Marc Bowen

Primary school teacher, Deputy Head, Advisory Board member, EWC Committee member and Picture Book evangelist! All views expressed are my own.

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

#AskKirsty The white paper seems to suggest (3.126) that HTs will be setting achievement outcomes for their pupils. Could this lead to inconsistency of expectation/standards across the whole education system. How will this be managed or standardised?

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery Happy to share their efforts...they are going to write narrative stories first, so the Great One can read them to keep his tiny population entertained, following @PieCorbett Talk 4 Writing and then we will get on to writing the non fiction reports on the new tribes.

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery We are now going to work on writing some reports which detail the different factions of our school tribes (akin to the people of the floor) as the class have decided they would like the tiny people to stay and they want to make them feel at home!

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery Our tribes are a yellow and green tribe, because they had to use our yellow and green school uniform lost property to make everything they have but it also helps them to hide around the school...they also like to use blu tack to make lots of different everyday items.

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery ...they have teams of trained soldiers who work together to use our pens to leave us messages and their handwriting is pretty good. Our tribes don’t have war flies but have dragonfly transport instead (we see a lot on our school grounds)...

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery ...and we don’t see them during the day because we are big and noisy. We can see the traces of them in flour and sand traps we have laid, so we know they are there. They camouflage the other side of their doors to look like walls in case another Demon appears..

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery Well, my Year 4s theorise that there are lots of tiny tribes created by the serum. Those that have moved into our school had to move in because our new building was constructed on the field that was their home, so they have had to adapt.

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@mossmontmomery Thank you so much for ‘Max and the millions’...it has brought cross curricular learning alive for my Year 4 class and has immersed us all in a wonderful world of imagination.

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

It has been nearly 5 years since Arthur Spiderwick made a visit to my classroom. Very excited to have him back...lots of creative, inspiring adventures ahead! @TonyDiTerlizzi

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@davestacey #NetworkEdChat social media is a good way to collaborate and I am hopeful that the rebirth of the teacher areas of Hwb might offer some opps for this too

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@davestacey #NetworkEdChat pressure from consortia to work in a way that they perceive Estyn will want...when in actual fact Estyn are much more forward thinking

[Marc Bowen @MarcBTeaches]

@davestacey #NetworkEdChat not sure at present...really focusing on reducing workload but increasing impact

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Year 4....if you have trouble logging in to Hwb, try adding @hwbcymru.net to the end of your username; there has been an update to the Hwb systems. https://t.co/pIhYpD1az1

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