Always love that our reading lists are so similar!!

Thank you! Tweeted and Linked In messaged and Ben himself responded within 10 mins. Still a superstar!!

Hurrah, hurrah! Have been nagging @joedale.bsky.social!!

Students think it’s “magic” that even a week later, if I show them the first letter of each word cues of a whole text, they can remember it, repeat it, translate it.

Inspired by this Barry Smith video youtu.be/WtO1YWhwAGE?...

As a language teacher, lots more choral repetition (have always done this) but tweaked to use Eng cue & German choral response; reading it back to me to start with. Next step is removing the whole German word and leaving just the first letter as the German cue, I continue to prompt with English.

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We offer to buy them, but if they want to write in them, they buy their own.

Ah … at last!! Keep trying to recommend WAIB with no one to link to!! Welcome!

This is great, Christina - thanks for the share

This is what I love about having taught in the same school since 1996. “You taught my mum/dad/aunty”. Teaching the children of students who “came good in the end” and are proud to show you that.

Hurrah! Glad to see you over here!

1. Milkman of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg
2. Working Class Hero - John Lennon
3. Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
4. Me & the Farmer - Housemartins
5. Mariner’s Revenge - The Decemberists

Interesting. Have been wondering whether we’d go back to pre-Covid times.

I do a “Blog of the Week” recommendation for our briefing. I try to keep them short, practical & linked to some PD or focus areas that we’re working on. I very often recommend one of @pepsmccrea.bsky.social Evidence Snacks. They are perfect & provide wider reading links for the keen beans.

Dachs & Pica the cats and Olive the 16-week old lab … no chaos here.

... also, depressingly this, from 12 years ago:

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