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Esme Myers

@esmeteaches.bsky.social
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English Teacher. (New) HOD. University of Birmingham grad. Book lover. MSc in Learning and Teaching from the University of Oxford.

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
40% of people in the UK haven’t read a book the past year, according to a YouGov poll. Pretty grim. At a time when it feels like reading and literacy has never been more important in my adult life. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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New poll finds 40% of Britons have not read a book in the past year
The median British adult has read or listened to three books in the past 12 months with reading habits also split along gender, class and political divides
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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
‘Why should we read aloud in class?’ “The teacher reading aloud and expertly modelling fluency (pace, expression, volume etc.) is likely a better bet than selecting underpractised pupils to read.” alexquigley.co.uk/who-should-r...
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Who should read aloud in class?
There are fewer more important acts in all of education than reading in the classroom. From what is read, to the specifics of when, why, and by whom, the how of reading in the classroom can prove a vi...
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you are looking for a new novel to teach Year 7 I cannot recommend ‘Safiyyah’s War’ enough. It’s rich for analysis, hopeful and based on real historical events that deserve attention. A real tonic for a dark world for students and adults. I’m half way through with my classes and they love it.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Live near Reading? Come and work with me and join the River Academy team as we move into Year 2. You’ll be joining a fabtastic founding team, teach brilliant students alongside supportive SLT. You really can just focus on teaching! Please share! mynewterm.com/jobs/150728/...
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English Teacher - River Academy, Reading, Berkshire
Closing date: 9:00am, Sun 9th Feb, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Reflecting on a great year of books ✨📚 Particularly loved: - Good Material by Dolly Alderton - Road Ends by Mary Lawson - Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney - Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan Here’s to another year of tackling my tbr pile.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Coming to the end of our class novel with my tutor group and I am not emotionally prepared!
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GCSE Macbeth @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If your students struggle with GCSE English Language because they don't have the wider reading experience and the mental library to draw on, you need to bring that wide reading INTO CLASS in KS3. Breadth over depth at KS3. Shared experience of texts that everyone can draw on. 1/
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Survived (and enjoyed) taking 184 Year 7s to the panto for some festive fun ✨
A picture of a stage with a large glass slipper in the middle and the word Cinderella.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Survived (and enjoyed) taking 184 Year 7s to the panto for some festive fun ✨
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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Tutor Group Think. TGT. Daily slide to broaden the horizons of tutees, introduce cultural capital and stimulate low states discussion that has no right answers. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink 👇
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Tutor Group Think
Tutor Group Think Grow Mature Learn
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This afternoon, I found out I’ve achieved a Distinction in my MSc in Learning and Teaching from the University of Oxford and I’m feeling pretty proud of myself. 🎓
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Going to school is starting to feel a bit like working in a Petri dish.
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Eoin Mac Cárthaigh MCCT @emcteach.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
My first blog post - all feedback welcome (but be gentle to a first timer 😉) On curriculum and teams… my thinking heavily influenced by @samgibbs.bsky.social @saysmiss.bsky.social @samcrome.bsky.social and @lekhasharma.bsky.social leadingfromthefrontoftheclass.blog/2024/11/23/i...
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Is your curriculum centralised or shared?
It’s more than a matter of semantics… Recently at the Second Festival of Education in Thailand, I had a conversation with @engteacherabro2 that got me thinking about curriculum leadersh…
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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is a brilliant blog by @teresacremin.bsky.social If you followed the debate this week on volitional reading/reading for pleasure, do read this. For KS3 the bit on verse novels is great, with reasons why they can switch on readers + fab recommendations. childrenspoetrysummit.com/2024/11/21/t...
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Teresa Cremin: Narrative Poetry – Creativity at Play
I’m a big fan of narrative poetry for young people –  are you?  It entices me in, holds me secure in a story, eager to read on, yet also enables me to enjoy the savours and flavours of poetry…
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sounds dreamy.
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Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk · 21/11/2024
State schools have closed the gap with private schools in GCSE results, once we adjust for socioeconomic differences in their intakes. New findings in our paper published today in Cambridge Review of Education: doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.24206…
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Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)
Using rich longitudinal data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), the authors compare the performance of private and state school pupils in age 16 national examinations (GCSEs) in England, ...
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Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello, new BlueSky followers. In April, I was proud to be asked to chair the Oracy Education Commission. You can read our final report ('We Need to Talk') here: tinyurl.com/yr9pp9af And there are dozens of podcast conversations exploring #oracy in its many forms: open.spotify.com/show/5UwEJKk...
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The Commission Conversations
Podcast · The Oracy Education Commission · Commission Conversations are short dialogues, discussions, and debates compiled by the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England. They are desig...
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interesting insight into the depressing decline of students taking English Lit at A-Level. It’s a complex issue, but I like Daisy’s suggestion that we need to ‘position the humanities, and their difficult texts, as valuable because they are difficult.’
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Harewood’s descriptions of his first responses to Shakespeare in school illustrate why we shouldn’t be denying students to the beauty of the bard’s language because of our own biases and preconceptions. A great read for any English teacher.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There’s been lots of chat on *the other place* about what we teach in English. I recently listened to David Harewood’d brave and insightful book about mental health and race. But this book is also a pertinent reminder that ALL children deserve to learn hard stuff.
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fantastic day talking all things assessment in English at @engmediacentre.bsky.social. Oh, and can we have a moment of appreciation for this children’s library of dreams?
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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Nat Literacy Trust survey on Reading for Pleasure shows a big dip! 4 recommendations (my paraphrase): 1. Prioritise reading not as a means of evaluation 2.Include texts that resonate with children 3. Make time for independent reading 4. Make reading a 'social' not just an individual thing. 1/
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books
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Esme Myers @esmeteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fresh booklets for a fresh unit. Gothic settings, here we come 💪🏼
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