Former Bury St Edmunds headteacher Geoff Barton joins Royal Shakespeare Company board suffolknews.co.uk/bury-st-edmund…

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'Underneath every song she sang, there was a feeling of melancholy': Karen Carpenter's 'We've Only Just Begun' explored in BBC Radio 4's amazing #SoulMusic .
Oh, and Kate Paradine - I blame you for getting me hooked on these amazing podcasts. #LifeEnhancing . buff.ly/3JyeQKh

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Love this:

Thank you, Tuesday, for such a variety of language stories … Night, all

Today I was privileged to be appointed to @theRSC board and watched, in Skegness, Shakespeare weave his magic with Year 4 pupils. But oracy is everywhere. ICYMI: Yesterday I talked to David Thomas Axiom Maths about oracy & mathematics:
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Just home from a joyful and uplifting day at this amazing school in Skegness. Fascinating to watch Shakespeare weave his magic, via The RSC team, with the Year 4 pupils. #WellDoneWill

The view from here: I can confirm - Skegness is so bracing. Thanks for all your kind comments about my appointment to The RSC board. I feel immensely proud and excited.

Meanwhile, in other news, I am delighted to be joining the board of the ⁦The RSC⁩ … theatreweekly.com/rsc-celebrates…

Happy birthday, William Shakespeare ...
Now, more than ever, all children & young people deserve an entitlement to the arts as part of their education, as the recent 'Time to Listen' research, based on pupils' voices, reminded us. Watch this space.
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As a linguistics graduate and maths publisher, I loved listening to this. Oracy is fundamental to mathematics. ‘There is no giant answer book floating in the sky’, mathematics is about convincing others of your arguments Voice 21 Oracy Lydia Davison Louise Pennington FCCT (She/Her) Will Power

One of our goals is to help young people become more articulate mathematicians. It's been great to see the #OracyCommission share in this goal, and to discuss the role of oracy in maths.

Our #OracyCommission conversations continue: how oracy is inextricably linked to success in Maths: my conversation today with David Thomas Axiom Maths buff.ly/4d6Gn38

Victoria Wood died 8 years ago this weekend. She was known as a performer and she was obviously a brilliant writer. But her real gift (for me) was to combine humour with poignancy, as this sketch of hers shows - 'Swim the Channel'. Funny; heartbreaking. buff.ly/4d0S1wx

'Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?'
Thanks so much to Voice 21 Oracy's Kate Paradine for introducing me to this uplifting, emotional celebration of an amazing song via BBC Radio 4's #SoulMusic :
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The view from here: how our Sunday has looked in this patch of Suffolk - big skies, another Molly B pose, and great friends the Fawcetts coming for lunch. That’s it.

“At 46, I have lived far longer than most of the humans in the 300,000-year history of our species. So have you, probably. And if the book of my life is shorter than many people’s, it doesn’t make it any less of a good read”: extraordinary, from Simon Boas jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2024/02/1…

The view from here: an amazingly entertaining and silly lunch with my great friends and colleagues, ASCL’s Evelyn Forde MBE, John Camp OBE and Manny Botwe. Thanks to everyone at The Lighthouse and Aldeburgh Bookshop for making my final ASCL farewell afternoon so special.