Assistant Head, Year 6 Teacher & English Lead. Advisor/copy writer for Findel Education & Facilitator @teachmcr
Manchester, England
Joined May 2020
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Our outdoor reading areas are finally complete! 📚📚📚 @BrettellHarriet @_Reading_Rocks_ @VIPreading @OpenUni_RfP @reading_realm @SchoolReading
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Parents, if your child goes on a residential between now and the end of the year, go and give the teachers a quick thank you when you pick your child up.
You’d be amazed how little it happens, and it means a huge amount.
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Is anyone teaching Titanic to Y5/6 this term? Due to a cover refresh, I've got 15 copies of The Titanic Tunnel which I'd like to donate as a class set. RT/comment to enter. Drawn 20/2 🎉
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Deconstructing Word Questions - Y6 out in 7 days! Coherently teaching ALL children to break down word questions. 1 person who RTs gets the resource for free.
The video on YouTube: youtu.be/kueEkSHNHpo
EXCITED!
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Win a copy of Maths Like a Ninja 📗
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Winner announced tonight at 9pm.
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Y6 have listened to a range of stories from ‘Half-Minute Horrors’ & summarised them. Today, we used the @WritingRocks_17 ideas web to combine two stories of their choice from the book in prep for writing our own horror. 👻👻👻 @lemonysnicket @neilhimself @JP_Books @HarperCollins
More author chairs introduced into school this week. (Again, free from FB Marketplace.) These have been produced by the Y3 team. 👏👏👏 #writingculture @WritingRocks_17 @_Reading_Rocks_
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The components of an effective writing lesson
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Many school's have opted against showing tomorrow's game due to Iran & Qatar's shocking human rights records particularly when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community.I'm using the book below to address the issue & have put some slides together to support.Happy to share👍 @Reading_Rocks
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This week, Holden Clough took part in the 'England Rocks' TTRS challenge. The children correctly answered 191,419 questions! Well done to everyone who joined in with this competition! @TTRockStars
Y6 have been writing bios of animals that have assisted in wars throughout history. Using ‘Heroes’, they wrote about horses, dogs, pigeons & even bears! This linked with Armistice Day whereby we learnt how the purple poppy commemorates fallen animals.Thoughts @WriterDavidLong?
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Y6 decided to share their writing in a coffee house after consulting the @WritingRocks_17 ‘Publishing Menu’. Bean & Bun have obliged & will be welcoming us next week. Y6 will be sharing their @WriterDavidLong ‘Heroes’ inspired bios in the ‘Superheroes’ style by @SophiaThakur
Who'd have thought a free up-cycled stool could lead to children so desperate to write & share their work? 'Author's Chair': another great idea courtesy of @WritingRocks_17 👍 (Picture used with parent's permission) @BrettellHarriet @OneEducation
Quick video from our Festival of Remembrance earlier tonight following on from my post earlier. Children made designs of the red poppy representing fallen soldiers, purple in memory of fallen animals & silhouettes of 'Tommies'. @PoppyLegion @BrettellHarriet @OneEducation
After a very long week including OFSTED, we held our Festival of Remembrance this evening to commemorate Armistice Day tomorrow. All 370 children produced designs as seen in the picture. An incredibly moving event for all who attended. @BrettellHarriet @PoppyLegion @OneEducation
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Y3 shared their Walt Disney biographies with Y6 this week. This was beneficial for all: Y3 got valuable feedback from their Y6 peers, whilst Y6 were able to get acquainted with the features & style of biography ahead of writing theirs next week. @WritingRocks_17 @Disney
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Y6 Publishing Houses have been set-up this week within our class libraries. They’re already filling up nicely with children’s writing! @WritingRocks_17
After listening to @WritingRocks_17 @ the @OneEducation #litconf23, I tasked pupils with the challenge of slipping a piece of writing into my coat pocket without me knowing.(Ross told of how a child had done this at another school) Delved into my pocket & just discovered this...
Tried writing calendars for the first time last week to try and encourage kids to set their own goals when it comes to writing. Interestingly, nearly all set goals relating to quantity. Work to be done in terms of changing writing culture. @WritingRocks_17 @BrettellHarriet
Purposeful writing: children decided they wanted to post their recent description of 'The Lady in the Waves' from The Haunting of Aveline Jones to the local community for Halloween. The community fedback & the children were delighted! @WritingRocks_17 @BrettellHarriet @Hickesy
@WritingRocks_17 currently also got roughly 80% of the class telling anyone who'll listen that they're a 'vomiter'. #writingstyle
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