Helen Bowman
@helenbowman.bsky.social
✏️ Trust Lead for English & Literacy (Primary - Secondary - AP)
✏️ Evidence Lead in Education
✏️ FCCT
✏️ Assessing & facilitating NPQLL
✏️ Mum ✏️ Own views
✏️ Send bouquets of newly-sharpened pencils
✏️ Evidence Lead in Education
✏️ FCCT
✏️ Assessing & facilitating NPQLL
✏️ Mum ✏️ Own views
✏️ Send bouquets of newly-sharpened pencils
Reason #3984 why I love my job!
(We didn’t just cuddle newborn ducklings, honest. We also thought hard about how to plan streamlined writing instruction, focusing on doing fewer things really, really well. Huge thanks to the staff at Deykin Avenue for their hard work…and for the duckling cuddles!)
(We didn’t just cuddle newborn ducklings, honest. We also thought hard about how to plan streamlined writing instruction, focusing on doing fewer things really, really well. Huge thanks to the staff at Deykin Avenue for their hard work…and for the duckling cuddles!)
March 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reason #3984 why I love my job!
(We didn’t just cuddle newborn ducklings, honest. We also thought hard about how to plan streamlined writing instruction, focusing on doing fewer things really, really well. Huge thanks to the staff at Deykin Avenue for their hard work…and for the duckling cuddles!)
(We didn’t just cuddle newborn ducklings, honest. We also thought hard about how to plan streamlined writing instruction, focusing on doing fewer things really, really well. Huge thanks to the staff at Deykin Avenue for their hard work…and for the duckling cuddles!)
A super-quick but utterly stunning read this weekend.
December 16, 2024 at 10:58 AM
A super-quick but utterly stunning read this weekend.
And now a treat for the train home
November 30, 2024 at 5:56 PM
And now a treat for the train home
Absolutely wonderful exhibition on medieval women’s writing @britishlibrary.bsky.social with wonderful woman @katylindemann.bsky.social. It is so moving to see the deeply human crossings-out and margin notes in these precious texts.
November 30, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Absolutely wonderful exhibition on medieval women’s writing @britishlibrary.bsky.social with wonderful woman @katylindemann.bsky.social. It is so moving to see the deeply human crossings-out and margin notes in these precious texts.
This excellent, and sadly very familiar, article is a tough but vital read.
I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers
Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest
inews.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 6:19 AM
This excellent, and sadly very familiar, article is a tough but vital read.
One of my all-time favourites.
#RecipeOfTheDay is one for Remembrance Sunday: Rosemary Remembrance Cake www.nigella.com/recipes/rose...
Rosemary Remembrance Cake
The food we eat connects us so deeply to those we love and, perhaps, especially so when they are no longer with us. And this recipe is really in honour of my maternal grandmother, and not just because...
www.nigella.com
November 10, 2024 at 8:20 PM
One of my all-time favourites.
There is simply nothing better than a request for ’books, please’ from a bookworm niece on her birthday. I forgot to snap a pic of the stack but I have collated the selection for posterity as I’m pretty pleased with the choices (and it will help me to avoid buying duplicates at Christmas!).
November 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
There is simply nothing better than a request for ’books, please’ from a bookworm niece on her birthday. I forgot to snap a pic of the stack but I have collated the selection for posterity as I’m pretty pleased with the choices (and it will help me to avoid buying duplicates at Christmas!).
Discovered via a recommendation from Katherine Rundell on IG, & the reason why I have been giggling and crying on the train for the last 90 mins: Clémentine Beauvais’s own translation of her superb YA novel «Les petites reines» / Piglettes. Absolutely wonderful.
September 29, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Discovered via a recommendation from Katherine Rundell on IG, & the reason why I have been giggling and crying on the train for the last 90 mins: Clémentine Beauvais’s own translation of her superb YA novel «Les petites reines» / Piglettes. Absolutely wonderful.
More ☀️📚: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors.
I’ve seen this compared to Little Women, but the similarities end with four sisters, one deceased. Most of the characters are so flawed as to be pretty unlikeable but the relationships are very well-drawn and so believable that I found myself rooting for them.
I’ve seen this compared to Little Women, but the similarities end with four sisters, one deceased. Most of the characters are so flawed as to be pretty unlikeable but the relationships are very well-drawn and so believable that I found myself rooting for them.
August 23, 2024 at 1:08 PM
More ☀️📚: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors.
I’ve seen this compared to Little Women, but the similarities end with four sisters, one deceased. Most of the characters are so flawed as to be pretty unlikeable but the relationships are very well-drawn and so believable that I found myself rooting for them.
I’ve seen this compared to Little Women, but the similarities end with four sisters, one deceased. Most of the characters are so flawed as to be pretty unlikeable but the relationships are very well-drawn and so believable that I found myself rooting for them.
I’m not *quite* back in work mode yet but I am starting to think about our trust’s new subject-specific PD offer for teachers in our secondary & AP settings, KS3-5.
So, #TeamEnglish, what’s on your wish list for valuable, high-impact, enjoyable English-specific PD?
So, #TeamEnglish, what’s on your wish list for valuable, high-impact, enjoyable English-specific PD?
August 16, 2024 at 8:12 AM
I’m not *quite* back in work mode yet but I am starting to think about our trust’s new subject-specific PD offer for teachers in our secondary & AP settings, KS3-5.
So, #TeamEnglish, what’s on your wish list for valuable, high-impact, enjoyable English-specific PD?
So, #TeamEnglish, what’s on your wish list for valuable, high-impact, enjoyable English-specific PD?
Books of the summer continued: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I mean the highest praise when I say that it reminded me of some of Maeve Binchy’s short story cycles.
August 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Books of the summer continued: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I mean the highest praise when I say that it reminded me of some of Maeve Binchy’s short story cycles.
This is the 3rd platform on which I’ve started a summer book thread; hopefully this one sticks!
First, Sandwich by Catherine Newman, inhaled in 48 hrs. The image of looking at your child & seeing all the children that she used to be nested within like a matryoshka doll might stay with me forever.
First, Sandwich by Catherine Newman, inhaled in 48 hrs. The image of looking at your child & seeing all the children that she used to be nested within like a matryoshka doll might stay with me forever.
August 14, 2024 at 2:37 PM
This is the 3rd platform on which I’ve started a summer book thread; hopefully this one sticks!
First, Sandwich by Catherine Newman, inhaled in 48 hrs. The image of looking at your child & seeing all the children that she used to be nested within like a matryoshka doll might stay with me forever.
First, Sandwich by Catherine Newman, inhaled in 48 hrs. The image of looking at your child & seeing all the children that she used to be nested within like a matryoshka doll might stay with me forever.
Monday nights restored to their proper form. #onlyconnect
August 12, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Monday nights restored to their proper form. #onlyconnect