Assistant Principal for SEND, initial teacher training & literacy 👩🏫 Lordswood Boys’ School, Birmingham 💫
West Midlands, England
Joined September 2018
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Absolutely THRILLED to be featured in @tes magazine this week, discussing how multiple choice assessments can boost knowledge retention🌟
An absolute honour to be asked to speak at the British Dyslexia Association conference this year about Living Literacy and how we’ve implemented strategies that support our most vulnerable readers 👩🏫 thank you so much to everyone who came! #BDA24
📣 I loved writing this for the wonderful @FunkyPedagogy for the brand new @LiteracyCommUK
All about how @LBoysSchool supports reading for pleasure ❤️
Boys don’t read. Rising to the 150 challenge! – The Literacy Community theliteracycommunity.com/202…
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💥 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 💥
We’ve only gone and finally got ourselves a WEBSITE!!! 🥳🥳🥳
It’s basic at the moment, but it will grow! We have a couple of blogs from our members with more in the pipeline!
@MissRussell11
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My interview with @TeachFirst about teaching training, the ECF & why I’m glad ECT is 2 years now 💫
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On Monday my book club turned one year old!
A year ago I got 35 strangers together in a cafe to drink wine, eat cheese and talk about a book. One year later we are still loving it every month!
Was lovely to celebrate with my lovely gang who are no longer strangers but friends❤️ – at West Midlands, England
I can confirm no one was interested in my monologue about how Jaws is an allegory for greed… they all just sang baby shark. #WorldBookDay2024 – at West Midlands, England
On Monday my book club turned one year old!
A year ago I got 35 strangers together in a cafe to drink wine, eat cheese and talk about a book. One year later we are still loving it every month!
Was lovely to celebrate with my lovely gang who are no longer strangers but friends❤️ – at West Midlands, England
HOW DO I GET A PLANE!?!!!!
Finally, our plane library is complete! Can’t wait to officially open it tomorrow for @WorldBookDayUK
What a way to get children reading 🤩📚
We absolutely loved having Theatre Company KATCH 22 visit @LBoysSchool and perform their version of Macbeth to the students - the Q&A session at the end was so engaging and students loved hearing their thoughts about the play! Some lovely questions from our boys too! 🎭
Last half term I absolutely loved working with Y9 on their poetry. They wrote poems called “Dear People of the World” about challenging stereotypes. Thomas wrote about being “short” but fierce in the Ice Hockey rink! Words are beautiful ❤️
This half term’s @LBoysSchool Literacy Newsletter is here! Showcasing all our proudest achievements on our Literacy Journey ❤️📖 sites.google.com/lordswoodbo…
Y11 intervention season in full swing! Small groups, lots of discussion, high impact, a really different kind of teaching and I actually adore it!
We absolutely LOVED having @ClaireFayers with us for our Reading Week, she delivered an amazing author Q&A and a story writing workshop in the library. Thank you for being part of our Literacy drive Claire! The boys were so inspired to be creative.
READING WEEK at @LBoysSchool : Literacy is EVERYTHING. We drop down the entire curriculum & spend the whole week in their form groups reading a novel and completing activities. Lots of reading aloud, creative work, drama, oracy.. even cookies decorated like ‘The Witches’ 🧙 – at West Midlands, England
I need new book suggestions!
Y7 are reading Cirque Du Freak
Y8 - Curious Incident of the 🐶, Y9 - The Kite Runner, Y10 - 1984.
Some of our struggling readers are in smaller groups and are reading The Witches, The Hobbit, Stone Cold, and Marcus Rashford: how to be a champion.
Plus, every opportunity to read!! Hot chocolates at the Reading Cafe, Half Price Scholastic Book Fair and students taking part in the #ReadforGood Readathon to raise money for children in hospitals to have access to books.
The Reading Cafe ☕️ open for business at @LBoysSchool today! Free hot chocolates while the boys enjoy a range of books and magazines!
THE BOOKS ARRIVING! Must mean it’s Reading Week next week 🥰📚@LBoysSchool – at West Midlands, England
