mostly about poetry and falling over things in the street
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Helen Elsley retweeted
The videos also include detailed explanations of how to plan and teach using these lesson structures.
These videos are accessible to schools, trusts, etc that choose to subscribe to them via a password-protected page on my blog: primarycolourhome.wpcomstagi…
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Helen Elsley retweeted
Other things we could bring back, for a better world:
Empathy
Fully resourced schools, hospitals, social services....
Sure Start centres
Free higher education
Teletext
Abbey Crunch biscuits
Roller blackboards
Banda machines (with THAT smell)
Come & Praise hymn books
Compassion
You’ve seen all the gubbins and garbage all over the broken pavements. Now imagine what it’s like when you can’t. Two properly painful and many minor prangs last year dented my pride and my confidence. theguardian.com/world/2024/j…
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I got my husband a print subscription to @TheIleach for Christmas and now he is reading me the best bits over a lunch of leftovers. This is a remarkably joyful post-festive treat.
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Thirty years ago I read these to my p3s in Glasgow’s east end. They loved them. On the summer trip to Loch Lomond, a ranger asked what might live neaby and they all chorused WOMBLES! Revisiting this joy on @BBCSounds is a treat.
ALT Photo of vintage puffin books titled The Wombles, the Wandering Wombles and the Invisible Wombles
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I enjoy @richardosman ‘s House of Games even though I usually can’t see some bits - the adapted, blind-friendly version tonight was an absolute joy. Inventive people can adapt and include with no fuss.
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Tim Rasinski combining 2 of my favourite things. Explicit reading instruction is most effective when embedded in the joy, profundity and richness of language. Phonics and poetry, poetry and phonics, never either/or.
Our September guest blogger, @TimRasinski1, shares how making poetry a daily part of the reading curriculum can be both artful and scientific. Check it out! landmarkoutreach.org/blog-po…
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This is so clear, comprehensive and useful.
My @ExpPsychSoc President's Lecture on 'Making a Difference with Experimental Psychology: Lessons from the Reading Wars' is now online. Enjoyed this.😊 youtube.com/watch?v=4Q-7rar_…
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Having come back from Islay where an accessible path got me to beautiful places, and got me fitter, to a city where pavements are so broken I fell going to the shop - I hope this will lead to more wonderful paths. 👩🏻🦯
#LochindaalWay @PathsforAll
🚶👨🦽🚴 The new Outdoor Accessibility Guidance, which launched this Spring, provides an overview of how we can make the outdoors inclusive & accessible for everyone all over the UK! @SensoryTrust @ORN_official
Read more bit.ly/3n0bqZ3
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Two staff members at @waitrose Byres Road branch were so kind and helpful this afternoon after I went headlong on a broken pavement outside. I can’t read name badges, but am extremely grateful.👩🏻🦯
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It’s not that I didn’t enjoy nipping to Lidl this afternoon. It’s just that my last trip to the shop looked like this. I may have mentioned that the path at Bruichladdich is a thing of wonder. #LochindaalWay
ALT Grasses and meadowsweet give way to a rocky coast and sea loch with a white yacht, hills in the distance and white clouds in a blue sky.
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Helen Elsley retweeted
barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison
aka the best twitter thread i will ever post
strap in
#Barbie
ALT a barbie doll with light skin and blonde hair sitting in her barbie wheelchair which is a pink manual wheelchair.
ALT katie, a white woman with blondish hair, sitting in her pink manual wheelchair in the exact same pose as the barbie in the previous photo.
40 years ago, my biology teacher made our class stand until we could all pick out the ‘needly needly’ call of a pippet. I’ve just heard one (confirmed by app). Mrs ‘Granny’ Smith would be proud. No education ever wasted!
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It is totally disgusting that a thief would target our centre and remove funds and equipment that we all use to help our clients.
Headway Glasgow and our neighbour @TripleTapTech were targeted by a determined thief last week with total IT equipment and cash donation losses of around £3,000. Real setback for those affected by #braininjury @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @Glasgow_Times @Glasgow_Live @Daily_Record
The best thing about this series of Taskmaster has been my son’s unalloyed joy whenever @jennyeclair is on screen. I have to turn my hearing aid down on one side or his cackling is so loud it hurts.
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Our children's rights exhibition My Rights, My Story - a story of children's rights by families with babies & young children. On display in Craigmillar Library. Please come to view! THANK YOU to the families who took part & to @CattanachSCIO for funding. #UNCRC #ChildrensRights
