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Head of RE in a Welsh Catholic school.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Today I spoke about at NEU conference why the NEU should support a knowledge rich curriculum and that good quality textbooks help reduce workload.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

@HSELive it keeps coming up with 111 error when trying to buy birth certificate from UK. Rejected all cards

[Rhys Williams﮷ @RhysWilliamsTV]

NEW: The Welsh Government has admitted that it needs to clarify its guidance for schools on how to teach reading.

This is in response to an ITV News investigation which revealed that methods of teaching reading which have been discredited for decades are being used across Wales.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

This is now becoming a national news story in Wales. Great to see primary school teachers like @garein and @robrandel being quoted as they have been advocating synthetic phonics for reading for years.

https://t.co/sVmBtnkjkF

[Squire @STUALLEN]

@danboonjones @SwanseaReject Saw them live at Hammersmith Palais in December 1994.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Stands and applauds Kavem Hodge's debut century for the West Indies. 283/4

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Primary school teacher @robrandel is spot on. Too many children in Wales are functionally illiterate and cannot access the secondary school curriculum because of poor reading skills. In primary, you learn to read. In secondary, you read to learn.

https://t.co/3LAJ1E90Lu

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Rips up ticket for Lords on Saturday. This test match might not get to tomorrow.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

@chsingthedragon @AndyLewis_RE Yes. For the youth mass. He was in the Grandstand rather than the Bob bank

[Rob Randel @robrandel]

🇳🇿 "From Term 1 next year, ‘all Kiwi students will learn to read using the structured literacy approach’, by which they mean,I think,to implement phonics teaching in every Kiwi classroom"
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Phonics teaching begins "When appropriate for a learner"
@AddysgEducation @WG_Education

[Rob Randel @robrandel]

In New Zealand: "The Government has announced that children in their first year of school will undergo phonics checks to help teachers understand their reading progress." https://t.co/JwWnIZw2cz
Why not in Wales, @AddysgEducation @WG_Education?
#curriculumforwales

[Squire @STUALLEN]

I thought the ref last night made the correct decision to disallow the Dutch goal against France. You can clearly see from this photo that it was the right decision.

[Mr Wise @MrWiseCHS]

Challenging and at times uncomfortable, but this is essential listening for anyone involved in education in Wales.

At what point do we have to look at a systemic synthetic phonics rollout? Originally a @UKLabour policy widely recognised to have improved reading in England.

[Michael Merrick @michael_merrick]

MK Dons

[Squire @STUALLEN]

@IainS9 Asian Trading Corporation (ATC). 75 years old christian publishing house. Estd. In 1946. It's not Temu.

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Just had our new Lectionaries for school delivered from India. All for £113 with a Book of the Gospels chucked in. Saved hundreds of pounds. Quality top notch. @AndyLewis_RE @michael_merrick @chr1sCarlisle

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Fantastic article in DT! 300 years ago, Catholic church on Warwick street was opened to Catholic Londoners by the Portuguese ambassador who were then at the time forbidden to worship on British soil. @BeardyHowse

https://t.co/kq3PSFb8T3

[Impact @ImpactWales]

Schools need to know that systematic synthetic phonics is used by multiple countries that see better PISA reading results than Wales.

Teachers deserve to know what works.

Every child deserves to read well, early, whether they come from advantage or not.

[Impact @ImpactWales]

NEWS - @WG_Education quietly releases detailed National Test data for literacy & numeracy, and the picture for eFSM pupils is shocking. A 🧵

@AddysgEducation must listen to research evidence & provide better guidance for the teaching of reading in Wales.

[Rob Randel @robrandel]

@cymru_ed @ImpactWales @WG_Education @AddysgEducation A key factor is early reading instruction. Let's start by getting this right. Will @AddysgEducation and @WG_Education recognise that the first crucial step in solving this is the same as what was announced in Victoria, Australia, yesterday?
https://t.co/KPoFlLeqn9

[Squire @STUALLEN]

Trying to explain to my non- Catholic friends my utter excitement about having a letter published in the @The_Tablet about saving hundreds of pounds buying new lectionaries from India that Catholic schools will require from Advent 2024 has been somewhat challenging