Recovering English teacher, head, and union baron. Chiefly: books, food, Shakespeare, oracy … and endless pics of Suffolk skies with border terrier Molly B.
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'Wind' by Ted Hughes:
"This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window"
Via Anthony Wilson's 'Lifesaving Poems':
anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2013…
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I was so fortunate to have an extraordinary English teacher who gave me my first encounter with Shakespeare - 'Henry V'. Here, on St Crispin's Day (25 Oct), is Alex Hassell in the 2015 @TheRSC production: piped.video/w4PQ7v4W4rQ?si=gI36….
More about the day here: countrylife.co.uk/news/who-w…
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Geoff Barton retweeted
I really enjoyed this conversation with @RealGeoffBarton all about citizenship and current affairs. Have a listen!
Robert Poole joins @RealGeoffBarton to explore citizenship, news beyond social media and tackling controversial topics with confidence.
🎧 Listen now: zurl.co/iJ71r
Also available on all your favourite podcast platforms.
#CitizenshipEducation #PSHE
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Robert Poole joins @RealGeoffBarton to explore citizenship, news beyond social media and tackling controversial topics with confidence.
🎧 Listen now: zurl.co/iJ71r
Also available on all your favourite podcast platforms.
#CitizenshipEducation #PSHE
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Dispiriting. How we educate our young people should surely be at the heart of our national conversation …
NEW: BBC will no longer have a dedicated education editor as part of proposal that will see 100 jobs go across BBC News.
School leaders call the plan “deeply regrettable” and ask for a rethink.
Education/Social affairs editor jobs being combined.
theguardian.com/media/2026/o…
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Talking of #oracy, in this @guardian piece @LucyMPowell references my comments on disciplinary oracy ... eg how explaining, describing, justifying and debating mathematical models deepens students' understanding of maths:
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The view from here: a huge pleasure this afternoon to meet David Newborn and team at @red_rose_chain, Ipswich. They are a theatre company doing amazing inclusive grassroots work, and bringing extraordinary stories about Suffolk to the people of Suffolk.
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Here’s my full report and data set on the Childhood lottery - 100 data points that show the hardest places to grow up aswell as the full area by area national picture for children 👇🏻
Today I launch my landmark dataset: The Childhood Lottery.📍
Children feel it's harder to grow up in some places than others. Now I've brought together the evidence showing what a child’s experience is like in every postcode.
Full report👉🏼 childrenscommissioner.gov.uk…
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Just heading home from the 15th anniversary performance of @TheRSC’s #MatildaTheMusical introduced in person by writers @timminchin & Dennis Kelly. All these years on, the production is as fresh, inventive & uplifting as ever. Perfect for half term. Here’s to the next 15 years.
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Powerful, relentless campaigning by @ChildrensComm and excellent reporting by @RSylvester1 and team on a bleak ‘state of emergency’ in childhood @ObserverUK
Children’s commissioner declares “state of emergency” on young people’s lives - my report for @ObserverUK on the “childhood lottery”
observer.co.uk/news/national…
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AI’s implications explored …
Superb, as always, from @jonstewart:
.@jonstewart unpacks AI’s dubious promise of a better future, from the fate of our jobs to an "age of abundance"
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With the current narrative of the USA so bleakly dispiriting, I'm finding @brhodes' 'All We Say: A History of the United States in Fifteen Speeches' informative, compelling and - overall - a source of optimism. These things shall pass. #BartonBookshelf
(Bought @AldeBooks)
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‘Winnie-the-Pooh was too sugary for some. “It is that word ‘hummy,’” Dorothy Parker wrote waspishly under her pseudonym Constant Reader, “that makes the first place … at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up”’: the @guardian on the Pooh centenary:
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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What does “every teacher is a teacher of literacy” mean in practice?
🎙️ Jennie Shearer joins @RealGeoffBarton to discuss disciplinary literacy, social reading and giving pupils the confidence to question, discuss and change their minds.
Listen: zurl.co/gOQ4I
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Reminder: the @EducEndowFoundn (EEF) is an independent charity established in 2011 to improve the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils aged 2 to 19 in English schools. They have a range of research on the low cost/high impact of #oracy education: educationendowmentfoundation…
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“Every child deserves to find their voice.
From today, that starts to look less like a privilege and – irrespective of background or postcode – more like a genuine entitlement for all England’s children and young people”: my piece on #oracy @SchoolsWeek schoolsweek.co.uk/lucy-powel…
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With #oracy in the news, 3 essentials:
1 The @oracycommission 'We Need to Talk' report: oracyeducationcommission.co.…;
2: My conversation with Prof Robin Alexander (why oracy matters): open.spotify.com/episode/0od…
3: My conversation with @dmthomas90 (oracy & maths): open.spotify.com/episode/6Os…
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I couldn’t be more delighted than seeing a headline like this. The appetite for change among teachers, students & parents is there. Talk is central to learning and life! telegraph.co.uk/education-an…
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