Teacher with a passion for equity and Literacy while no doubt having some sort of perimenopausal crisis as her adult children find their own lives x
West Midlands, England
Joined June 2023
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There's no-one more competitive than an octogenarian fighting to be first in the swimming pool at 7am. I thought I'd try early morning swimming..old ladies are fierce adversaries!
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"..needed to access the curriculum. Their non-standard English patterns of speaking are not wrong or less valuable than standard English... Oracy approaches do not seek to replace regional ways of speaking or to impose standard English on students in every situation..." 2/3
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"Disadvantaged students are not a homogenous mass. They do not all have poor early language development. For those that do, it is important to stress that they are not deficit. They do not lack cultural capital; their cultural capital may be different to that..." 1/3
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"..that they face. Instead, the intention is to bridge the gap between the language of school – and, to some extent, the world of work – & the language of home & community." @DeputySchofield in @CharteredColl's
'Impact' journal: my.chartered.college/impact_… 3/3
Please read my NEW BLOG
Why we should teach active listening theparenthesis.co.uk/2023/10…
#ActiveListening #vocabulary #EmpathyMatters
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Whole school T&L policies are most effective when evidence-based and leave teachers agency to deal with the ‘niggly bits’
researchtoclassroom.com/post…
The future of teachers and pupils where individuality or deviation from schemes is simply not permitted
Forget Harry Potters cloak of invisibility, this stuff has unrivalled vanishing powers. I've been hunting all day for the last remaining pea-sized blob and not a soul has seen it anywhere!! Hmm.
So, I spent an hour out of class this afternoon. When I went back in I skilfully navigated such a varied assortment of high fives, coming from so many angles, that an appearance in Ninja warrior felt like a less unlikely possibility.
The last Friday of a long half term. Spent ages straightening my hair and I still look like Hairy Mclary! images.app.goo.gl/BcKfq83LX4…
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Here, on the biggest island of a small archipelago, I found the perfect reading companion for #ImpossibleCreatures. An impossibly glorious feat of imagination and quite possibly my favourite #KatherineRundell book. I adored the characters and the world. Highly recommended. – at Palma, Spain
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Well, well, well. It’s been a quest, but here we are - publication day for OH MAYA GODS. This is my 13th published novel and and I’m so grateful to @chickenhsebooks, @veroniquebaxter, @Bitskoff, @jazzbartlett, @katmckenna_ and everyone else who has got me here. Love ya xxx
ALT Gold cover of Oh Maya Gods by Maz Evans with illustrations by Alexei Bitskoff depicting Vesper, Aster, Itzamna, Chac and Kizin.
A car with keyless entry is a marvellous invention - until the battery dies and you're stranded in a car park x
Reading for pleasure in childhood can make such a big difference to mental wellbeong cam.ac.uk/research/news/read…
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📚 GIVEAWAY 📚
To celebrate #BookshopDay on Sat 14th Oct, we're giving a bag of goodies each to two lucky winners!
1 to be won on Instagram, the other here - so enter on both platforms!
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1/2 – at Carmarthen, Wales
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Still some slots available: Teachers: If you are planning units on WW1 or WW2, or you plan to mark Remembrance Day (Nov. 11th) in some way, I'm offering online sessions again this year based on 'What Are We Fighting For?' Full details here: brian-moses.blogspot.com
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Showed this to some of my class today and not one of them could “see” it - they were kicking themselves when I showed them the answer 😂
Why ain’t, ain’t ok? theparenthesis.co.uk/2023/10…
Does using dialectical English inhibit progress in schools and reinforce the the pattern of social inequality?
#writingforpleasure #disadvantagegap #vocabularygap #vocabulary
Morning dog walk is peppered with smart people driving somewhere. Church ? Lunch? Romantic day out? Probably going to screwfix in a panic to buy a u-bend or a rubber washer.. Reality is rarely as whimsical as our imagination