thing to this again today (not from colleagues in my own school) It’s so, so frustrating this viewpoint lingers. Insidious and deeply depressing.
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/c...
birminghamteacher.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/c...
Some great work happening in Bristol to support Y1. Wellbeing is definitely a positive impact I've observed in play based Y1.
“Further findings, just published in the journal Developmental Psychology, suggest that children’s wellbeing at school declines on average between Reception and Year 1.”
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
It takes parents a year to ‘tune in’ to their child’s feelings about starting school
Findings from a major Cambridge-led study inspired psychologists to co-produce a picture book that helps parents develop a deeper understanding of how their child is coping with the first year of scho...
www.cam.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Some great work happening in Bristol to support Y1. Wellbeing is definitely a positive impact I've observed in play based Y1.
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“Further findings, just published in the journal Developmental Psychology, suggest that children’s wellbeing at school declines on average between Reception and Year 1.”
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
It takes parents a year to ‘tune in’ to their child’s feelings about starting school
Findings from a major Cambridge-led study inspired psychologists to co-produce a picture book that helps parents develop a deeper understanding of how their child is coping with the first year of scho...
www.cam.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“Further findings, just published in the journal Developmental Psychology, suggest that children’s wellbeing at school declines on average between Reception and Year 1.”
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/read...
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Head: Now do you understand why you might have upset everyone...
Student:
... No.
Student:
... No.
April 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Head: Now do you understand why you might have upset everyone...
Student:
... No.
Student:
... No.
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A few back, my then 5yo had ENDLESS questions & wondering about the natural world so we made a dialogic, nature-inspired website called Odd One Out.
It was inspired by the math website Which One Doesn’t Belong (WODB).
Might be time to dust it off and create some new resources.
ooo.education
It was inspired by the math website Which One Doesn’t Belong (WODB).
Might be time to dust it off and create some new resources.
ooo.education
April 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A few back, my then 5yo had ENDLESS questions & wondering about the natural world so we made a dialogic, nature-inspired website called Odd One Out.
It was inspired by the math website Which One Doesn’t Belong (WODB).
Might be time to dust it off and create some new resources.
ooo.education
It was inspired by the math website Which One Doesn’t Belong (WODB).
Might be time to dust it off and create some new resources.
ooo.education
39% of teachers working on bank holiday Monday - really fitting into the lazy teachers that finish at 3pm narrative....!
April 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
39% of teachers working on bank holiday Monday - really fitting into the lazy teachers that finish at 3pm narrative....!