Di Collard

Retired teacher 3-7, SEN. Like walking, choir, crafts, social justice, environment

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Best work yet @MarshSongs

[Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

Today I’ve been supporting EY leaders to develop their curriculum for 2 year olds. 2 year olds needs are very different to 3 year olds. We must think very carefully if we’re to get this right!

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@SwailesRuth Ruth thank you for posting this link. I firmly support your views and sincerely hope that this particular article will reach a wider audience.

[Dr. Aaron Bradbury @AaronTeamEC]

Play Matters.⭐️Do one thing today. ⭐️

Retweet and like, or even better copy the visual and tell those not informed or not listening (cough cough Ofsted) about the importance of play for 0-5 year olds (UK) that #PlayMatters. #EarlyYears

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

The Observer view on early years education: Labour must find the money to address the attainment gap https://t.co/jinTCgc99W

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Tory leadership favorite Robert Jenrick is touring UK News Shows telling viewers “we should leave the ECHR & replace it with a British Bill of Rights”

This argument is going to come up a lot in the coming months & years. I explain in this film why it’s A VERY BAD IDEA!

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@SchoolsWeek Doesn’t look at all promising to me.

[ELLJ @elizallj]

@SchoolsWeek There are 2000 primaries with less than 100 pupils and only a third of them are in mats. Where’s the representatives for these pupils? Too much MAT influence on this panel and other voices drowned out. Curriculum has been a huge challenge for these schools in the last 10 years.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

One of the first things many young people learn at school is that learning means being still.

At primary school it’s about sitting on your bottom and not fiddling with your pencil. Walking not running, and putting your hand up before you speak. Staying in your chair, even when you’re desperate to crawl under the table or lie on the floor.

At secondary school it carries on. Some schools insist that young people track the teacher with their eyes, and won’t allow them to reach into their bag for a water bottle without asking. Every move is choreographed and on command. They say this maximises learning.

We tell children that to learn they need to listen, and to listen they need to keep still. That’s particularly hard for children, and so a lot of their energy is spent trying to conform with that. For some, it’s much harder, and they get in trouble for bouncing and jumping. The movement bursts out of them, and then we tell them they can’t learn like that.

It’s not true. If you watch children learning out of school, they move and twirl and jump. They lie on the floor whilst listening to stories and hang off the monkey bars whilst they think. They ask unexpected questions at inconvenient times. They make new connections whilst sitting on the toilet, bouncing on the trampoline or when watching TV. They run around and then come back to the story. They express their feelings through their body.

Schools control children’s bodies to manage large numbers, but that doesn’t mean that stillness is the best way to learn. As adults, many of us must work hard to reconnect to our bodies. We’ve learnt to ignore our urge to move and we can’t understand why we feel so terrible after hours at a desk.

The things we learn at school run deep. But learning is about connection, not disconnection, and we can’t leave our bodies out of that.

Let’s reclaim our right to be active.

Many of us need to move to learn, and that goes both for our children and ourselves

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Starmer should have kept his promise to remove NHS private outsourcing! If you agree, please retweet! 💙💙💙

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

The Reform party will be invited onto countless media shows, because there is a concerted effort to make it look like they are an acceptable option on the political menu, to eliminate actual left wing voices from the debates, and to pull the centre ground further right 🚨

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@bphillipsonMP @ChristsSR4 How would you measure success at maths at 6 years?

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@DrRLofthouse I can’t see how reading rulers can increase fluency. When I read a text I read ahead to the next line as I approach the end of the current line. Having to move a ruler down to the next line must surely hinder fluency.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

They’ve broken the NHS, and they’re now attempting to manufacture consent from the public to replace it with an insurance-based system.

We must resist this- there is absolutely no evidence that privatisation helps the NHS, and mounting evidence that it causes harm 🚨

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@redgierob At which developmental stage are you advocating formal handwriting instruction?

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@SwailesRuth Wonderful

[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

We know that the majority of people support the NHS and don't want to see it privatised

Together we can fight to save the NHS from the Tories

Please RT and give us a follow if you agree with the message below #SocialistSunday

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@naomicfisher This is unbelievably cruel. School should be a place of joy not punishment and terror.

[Di Collard @dianeecoll]

@SocialistNHS @We_OwnIt ❤️

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

What happens when you mix a classic Bowie track and a snapshot of where @Keir_Starmer's at in January 2024? Full 🎶version below 👇
https://t.co/nqC8ZSBDjV

#Starmer #LabourParty #parody #impartiality