Barbara Townley

Author of 'Zig Zag the Stripy Spotosaurus' series of books. Retired primary teacher.

[Barbara Townley @zigzagandemily]

Zig Zag the Stripy Spotosaurus books available to order online through my local bookshop @BurwayBooks
Zig Zag and the Giant Adventure https://t.co/tQvIFtZoFv
Zig Zag and the Magic Wood
https://t.co/TVfvHEDfcu

[Barbara Townley @zigzagandemily]

"We’ve got two-year-olds coming in and trying to eat sand because they’re hungry. ”
https://t.co/mYKurxthkF

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

"The best way to travel is by book, you can go anywhere you like" - Benjamin Zephaniah

We've lost one of poetry's greats today. Zephaniah's writing helped many make sense of themselves and the world around them. Here's a video from our #MyBirminghamStory project back in 2021 ⬇️.

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

Can @ShropCouncil explain why this ancient Oak tree now has a death sentence??! 😡👇 You’re telling me, in this day and age, you can’t mitigate around this & several other landmark trees? Please explain your decision. You are failing your local people and the natural world!

[Barbara Townley @zigzagandemily]

Why the proposed Shrewsbury NW Road is bad for Shropshire https://t.co/DGBbe9kkkn via @YouTube

[Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales]

On World Teachers' Day 2023, Margaret and I would like to say a great big "THANK YOU!" to teachers everywhere, past and present.

What a difference you make!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It will be the most important 3 minutes and 20 seconds you spend today. 👇

[Shropshire Live @shropshirelive]

Marquees and tipis are going up in preparation for Shrewsbury Food Festival this weekend. https://t.co/0KVgUkldTS

[early play @earlyplay]

Before we ever put a pencil in a child’s hands, those hands should dig, climb, press, pull, squish, twist, and pinch in a wide array of environments and with a variety of materials. ~ Amanda Morgan

[Shrewsbury Men’s Shed @MenShrewsbury]

#Shrewsbury The BBC helpfully allowed us to zoom in on a bright red spot on the U.K. map showing where a disproportionately huge amount of sewage was being dumped. Here it is.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 🐝

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Please retweet this many, many, many times. It's horrific.
@MarinaHyde is so right.
Why isn't this is a huge scandal?

Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal | Marina Hyde https://t.co/hiTNKSc699

[Plantlife @Love_plants]

Today is #InternationalDayoftheDandelion!💛

Celebrate with us by locking your mower away and letting the dandelions (and other wildflowers!) bloom for all of #NoMowMay and beyond🌾🌱🌻

Join the movement here
👉 https://t.co/gcWivLuLl0.

[Barbara Townley @zigzagandemily]

Love this #churchstretton #Coronation2023 #shropshire

[Cherie did this @Cheriedidthis]

DRAWN Again! Our Marvellous Bank Holiday Art Fair Returns - https://t.co/pHNPVK2wcy✏️

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please RT if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less 🐝

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please RT to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives �

[Daniel Bath @daniel_bath]

Of course she's brilliant and working with her is the greatest blessing a scruffy music teacher like me could dream of.
But Lucy is what happens when you make instrumental tuition available to disadvantaged children.
Help us to get this message across to those who decide.

[🌎🍎🐝🌳🌸 🍃💚🍃🌳👩‍🌾💪🏾 @nspugh]

Petition: Overturn the UK government’s decision to allow the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops - a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU!
👉https://t.co/EcwlVj2W4e

@DaveGoulson @LGSpace @Team4Nature @IoloWilliams2 @ECOWARRIORSS

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Finland:
Child starts school at 7
Has Free/subsidised nursery places
Every child gets free school meals to 16
Teaching is a valued profession & paid as such
University is free
No tax breaks for private schools
The best education in Europe

Learn from Them

[Barbara Townley @zigzagandemily]

Headteachers exhausted and broken https://t.co/hNP4jHnIAe