This looks fantastic.

Cannot wait to attend, this is going to be fabulous!

Don't forget! UKLA Book Award 2025 nominations are open! #Publishers , follow the link to make your submission 📚

Aw what a nice piece of mail to come to do today 😊. Manchester Institute of Education (MIE)

Do you lead design and technology? Can you get to the University of Manchester on the 11th of June? Join myself and Alan Cross for an afternoon of free DT CPD for leaders, sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/university-o…

Free DT Leadmeet! Face to face afternoon session on 11th June at the University of Manchester - hold it in your diary, more details to follow.

Can you help National Literacy Trust gather information about children and young people's engagement with #poetry ?

Find out about their new survey for 8 - 18 year olds and get involved. The findings will help shape the landscape of poetry provision in the UK.

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Such an important campaign. If you're an educator their website has fantastic resources to help. Our youngest used one of their presentations to explain his Tourette's to the rest of his class. It was empowering and helped them to understand how exhausting it is for him.

We are so delighted that we were able to share live performances from each of our shortlisted collections last week including 'How to Bob like a Robin' by Kate Wakeling 🎉

All CLiPPA Shadowing resources are now live.

See more from this collection: clpe.org.uk/books/book/din…

Trying to think about the positives but transitioning careers is hard when you have bills to pay . Would anyone in the #EYFS like some very excellent imaginative, playful thinking through #picturebooks workshops or CPD ?

Primary schools! Don't miss this marvellous free event from British Library Learning? Join their livestreamed workshop to inspire your students to write their own adventure stories. 18 June, 1.30pm - 2.30pm.
Book your free place now: …ebritishlibraryschools.seetickets.com/event/schools-…

It's such a valuable and rewarding thing to do. I love seeing how projects develop, the impact it has on both those who attend and the children or young people they work with. It really is amazing. Do consider signing up.

📚The government's commitment to improve literacy education has been hindered by a lack of resources and access to training

📑In our report School Matters, Rebecca Simpson-Hargreaves discusses the need for reflective practice and a dialogue for change

🔗Read more: ow.ly/2R8n50RExr2

As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at

Feels like our angelica and lovage are having a race to see who can get to 6ft first. The angelica is definitely winning, though both are already taller than I am.

Are you looking to expand your practice of writing for pleasure, as well as reading for pleasure? The UKLA & Reading for Pleasure 🧶 has a conference just for you! The line up is fantastic with workshops & keynotes that are sure to inspire. All for £45! See👇.
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So much goes on behind the scenes, it's an honour and a privilege to be part of EC, working towards our vision.

Last year, as part of Tourette's Awareness Month, we called on you to be a Tourette's Awareness Partner, and asked you to reach out to your contacts, be that in education, health, media or others. We were blown away by your efforts. Please be one for 2024! buff.ly/3Ut3wUG

I have clearly angered the Twitter gods. An algorithm seems to be kicking out my followers without them knowing. If you can help me reach them again by RTing that would be wonderful.

📢NEW MINIBOOK!📢
'Dialogue is ‘More than Talk’ because it is about learning to listen to other ideas, to consider and critique them and to build mutual understanding between people' - Fiona Maine (ed. Penny Manford)

Visit the UKLA shop to get your copy: ukla.org/shop/