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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

@janemanzone.bsky.social May I trouble you for some advice? My summerborn child is chronologically due to go into Y1 in Sept, but hasn't done Reception (we're moving from NI where she was a preschooler). To what extent would you recommend out-of-year admission so she doesn't skip Reception?

Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

GCSE past paper practice on @drfrostmaths.bsky.social over the past 2 months. Spot the spike yesterday before the exam! Hope it went well for everyone today.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Quite the name for an estate agent.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

My 2-year-old’s first go on a pedal bike. 50% proud parent, 50% relieved my decade-old blogpost was vindicated within the household redorgreenpen.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/b...

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

In case you need some more headlines to depress you. Only 4 in 10 parents read to their under-5s frequently 🤯

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Children learn most effectively when instruction follows an evidence‑based cycle: grounding facts in conceptual understanding, using brief timed practice to make those facts automatic, then returning to discussion and reflection to deepen that knowledge." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I hear many concerns from police and NHS workforces, but the stress of inspections and their report cards doesn’t really feature. Have I just missed it? Is it because a school is a much smaller unit than an entire police force or NHS trust? I ask this with genuine curiosity rather than an agenda

Inspectorate report card for the Met Police

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Is this “searching for normal”? Is it worth reading?

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Couple more days to apply for this headship at a great trust

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just discovered there is a Mo Mowlem playground in Belfast. Forget Nobel peace prizes, surely there is no better signal of universal high regard than having a playground named after you.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It’s particularly frustrating that it makes the “give them a dumbphone” option redundant.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Shoutout to @mrjlauder.bsky.social who is consistently posting really thought-provoking education stuff here. Loads of great thinking coming from the Dixons MAT.

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Sara Hjelm @sarahjelm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Anyone who has not visited her blog should definitly do so. A gloriors writer as well, funny, with a twist and full of good advice for colleagues. The #Edu community stands to lose in many ways, not just a lovely person… Last post just a day before the accident.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Gosh, this has really shocked me. So sad - thinking of her family and friends.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Some fascinating interactive graphs here. What can we learn from the top right schools here (Swanlea School, Ark St Albans, Ark Globe, George Dixon Academy) that have well above average sustained education and employment outcomes in very high Pupil Premium contexts? www.schooldash.com/blog-2306.html

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

To add to the chaos, looks like emails for kids with special consideration (eg SEN) haven’t been sent, the portal the emails direct you to to accept your place won’t work til next week, and the phone lines are permanently engaged

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Be thankful you’re not the Northern Ireland Education Authority comms team today, who accidentally sent emails about everyone’s primary school places a week early. 1.1k comments on their Facebook post 😬

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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We've been sceptical about AI marking. Not any more! When the facts change, we change our minds. We think this is really big. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/so-can-ai-...

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So, can AI assess writing?

Results of our big new Comparative Judgement AI trial

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Seems to be a negative correlation between where people are happy to see cuts and the size of the spend in the first place. I wonder if there’s a way to force people to take this into account - e.g. picking between cost-neutral options like halving overseas aid versus a 3% NHS cut.

Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is so good, particularly on the need to slow down *so that* you can speed up later. A possible lethal mutation of ‘mastery’ (especially in secondary if you forget they’ve already had 7 years of formal education when they get to you) is never getting to the speeding up bit.

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Dr Frost Resource Team @drfrostresource.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🟡 🔵 This Friday is Pi Day! @DrFrostLearning.bsky.social🟣🟢 A selection of news, history and other facts about Pi you can share with your students. How many digits of Pi do you know? Can you approximate Pi accurately? Find it here: buff.ly/yfzp1zX

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

✅ relates to an actual book ✅ easy and cheap for parents ✅ children engage with a great story This is how to do world book day!

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Well reasoned article here with research rather than platitudes behind it. Surely pen and paper will be making a comeback - at least it should if it’s *learning* that we really care about.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Excellent taste in name… these books are for my Charlotte 🥰 great suggestions, thank you!

Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I love this list, thank you! Going to order some now :)

I’ve added every (English!) one to a world of books order - can’t wait

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Thanks! We love peck peck peck by Lucy Cousins so will check that out for sure. And I think I could recite choc mousse backwards in my sleep at this point so we must be aligned!

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Michael Fordham @michaelfordham.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yes please 🥰 the elder one is 4 (and the two-year-old gets brought along for the ride)

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Just in case anyone else is looking for recommendations for books to read to young children.

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These are all amazing recommendations! Thanks so much!

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Ooh thank you! Knew my network would have great answers to these questions!

John Rubinstein @jrub.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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The famous International Ecstasy Units

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Ahh amazing! Pre-school age, current faves are Smeds and the Smoos, Paddington, the Storm Whale

Serendipitously (or algorithmically?) discovered @smithsmm.bsky.social ‘s #picturebookpage hashtag shortly after this post - full of gems. 🙏

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4 and 2. Please please share your gems!

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Relatedly, I’m finding it surprisingly hard to find good kids books. Amazon top 100 goes “Julia Donaldson, Julia, Julia, book about poo, Julia, poo, celebrity book about poo, Julia”. I love Julia Donaldson but c’mon…

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I cringe at the bit in Mr Greedy when the author tells you to hector the greedy people in your life, right after Mr Greedy turns skinny. I live in fear of my child quoting it to any of the several very lovely overweight people in my child’s life.

Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Obsessed with my 4-year-old’s burgeoning mathematical understanding (combining my favourite things: learning maths, and my own progeny). Today, “I’m just checking if there will still be 7 tomatoes when I muddle them up”

Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And as for a contributing factor being him cutting it fine by not requesting the script until the day prior… what do you bet he’d learnt to do so having previously put in a request just a couple of days too early and had it turned down? It’s exhausting trying to navigate the system

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Jesus Christ, this is heartbreaking. Reading those transcripts and his civility and gratitude as the system failed him… just horrendous.

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Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I felt the same (tbh had no clue what was going on for the first third of the book) but something about the library scenes meant I persisted and ended up loving it. (And as others have said, All the Light is incredible)