Just FYI, children don’t have to master transcription before they can start developing their compositional skills. In fact both benefit from each other’s development 👇 writing4pleasure.com/the-research-o…

All set up for the first game of Hero Kids with my 6 and 8 year olds⚔️ 🐉 💥 💪

Interesting discussions yesterday on children’s reading experiences and the communities needed to support Reading for Pleasure 🧶 Chin Ee Loh Jon Biddle Helen Hendry Anezka Kuzmicova

Aside from the political reasons that make X unpalatable, it's harder to find worthwhile interactions among the vitriol & misinformation. I'm joining the exodus to BlueSky, following like-minded teachers & book lovers. Hopefully see you there Sam Creighton.bsky.social 📚 ❤️ 👋

I don't really use X anymore, but it's worth popping back in to share this. Chris's work is always tip top and I can't wait to get my hands on my copy next week! I definitely recommend you getting one too.

Delightful! 🐊 Hilarious! 🦊 A winner for bedtime but other times too! 🦔 🐰Gecko Press 🪿A board book to read again and again ! OU Early Childhood St John Vianney English Hub St John Bosco English Hub 🦦

I love Reading Gladiators, it's one of the highlights of my year. I cannot wait to start up again with the new look programme next year 📚 👏 I 100% recommend it as an effective, engaging, high-quality, but low workload reading club.

Amazing evening hearing Kwame Alexander speak at Andersen Press salon tonight. His line that 'the mind of an adult begins in the imagination of a child' will stay with me. I also got to ask a question about shifting themes in his work that I've been wondering about for a while 👏

Led my final & fave training of the year yday, giving staff time to talk about books (Qs like 'Which book do you wish you could read again for the first time?' & 'What book do you love more than everyone else?') & they got to choose a summer read 👏 📚 ❤️ UKLA Reading for Pleasure 🧶

I utterly love being a teacher but I do hate how we go so full on during term time that our bodies save all our illness for the start of the holidays... felt like death for two days now and know I will do for another week...

Bringing pleasure to reading lessons through writing “If we want to attract children like bees to the idea of writing for pleasure, we must treat our classroom as a field and fill it with the sweetest of nectar – good literature.” writing4pleasure.com/2025/07/18/bri…

Here is our first round-up of reviews for the summer holidays for you. Happy reading everyone! Thank you Anne Thompson Lisa Hagan, Kelly Ashley #WordPower Eve Bearne, Rebecca Kennedy Sam Creighton Melanie Mrs V 🇵🇸🌻 for your reviews: justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book…

“Manhood’s become a rock / I cannot lift alone.” Joseph Coelho’s The Boy Lost in the Maze remakes the Theseus myth into a mirror—reflecting modern masculinity, identity and the timeless search for self. My review for Just Imagine justimagine.co.uk/childrens-book…

Fab 4 days alone with my kiddos! Bravo English Heritage & National Trust! We've ✅ Dover Castle, Richborough Roman Fort, Walmer Castle & Scotney Castle (& Radnor Park, Brockhill Country Park & Cheriton Library). We've Warren Coastal Park & Battle Abbey today & Cliveden tomorrow.

I help organise a book club across my MAT, in which teachers from each of the five schools meets half-termly to discuss two books. Here are my initial choices for next year's texts but very open to suggestions or recommendations!

Very excited to attend this, hopefully with lots of other staff from Elmhurst Primary School!