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This one is EPIC - find some gems from a high performing school in a tough area.
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🤫 SNEAK PEEK 🤫
New episode of Talk for Teachers with @PieCorbett drops next week, with Kate Cauldwell.
Kate is the Executive Headteacher at a @Talk4Writing school on one of the largest council estates in Europe. She shares some gems on how they're getting 90%+ outcomes.
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#Year1 wrote some great information texts based on different mythical creatures. Having boxed up their ideas, they created some brilliant reports full of creativity and imagination and also did some lovely editing post hot writes! 🐉🦄📚 @Talk4Writing @PieCorbett #independent
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Year 2 enjoyed doing their text map for our new model text ‘The Papaya that Spoke’ 🥭
#Talk4Writing #Year2
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"In the Writing Framework... It doesn't use the word 'imagination' once. Now that is quite extraordinary."
@PieCorbett asks @whatSFSaid what the imagination is and why that matters to teachers and children.
Find out what SF thinks on the episode - mr-e-education.co.uk/talk-fo…
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"They aren't saving our time; they are stealing our craft."
Read my latest thoughts on why we must invest in people, not schemes, and what we can learn from Norway’s massive return to pen and paper.
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Excited to launch a new Reading Spine - I've been gathering great new books for schools to add to or enrich or create their own reading spine. Comes with a free downloadable booklet about teaching comprehension and growing a community of readers.
Chosen by Pie Corbett. Loved by Children. Trusted by Teachers.
Curated by renowned education expert, author and storyteller @PieCorbett, The ALL NEW Reading Spine brings together exciting collections of contemporary classics and award-winning books to share with your class.
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Lovely morning in a local school running a poetry workshop. I used postcards of paintings so everyone had a different image. Note taking first followed by composing. Here is the shared composition:
Creating communities of writers.
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Absolutely joyous morning at @SandgateTfW running a whole school @Talk4Writing invention session with over 180 parents working alongside their children.
Superb turn out to celebrate a community of writers, all inspired by keys.
@PieCorbett @JamieThomasTFW
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🤭Evidencing Reading for Pleasure to Ofsted 😼
@PieCorbett discusses how visual texts can be useful with author @whatSFSaid in the latest episode of Talk for Teachers: mr-e-education.co.uk/talk-fo…
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You know you're in a @Talk4Writing school when...
The Deputy Headteacher is sorting 500 tiny keys into piles of 32 at 6pm. What did you do at work today? 😜
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Just incredible to see professional engagement on this scale. . 1400 teachers turning up on a Saturday .. here’s the hugely engaging @rastokke talking about successful teaching in Maths. @ResearchEd_CL
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A great start to Friday.Our lead RWI teacher led a training session ahead of our new groups starting.Recapped red rhythms and teaching story green words making explicit links to how well it supports @Talk4Writing and Talk for Reading approach. @RuthMiskinEdu @PieCorbett #together
Inventing stories in the Early Year - powerful and transformative
Today, I hit a new career highlight.
Whilst touring schools around @SandgateTfW on a @Talk4Writing Taster Morning, I entered the Early Years to discover that I had finally transitioned to be the main character in a story!
And live in a castle.
@PieCorbett @JamieThomasTFW
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Great example of a toolkit and a scaffold to support our youngest writers from today’s training @Elmhurst_School @Talk4Writing
What's going on here then...
A stimulus for every child - we can't wait to see the writing
You know you're in a @Talk4Writing school when...
The Deputy Headteacher is sorting 500 tiny keys into piles of 32 at 6pm. What did you do at work today? 😜
@PieCorbett
@JamieThomasTFW
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We are hosting an open morning during the London Rise Education Fortnight. Join us on Nov 2nd. Booking link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… @Talk4Writing @PieCorbett
Important insights into reading comprehension tests - listen below:
"Tests of reading comprehension, in my opinion, are not tests of reading. I think that they are sort of an IQ test in disguise"
Author SF Said, @PieCorbett & I unpick why reading for pleasure really matters.
Find links to the show: mr-e-education.co.uk/talk-fo…
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"Why don't we talk about writing for pleasure?"
@whatSFSaid tells me and @PieCorbett why reading and writing for pleasure really matters, and gives some top tips on how to do it.
Find the full episode of Talk for Teachers on your favourite platform: mr-e-education.co.uk/talk-fo…
We're in a second national Year of Reading. What does that mean for your school?
Find some top tips on ways to boost reading for pleasure and why that matters in the episode with SF Said below:
@PieCorbett
A brand new episode of Talk for Teachers with @PieCorbett drops today.
@whatSFSaid tells us how to get more children reading for pleasure, and why that actually matters.
Find links to the show here:
mr-e-education.co.uk/talk-fo…
Great example of story play and mapping as transcription at an early age.
We work with Early Years providers and schools to embed story talk from the off. Nothing is left to chance.
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Making a little story with Mummy.
Tristan turned 4 last week. Like his sister, he’s been shown how to make up stories from a young age. Here, he’s worked really hard on mapping a story.
Tripod grip too 🥳
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