Congratulations, Stephen Lightbown for your CLiPPA shortlisting!

There is always a story, and Joan Aiken wrote some of the best...
Find them here in four new collections:
joanaiken.com/centenary-coll…

For any kids wanting to write a story, here I am on the wild east coast of Scotland w/my Top 3 Tips (bottom line: persevere - even if u get 96 rejection letters frm agents, like I did 😉). EMBER SPARK publishes tomo! Thanku to all the fabulous booksellers championing this story💚

Yay! So excited that #TheFinalYear is shortlisted for this most important and prestigious children’s poetry award. Huge congrats to Matt Goodfellow and illustrator Joe Todd-Stanton. And thanks so much CLPE and judges. Bounce Sales and Marketing ❤️📗 Bounce Waterstones

Fantastic news! #AndIClimbedAndIClimbed by Stephen Lightbown illustrated by Shih-Yu Lin is nominated for the #CLPPA poetry prize. It's an incredibly tender and touching account of a boy coming to terms with his disability, packed with character and humour. We're so pleased. 🥳

Hear hear! Troika Books

My review in #TheSchoolLibrarian , published by School Library Association (SLA) for the absolutely stunning #Tyger by SF Said in paperback.

We now have 3 copies in Library | RPPS Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School & they are always on loan, mainly through peer to peer recommendations.

#readingforpleasure at it’s finest 🐯

TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS & CARERS! If you're looking for a bookish #literacy activity for your kids, here's a 45-minute virtual school visit I did with BookTrust all about reading & writing - free for all to watch on YouTube!
youtube.com/watch?v=YWHwPb…

See Sounds-Write in action in the classroom!
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St Michael's CofE Primary School
05-Jun-2024 09:00 AM
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St Matthew's CE Primary School
05-Jun-2024 09:00 AM
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The Incredibly Talented Lucy review – a sparkling story, with an enraging twist ending theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Blue Door Press Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Thank you so much for shining a light on the CLPE Poetry Award and Shadowing Scheme Barbara. It’s been such a wonderful experience for many teachers and children, as Imogen M16 reveals in this WorkerBee blog: kntn.ly/4fa84da7

Really impressive writing. Well done Noah.

Why hasn't the Alternative Big Listen also been invited to contribute to the webinar?

Advice please - looking for training for Governors on Ofsted anyone that you would recommend? TIA

It’s 8.15am and past time to leave. 3 suddenly screams she wants a different jumper. Full meltdown impending. The only way to avoid it is to let her go back upstairs and choose- but you’re already a little late.

Option a - let her go choose
Option b - drag her out the door

POEMS - help…

What poems do people teach to year 7/8 that are not old (or current) GCSE poems?

Any tried, tested and successful? TIA ☺️

Team English Team English & Literacy, Wales Chris Curtis WorkerBee English & Media Ctr Dr Amy Smith

Daily poetry prompt: Teaching imagery.

From my window I see the lonely tree
at the bottom of the garden
waving to catch my attention.
“Come and look, come and look”,
its long fingers seem to be saying.

More here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/01/imager… Pie Corbett

Terrific poem from Lottie at Trythall on TeachingLive:

Such a happy child - here she is with Simon Smith and Pie Corbett

Do you belong to a MAT or a cluster of schools looking at whole school development in the teaching of writing?

Pie Corbett and I have been working with groups of schools delivering 5 x 2 hour CPD INSET sessions over 2 terms with wrap around support.

If you are eager to learn…