Matt Miller

Y5 Lead Teacher (Previously 2, 3, 4 and 6)
Reading Subject Leader

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@MrJenningsA @BloomsburyEd @VocabularyNinja @DeputyGrocott @mrs_darl @PaulWat5 @WatsEd @eenalol @primaryteachew @smithsmm @SafeSENCOSaeed Would love to share these with an ECT I'm working with 😁

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Monte Boglia

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Lago di Como. Some distance away from my classroom.

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Lago di Lugano 🇨🇭

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This week, we've:
Baked white bread and shortbread
Coded computer games
Written battle speeches
Performed poetry
Danced to Elton John

It's been brilliant. But...

...is it half term yet?

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

Fancy an Edutwitter Community giveaway? The awesome guys at @BluecowE have kindly donated a Brewdog Advent Calender (it’s never too early!) for one lucky Edutwitter community member! To enter, drop them a follow, like and repost! Winner will be drawn at random on Sunday!

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@adamboxer1 I am a convert to doing all my modelling in my Y5 class in an exercise book under the visualiser. Also perfect for showing kids what their work should look like and, hey presto, 3 weeks in, most children write next to the margin (amongst many other nice things too).

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We finished Wildsmith yesterday as our class reader which went down a storm and got lots of them into similar stories which have flown off the shelves - plenty of @vashti_hardy as well as @Lillustrator among others.

We're off to The Land of Roar next!

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@joshuaseigal @MichaelRosenYes Thank you! I'll pass on your mind greeting and share your website 😁 Keep doing what you do.

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We're hooked on poetry at the moment. Our "Love of Books" time today was dominated by children wanting to read poems from @joshuaseigal @MichaelRosenYes among others (as well as sharing their own they'd written).

Poetry is dynamite.

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The *best* charity book shop haul from @GuildCare Worthing for quite some time. 10 books for £2 (two quid)!

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Book recommendations shelf igniting that reading for pleasure culture. Thanks @jonnybid

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Still do this now. The note cards are *so* effective for building a positive classroom culture (and those who get them can choose if they take a cushion to put on their chair for the day too!)

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Things I do:
I put 3/4 little note cards out in different children's places every morning to tell them something I liked that they did the previous day.

Make 1/2 "your child is brilliant because..." phone calls a week to a parent.

Trying to build a positive culture.

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Viva charity shops: £2.50 for the 3.

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@ms_gnomes 😁

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Oasis tickets secured in the pre sale. Extremely excited. Now if the entire school year can just fly by...

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@hannahepenny hi Hannah, how can I contact you to potentially arrange a visit for Laura Ellen Anderson to our school in West Sussex?

[The Fluency Factory @FluencyFactory]

7 days until The Fluency Factory is officially launched! 🎉 To celebrate we’re giving away 10 books over 10 days. 🎁📚 Just RT to win!

BOOK #3 -Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet

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@Lillustrator @FarshoreBooks Great. I'll do that. Especially if you're local now - we'd love to have you back 😁

[Jon Biddle @jonnybid]

Delighted to be running a £20 gift card giveaway with @bookshop_org_uk. To take part, just like and share this post, which has a link to my list of inclusive picturebooks to use in assemblies, by 8:00pm on Monday 26th August. Good luck! #Edutwitter https://t.co/0GKbltPIaL