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Evie S

@brightfutures.bsky.social
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Education - leading literacy and pedagogy. Evidence-based practice. AfL. Animal lover. Politics. Sport. The outdoors. #UKEd

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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I was reading the story of when Jesus walked on the water.What is amazing about the story isn’t that Peter got scared when he saw the waves, began to sink and the Lord saved him. It’s that Peter got out of the boat to walk on the water at all. None of the others did.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listening to Gov Newsom’s press conference. Boy - is he so much more articulate and impressive than Trump.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
x.com/teacherhead/... Stunningly good thread. 🧵 👇
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Tom Sherrington on X: "After 5 years of @WALKTHRUs_5 Some reflections on CPD and coaching. 1. There are several components needed to translate ideas about teaching and learning into improved practice that can improve learning - and some are often so underdeveloped that change just doesn’t happen …" / X
After 5 years of @WALKTHRUs_5 Some reflections on CPD and coaching. 1. There are several components needed to translate ideas about teaching and learning into improved practice that can improve learning - and some are often so underdeveloped that change just doesn’t happen …
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Tom Bennett OBE on X: "The best way to be ready for an exam is to know lots of things, securely. That takes: 1. Calm environment 2. Effective instruction 3. Formative assessment 4. Curricular coherence 5. Retrieval And all the rest of it. That’s the best of it. But cramming, while not the recommended" / X
The best way to be ready for an exam is to know lots of things, securely. That takes: 1. Calm environment 2. Effective instruction 3. Formative assessment 4. Curricular coherence 5. Retrieval And all the rest of it. That’s the best of it. But cramming, while not the recommended
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The NHS is marvellous. I’ve never really had much in the way of ill-health. But, today, I’ve been to see my GP. It’s so brilliant to be able to get treatment, have tests etc - and there’s nothing to pay!
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Well - I think it’s funny. 😂😂😂
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
School meetings, right? #otternews
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Brilliant word!
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Love this! 👇
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I am now the official holder of a Blue Light Card. Useful - it got me a massive discount off my new phone.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
x.com/peston/statu... Brilliant analysis by Robert Peston 👇
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Progress by one of our Y7 students on the Thinking Reading programme. He’s made up a gap between his chronological age and his reading age of 4 years within less than 3 months. Amazing! #literacy #reading
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Love these 👇
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Theme of the moment - fluency. I’m more convinced than ever that students need to become fluent in whatever they’re learning if they are to truly master it. #pedagogy #cpd #teachingandlearning #uked
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Absolutely spot on! Been saying this for years. 👇 #edusky #education #schools
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FFT Education Datalab @fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨 It's our birthday! And after ten years of analysing school data, we've got a few insights we'd like to share. Don't miss our birthday post. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/03/some...
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Some things you might not know about our schools – a birthday special - FFT Education Datalab
As we celebrate our tenth birthday, we look back at some of the issues we were talking about when Datalab launched, and reflect on some of the other big issues in education today.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here are two photos of one student’s work. They were produced within 10 mins of each other. We can visibly see the child’s mind making sense of the content through language as he writes his first attempt from memory (that was the power of the Speak It the previous day)…
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It was still light at ten to six today!
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
apple.news/AopDXDRk2TaW...
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A new, independent Europe is being born – and the UK is at the heart of it — The i Paper
This could be one of the most important political developments of our lifetime
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
For those of you who saw my earlier posts about the literacy-centred pedagogical model I have designed this year, this is the latest. To help teachers implement it, I have selected a range of techniques - some familiar, some less so - from reputable publications and attached them to phases of the…
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
'Mystic' claims statue of Virgin Mary weeping blood - but DNA testing reveals the truth - The Mirror I guess you can’t get away with the sort of commonplace fraud that littered the medieval period these days. 😂
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
youtu.be/5ROGkn4a_O4 Here, Churchill promises to give people security, full employment, end poverty, provide healthcare and build houses. It is so far removed from the current Conservative philosophy that it is unbelievable that this comes from the same party. He sounds like a socialist. #politics
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Winston Churchill addresses the nation following defeat of Germans (1945)
YouTube video by British Pathé
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I believe that the last time a country was the subject of peace talks when it had been invaded by an aggressor but wasn’t invited to the talks was …. Czechoslovakia and The Munich Agreement, 1938. Such a good omen. #Trump #Ukraine #usa #fascism
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
youtu.be/cQXl5JZG-C8 This sounds awfully like Cicero at the end of the Roman Republic. Dictatorship never comes at you head-on. It’s always oblique. #Trump #usa #politics #democracy
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Bernie Sanders takes down Elon Musk and Donald Trump's "oligarchy" in intense speech
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
historyofparliament.com/2015/01/20/s... Which means that 14 Feb is really ‘Simon de Montfort Day’ 🎉🎉🎉 A day to celebrate Freedom and Democracy, not a soppy saint.
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Simon de Montfort's 1265 Parliament and Magna Carta - The History of Parliament
750 years ago today Simon de Montfort's famous 1265 Parliament opened in Westminster Hall. This is one of two anniversaries this year, along with the sealing
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Isn’t that just brilliant? #literacy
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Cash-strapped schools plan to lay off teachers in blow to Labour’s promise - The Guardian Trouble is it becomes a negative cycle. Jobs are lost and working conditions get worse - so recruitment and retention becomes more difficult - and I’m not sure that a pay rise will compensate for that.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What a sunset!
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Dropped in on my Thinking Reading tutors this morning as they were teaching lessons. They’ve only been doing it for a week and I could already see improvement. Seriously impressed - with the project and my staff. #thinkingreading #literacy #reading #pedagogy
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Love this! 👇
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Love this! 👇
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Chris Chivers @chrischivers.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Teachers have to be the lead thinkers in their classroom, making in the moment decisions and adjustments. chrischiversthinks.weebly.com/blog-thinkin...
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Highly recommended. #edusky #literacy #cpd #pedagogy #teachingandlearning
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My dream, too!
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Reading ‘The Writing Revolution’ today. Really good explanation of why writing matters in the learning process and brilliant range of strategies to overtly teach writing skills. #edusky #cpd #literacy #teachingandlearning #pedagogy
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
This evening. 👇
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Absolutely true. One of my biggest mantras in T&L is that everything you ask a student to do should have a cognitive purpose. The teacher should know what it is and, thus, be able to evaluate its impact in terms of learning. 👇
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm doing a free giveaway to celebrate the publication of my latest book! Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner announced on Sunday. See the link below to find out more about the book. #freebie #giveaway
The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom, book by Sue Cowley
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Never happened. Snow day! Gutted! 🥲
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My job tomorrow is to explain to our teaching staff how to implement key elements of our pedagogical model. I have enlisted the help of so students for this. You can’t beat getting the kids to demonstrate/explain why something works. #edusky #teachingandlearning #pedagogy #cpd #inset
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hilarious! 👇
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year! 🎉 I hope 2025 is a good one.
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Sarah Watkins @minilebowski.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Jimmy Carter was the first US President I remember as a child.
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