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Liz Plane

@lizplane.bsky.social
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Primary School teacher. Back to Early Years after a year with Year 3🌷Love Doctor Who, Taskmaster, Luton, Abbott Elementary, coffee, birds, singing, reading, the sea, most people and sunshine. ☀️ ☕️🦅🌊🎶📚

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 23h
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
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That's an incredible view 😍
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Went for a run in this afternoon's beautiful sunshine. I'm still fairly slow at the moment, but Strava tells me it was my fastest 5k of the year by 2 1/2 minutes. And at lunchtime we laughed with the kids for ages about finding their 4th cousin Luke. That's a decent Sunday I reckon.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is lovely!
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes 100% It could be transformational for teachers to have more time for reflection. The days are so full that some days you barely have a minute to really think.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My 9-year-old has been asking for this for weeks and I've finally remembered to order it today. He's also decided to set up Comic Club with some buddies, just sent them an invite!
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just had a snooze in the garden on this sunny afternoon. I know it shouldn’t be this warm in October, but I don’t mind enjoying the sunshine while it’s here.
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Matthew Evans @head-teach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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A Sporting Chance
Is Ofsted Inspecting Standards or School Effectiveness?
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Matthew Evans @head-teach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Ofsted is judging school standards, context is irrelevant. If it is judging school effectiveness, context is everything. The problem comes when they do the former but it is interpreted as the latter.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know. Gutted for her, we’re big fans here.
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I had no idea this was an option.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mesmerising
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have a hatch! Although the dining room is now a playroom.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I like this. Really clearly explains how you could introduce in your classroom and has me thinking about how to adapt this technique for Early Years. Listening is one of the skills we’re really working hard on at the moment.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
First full time week completed! Reception is so exhausting at this time of year, but already seeing so much progress as they learn the routines of school. And Friday afternoon gate duty, waving and chatting to children from past classes as they went home in the sunshine, was a joy and a privilege.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Really enjoyed today’s Connections Puzzle #1196. Initially a bit cross, but purple made me smile. Well done puzzle setters! 🟩🟪🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can see 3 of your books on BorrowBox, though as ebooks not audiobooks. I wonder if the selection varies by library?
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My library has both. I tend to use for audiobooks, and find the selection available is different on each. The first half of the series I’ve been listening to were only on Libby, but the latter books seem to only be on BorrowBox.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mine always think the numicon is called unicorn!
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A wee blog about the teaching of listening skills with a link to some tried and tested circle games. #EduSkyPrim primary1help.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/s...
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Start With Listening: Setting Learners Up for Success
Teaching listening skills has, for many, become a contentious topic. Only this morning I read an article saying that we shouldn’t use prompts like ‘eyes looking’ or ‘sitting still…
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/2026
8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.
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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I loved how so many posts about Dolly Parton were about the good, kind things she’d done. So, I’ve grabbed a stack of kids’ books I bought for projects and I’m gonna drop them at my local Primary School. It’s not much, but it's something. 🙂 Sharing if anyone wants to do the same. 👍 #edusky #UKEd
A photo of some children's books.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m doing this puzzle adventure book with R and totally stumped by this puzzle. You have to go through alternating sun and storm gates to get through the maze and we cannot figure out a route. Any ideas? It’s driving me crazy!
A black and white drawing of a maze with several gates, above which are floating lots of flying whales in the sky.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sad news. My eldest was born about a week too late to get books from Dolly’s Imagination Library, but what a legacy she leaves.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a beautiful letter about the way that “our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies”
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s like using a car to do a marathon. The thinking is the point.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So interesting! Very happy to detect a bit of geosmin this morning!
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:
3d rendering of a geosmin molecule
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I stayed at a castle in Wales a few days ago, all on my own. It was a bit amazing, to say the least. I wrote about it here: www.tom-cox.com/notes-on-a-c...
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Notes On A Castle
It seems there’s always a planned chapter I end up leaving out of one of my books - sometimes because I go cold on an idea but more often because it simply ends up not feeling like the right fit for t...
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sometimes, I take the simple techniques I use every day with children and I push them as far as I can. It helps me to learn, using the same materials, but taking them to another level. This ship is made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes. 🙂 wwww.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #UKEd #sculpture
A photograph of me with a small, but very detailed ship, constructed entirely from recycled cardboard tubes.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
The UK will experience a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday 12 August. The extent of the Sun's coverage and the timing of maximum obscuration will differ across the country. Never look directly at the sun; use a pinhole projector or certified eclipse glasses to view it.
Map on UK showing how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon, at maximum, during the solar eclipse on Wednesday 12th of August. this ranges from 88% in the east to 98% in the southwest.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The greatest trick the seagull ever pulled was convincing the pedants it doesn’t exist.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wasn't sure if I wanted to go for a run or not. Turned out to be an excellent idea.
A view over Loch Lomond. The sky is cloudy, the Loch is calm, the hills are green.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hercules: Wow, that’s a lot of dung! Looks like they haven’t been cleaned in decades. Hmmm… Oh, hang on. What if I…? OK, am I allowed to reroute nearby rivers to clean the stables? Alex: All the information is on the task.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
And this is why we keep coming back to Loch Lomond
A calm blue Loch, under a bright blue sky with a few clouds. In the foreground is a tree and a stony beach, and on the far banks is a green hill. It looks beautiful and peaceful and I like it very much.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We forgot to pack the iPads so the kids have an unplanned, involuntary digital detox. Wish us luck!
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A dozen or so long tailed tits hopping about in our wild cherry trees this morning. A shooting star while sitting in the garden tonight now that it's finally cooled down. What a wonderful world this is.
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A dozen or so long tailed tits hopping about in our wild cherry trees this morning. A shooting star while sitting in the garden tonight now that it's finally cooled down. What a wonderful world this is.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A few more gorgeous collective nouns for you… A group of: 🐞-ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’ 🪶-long tailed tits is called a ‘zephyr’ 🪶-wrens (many often squish together in nestboxes to roost at night) is called a ‘chime’ 📷: Suffolk wildlife trust 🦋-butterflies is called a ‘kaleidoscope’
3 ladybirds hibernating in a knapweed seedheadMy illustration of long tailed tits from my book
The Wild RemedyA photo of a wren family taken by Suffolk wildlife trustA photo I took of mating marbled whites, a meadow brown, a skipper butterfly & a cinnabar moth
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can I join? This is top of my holiday book pile!
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LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil @leedsbookclub.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Meme: #SpéirGorm #Ireland
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Liz Plane @lizplane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It is so so damaging for children's communication and language development. We see this so much in early years. It's all the interactions and conversations that just get replaced by passively staring at screens.
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