Assistant Head at CHS. English Teacher. Learning and teaching is at the heart ❤️ of it all. All views my own.
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📢 📢 📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 📢 📢
We’re delighted to confirm that @RhysWilliamsTV will be joining us as rEDCymru Bach, offering opening reflections to kick off.
Thurs Oct 8th
Chapter Arts, 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/200144728…
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Thursday 8th October
Chapter Arts, Cardiff
5.30pm - 7.30pm
@lucy_crehan
@KellyBubbins
@ImpactWales
@garein
Q&A hosted by @thomasbreeze
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📢 📢 📢 FORMAT! FORMAT! 📢 📢 📢
rEDCymru Bach: Where Do We Go Now?
Keynote: (TBC)
4 x 10mins: @lucy_crehan, @KellyBubbins, @ImpactWales @garein
Break: Coffee/Tea/Wine/Beer
Panel/Q&A: hosted by @thomasbreeze
Tickets 🎫 🎟️ 🎫 🎟️ 🎫 🎟️ 🎫 🎟️ 🎫 🎟️
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🎺 🎺 ATTENTION! ATTENTION!🎺 🎺
Where Do We Go Now?
Thursday Oct 8th
17.00 - 19.00
Venue TBC
Eventbrite to follow
This has prompted us to relaunch #rEDCymru…
rEDCymru Bach: Where Do We Go Now?
Debate and discussion
Four speakers
Q&A
Venue and details to follow
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Reading opens doors for learners across Wales.
From September 2026, we will begin a three-year enhanced focus on reading—evaluating what works and sharing materials to support improvement.
Watch our Chief Inspector explain more:
estyn.gov.wales/reading-for-…
#ReadingForWales
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This has prompted us to relaunch #rEDCymru…
rEDCymru Bach: Where Do We Go Now?
Debate and discussion
Four speakers
Q&A
Venue and details to follow
I’ve spent several years investigating education in Wales.
Following this week's disastrous PISA results, we've made an @itvnews special reflecting on how Wales got here.
The choices that reshaped our schools, the concerns over what children learn, and the fear things could get even worse.
youtube.com/watch?v=1FSIfPjX…
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Where do we go now?
If you’re interested in how Wales’ education system got to these disastrous results I’ve tried to provide some history and context here.
Hopefully you find it worth your time:
Welsh pupils fall further in maths as school tests expose gap with England itv.com/news/2026-09-08/wels…
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Fin was invited on to the BBC Walescast podcast to give her views on the PISA results.
You can listen to the full episode here:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p8lf…
#PISAresults #Wales #education #learning
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Using drawing and visuals is a high impact, research-informed strategy to support learning and retention.
It involves three related cognitive processes that each create an interconnected memory trace:
1️⃣Cognitive elaboration = thinking about the information
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Credit to @wjec_cbac for attempting to address things. However, this requires far more than tinkering.
Disappointing that @quals_wales see this as an issue for a “small number of subjects.” NEA remains fundamentally flawed as fair method of assessment.
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Our workshop on "Foundational Literacy" studies the pedagogical moves that help teachers get the most out of high-quality early reading & phonics programs.
And it's coming to the UK in May!
More here:
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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🚨 NEW POST 🚨
'What should we do about 'reading for pleasure'?'
"Reading really matters. In the final miles of secondary school, after years of failure, promoting reading for pleasure is not likely to be the place to start with Rebecca."
alexquigley.co.uk/what-shoul…
Been thinking about the power of reading and how we provide high quality reading experiences in every subject. This was a great listen @Doug_Lemov - you’ll appreciate this! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sd…
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Ah…@quals_wales
The introduction of on-screen exams could widen attainment gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers, warns @EducEndowFoundn in response to Ofqual consultation
tes.com/magazine/news/genera…
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‘6 strategies to support shared reading for students with SEND’
“… the solution for pupils who struggle with reading is not to only offer them a thin diet of levelled/banded reading, but instead to better scaffold the reading of complex texts.”
alexquigley.co.uk/6-strategi…
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I plan to release a new book each Wednesday. You can get a sneak preview of what is to come in the series here: tipsforteachers.co.uk/books/
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TOMORROW!!
We’re excited for our Sports Presentation Evening!!
Winners and parents/carers asked to be seated at 16.55 for a pre show performance before we kick off the evening at 17.00.
Looking forward to celebrating another year of sport at @officialCHS 🏆
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Have you booked your free place yet?
English teachers! Join us on 25 June for a livestreamed CPD on Macbeth in context, with the wonderful Professor Emma Smith, and teacher & author @MichaelDonkor. We're delving into ideas of agency & blame.
Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/131889900…
ALT A greyscale print depicting Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3. A heath, Macbeth, Banquo and three witches