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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 · 27/01/2026
Agreed. I see them every day and it worries me. Talking to some of them, however, has made me realise that schools probably aren’t aware of some of the reasons why children are opting out. And why their attempts to re-integrate often don’t work.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Since I’ve retired, I’ve become aware of the number of children not in school. When I ask ‘why’, the reasons are very diverse. But it’s hit me that there is a surprisingly high number of children just not in school - and they need teaching. I’m not sure AI is the solution for a million reasons.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Could have told you that 20 years ago. The fundamental problem is that summative exams are sampling student learning. You can’t ‘plug gaps’. Trying to do so is plain stupid.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I think it is a difficult problem. I doubt AI can be an effective substitute for human tuition and you need skills to use AI which need to be learned. But - I’m becoming very aware that the traditional school environment simply isn’t suitable for a lot of children. There has to be a solution.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Not - ‘Haddock Reserves’? Or ‘Halibut Restaurant’?
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Woo! Thats a relief!
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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
x.com/tombennett71...
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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 · 01/05/2025
It seems that Reform voters strongly dislike everyone else.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Wow!
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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 · 01/04/2025
If a German court had stuck to its guns in 1924, after the Munich Putsch, Hitler’s political career would have been over. Let’s hope the French courts have some guts.
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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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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
And so they should. You can’t (shouldn’t) eat a woman. 🤷‍♂️
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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
#cpd #literacy #writing #oracy #pedadogy #teachingandlearning #uked #education #schools
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
… and then, again from memory, re-wrote it. I kept the first version and, as he wrote the second, I could literally see his mind forming a pattern of meaning. It is a perfect illustration of my thesis on language as the medium of learning
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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
In addition, another student - a Y10 - will explain why the strategy works. #cpd #pedagogy #literacy #teachingandlearning
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
…which demonstrates fluency in learning. We then follow this up by a Write it! This corrects errors, consolidates patterns of meaning, encoding them in the language of the student, and secures retention.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I have a video clip of a student talking for over 2 mins on the subject of why the Spanish tried to invade England in 1588. He draws on knowledge ranging from the broader Reformation to Philip II’s personal motives. He does it without a script. This is the Speak it! A holistic answer to a question …
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
… model. Tomorrow, I will be leading CPD on how this strategy works and, with the help of some of our students, demonstrating how effective it is. #cpd #pedagogy #literacy #teachingandlearning
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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
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'Mystic' claims statue of Virgin Mary weeping blood - but DNA testing reveals the truth — The Mirror
Gisella Cardia is being investigated by prosecutors in Civitavecchia, Italy, who have alleged 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 · 17/02/2025
I think the same about The Fear Index and AI.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’ve read Enigma and Archangel. Enjoyed both. I haven’t read Fatherland.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Let me know what you think when you’ve read it. I enjoyed An Officer and a Spy, Conclave, The Ghost, Pompeii and the Cicero trilogy very much. But … The Fear Index had me gripped.
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Evie S @brightfutures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Harris’ best - by far - is The Fear Index. I couldn’t put it down.
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