Marcus Stanforth

That moment when your English Teacher sends you a tweet. I learnt so much from her, got my GCSEs and now I’m teaching it too! Don’t you just love Twitter? 😊

🧵Incredibly excited to share that RTT: AIC is published! @HughesHaili & I received our first copies today. Thank you @SPryke2 @teachals @HLearningPD Preordered copies will begin arriving from the 3rd April & copies will be available at our book launch @AstonUniversity on 2nd May

@XpatEducator Rosenshine

🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK! To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool… Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles. The download includes: → 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions) → 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions) → 10 planning templates (put principles into action ) → Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle. 👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers! ⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!

We are running a competition to give away a class set of 30 copies of A Christmas Carol to a school. It's easy to enter, just follow our page, like & share this post. You must work in a school to enter. The prize will be drawn on Tuesday 24th March. mbebooks.com

Hands up who's ready for 2026?! A big Sigma Trust welcome back to our family of schools, staff and students. We look forward to watching - and supporting - your progress in the year ahead.

We would like to wish all our schools, staff, students and communities a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you all enjoy the holidays ahead 🎄 🎄 🎄

This is tomorrow. We'll be talking all about The Writing Framework and what it means for us! 🐝 #Litdrive

I'm leading on the inaugural Literacy Leaders Community Forum next week! We'll be talking all about The Writing Framework. ✍️ If you're a Literacy Lead, please sign up using the link below. 🔗 If that's not you, please tag your Literacy Lead or share it with them. 💬

🥷EDU-TWITTER - WOWZER! 3 copies of LKS2 and 3 copies of UKS2 will be given away Sunday 19th at 6pm! 📲To enter: just comment 'LKS2' or 'UKS2" and retweet ♻️ / tag some teacher friends. #book<📚 #books #edutwitter #primary #reading #comprehension #inference #text #school

@FunkyPedagogy It sure is. Although it’s my seventh year of teaching now! 😅

Great to be back under the tutelage of @FunkyPedagogy as she talks through how to use The Money Anthology to teach creative writing and rhetoric. Do check it out! (bankofengland.co.uk/education/educ…)

Does anyone teach the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Drama? 🎭

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📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Get ready to build your professional knowledge with Litdrive! Our fortnightly CPD sessions are designed by English teachers, for English teachers, and are a key part of our commitment to supporting the profession.

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Education is increasingly becoming a motivation challenge.

⭐️ Department Discount ⭐️ Teachers, why not ask your HoD to treat your department this term? Litdrive membership gives your team ready-to-use schemes, model essays & CPD—all in one place. Less prep, more support! buff.ly/eHZehJl #litdrive #TeamEnglish

📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Our first online CPD of the year is live! Dive into An Inspector Calls with @HughesHaili as she asks, "What if Edna was the most important character?" Watch now: buff.ly/8Rc64WU #LitdriveCPD #TeamEnglish

📖 Litdrive CPD 📖 Our new online CPD calendar is here! Get ready for fortnightly sessions on Saturdays, designed by English teachers for English teachers. #LitdriveUK #EnglishTeacher #CPD

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