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So pleased the NI Curriculum Review recommends addressing our language education deficit Education NI Lucy Crehan Stranmillis University College

Sharon Jones Education NI Lucy Crehan Stranmillis University College Very glad to see this. My 7 year old has had 8 weeks of French lessons. Not enough.

Two of my all time favourites in one conference: C.S.Lewis and France! Venez nombreux!

NI teacher friends - please add your voice to this important study. If you are not a teacher - please repost instead!! Stranmillis University College Lesley Emerson John McMullen Jill

Just love this from my amazingly talented colleague Gerry ⁦BERA⁩ so much great writing advice! 10 years of the BERA Blog – An interview with Gerry Czerniawski | BERA bera.ac.uk/media/10-years…

I’m SO excited to see these podcasts live! #Curriculum conversations with the fabulous contributors to our British Curriculum Forum #book marking the 50th anniversary of BERA

So proud of our team BERA British Curriculum Forum on publishing this amazing book AND a brilliant podcast series Victoria Pugh Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE Dr Weipeng Yang Gerry Czerniawski 🎉

14 word imagistic poem challenge TopTweetTuesday Matthew M C Smith Lament Syria in the morning, sunlight in a garden; gifts of love and jasmine.

Stop the Closure of the Riverside Theatre: Act now - Sign the Petition! chng.it/NvdjkqKMwy via Change.org UK

Lovely to celebrate in my hometown of Coleraine with my distinguished Ulster University & BERA colleague Barbara Skinner this week at her fascinating inaugural professorial lecture. Congratulations Barbara!

#Poetry update - a special #poem of mine will be published this week in an American medical journal. This is a first for me, and (clue) the topic is close to my #heart. I will share the poem here very soon.

Honoured & grateful for a very generous The John Hewitt Society bursary to attend the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh: ‘Our country also: difference and belonging’. John Hewitt is an alumnus of Stranmillis University College & his wife Roberta a founder of the nursery school movement. #jhiss

Inspired by my Dad’s recovery from cardiac surgery, & my husband’s vocation, my poem ‘Cardiac Intensive Care’ experiments with the pantoum form. I am very grateful to JAMA poetry JAMA Network for publishing my work

Exciting news! The Gate Lodge, my Edwardian 2-bedroom self-catering cottage new on #AirBnB in Shankbridge, Co. Antrim. DM or email me for more info or pics. Would love it if you would share or repost #SelfCateringCottages #TheOpen #TourismNI

Is it just me or does anyone here else find Substack a bit hard to work out??

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK after 900 years bbc.in/44Clqti

"Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotises, and your soul is washed by vastness." ~ Iain Pears Girl in a Silver Sea (1909) 🎨 Joaquín Sorolla

Such a privilege for the past 3 years to Chair the (very dynamic & energetic!) British Curriculum Forum BERA It’s time to pass the baton: congratulations & all best wishes to incoming Chair Dr Grace Healy & new members Kevin Smith, David Morrison-Love and Oliver Hooper.

School leaders! I’m interested in what you have on the walls of your offices that help you feel lifted/focused/buoyed etc. Here are mine: 1. The words of Arthur Ashe and 2. The Serenity Prayer. What are yours?