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Why #reading is important
20 Minutes a day = 3600 minutes in a school year (IASY) = exposure to 1.8m words (top 10%)
5 mins a day = 900 mins IASY = exposure to 282,000 words
1 min a day = 180 mins IASY = exposure to 8000 words (bottom 10%)
fairhill.org/time-spent-read…
The Pope -God bless him - is telling the young people (and their carers) to spend more time being human and having human engagement 🙏🏻 than being hypnotised by empty technology: put the phones down and interact with people 🙏🏻
@StAndrewsHS
If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a “paradise of machines” invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment and the capacity to acknowledge the moral good. This is indispensable if we are to recognize the genuine good that enables human beings to flourish in accordance with their primordial vocation, with unconditional respect for their interior freedom and their sacred dignity. #ApostolicJourney #France vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
An opportunity to do something familiar or completely new - and it’s FREE 👍🏻
Join us at our next Bollywood movie screening at #CoatbridgeLib on Saturday 29 August, 11am.
It's your chance to catch a free desi movie with snacks and chai provided.
Book online: northlanculture.co.uk/9x4r
#RIPGlenHansard
Taken too soon - I love this film and song youtu.be/yzQ9VrnNQLQ
Young people of @StAndrewsHS community THIS may be of interest 🙌🏻
We are very excited to announce that Scottish actor and comedian Sanjeev Kohli will be visiting #CoatbridgeLib for a very special Q&A session on Saturday 8 August, 2pm. Book a free place now to avoid missing out: northlanculture.co.uk/skCOA
Please note - the time of this event is currently subject to change.
#onlyconnect
I will ignore the slander against Scotland but VC misused the term “woke” but I guess she is not alone in that 🙈
Multi-tasking is mythic 👀
Are you reading this post and watching tv? STOP!
You can't do two similar tasks at the same time. Nor can pupils. Multi-tasking is a myth.
Impact Wales takes research and turns it into an improvement in your teaching practice. For more contact us [email protected].
The possessive apostrophe @StAndrewsHS
IF saying Happy Father’s Day to YOUR father then the apostrophe goes between the R and the S
IF referring to the day - today is Fathers’ Day - then because it is ALL fathers the apostrophe goes AFTER the S
Memes = awful punctuation
Congratulations to the @Hurricanesrugby on their emphatic victory in the Super Rugby Championship 2026
What a season
Nice analogy
Feedback is like gardening. Water early practice that needs to grow and prune errors before misconceptions take root. Effective feedback isn't about judging performance—it's about directing deliberate practice & moving pupils closer to the learning goal.
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Pupils who know more words, also know more about words AND are able to think better.
Use these 7 strategies to explore unfamiliar vocabulary with your pupils and teach them more words!
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Vocabulary @StAndrewsHS
4 ways to build pupils' schema for new vocabulary: link to prior knowledge, use in speech, use in writing, and revisit meaning in context.
We think with words—reading, speaking and writing shape who we are.
Find out more: impact.wales
Q & A ✅
5 steps to better questioning:
• Focus on the learning
• Plan questions
• Model answers
• Engage everyone
• Adapt teaching
Rooted in research. Built for classrooms.
Better questions = better thinking.
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5 steps to effective instruction 🧠👇
Start with the big idea
Pre-teach what pupils need
Show them how
Deepen their thinking
Reduce support over time
Simple. Not easy.
Done well, this changes everything.
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Excellent conceptualisation 👍🏻
How are you understanding progress for your learners? Use our research-informed strategy, midpoint monitoring, to break down pupils' progress towards their learning goal.
Perfect for CfW 💥✅
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Never complain when we ask you to write your ideas, your thoughts and/or your answers because we are literally helping you to achieve 🙌🏻
Handwriting is BETTER for learning than typing.
But we all knew that.
The challenge is, what do we do for pupils with SEND?
(Marano et al., 2025, p. 23) - featured in #GuideToLearning
mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/345#
We know that everyone in the @StAndrewsHS community would like to congratulate our amazing team of public speakers (coached by B. Robb-Methven & C. Rodriguez) who participated with distinction in the Lord Lieutenant’s Competition today 🙌🏻 at Airdrie Town Hall
They did us proud
