Heart is a Lonely Hunter is excellent.

Please do a DC deep dive podcast!

Oooh! New single tomorrow?

Hope the Spy & Espionage series doesn’t peter out. Great we’re getting Leonard this year, but be lovely to see some other titles, too.

Love the new single.

Not compulsory. Audiobook links for EAL parents. But hope ‘What to Read at Bedtime’ will (a) encourage parents to read bedtime stories through to Y6, (b) give opportunity for children to hear stories that might be trickier than those they’d read for themselves & (c) broaden horizons.

Thank you!

Yes: putting pupils first requires leaders to prioritise teacher workload and wellbeing

My fear is that it’ll be riddled with ‘The Adverb Problem’ & remake APP.

Be helpful to have national push on hw, as we do with phonics. One of lessons of @nomoremarking.bsky.social is that there’s a strong correlation between ‘This child has terrible handwriting’ & ‘This child doesn’t use full stops and capital letters.’

Much undervalued by younger colleagues: knowledge. If you’re engaged with the curriculum and cognitive science, you’re of great value to schools. The managing people side of it can be taught on the job.

#EdChat Outline the key knowledge in question-and-answer knowledge organisers. Organise those organisers in Knowledge Books. Set low-stakes retrieval practice quizzes for hw and in every lesson.

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