This is an excellent review/personal reflection on how children's literature can be a real force for empathy. A really really good book that is discussed in a really really good blog. Bravo @TomPercivalsays for writing such a great book and @nikkigamble for such a great blog!
All NQTs wanting high quality English prose and poetry in your classroom from the first day ... catch the 30% discount on our Opening Doors series and get a plentiful supply of step by step ways of engaging and enabling deeper, critical thinkers. @UWE_Education
The @suttontrust warns that recruitment to early years teacher courses has dropped 'dramatically' – and this down to differences in pay and career progression
https://t.co/ottuifNhzH
On my birthday last year, a far right extremist led an attack on me, driven by homophobia and hatred of my left-wing politics. Today, he has been handed a hefty prison sentence. https://t.co/IDiLGszKKD
I could not agree more with the contents of this article. Yet another retrograde step announced by a minister of this govern.ent.
Cuts to university targets in England are insulting to working-class people like me
https://t.co/8Qta9APwzT
‘When asked what assessment he had made, as the chief scientific adviser for the department, of how effective guidance on safe reopening of schools was and how it might be implemented, he said: "I haven't."’ https://t.co/EqeelwHYqn
A bit late to say this, but if people are bothered that World Book Day dressing up is pointless, just make sure that every person dressing up carries a copy of the book the character comes from and get children talking to each other about the book and the character.
Happy #WorldBookDay everyone! 📚
Here's to a whole day dedicated to sharing stories and promoting reading for pleasure. Plus we need you all to help us reach our goal to SHARE A MILLION STORIES, so grab a book and let's get the nation reading together from breakfast to bedtime 🙌
"The great thing about reading is that it turns human experience into a kind of object that you can look at and turn over," says @MichaelRosenYes@hayfestival#TextualHealing