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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Presenting today at #BAWESS on how Systemic Functional Linguistics is changing the way my students read and write — and why metalanguage might be the missing piece in disciplinary literacy. Excited to hear what the experts think. 🔬📚 #SFL #DisciplinaryLiteracy

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Third Disciplinary Literacy Symposium

Hear about the latest thinking and developments in disciplinary literacy. This two-day event is for secondary school teachers and researchers.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dreaming of Hay… 💭 📚 Spent four days camping in the sunshine, browsing the bookshops, drinking coffee, and meeting some literary giants. #RaisingReaders #HayFestival #HayOnWye Counting down till next year already!

Man and two children looking out at festival tents and blue sky.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Things I have NOT achieved this #halfterm: -put all the laundry away -clean the oven -remove the elderly dishwasher -spend qt with my partner -read a book -done marking or planning Things I HAVE achieved: -qt with my kids -more than one lengthy lie in #TeacherLife #OneLife #MyHouseIsFallingApart

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

@sensewords.bsky.social #sensewrds178 I envisioned a wall-less back of the library that edged a sunset over a dusty, dusky landscape.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

8yo’s made up joke of the day: Why did the author have to go to hospital? They had fiction burn. 💕

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Jan 1st 2026 and into my 40s: I learned that childproof caps on bottles can be flicked off so you can open it easily. Mind blown.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My 8yo wrote a brilliant poem using #JosephCoelho’s #PoetryPrompts book. I wanted to share it with the world! Bit of a Julia Donaldson vibe to it 🥰 #KidsWriting #OnomatopoeiaPoetry #FutureWriter #Poetry

A poem: The Pet House

The dog goes moo!
The cow goes quack!
They all swapped voices,
There’s no turning back…
The duck goes roar!
The horses go woof!
Sadly looking down,
At their muddy little hooves.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It’s been a brutal term. I’ve barely read half a book. I’ve written nothing. I gave up on the hope of being in a play I would’ve liked to at least audition for. My #creative output is nil. The impact on my #wellbeing is huge. Hols will be a welcome break but so busy! #TeacherLife #CreativeDrought

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Kenn Nesbitt - Poetry4kids @kennnesbitt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Poetry Pop: "Poetry is a Verb: Let’s Move from Thinking to Doing" kennn.com/GLRCh1 #ChildrensPoetry #Poetry4kids

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🐝 👻 On a different note, we played Articulate last night and the six yo had to guess ‘wasp’. ‘It’s like a bee but not a bee.’ I said. She replied: ‘Bee ghosts?’ 🥰

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Every time my kids discover another “empowered” show like Winx, I feel a little pang. It looks progressive on the surface, but it’s still equating power with beauty, size, and sex appeal. Just another glossy Charlie’s Angels reboot in disguise. #Parenting #MediaRepresentation #BodyImage

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#TheInfantilisationOfWomen is perpetuated by cartoons that have developed women in part sexually suggestive, part children’s clothing, behaving like naive teenagers, in a school, whilst fawning over puppies and boys. They’re clearly sexualised but they’re behaving like and treated like children. 🤮

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#RiotWomen is the best thing I think I’ve watched all year. A celebration of bold voices, fearless creativity, and women who refused to sit quietly. 🔥 If you need a shot of inspiration and rebellion, this is it. 💪 #BBCiPlayer #FeministTV #PowerfulVoices #HerStory #Trailblazers

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

First night of the kid’s dance show last night. Exhaustion all round so all bundled into one bed this morning and watched #MichaelRosen’s poetry and the new #Twits film with toast and tea. Crawled to half term and so thankful I can turn the alarm off for a few weeks #TeacherBurnout #FamilyTime

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

(2/2) Schools can already identify who can read fluently, who needs support, who has poor attitude to reading… But funding to have specialist teachers, a dedicated reading department, big ole lovely libraries, author visits, free books for students, and CPD for teachers is what is really needed.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

(1) The Gov’s belief that more testing will lead to a miraculous change in attitudes to reading among young people is just…odd. I’m not averse to checking in on Yr8 reading skills but it needs to be part of a much wider plan for funding reading support and development.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The 8yo discovered Google Translate app. A wholesome, educational tool for expanding her linguistic knowledge and vocabulary. Now every time she parps 💨 she says ‘enjoy my butt breath’ in Indonesian.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Some news! I have a new book coming in April: ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’. It has 100+ new poems, and also serves as a guide to reading, writing & enjoying poetry. An EXCLUSIVE signed edition is available through indie bookshops, with a bonus poem. Pre-order at bio.to/howtolayaneg...

A picture of the cover of How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside. It’s a lovely yellowy-gold colour and has an illustration (by Joe Berger) of a man who is looking at a horse who appears to have a giant egg inside it.

A poem from inside the book:

MISSED CALLING

Geoff was a poet
but he didn’t know it

and so he spent his life
working as a heating engineer
in the Dagenham area.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Only made it to two author talks at the #BathChildrensLitFestival this year, but they’ve both been so wonderful. Youngest (5yo) has been so inspired by @nadiashireen.bsky.social I keep finding little Eric Dynamites around the house 🥰👒 #RaisingReaders #AuthorInspo #MiniIllustrator

White paper with a child’s drawing of a woodlouse character in a top hat, tucked into the corner of a small bathroom mirror hung on a blue wall.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Burnout The house was burning. I got the kids out. Saved the most precious items. ‘Did you get a bucket of water?!’ I called from the upstairs window, my lungs filling with smoke. ‘No!’ He called back from the street. ‘I was sleeping!’ #Burnout #MentalLoad #LonelyParenting #ShiftWork

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Three weeks in to the academic year and I’m already feeling burnt out. #TeacherLife #EnglishMarking

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This has struck a chord this morning.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Just discovered Noel Streatfeild was not a man. This misunderstanding is as baffling as discovering Tennessee Williams and the Child Catcher weren’t female 🤣 How have I not realised these things until I’m an advanced adult?!

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This has been a golden find for my 5yo. It has enough decodable words for her to join in reading aloud, although she knows the whole thing off by heart now. She did a Rainbows badge all about it whilst dressed as a cat 💕 #VivianeSchwartz #RaisingReaders #GirlGuidingBookLover #SummerReads

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

So depressing having the emails I sent myself in July with the Sept prep rolling in and unfurling like flea ridden stray dogs wandering into my home and wanting me to give them tummy rubs. #TeacherLife #JealousOfMyPastSelf #SummerHolidays #SeptemberAmnesia

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

My five year old has discovered the Spice Girls #GirlPower #90sFeminism #Wannabe ✌🏻

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Beyond excited to surprise my 8yo with seeing #PamelaButchart in the flesh: she’s a HUGE fan. Got an email today that the session is cancelled. She doesn’t know and I understand fully why it’s cancelled but I’m still so disappointed for her. #FirstWorldProblems #RaisingReaders #ThenWeGasped

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

My main gripe with #Hercules though, as is always the case with anything set in ‘ancient’ times: the unnecessary mash up of time periods, cultures, mythologies… ancient Rome & ancient Greece are not the same thing! Mosaics in the set design, jokes about Rome, gladiator costumes… 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🙄 #ClassicsNerd

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

2/2 #Hercules The leads did their very best but costume and characterisation were lacking. Muses were PHENOMENAL. Set was impressive. Choreography needed energy & - along with Hades - gave it all a cheap pantomime feel. Female roles better developed. Story quite different from the film.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

1/2 Saw the new #Hercules today. 8yo absolutely loved it - her first West End show. She was desperate to spend pocket money on merch but her £5 didn’t even remotely stretch to a keyring #RipOff I felt the show was lazy with what I assume was a fairly large budget…

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#FlowersExhibition at the #SaatchiGallery was splendiferous. My girls were inspired to sketch, dance and cartwheel. So many different forms & interpretations. Kids loved the interactive installation and the free family watercolours workshop was great too! 8yo snapped this pic 🥰 #BlossomsAndBrushes

Close up of orange and blue dried flowers from La Fleur Morte at the Saatchi Gallery Flowers exhibition.

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My 5yo made up a joke: What do you call a unicorn with no horn? 🦄 … … … A duck. 🦆 You’re welcome. #KidsJokes #FiveYearsOld #KidLogic

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Browsing the #BathChildren’sLiterature festival events and sprayed wine everywhere on realising Pamela Butchart was doing a session. My 8yo is OBSSESSED. We read all her books this year. She’s gonna be stoked when she finds out she’s going to meet her! #KidLit #RaisingReaders

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Two things I did today that confirmed my #middleaged status: deliberated extensively over two shades of grey carpet; got excited when vinegar cleaned out my steam mop and made it work again. #LivingTheMiddleAgeDream #GettingOldMeansI’mHere

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Traditional start to the holidays: sign up to the library’s summer reading challenge. 8yo has read three books today. She’ll have smashed the challenge by tomorrow evening 😂 #SummerReadingChallenge2025 #ReadingGoals #RaisingReaders #BookwormInTraining

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just loving #ScreamoftheWhistle by @erandalljones.bsky.social It’s mine and the 8yos bedtime book of choice at the moment and we’re have very different theories about what’s going on! #ReadingWithKids #ParentingLife #ReadAloud #BooksForKids #KidsWhoRead #BedtimeStories #SupportAuthors

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Another fantastic round of Spare Room’s #Gutenberg! the Musical @rondotheatre.bsky.social So much I’d forgotten from last time 🧢 🧢 💕 #SupportTheArts #CommunityTheatre #BudAndDoug #SpareRoomTheatre

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Five year old was freaked by Siri, thinking it was a person or robot that might one day come out of my phone. A valid fear perhaps but what frightens me most is that I ended up using ChatGPT to write a script to explain it as my initial attempts all fell flat or frightened her more 🫥😬

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Youngest woke this morning cuddled up next to me, took a deep breath and said, ‘mmmm you smell like love.’ 💕

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

‘Life is like a train that just keeps getting faster and faster and the sooner you realise that, the better.’ Ain’t that the truth! Another birthday passed yesterday and I feel thankful to have survived it and appalled by how quickly time seems to disappear these days!

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 02/07/2025

First poster for Christopher Nolan’s #TheOdyssey has been officially released

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For those who feel or felt alone at school - there is hope - you will be brilliant - find your tribe or your happy solitude

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Today was a #3GoodThings day for sure. 1. School closed because of a burst water pipe (now fixed) so we all got sent home. 2. I therefore got to go on an unexpected bike ride in the glorious sun. 3. I got to surprise my kiddos with a bonus pick up 🥰

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Heading to the Bath University #Literacy Symposium tomorrow. Really looking forward to it all and hoping to come away with some new ideas for developing and embedding literacy across the curriculum. #DisciplinaryLiteracy #BAWESS

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AletheaJane @aletheajane.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Found a free audiobook of my current reading book last night, as I was too tired to actually read. Found it, played it, heard about ten words and was out. #Teaching and #parenting is #exhausting! 😂

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