Marcus Stanforth

English Teacher & Literacy Lead at @AcademyPaxman, part of @sigmatrust 🍎 | Regional Lead: East for @LitdriveUK 🐝 #Litdrive (All views are my own)

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

That moment when your English Teacher sends you a tweet. I learnt so much from her, got my GCSEs and now I’m teaching it too! Don’t you just love Twitter? 😊

[Sian Blackshaw @BlackshawSian]

@__codexterous @marcusstanforth you were in my very first Y11 class and I'm still learning, especially from this guy. Thank you, Andy! Good luck, Marcus. Those classes are lucky to have you.

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

We would like to wish all our schools, staff, pupils, parents and communities a very happy and restful half term holiday.

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

3 down, 1 to go. 🐝

Good luck to every student sitting English Language today!

To the English teachers who taught them to read like writers and write like readers: you've done the work. Now it's their turn.

💛

#EnglishLanguage #GCSEEnglish #ExamSeason #TeamEnglish #Litdrive

[Stuart Pryke @SPryke2]

🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨

I have 2 copies of ‘Teacher Hacks: English’ to give away!

Give this a retweet and @HughesHaili and I will pick 2 winners at random on Friday.

@HLearningPD

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

Good luck to every student sitting their English Literature exam today- and every teacher who got you there🐝

To every English teacher who has spent months and years building the knowledge, the confidence, and the love of literature!

#TeamEnglish #Litdrive

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

Good luck to all English teachers this morning, from Litdrive, as students head into their GCSE English Literature exam! ✨

Thank you for the wisdom and expertise you bring to the subject. We are proud to support you! #Litdrive

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

A massive good luck to everyone starting their GCSE exams this week.

We know how hard you have worked alongside the support and guidance of school staff and family members.

You deserve every success.

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

We would like to say a big welcome back to all our schools, staff and students.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter break and we look forward to working with you all in the weeks and months ahead.

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

Welcome back from us!

Exciting term ahead, including:
- our oracy webinar on 30th April
- supporting teachers with classroom planning and revision materials
- exciting things coming up for Primary
- AND our National Conference!

Head over to https://t.co/YfoaMbxB0v #Litdrive

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

We would like to wish all our schools, staff, students, families and communities a very happy and peaceful Easter Holidays.

[Miriam Hussain @MiriamHussain_]

🧵Incredibly excited to share that RTT: AIC is published! @HughesHaili & I received our first copies today. Thank you @SPryke2 @teachals @HLearningPD Preordered copies will begin arriving from the 3rd April & copies will be available at our book launch @AstonUniversity on 2nd May

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

@XpatEducator Rosenshine

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK!

To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool…

Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles.

The download includes:

→ 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions)
→ 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions)
→ 10 planning templates (put principles into action )
→ Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction

Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle.

👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers!

⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!

[MBE Books - Class Set & Tutor Time book specialist @BooksMbe]

We are running a competition to give away a class set of 30 copies of A Christmas Carol to a school. It's easy to enter, just follow our page, like & share this post. You must work in a school to enter. The prize will be drawn on Tuesday 24th March. https://t.co/2cWQC8hCPu

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

Hands up who's ready for 2026?!

A big Sigma Trust welcome back to our family of schools, staff and students.

We look forward to watching - and supporting - your progress in the year ahead.

[Sigma Trust @sigmatrust]

We would like to wish all our schools, staff, students and communities a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We hope you all enjoy the holidays ahead 🎄 🎄 🎄

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

This is tomorrow. We'll be talking all about The Writing Framework and what it means for us! 🐝 #Litdrive

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

Got a Literacy hat but no team to talk to? Join our first Literacy Leaders Community Forum on Monday 3rd November at 7pm to hear about new approaches, share what works and celebrate the power of the pen in the hands of young writers. Sign up here: https://t.co/J9yDwL4FMI

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

I'm leading on the inaugural Literacy Leaders Community Forum next week! We'll be talking all about The Writing Framework. ✍️

If you're a Literacy Lead, please sign up using the link below. 🔗

If that's not you, please tag your Literacy Lead or share it with them. 💬

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

Got a Literacy hat but no team to talk to? Join our first Literacy Leaders Community Forum on Monday 3rd November at 7pm to hear about new approaches, share what works and celebrate the power of the pen in the hands of young writers. Sign up here: https://t.co/J9yDwL4FMI

[Vocabulary Ninja @VocabularyNinja]

🥷EDU-TWITTER - WOWZER! 3 copies of LKS2 and 3 copies of UKS2 will be given away Sunday 19th at 6pm!

📲To enter: just comment 'LKS2' or 'UKS2" and retweet ♻️ / tag some teacher friends. #book<📚

#books #edutwitter #primary #reading #comprehension #inference #text #school

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

@FunkyPedagogy It sure is. Although it’s my seventh year of teaching now! 😅

[Marcus Stanforth @marcusstanforth]

Great to be back under the tutelage of @FunkyPedagogy as she talks through how to use The Money Anthology to teach creative writing and rhetoric. Do check it out! (https://t.co/0bqvylE0S8)