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@MrsFe77 @jonnybid Yes, I read South first 😢Looking forward to sharing with my class after the summer. Thank you for the recommendation 👍🏼

Enjoyed but provoked by Race to the South/ North Pole by Alexandra Stewart and Sarah Wilkins. Gorgeously illustrated tale of human endeavour and sacrifice. But the ponies and dogs…. 😭 Fabulous two-sided format - probs should read South first. Great rec. by @jonnybid

@LeeBraganza @MrBoothY6 We only have croissants😂

@MrBoothY6 I hate you. We have croissants and toast.

Some people dread SATs week but it means free sausage and bacon butties for breakfast this week. Unrivalled.

@johncosgrove405 @exheadteacher 💯agree. No matter how much we say to Y6 ‘it’s just another hoop to jump through’, it’s an unnecessary stress when class teachers know exactly ‘where they are’ 🤬

A good blog post. It's more than time to ditch KS2 SATs. Thank you @exheadteacher

@smithsmm Loved mine 😍

I’m not really old or at least I don’t think I am, but this was the board I had in my first classroom and for my first four years of teaching! Others were jealous because I could prepare the next lesson on the back!

@JoanHicksonFans Thank you for posting. What a wonderful clip😍

Joan discusses Agatha Christie and Miss Marple in a PBS Mystery! interview. #JoanHickson

@cdaly72 Me too! What a fabulous show & so ahead of its time! 😍Wonderful female leads and many of the storylines still relevant today. Wish it got more recognition 🤷🏻‍♀️

This was my favourite show. I was allowed to stay up late and watch it with my mum!

@kathykarrott @sirphillipluvrr My sister & I still love his delivery of “You’re like a little bird - vivid, resolute” & the way he sits outside her bedroom door after the aborted wedding & catches her… 😍

@sirphillipluvrr My daughters and I have been quoting this version since watching years ago. I can’t count the number of times we’ve said, “I mentally shake hands with you…” or when we arrive at each others house, “Stay your weary little wandering feet…” 💜

i’m obsessed with timothy dalton’s charmingly schizophrenic and biblically accurate portrayal of rochester

@Y6Falcons @jonnybid @smithsmm We used “Flotsam” across the whole school & it worked very well.

Hi! Can anyone recommend a picture book for use on World book day with primary children ? Ks1 and ks2. We celebrate it on April 23rd here in Spain! @jonnybid @smithsmm

@DeputyGrocott I just finished ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ today. They cheered, my voice wobbled a fair bit! 😥 What a book! Third time I’ve read it to a class, it still blows my mind!🐰

@ICT_MrP Well said! How I wish this had been the message coming out of the Govt/DfE during the two lockdowns. What an opportunity missed!

The one thing I can always tell about a child when I teach them

@teachingwrens @jonnybid @MrBoothY6 We used ‘Flotsam’ across the whole school. It worked very well.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a picture book to centre World Book Day on, as a school? The children loved 'The Day The Crayons Quit' last year. Launching with a whole-school theme worked well. @jonnybid @MrBoothY6

@LissaKEvans One of the best Brontë adaptations. It’s time Anne Brontë got more recognition as the trail blazer she was. Hoping one day for an adaptation of ‘Agnes Grey’ - a perfect novel & ahead of its time.

I enjoyed The Tenant of Wildfell Hall on BBC iplayer, a 1996 adaptation. Great cast. Toby Stephens and Rupert Graves are both excellent actors and that was definitely what I was admiring the whole way through: their acting. Splendid acting. From all angles.

@ljlittleson 💯Me too! I was laughed at by some colleagues when I said his books had racist stereotypes.

@AbbeyNewton16 @smithsmm 💯 I’ve done the same at our school. And some teachers I’ve worked with used to laugh at me when I said his books were dangerous😏

@smithsmm 🙌🏾👍🏽I removed all of his books from our school library and class book corners a couple of years ago. No child should have to read the classism, racism and misogyny that permeated his books.

His books were pushed and promoted to high heaven at the expense of other writers who wrote significantly better books that with the kind of promotion he received would have absolutely flown. He literally started the celebrity children’s author push that has damaged real authors

@JohnStone36 @peaklass1 Unfortunately this too has fallen into disrepair 😥

@peaklass1 Yes. On a working visit to Europe, President Kennedy took time out to visit his sister's grave in the summer of 1963 - just six months before his assassination. A marble plaque alongside Kathleen's grave records the visit.

On Wednesday I got to wrap up in lots of layers and head out for some serious frosty wandering. I may have got slightly carried away, always wanting to see around the next corner, admiring the gates and frosty grasses, the robins and sheep, and I ended up accidentally walking for most of the day. 🤭 Along the way I found myself in Edensor, which is a particularly lovely place to explore. It's a fascinating village that has as many stories as it has pretty cottages... Read on if you'd like to know more. The original village of Edensor dates back to medieval times and was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was located along the nearby River Derwent. The buildings were visible from Chatsworth House when it was built, however, and the view allegedly offended the then Duke of Devonshire, so between 1838 and 1842 the village was dismantled and moved! Many of the residents were relocated to the nearby villages of Beeley and Pilsley, and the planning and building of a new village, over the brow of a hill and out of sight, was managed by Sir Joseph Paxton, the famous architect of the Crystal Palace in London. Take a walk around here and you might notice that there's an eccentric mixture of different house styles, from Tudor to Norman, mixed in with Swiss-style cottages, miniature castles and Italian-style villas. Rumour has it that the architect who worked with Paxton to produce the designs for the houses, John Robertson, presented the Duke of Devonshire with a selection of house styles to choose from, and the Duke – rather distractedly – chose one of each! The old church of St Peter’s in Edensor dated back to the 12th Century, but it was rebuilt and expanded when the village was relocated, and its beautiful spire now towers over the skyline. The churchyard contains a number of interesting graves, including a memorial to Kathleen Kennedy, sister of the former US president John F Kennedy, and also that of Sir Joseph Paxton. It's always worth wandering in the #peakdistrict to see what treasures you might find around the next corner...! 📍 Edensor, Peak District, England

@peaklass1 Beautiful village. Visited this summer but sad to see Kathleen Kennedy’s gravestone in such disrepair😥

@Strickomaster 👏🏼Absolutely this! Teachers/staff are the most valuable resource in a school.

Richard Burton, November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984. “We ignored them, and survived.” Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 #RichardBurton #ElizabethTaylor

@Noirchick1 Jean Simmons

AFI's list of the best actresses of classic film..any favorites you feel should be in this list that are not?

@DeputyGrocott We just used it last term. Inspired some great ‘flashback’ writing from Y5 & Y6.

Do primary schools teach the ‘piano’ video any more in English? Was so powerful