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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
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
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
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
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 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
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
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
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
So many gorgeous newly or soon-to-be published books 📚 received from publishers via our partnership with @peters-books.bsky.social … We can’t wait to sit down with a cuppa and curate our August literature review! @literacytree.bsky.social
#bookbloggers #picturebooks #middlegradenovels #kidlit
July 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We loved visiting Grangehurst in Coventry earlier this week. So many gorgeous writing displays. Here’s their take on Flotsam by David Weisner… such a clever way of theming a display board to match writing’s audience and purpose! 📷 🐟 🌊 @theliteracytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
July 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Today we’re giving our Writing Root for the poignant, FArTHER, a little glow-up. Written & illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith, the book won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2011. In our Root refresh, expect even more detail than before to help you #TeachThroughaText @theliteracytree.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Today we’re putting the finishing touches to our Online Launch 🚀 Training Day: join live or purchase a whole-school recording. This could be how you start YOUR story. Book via your dashboard ⬇️
@literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
June 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A little behind the scenes look at what we’re up to @literacytree.bsky.social
this morning: a refresh of our Writing Root for the glorious book, Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham with illustrations by Juan Wijngaard @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We adore working with teachers in our Live Planning pop-in sessions (included in your membership). First up today was a school in Norfolk and the glorious book Stanley’s Stick by #JohnHegley and #NeilLayton @literacytree.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We had an engaging & inspirational conversation with our SEND, Disability & Neurodivergence representation panel this afternoon. So many wonderful ideas & success stories to help us @literacytree.bsky.social develop support for inclusive practice #SEND
May 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Today we’re reading these three beauties, amongst others, for our June Pride Month Review: Pride is STILL a protest … it needs to be!BUT we hold onto hope for the future with life-changing literature @literacytree.bsky.social #LGBTQIA+
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Help!! We’re lost * in the Wilds of Leicestershire…

* not really but to help our character out of his predicament, we’ve instant published S.O.S notes!
@literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We are ready to launch 🚀 at Kilby Saint Mary’s C of E in Leicestershire. Glorious day and gorgeous village school. All the special paper is at the ready and we’ve even plasticine!! 🪴
@literacytree.bsky.social #TeachThroughaText
April 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Delighted to have worked with Nassington, Warmington & Titchmarsh Schools this afternoon in North Northants. Three lovely schools in the rolling countryside… and plenty of Wilderness surrounding us! #TeachThroughaText @literacytree.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What a lovely start to the week! We’ve had the pleasure of reading amazing writing outcomes at The Minster Infants, Croydon this morning. Thoughtful pieces inspired by Last Stop on Market Street 🚌 … @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @literacytree.bsky.social
#TeachThroughaText
April 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM