Morag Scott-Smith
@scottinthesouth.bsky.social
Oxford-dwelling primary teacher. History and music-lover. Mother of daughters.
Assistant Head - Curriculum Lead
Induction Tutor
Year 2
Assistant Head - Curriculum Lead
Induction Tutor
Year 2
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5 steps to asking great questions
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November 9, 2024 at 12:11 PM
5 steps to asking great questions
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We provide professional learning informed by research for teachers and schools. Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
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We provide professional learning informed by research for teachers and schools. Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
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I sometimes get asked about the common issues I see across primary schools and the kind of support I offer as a result. This brief blog explains this stuff.
This is my first new blog on Blue Sky so reposts much appreciated.
primarycolour.home.blog/2024/09/08/h...
This is my first new blog on Blue Sky so reposts much appreciated.
primarycolour.home.blog/2024/09/08/h...
How I Try to Help Schools to Teach Reading More Effectively
Warning: Parts of this blog are going to feel like an advertisement for my consultancy work and books. This is unavoidable as I have written this for those who ask me about the issues relating to read...
primarycolour.home.blog
September 8, 2024 at 10:51 AM
I sometimes get asked about the common issues I see across primary schools and the kind of support I offer as a result. This brief blog explains this stuff.
This is my first new blog on Blue Sky so reposts much appreciated.
primarycolour.home.blog/2024/09/08/h...
This is my first new blog on Blue Sky so reposts much appreciated.
primarycolour.home.blog/2024/09/08/h...
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Lovely picture book assembly for the new KS1 pupils. Charlie and Lola: I am too absolutely small for school.
And they are!
#EduSkyPrimary
#Picturebooks
And they are!
#EduSkyPrimary
#Picturebooks
September 4, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Lovely picture book assembly for the new KS1 pupils. Charlie and Lola: I am too absolutely small for school.
And they are!
#EduSkyPrimary
#Picturebooks
And they are!
#EduSkyPrimary
#Picturebooks
September 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Ofsted has proposed major changes to inspection in response to its Big Listen today – from a rebuilt framework to a new focus on inclusion.
⏱️ Our graphic below details a timeline of the reforms, and you can read more about them here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
⏱️ Our graphic below details a timeline of the reforms, and you can read more about them here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
September 3, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Ofsted has proposed major changes to inspection in response to its Big Listen today – from a rebuilt framework to a new focus on inclusion.
⏱️ Our graphic below details a timeline of the reforms, and you can read more about them here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
⏱️ Our graphic below details a timeline of the reforms, and you can read more about them here: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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Results of the Big Listen and resulting changes to Ofsted inspections:
schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsteds-big-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsteds-big-...
Ofsted's Big Listen: The 12 policies schools need to know
Monday Ofsted calls, reformed framework and new safeguarding letters announced
schoolsweek.co.uk
September 3, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Results of the Big Listen and resulting changes to Ofsted inspections:
schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsteds-big-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsteds-big-...
You. Are. Welcome.
This is a repost from Dara O’Briain on The Other Place - every single song from ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ Albums 1-114! 228 hours of music!
spotify.link/KyKMUhaazMb
spotify.link/KyKMUhaazMb
Now 1 - 114 (1983 - 2023) Now That's What I Call Music 1 - 114
Playlist · abundantmusic · 4585 items · 23.9K likes
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September 2, 2024 at 9:05 PM
You. Are. Welcome.
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NEW BLOG: Where have all the Headteachers gone? #Edusky #Schools #Headteacher @headteacherchat.bsky.social @teachertapp.bsky.social pls share. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/w...
Where have all the Headteachers gone…?
Being a Headteacher was what I wanted to do since I first stepped into the classroom in 1996. I turned 50 last week. Properly old! I've also been asked by the lovely people at Bloomsbury to write a bo...
southgloshead.wordpress.com
August 31, 2024 at 9:03 PM
NEW BLOG: Where have all the Headteachers gone? #Edusky #Schools #Headteacher @headteacherchat.bsky.social @teachertapp.bsky.social pls share. southgloshead.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/w...
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I think you can have a balance of those things though. I hope that a balance of materials can be used as a starting point — teachers are responsible for the ‘fruitful encounter’ with the content, but are given a starting point from which to consider their children.
August 31, 2024 at 9:36 AM
I think you can have a balance of those things though. I hope that a balance of materials can be used as a starting point — teachers are responsible for the ‘fruitful encounter’ with the content, but are given a starting point from which to consider their children.
19y since excitedly awaiting beginning PGCE @ioe.bsky.social Oct '05.
So many excellent friends, colleagues, inspirations there and beyond. Happy to still be in touch with many/enjoy watching from afar/know could pick up phone & be right back into it with them!
Special place & time.
#EduSky
So many excellent friends, colleagues, inspirations there and beyond. Happy to still be in touch with many/enjoy watching from afar/know could pick up phone & be right back into it with them!
Special place & time.
#EduSky
August 31, 2024 at 12:22 PM
19y since excitedly awaiting beginning PGCE @ioe.bsky.social Oct '05.
So many excellent friends, colleagues, inspirations there and beyond. Happy to still be in touch with many/enjoy watching from afar/know could pick up phone & be right back into it with them!
Special place & time.
#EduSky
So many excellent friends, colleagues, inspirations there and beyond. Happy to still be in touch with many/enjoy watching from afar/know could pick up phone & be right back into it with them!
Special place & time.
#EduSky
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Yes, I think you’re right. It’s also an acknowledgement that we don’t have a lot of time in schools. What we ask teachers to attend to matters. If we can provide access to a high quality starting point, then we ask teachers to attend to adapting, rather than making the same things loads of times.
August 31, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Yes, I think you’re right. It’s also an acknowledgement that we don’t have a lot of time in schools. What we ask teachers to attend to matters. If we can provide access to a high quality starting point, then we ask teachers to attend to adapting, rather than making the same things loads of times.
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Maybe then it's more a question of leadership / culture - how to promote ownership but not necessarily authorship of lessons and materials.
August 31, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Maybe then it's more a question of leadership / culture - how to promote ownership but not necessarily authorship of lessons and materials.
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@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Becky Francis: what the curriculum and assessment review will and won't do
Writing exclusively for Tes, Professor Becky Francis explains how she will approach leading the curriculum and assessment review
www.tes.com
August 30, 2024 at 9:14 AM
@beckyfrancis.bsky.social writes exclusively for
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
@tesmagazine.bsky.social detailing what she and her panel will - and will not - be looking at in the curriculum and assessment review
This is commendable transparency and a very useful outline from Becky.
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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Here’s how to bookmark posts if you haven’t seen it yet bsky.app/profile/mrss...
You have to add it to your feeds (where discover and following are at the top of your homepage). Click the hashtag (top right), and go to the search bar under discover new feeds.
Put in the 📌 and you’ll get an answer that says all feeds you’ve replied to with a 📌.
Press the plus on the right to add
Put in the 📌 and you’ll get an answer that says all feeds you’ve replied to with a 📌.
Press the plus on the right to add
August 28, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Here’s how to bookmark posts if you haven’t seen it yet bsky.app/profile/mrss...
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Scientists in the primary national curriculum - a guide for planning. www.sciencefix.co.uk/scientists-i... Searchable spreadsheet and unit guide.
#sciteachuk #edusky #uked
#sciteachuk #edusky #uked
Scientists in the National Curriculum - Danny Nics Science Fix
A list of diverse scientists which could be used in the primary science curriculum as featured scientists to study
www.sciencefix.co.uk
August 27, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Scientists in the primary national curriculum - a guide for planning. www.sciencefix.co.uk/scientists-i... Searchable spreadsheet and unit guide.
#sciteachuk #edusky #uked
#sciteachuk #edusky #uked
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Have made a couple of updates to my overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. Still a work in progress but please feel free to download, use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: t.co/JBuWKFD2sh
August 28, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Have made a couple of updates to my overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. Still a work in progress but please feel free to download, use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: t.co/JBuWKFD2sh
This is small (in the grand scheme of things) but importantly symbolic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Starmer to end £40m helicopter contract in break from Sunak era
Former PM and ministers drew criticism for the VIP flights Labour says were ‘symbol of their government’
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2024 at 7:23 AM
This is small (in the grand scheme of things) but importantly symbolic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
'A scaffold is there to make the task more accessible, not to make it easier.'
Great way to clarify this.
A ladder to reach rather than a different (smaller?) building.
morgsedu.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/s...
Great way to clarify this.
A ladder to reach rather than a different (smaller?) building.
morgsedu.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/s...
Scaffolding Writing in KS1
A common conversation I have with teachers is how to scaffold writing in KS1. Teachers often say they want pupils to write more, but, in reality, find it to be rather challenging to implement. Because...
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August 27, 2024 at 6:25 AM
'A scaffold is there to make the task more accessible, not to make it easier.'
Great way to clarify this.
A ladder to reach rather than a different (smaller?) building.
morgsedu.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/s...
Great way to clarify this.
A ladder to reach rather than a different (smaller?) building.
morgsedu.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/s...
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Calling all primary teachers! September is calling. Join the #TaskDesign FB group, to collaborate on innovative teaching ideas. Happy to have secondary too ☺️
All resources shared within the group👇
bit.ly/3QzMq6Z
Let’s support & elevate the learning experience together!
#EduSky #UKEd #eduprimary
All resources shared within the group👇
bit.ly/3QzMq6Z
Let’s support & elevate the learning experience together!
#EduSky #UKEd #eduprimary
August 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Calling all primary teachers! September is calling. Join the #TaskDesign FB group, to collaborate on innovative teaching ideas. Happy to have secondary too ☺️
All resources shared within the group👇
bit.ly/3QzMq6Z
Let’s support & elevate the learning experience together!
#EduSky #UKEd #eduprimary
All resources shared within the group👇
bit.ly/3QzMq6Z
Let’s support & elevate the learning experience together!
#EduSky #UKEd #eduprimary
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Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!
primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...
primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...
August 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Just posted new blog on Bluesky and not (yet) on Twitter. Be interesting to see engagement. Will I fold and put it on Twitter too? Please help me avoid the temptation by reposting here!
primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...
primarytimery.com/2024/08/25/o...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#readingforpleasure
#teacherreader
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#readingforpleasure
#teacherreader
August 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#readingforpleasure
#teacherreader
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
#readingforpleasure
#teacherreader
Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won't | Nesrine Malik
The violence exposed racist narratives based on lies. Yet where is the counter-argument, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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August 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. | Nesrine Malik www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Post 10 bands you've been obsessed with some point in your life. Here are mine (in no particular order)
The Beatles
Blur
Portishead
Alanis Morissette
The Prodigy
Ben Folds Five
Jeff Buckley
Sigur Ros
Lamb
Hozier
The Beatles
Blur
Portishead
Alanis Morissette
The Prodigy
Ben Folds Five
Jeff Buckley
Sigur Ros
Lamb
Hozier
10 bands/artists you have been obsessed with at some point in your life. In no particular order:
Rage against the Machine
Tracy Chapman
Rose Kemp
Abigail Lapell
Björk
MC Solaar
The Be Good Tanyas
Whale Bone Polly
This is the Kit
Kate Bush
Rage against the Machine
Tracy Chapman
Rose Kemp
Abigail Lapell
Björk
MC Solaar
The Be Good Tanyas
Whale Bone Polly
This is the Kit
Kate Bush
February 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Post 10 bands you've been obsessed with some point in your life. Here are mine (in no particular order)
The Beatles
Blur
Portishead
Alanis Morissette
The Prodigy
Ben Folds Five
Jeff Buckley
Sigur Ros
Lamb
Hozier
The Beatles
Blur
Portishead
Alanis Morissette
The Prodigy
Ben Folds Five
Jeff Buckley
Sigur Ros
Lamb
Hozier
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