Rob McCann

Director of @VIPreading • Year 6 Teacher • Assistant Headteacher • Dad to three boys • Reading: Illegal 📚

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I felt I had no choice but to report my children’s school to Ofsted. Feel free to do the same...

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🎉 7TH ANNIVERSARY! 🎉

We're 7! To celebrate, we have 2 amazing treats:

1. GIVEAWAY 📚
Win 7 books from our Teacher Book Club & @Grammarsaurus collabs Enter on Instagram:

2. OFFER 🎁
Get 7 FREE badges with every order!
https://t.co/Zx3j2f4XKC

UK only. Ends 23/11/25.

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🌊 The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam 🌊

We are celebrating the release of The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam, a heartfelt adventure by Annelise Gray. Read below for your chance to win your very own copy ⬇️

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Ends 13/10/25

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Better together! ✨ Check out the three brand-new badge designs we created in collaboration with the wonderful Teacher Book Club.
Now available on our website and part of our amazing collection of badges! 🤩

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@TheDiggster13 @SpencerMakes @cineworld Such a shame! I think you’re right - another event will surely happen in future

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@TheDiggster13 @SpencerMakes @cineworld Has anyone actually successfully watched Interstellar yet?! I can see Sheffield has future showings (Sat & Mon) but I think it’s pointless booking again as we’ve had two cancellations already!

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@cineworld

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@cineworld Well, @cineworld, you’ve made an absolute mess of #NolanSeason. Booked to take my two sons to see #Interstellar and you’ve cancelled twice (Cineworld Sheffield)!!!

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@cineworld @cineworld an absolute joke. Booked to take my two sons to see #Interstellar and you’ve cancelled twice (Cineworld Sheffield)!!!

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@SpencerMakes @cineworld @cineworld an absolute joke. Booked to take my two sons to see #Interstellar and you’ve cancelled twice (Cineworld Sheffield)!!!

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Have you entered yet?! Giveaway ends tomorrow! ⬇️

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🥳 Teacher Book Club Giveaway! 🎉

To celebrate VIP Reading’s 6th birthday, we have an epic giveaway to share with you! For a chance to win ONE Teacher Book Club book box, featuring Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold, simply:

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Ends 18.11.24

Find out more about our brand new subscription below:

📣 The Teacher Book Club book box subscription – the best form of Reading CPD! 📣

🎁 VIP Reading, Teacher Book Club and @Grammarsaurus1 have collaborated to bring you an extraordinary book box designed specifically for teachers - link below ⬇️ Delivered every two months, each box will feature a fantastic book voted for by our members and include:

– Grammarsaurus Study Pack tailored to the book
– Exclusive access to the Teacher Book Club members’ area, author videos and podcasts
– Letter from the author
– Signed book plate
– Reading badge
– Bookmark
– Tasty treat
– and more…

📖 What does the Grammarsaurus Study Pack typically contain?

The Study Pack is ideal for enriching the teaching of Reading in the classroom. The study pack will contain range of high-quality resources, including: author biography, vocabulary activity, reading fluency task, chapter extract and comprehension questions.

📚 What is the Teacher Book Club?

Teacher Book Club is a fantastic initiative for educators to immerse themselves in children’s literature. Join in the fun and be part of a vibrant community of passionate educators!
Join Teacher Book Club or find out more using the link below ⬇️

[Tara’s Teaching 🌟 @_tarasteaching]

SO excited to reveal our new read for Nov-Dec for #TeacherBookClub is Turtle Moon by @HGold_author 🐢🌜
Subscribe to our NEW book boxes with @VIPreading to receive the book PLUS so many more goodies, including resources from @Grammarsaurus1 🤩🎁📚
https://t.co/XDIMR0nrtz

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Book box reveal🤩🎁 @VIPreading

⭐️‘Turtle Moon’ @HGold_author 🐢🌜
⭐️‘Teacher Book Club Study Pack’ resources by @Grammarsaurus1📝
⭐️Letter from Hannah💌
⭐️Signed bookplate ✍🏼
⭐️Badge & bookmark🧷🔖
⭐️Hot choc🍫
⭐️Access to #TBC members’ app, author videos & podcast episodes❣️

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📣 Introducing the Teacher Book Club book box subscription – the best form of Reading CPD! 📣

🎁 We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Teacher Book Club and @Grammarsaurus1, which will bring you an extraordinary book box designed specifically for teachers - link below ⬇️ Delivered every two months, each box will feature a fantastic book voted for by our members and include:

– Grammarsaurus Study Pack tailored to the book
– Exclusive access to the Teacher Book Club members’ area, author videos and podcasts
– Letter from the author
– Signed book plate
– Reading badge
– Bookmark
– Tasty treat
– and more…

📖 What does the Grammarsaurus Study Pack typically contain?

The Study Pack is ideal for enriching the teaching of Reading in the classroom. The study pack will contain range of high-quality resources, including: author biography, vocabulary activity, reading fluency task, chapter extract and comprehension questions.

📚 What is the Teacher Book Club?

Teacher Book Club is a fantastic initiative for educators to immerse themselves in children’s literature. Join in the fun and be part of a vibrant community of passionate educators!
Join Teacher Book Club or find out more using the link below ⬇️

[VIP Reading @VIPreading]

https://t.co/m1P6CZibIY

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🌲 Shadow Creatures Giveaway!🌲

Tove was 12 and Liva 9, when the Germans occupied Norway. They remember everything as if it happened yesterday.

We are celebrating the release of Shadow Creatures by the amazing @chrisvickwrites. Read on to find out more about this story of bravery, resilience, rivalries and shadow creatures in the night ⬇️

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Ends 25.10.24

Mose and her daughter Agna are incomers in the village, treated with suspicion. But young Liva, left out of the secrets her sister Tove and brother Hakken share, idolises Agna and follows her everywhere.

Unwittingly, they lead the German soldiers to a perfect island. Once a haven for picnics and story-telling under the midnight sun, it is transformed into a grim POW camp. This is an unlikely place to find buried treasure, but it's there.

Friendships are made and broken, family trust is turned upside down and lives change forever as Tove and Liva recall their childhood experiences of living through WW2 in a story that moves from light to darkness to light again.

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Thanks to everyone who entered our Bridget Vanderpuff competition. We can reveal that the winner is…

🥳 @MrLPrimary81 - congrats! 🥳

More VIP giveaways coming soon!

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A huge thanks to everyone for entering our giveaway to winning a copy of the stunning hardback edition of Refugees by @brian_bilston. We can reveal that the winner is…

🥳 @TeacherFrench2, Congrats! 🥳

More competitions coming soon! 🎁

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🍫 Bridget Vanderpuff and the Monster Mountain Mystery Giveaway! ⛰️

We are celebrating the final instalment of the Bridget Vanderpuff series by giving away a copy of the Monster Mountain Mystery by Martin Stewart! Read on to find out more about the spooktacular final instalment of this wildly delicious and heartwarming series, perfect for boys and girls alike ⬇️

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Ends 27.9.24

Bridget Vanderpuff is the Best Worst Baker in the World. A recipe for fun with villainy, cake and sprinkles of silliness, heart and hope.

Bridget and Tom travel to Butterälp to stay with Vivienne Velvete – the world’s finest chocolatier. But a horrifying monster is terrorising the villagers and the chocolate festival has been shut down. What's more, Le Choc - the world's most perfect bar of chocolate, kept in an alarmed, triple­locked room – has been chomped! Bridget and Tom must trace a track of confuddling clues and unravel their most fiendish plot yet.

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🌟 VIP Giveaway! 🌟

To celebrate the upcoming release of Refugees, in stunning hardback edition, we’re giving away a copy!

This wonderful book, beautifully illustrated by Jose Sanabria, is based upon @brian_bilston’s famous reversible poem. Discover more about the poem in our author Q&A with Brian: https://t.co/weQSzEYWDb

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The winner will also receive a 7x5’ print of Brian by fab illustrator @rachel_sanson ❤️

UK
Ends 23.9.24

🎁 Pre-order a copy: https://t.co/6ypprMQVqm

🌟 Summary 🌟

Refugee is a powerful word. One that conjures opposing emotions. For some it provokes feelings of fear and hate, for others the need for compassion, understanding, and empathy.

In this celebrated poem, “Refugees,” Brian Bilston tells both sides of the story by cleverly crafting a verse that can be read backward and forward to convey two opposing views.

Brian Bilston is often described as the “Poet Laureate of Twitter” (now X) and this much admired poem, perfectly accompanied by artwork from illustrator, Jose Sanabria, is a wonderful way to explore this emotive issue as you realise that it’s not just the words that have been reversed!