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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 21h

Highlights of my teaching week were being outside with the children. Lots of fun playing with autumn leaves, sycamore seeds and throwing them up as everyone leapt into the air from our climbing blocks. Autumn 1 is exhausting in EYFS, but still full of joy!

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 2d

Do most secondaries use these to set GCSE targets? So if you reach Expected, they’ll push you to get 4s/5s, but if you miss they won’t?

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this! Phenomenal!

Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 2d

Still making, still learning, still experimenting, still chasing.
www.darrellwakelam.com
#edusky #sculpture #artwork #recycle

A model of a T-Rex made entirely from recycled toilet roll tubes. Pictures show a simple head, made from one tube, and a complete 3D sculpture, something a little more complex, and made from many tubes.

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Ruth Swailes @ruthswailes.bsky.social · 6d

New blog
ruthswailes.com/handwriting-readiness-and-rhythm-finding-balance-between-policy-and-practice/

Handwriting, Readiness and Rhythm: Finding Balance Between Policy and Practice. - Ruth Swailes

When the DfE Writing Framework (2025) landed, many of us read the line about children in Reception being taught to “form lower-case and capital letters correctly” and felt that familiar flicker of ten...

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 7d

Rounding off the weekend with smores round the fire pit. Some days are hard, but I like it when they end like this.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 8d

Love this!

pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 8d

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 9d

Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 10d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Sep 11

One my newbies did this yesterday. All lined up in colour order 😊

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · Sep 2

NEW: The dangers of diagnosis.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

The dangers of diagnosis

Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Sep 1

(2/2) is tearing up the path to say hello. A sweet reminder of why I love what I do. We both agreed we weren’t ready for school to start again yet, but maybe now I am. Ready for a new bunch of little people to get to know, to laugh with and to learn with. It might just be the best job in the world.

Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Sep 1

Back to school. Holidays ended yesterday with a trip to the allotments open day for some apple-pressing and ridiculously cheap and tasty cakes, before watching Wicked with friends. Standing at the top of the hill I hear a distant voice… “Mrs Plane!” and a moment later one of my kids from last year

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Aug 28

This really made me laugh

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Picture perfect? How one of the best tennis photos of all time was taken at the US Open

Photographer Ray Giubilo’s half terrifying, half sublime one-in-a-million image of Jasmine Paolini had more than an element of fortune to it

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron King @9000lives.org · Aug 26

🚨 New
It's an important outcome for young people, so how are we doing with teenage mums?

🧵 based on recent national & international evidence. 🗺️📊

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Graph shows number of births to teenage mums from 1998 to 2022, using the Office for National Statistics data. Overall there is a fall from around 63000 in 1998 to 21000 in 2022. The number of births to teenage mums has fallen every year since 2007.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Aug 24

If you'd like to get your hands on a copy of this book more quickly, my publishers @bloomsburyed.bsky.social are doing a 30% off 'back to school' sale. Go here to find out more. ⬇️
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-su...

How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching

This new edition of Sue Cowley's bestselling book serves as a practical, up-to-date guide for early career teachers learning to navigate their first two years i…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm doing a couple of giveaways to celebrate the upcoming new school year! This first #giveaway is for my @bloomsburyed.bsky.social book on #behaviour. Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner picked next Saturday. Please share! Thank you. #freebie

Sue Cowley's book Getting your Class to Behave

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jul 22

Today is Spoonerism Day so here’s a list of the top ten best celebrity names when spoonerized…

10. Lude Jaw
9. Bathy Kates
8. Parah Salin
7. Hatt Mancock
6. Sandy Ravage
5. Him Tenman
4. Bean Sean
3. Shartin Meen
2. Rid Kock
1. Cradley Booper

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Jul 22

They just don't know when they're beat!

Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Jul 22

Which links nicely with the first webcam in Cambridge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_...

Trojan Room coffee pot - Wikipedia

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Jul 17

Taught my Year 3s for the last time today. I'm really excited about heading back to Reception in September, but I will miss my Tulips! I told them today my favourite thing has been story time each day. We've read some cracking books together!

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Jul 17

Since the DfE's new writing framework seriously downplays the importance of emergent writing, I'm giving away a free copy of my book on mark making because it 100% *does* matter! ☺️

Like and repost to enter. Winner announced next Thursday. #EduSky #giveaway #freebie

The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years book by Sue Cowley

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · Jul 8

If we genuinely want to close gaps we need to give children the things they've missed (often opportunities for play, serve and return conversations, exploration and physical activity). You can't jump ahead by forcing the next stage if the foundations aren't there. #EYFS #PlayMatters

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Jun 28

Not me. Youngest child of a youngest child who was also a teacher!

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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · Jun 27

Switched my day off this week so that I could be in school today for our fun run and carnival themed closing ceremony of Sports/Arts week. 900 children singing, dancing, celebrating on the very warm playground. It was properly joyful. Days like this I really love my job.

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