We're pleased to announce our newest blog interview with Brian Moses, children's poet and ideas detective! He draws fantastic parallels between music and writing. You won't want to miss this! Keep shining, everybody!✨
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…but did not consult medical advisers. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

It was amazing hearing from Prof Anthony Costello Anthony Costello on climate change at the global health crisis at the #NSHPSN 2024. I had the pleasure of meeting him in a lecture at one of my modules during my MSc. Health Economics Unit, Birmingham and was amazed when he started talking to me in Nepali.

So four decades on from scientific consensus, and Mrs Thatchers warning to the UN about the perils of climate change, the FT reports that coal capacity (the dirtiest fuel) is rising again across the world. Er..we may already be hitting tipping points…

My opus major, 'The Social Edge' explained. youtube.com/watch?v=64pdEW…
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Advance copies of North and the Only One are flying into the world! Eeeeeek!!!! I can’t wait to see what people think, although I’m pretty nervous as it’s a little different (still very me but with added fairy tale and AI ;) It’s out properly in May with Scholastic UK

This worked brilliantly today. I asked students to annotate and critique my sentence starters.

NB: All students have access to IPads

On oracy, and the spurious, unhelpful dichotomies still circulating, this from me in a blog in 2021: 'Dialogic learning and instruction are not in opposition to each other, nor do teachers have to choose between them.' & another in 2017 (extract below).

So excited that this turned up a week earlier than originally claimed! Just enough time to devour it before revealing it on the first day back. There’s a lot waiting for this one.

Zahawi “inadvertently” forgot millions of taxable income. Hunt “inadvertently” forgot income on 7 apartments he’d bought. Both when in Govt.
No consequences.
Angela Rayner may have been inadvertently liable for a small CGT before she was an MP. Tories call for resignation.

Despite KS1 SATs now being optional, it seems many still plan to use them this year.

£9.2milion. What’s that noise? Oh yeah- that’s the sound of the gravy train heading towards another one of their mates consultancy firms

A wonderful day spent at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park park with fellow creative practitioners, artists and teachers. Inspired by the Jonathan Baldock ‘Touch Wood’ exhibition, we created our own textile based sculptures. Lots of new ideas to bring into our art curriculum Kathryn Brame

Nadhim Zahawi covered up and lied about £3m in unpaid tax for 6 years.

Will Rishi Sunak refer that to the Police?

Dosbarth Mrs Marshall used a story map to tell the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’ this week. Fabulous team work all! 🤩 Talk for Writing Pie Corbett

This is the stuff! I’m not sure that baby is “sitting like a scholar” though 🤣🤣🤣

Today, a new generation of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team begins with the release of their co-written song, “Primrose Hill”

The government is killing the study of humanities in our universities

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'Summer fields' by contemporary painter Susan Simioni, based in Tasmania , Australia #WomensArt

Placed a loan request at my local library for these two books...can't wait to read them! Any other recommendations?

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