Stephanie Thornton

Teacher, mother of two fantastic young men, wife, book lover, NI owner, reefer, fresh water scrub and gardener. My views are my own.

[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

I am doing the Full Moon for my Mum, who lost her fight with cancer and anyone that has been affected by this terrible disease. Please donate if you canxxx

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[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Want to nurture your child’s ability to problem solve? If so, think like Goldilocks. 🐻 🐻 🐻

While I’m not sure that “struggle” is the word I would have chosen to caption this video, I’m nonetheless really appreciative of its message.

In life we all encounter barriers and challenges - and while it’s tempting to remove them from our children’s paths, this isn’t doing them any favors in the long run.

Instead what we’re hoping to nurture is resilience and fortitude.

So when you spot a challenging situation, give it what I’ll call “The Goldilocks Assessment.”

You remember Goldilocks, yes? From The Three Bears story?

What you’re looking for are challenges that are not too easy and not too hard, but JUST RIGHT for your child’s ability and developmental stage.

If it’s something that’s clearly beyond your child’s ability to resolve independently, jump right in.

But if it’s not, give them just a moment.

Watch to see how they handle it.

If they need your help, start small.

Begin with guiding questions that might scaffold your child to success… and intervene more fully from there as needed.

If I have a complaint about this video it’s that we didn’t get to hear what I suspect was a rich and nurturing back and forth with mom as she coached and encouraged our hero toward resolution.

Remember that we can only learn to solve problems by encountering them.

So try to remove only those that really need adult intervention.

This little problem solver was shared to IG by reisagda.

[SF Said @whatSFSaid]

How do you get kids to love reading? Make it central to everything you do. Read to them every day. Always give them time to read for their own entertainment. Let them choose their own books freely. Reading for pleasure changes lives FOREVER! #literacy

(Art: Charles M Schulz)

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Character counts! 🙌

[Firefly Press @FireflyPress]

⭐️#BookGiveaway⭐️

To celebrate the #WorldRugbyCup we’re giving away a copy of #RampagingRugby to three lucky winners!

Like and RT by midnight next Saturday (30th August) for a chance to win. UK only. Good luck!

⁠#Giveaway

[Lara 💜🤍💚 @Lara1273]

My husband has just come home from London…sore throat, chesty and feeling rather unwell.

Got him to do a test and it’s positive.

No where to report data to 🤷‍♀️

Anyone else with #covid ?

Please repost if you see this, thank you.

[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

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[Teachers Talk Radio @TTRadioOfficial]

The DfE has announced its workload reduction task force for schools

✔️ All four major education unions represented
🤔 Six times more CEOs than classroom teachers

If you could ask the new task force to consider just one thing on workload, what would you choose?

[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

@HGold_author @HarperCollinsCh

[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

@MsGHist Mine is “Thank you!” 🤪

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

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[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

@MrBoothY6 The most useful CPD I have had.

[Hannah @missradders]

Rules of the first day of the holidays:

- you WILL get bodyclocked, so don’t even think you’re getting a lie in

- you WILL awaken feeling like you’ve drunk a skinful even though you didn’t touch a drop

[Stephanie Thornton @thornton1409]

@sueperkins And this too shall pass… xxx

[mrHunT @mrHunTlpool]

I loved the latest #Brightstorm adventure from @vashti_hardy with spectacular cover illustrations @georgermos @scholasticuk All aboard for a skyship adventure that will take you across the wide, face to face with super sapients in a battle for what is right! Are you brave enough?