Writer-teacher supporting writing communities and providing bespoke CPD in schools. ๐งก #WritingRocks
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My 'Paper Plate Devil Mask' is now up on the website. You can find it here . . . โก๏ธ darrellwakelam.com/news/papeโฆ
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Happy #PostboxSaturday, postbox spotters! If you want to see this magnificent postbox on a postbox on a postbox postbox topper in Windermere do visit on a dry day as understandably they take it in when itโs raining. Tucked indoors otherwise. Still a beauty! ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎโ๏ธ๐ง๏ธ
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If you're a letter lover you'd better get to @LidlGB before these sell out!
But can we wait until Christmas Day to open it? ๐ค
#postboxSaturday ๐ฎ๐๐คฃ โ at Essendine, England
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Back in September I wrote this , "A word on a list is not the same as a word in a childโs mouth, mind, body and playโ. Oracy matters.
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Something strange is going on in the world of reading, children and schools in England. People praise the success of a reading programme that is resulting in 25-30% of children not reading at the expected standard.
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Here's part two of 'Paper Plate Skulls' . . .
I've added this to the website now (website below)
Simply click on the 'news' link on the homepage and you'll find the full making video plus extra photos and tips. ๐๐
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Original design ยฉ๏ธdarrellwakelam.com
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Just a thought but if a baby is born at 1.59AM tonight and its twin is born 10mins later would that make the 2nd baby older than the 1st ? ๐ค๐คญ๐ฌ #clocksgoback
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Here's a new Halloween project for you . . . Paper Plate Skulls . . . one plate, four skulls!
I'll put this up on the website in the next couple of days with some clearer photos of the process. ๐๐๐๐
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This man just took the same plastic recorder that used to sound like a dying goose in elementary school and casually started shredding Sultans of Swing on it.
Eyes half-closed, fully committed, fingers flying like he actually practiced this instead of just surviving Hot Cross Buns.
Somewhere a music teacher is watching this and having an existential crisis. The recorder has seen things. It will never be
the same.
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Earlier this week, we spent time talking as a class about how we choose what to read. The conversation was really insightful, with the importance of peer recommendation and representation coming through strongly.
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Happy #PostboxSaturday, fellow postbox spotters! Delighted to go on an actual Postmanโs Path up in the Lake District as found in Alan Cleaverโs lovely book, The Postal Paths. It even included a trip on a narrow-gauge railwayโฆ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅพ๐
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Only a few lamp boxes ever had Post Office signs, and sadly none survive. But they were a sight to behold, weren't they!
#PostboxSaturday
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Saw this a few days ago and itโs put a worm in my brain. Canโt stop thinking about it.
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The DFE writing framework has a whole section on oral composition and the importance of talk before (and as a tool for) writing!
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Look at this-my work has come back into fashion! Of course, it never went out of fashion at all. Communication and language are central to everything we do in EY ! Itโs almost like we know about child development @MichaelRosenYes !
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You used to be able to buy a stamp at the post box!
This large King George VI post box has a stamp vending machine attached, so you can't use not having a stamp as an excuse for posting that birthday card late!
#letterboxstudygroup
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schools giving increased attention to language sounds good but it comes with many risks - the most obvious being the further entrenchment of deficit thinking. me and @choudrey_s anticipate this and how to resist it in our linguistic justice oracy framework doi.org/10.1080/00131911.202โฆ
โWith AI on the rise, we need to go harder on the skills that makes us human, like oracy.
That ability to articulate yourself confidently is central to success in work and life, but for too long itโs been a marker of privilege.
Now it will become the right of every child.โ
Read more ๐
thetimes.com/uk/politics/artโฆ
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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.โฆ
An oracy framework for Englandโs schools: linguistic justice edition
Open access and out now in Educational Review
