Year 3 teacher in Birmingham. Passionate about music and LGBT+ inclusive education 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Birmingham, England
Joined September 2019
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A Syrian refugee started in my class today. She arrived two weeks ago after two years of trying to reach the UK. My class were so full of LOVE for her - some made cards at home. This hatred and selfishness is completely learned. Just LOOK at the EMPATHY ❤😭
#RefugeesWelcome
Absolutely horrified that I mentioned S Club 7 today and my class gave me blank faces. I will now take my role as a teacher more seriously - we have work to do!
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What a lovely first day with my new class! We took some time out of our busy schedule to relax in the sun with a good book ☀️
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This was a lovely transition activity adapted from an idea I saw online. The children wrote about something they have already achieved and something they would like to achieve. They decorated sunglasses and then stuck them onto a self-portrait.
#KS2Transition
#TransitionDay
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The new 'guidance' about trans and non-binary pupils is harmful and dangerous. It's Section 28 all over again. No competitive sports for gender-questioning pupils? Staff and pupils can ignore preferred/correct pronouns if they want to?
@NEUnion I hope we are fighting this.
Lots of love to any teachers who are visibly LGBT+ for the first time this #PrideMonth. It's not easy but the impact is huge and helps our children to feel seen and represented.
Shout out to @PopnOlly who provide brilliant resources for schools.
#LGBTed
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We always end the day with a song in Ladybirds and yesterday's was amazing!
As a side note 🎵, the daily karaoke has done WONDERS for their reading fluency!
#MusicMatters
#PrimaryReading
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Year 3 reflecting on #StephenLawrence Day and thinking about what we stand for. Important messages inspired by @sal2nd
#IAmARevolutionary
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Loving this @KateJones_teach spelling test method: add 5 spellings each week until it gets to 20, then add 5 and drop off the first 5, etc.
Week 1: 3/5
Week 2: 5/5, 0/5
Week 3: 5/5, 3/5, 1/5
Such clear progress already.
#PrimarySpelling #Retrieval
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@KateJones_teach spelling test idea. Add 5 each week, then drop the first 5 when it gets to 20, add 5, drop first 5 etc.
Week 1: 3/5
Week 2: First 5 all correct, 0/5
Week 3: First 5 all correct, 3/5, 1/5
Such clear progress and spellings are being remembered.
#PrimarySpelling
Standing with teacher colleagues tomorrow to take a stand against the poor funding for schools. We are screaming out for more funding to support a better education for our children. This is about so much more than wages.
#SaveOurSchools @NEUnion
We are seeing such benefits of our whole class reading strategies, using modelled and paired reading to improve fluency.
#PrimaryReading #GuidedReading
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Rockstars!🤘🎸⭐️
What an experience for the children and such a treat for us! Thank you @RSMusicSchool. We already can't wait for the next one!
#PrimaryMusic #MusicMatters
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Year 3 were thinking about analogous colours today when we were using watercolour paints. #PrimaryArt @Cornerstonesedu
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"I didn't take the job on to starve children."
This dinner lady is dreading going back to work in October and fears many of the school's pupils will not be able to afford lunch.
@eiecampaign
Year 3 used the description of the Kraken in #PugsOfTheFrozenNorth to create their own Kraken poems @jabberworks @philipreeve1
