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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is an absolute stunner. Top drawer fiction. Brilliant world building, great characters, fantastic plot and story and stunning twists and turns. A must read.

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is a brilliant book to read aloud and share with a class. “POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme” by @fuse8.bsky.social and @atsurumi.bsky.social is a joyful anarchic romp through a host of nursery rhymes as the ever more disruptive interruptions cause chaos. Joyous fun with a class #PicturebookPage

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Fave book I’ve read this year, funny, philosophical, beautifully plotted, redemptive and just truly lovely. It was wildly different to anything I’ve read in ages “The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest” by #aubreyhartman is a delight. @littlebrown.bsky.social

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'm doing a #FreeGiveaway of my latest book "The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching" to celebrate its publication! Repost this message to enter. Winner announced on 10th April. UK only. #EduSky #inclusion

Picture of a copy of The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching on a wooden desk next to a vase of dried flowers. The book has a black cover with colourful fingerprints.

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

🎈Happy 6th Birthday to Fox Lane Books 🎈 As a thank you for your support over the years, we’re giving away *6 extra* reward points for every £1 spent! That’s 11 points instead of the usual 5 📚✨Log in at FoxLaneBooks.co.uk to redeem £s on future purchases Thank you for being part of our journey🦊🧡📚

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Our Planet has two Lungs, one is Blue the other is Green

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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.org · 21/03/2025

Happy World Glacier Day!! As we enter into the International Year of #Glacier Preservation, we must: - redouble efforts to scale up political ambition for widespread emissions reductions - fight to prevent every tenth of a degree of warming - Ensure countries submit 1.5C aligned NDCs at COP30

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Ruth Swailes @ruthswailes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The positive feedback on this free document has been overwhelming. The sheer number of downloads is evidence that people really want to understand and embrace the power of play. #PlayMatters Get your copy today: www.early-years-reviews.com/play-matters

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Play Matters | Early Years Reviews

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Ed Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Interim report for the curriculum assessment review is out today: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67d961...

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Ali Cat Bell @alicatbell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks @foxlanebooks.bsky.social So excited for my brand new books to arrive. Signed too! 📚 🧡 Hopefully one will become our new class read. Love this fabulous bookshop. Highly recommend. #KidLit #BookSky

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Ali Cat Bell @alicatbell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Help #EduSky ! We have just finished the Nowhere Emporium and the kids absolutely loved it. What can we read next that they will love as much? It’s a high bar! Books for Year 5 suggestions please. 🙏🏻 #KidLit #Year5 #PrimaryTeaching

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

On “twitter” I curated over 400 fab picturebooks from the last 8 years #PicturebookPage. Sharing a few faves here. “Aviary Wonders Inc” by #KateSamworth. Comes in the form of a catalogue to make your own bird it carries an important message about protecting the environment and fauna within it

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So sad to hear of the loss of the beautiful talent that was Roberta Flack. “The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Here’s the thing: women outperform men academically; on most desireable leadership traits women tend to outperform men; women are less likely to display problematic work traits; women score higher on measures of leadership effectiveness. 1/2

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

World Book Day has the most sustained impact when it's used as a springboard for developing a school culture of reading. This year, we're exploring Daniel Pennac's Rights of the Reader (beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake). Each class will develop their own set of reading rights and share them.

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Christopher Such @suchmo83.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's half term, which means I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply *repost* this post for your chance to win. I will choose a winner at random this Saturday (22nd February).

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Christopher Such @suchmo83.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Last chance for this before I draw a winner tomorrow. ⬇️

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Literacy Tree @literacytree.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🍭It's #SundaySweetener time! #BookGiveaway You might be hating the weather this month, but hopefully not this book! We're giving away a copy of 'I Love Books' by Mariajo Ilustrajo. For your chance to win: 🍬 Follow 🍬 Like 🍬 Tag friend 🍬 Repost for extra entry Winner announced Monday!

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The first rule of Earth club is we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The second rule of Earth club is we need to cut all greenhouse gas emissions. Yes even those ones.

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Kirstie Bowden @kirstiebowden.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When you’re on bus duty and a student opens the window on the departing bus to shout “look at that cloud cover” 👍🏻 🌍 #geographyteacher

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Primary Rocks Edchat @primaryrocks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey Folks! Tonight, we will be having trial on Blue Sky! Follow us here and search #PrimaryRocks from 8pm! Bring a friend to the friendly edchat!

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

All my #EduSkyPrimary people ⬇️ the wonderful #PrimaryRocks edchat is coming to #EduSky at 8pm GMT. Come and join in!

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

If you got any book tokens for Christmas, make sure you spend them at an independent bookshop. Here's a map with links to over 250 that are either children's bookshops or have very good children's sections.

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Anne Thompson @librarylady.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Hello children's book lovers. Here's my first Reading Matters Children's Book News round up of 2025. A look back at the best of 2024, a preview of books in the coming months. There are free events & resources too so why not settle down and explore. #UKKidLit alibrarylady.blog/2025/01/04/r...

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Reading Matters – Children’s Book News

Welcome to the first Reading Matters newsletter of 2025 and I hope that everyone had a happy and healthy Christmas holiday. Happy New Year to you and I hope that 2025 is a good year for you and you…

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Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

❄️❄️❄️

Window

Waiting for snow
we are desperate predators
planning
the taste of it

The smallest of us
palms the window, testing
the mood of the day,
the switch of the wind

We think we imagine that first flake —
a collective dream from a Christmas card, but
there it is
again

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again

and
again
and

again

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Literacy Tree @literacytree.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

🍭 It's #SundaySweetener time! #BookGiveaway 📚To kick of the year, we're giving away 2 texts: "At Home in a Book" and "Tomorrow We Begin". For your chance to win these stunning texts: 🍬 Follow 🍬 Like 🍬 Tag friend 🍬 Repost for extra entry Winner announced Monday!

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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Moon & Venus 🌙🌟 #art

A crescent moon and star in the sky at sunset. There are silhouettes of buildings on the street below with their windows glowing.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Teachers - If you are looking for ideas to stimulate poetry writing in the classroom, or if you don't feel too confident teaching poetry, there are many tried and tested ideas on my blog plus lesson plans by guest poets to guide you through the process. brian-moses.blogspot.com

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Sarah Carter @mathequalslove.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New Printable Pentomino Puzzle - an airplane this time! mathequalslove.net/pentominoes-... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky

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Ali Cat Bell @alicatbell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

For all who need a bit of new year inspiration or invigoration for guided reading, give this a read. #PrimaryEnglish #EduSky

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

School Reading List Children’s Book of the Month 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-re… #kidlit The School Reading List compiles this list of recommended books monthly. This children's and YA books of the month list highlights new releases and editions of fiction …

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School Reading List Children's Book of the Month

Our children's books of the month list with new picture books, fiction & non-fiction books for children & young adults aged 5-16.

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Dear UK Government and local councils, please work to create more allotments. With more than 150,000 people on waiting lists, some waiting years, there are huge potential benefits for health, communities, wildlife, biodiversity, and for producing affordable fresh food without packaging & food miles.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

A picture of the earth showing the pacific ocean. You can see hawaii and New Zealand. Also the edge of antarctica, australia, and north and south america...but barely.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Oh bravo NASA! The #Parker Solar Probe lives!! It's back in communication range and has sent "a beacon tone... indicating it’s in good health and operating normally". Huge congrats to the engineering team who built it to sustain the brutal >1000°C temp 🥳🧪🔭 ℹ️: blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarp...

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun – Parker Solar Probe

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Ali Cat Bell @alicatbell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Want to go to bed but waiting for the Nottingham Forest game on MOTD. Beat Spurs and up to third but half an hour in and even behind Newcastle v Villa in the running order. How?? #NFFC #MOTD #BoxingDayTired

Elanga celebrating his goal in a win against Tottenham Hotspur.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Charles Dahl's Dickens Chickens

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