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Mrs Spence

@mrscspence.bsky.social
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Assistant Headteacher, English and Oracy Lead in Worcester

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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social check this out. Your poem being performed by an 8 year old in front of 1000 people @hayfestival.bsky.social What a joy!
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Couldn’t be happier. I’ll be there as chief cheerleader! @voice21oracy.bsky.social
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It’s me! Looking forward to seeing you there.
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Worcestershire’s first Primary School to be an Oracy Centre of Excellence - that’s us! We are over the moon. Thank you for the support @voice21oracy.bsky.social @worcesternews.bsky.social
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Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is such a brilliant initiative and I couldn't be more delighted that Measuring Me! has been chosen to help welcome reception children beginning their school lives. Good luck to every single one of them and happy reading!
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Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is so thrilling to read. I hope they enjoy Measuring Me and that they have a brilliant start to their school careers! Thank you for choosing my book and for giving such important priority to a love of reading and books. ❤️
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Fifty copies of Measuring Me by @nicolakent.bsky.social for our new Reception children. Delivered by hand to their front doors creating a reading community before they even step foot in the building!
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is a special read. Thank you @theclpe.bsky.social for alerting me! 🐺🐺🐺❤️
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Voice 21 @voice21oracy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thank you to all the St Barnabas team for your leadership and being part of the oracy mission.
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Here we are ❤️
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Famous at last! ❤️ @voice21oracy.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our Year 6s wrote to @tomcollinsworcs.bsky.social about car idling outside schools. They are worried! Today, each child was sent their own personalised letter in reply. Thank you Tom! @worcesternews.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Welcome to our Year 3 Roman Museum. The children loved speaking as historians, being tour guides and sharing exhibits. Inventions, mosaics, emperors, Boudicca, green screen adverts, Celts vs Romans dance and so much more. @voice21oracy.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Our work on #Oracy is changing our world. Check out the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social children blowing the audience’s socks off at a big parent celebration yesterday @voice21oracy.bsky.social @amygaunt.bsky.social @kateparadine.bsky.social
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Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Everyone who takes part in Poetry By Heart knows the impact it has on young people. We want to celebrate that and everything #poetry can do in a film - an uplifting reminder of why the arts are integral to our society. Find out more and how you can help 🎥 poetrybyheart.org.uk/news/help-us...
A graphic showing a young woman onstage at Shakespeare's Globe. Poetry By Heart holds its Grand Finale there, a day long celebration of poetry and young people's achievements as finalists come from across the country to perform their poems live for the judges and for an excited audience on the Globe's stage. Find out more https://poetrybyheart.org.uk/
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Voice 21 @voice21oracy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yesterday, the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s Interim Report was released – but in a baffling omission, it doesn’t mention oracy or speaking, listening and communication. Here's why this matters👇 voice21.org/voice21respo...
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Voice 21 responds to the baffling omission of oracy in the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report - Voice 21
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Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The view from here: great pleasure today to attend the @voice21oracy.bsky.social ‘Speaking Summit,’ reflecting on the next stage of our #oracy journey. Well done to @kateparadine.bsky.social & team. A bonus to bump into oracy commissioner Jeffrey Boakye:
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Voice 21 @voice21oracy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Everyone is talking about oracy—or so it seems. But what actually is oracy? Our head of learning impact and influence @amygaunt.bsky.social explores the history of this timely question in @seced.bsky.social's best practice guide to teaching oracy in schools 👇 voice21.org/so-how-do-we...
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So, how do we define oracy… – Sec Ed - Voice 21
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Home after an inspirational day @voice21oracy.bsky.social #SpeakingSummit So much sense being talked by Estelle Morris, Jeffrey Boakye and the royalty of #Oracy @kateparadine.bsky.social @amygaunt.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Such a treat to have author Nicola Davies in school today. We have been wowed by the zoological facts and beautiful illustrations, we’ve even learned to sing like a blue whale! 🐳
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are deep in to learning our poems by heart for @poetrybyheart.bsky.social the performance skills are sophisticated!! @voice21oracy.bsky.social #Oracy #Poetry
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out this concentration during our @harrietmuncaster.bsky.social workshop today. Year 3 are Big Isadora Moon fans!
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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Love this debut from Portuguese writer #InesViegasOliviera. “The Duel” is a profound and thoughtful tale of letting go of past conflicts and seeing beyond the hate. Two men duel but one just keeps walking. Change in palettes show the change in thought and outlook. Quietly great #PicturebookPage
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our Ofsted report is out today. We are very proud of our school community. Have a read on our website. st-barnabas-primary.worcs.sch.uk
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St Barnabas C.E. Primary School, Worcester – Our motto is “Inspire, Nurture and Achieve” as we know that in the right environment each child can reach their full potential
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are very proud to have been awarded the Equal Access trophy for our work on girls’ football. Check out this group of future Lionesses celebrating @worcesternews @England @EnglandFootball @Lionesses #thisgirlcan
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Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
As @nationaltheatre.org.uk’s Artistic Director Rufus Norris says: “#Oracy should be the fourth ‘R’”: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...
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Make oracy the fourth ‘R’ of education, theatre boss says
Rufus Norris, the outgoing head of the National Theatre, wants children to learn oral language skills across the curriculum
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Our #DailyMileSantaRun was a blast yesterday @worcesternews.bsky.social
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Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
XMAS GIVEAWAY 🎄 I love Christmas & so do the dragons!🐉🎄 Do you have a dragon lover in your family? Why not pop a dragon treat under the tree for them! Just follow me & reshare this post to be in with a chance to WIN all SIX books in #TheBoyWhoGrewDragons series! Winner picked 13/12 UK only
Photo shows all six books in The Boy Who Grew Dragons series written by Andy Shepherd and illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. In front of the books there is a small red cuddly dragon wearing a Santa hat and behind is an inflatable reindeer covered in a string of gold tinsel and a Xmas tree
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Well that was fun! Such unbridled joy from adults and children.
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It is the Worcestershire Debating Competition at school tomorrow with our local MP, City Mayor and the CEO of Voice 21 as judges. It’s going to be BIG! #Oracy #UKParliamentWeek
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Worcestershire Debating School at school this afternoon. Brilliant #Oracy skills on display from a group of brilliant children. What a way to mark #UKParliamentWeek with @kateparadine.bsky.social Tom Collins MP and the Mayor of Worcester. Thank you for donating prizes @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Welcome @voice21oracy.bsky.social and @amygaunt.bsky.social to Blue Sky…we’ve been waiting for you to arrive!!
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We now have some new #Oracy roles in our PE lessons. Our sports coaches are supporting children to be reporters, explainers, referees, judges and coaches. @voice21oracy.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Check that out for a Friday after school club! Pumping music, flashing lights and a bunch of year 1 and 2 children having the time of their lives!
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A great #Maths workshop this morning with our community. Great maths conversations all over the place! @voice21oracy.bsky.social
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Whoop we’re off to London to the National Teaching Awards ❤️ www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2475545...
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
What a night at the National Teaching Awards. Massive congratulations to our silver award winning Headteacher.
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Every one of our new children have had Frank and Bert personally delivered to their houses. One of our best grannies has knitted us our own Frank and Bert with their own special bag to keep them safe. Bring on back to school time!
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Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I'm going to set up a starter pack for 'People who are experts in Oracy (and not just jumping on a bandwagon)' shortly. I need to convince a couple of people over here from twitter too! Let me know if you are highly skilled in dialogic and exploratory talk and how.
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello Bluesky people…our first post. Happy to be here. #Education #Teaching #Firstpost #Newbies
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St Barnabas CE Primary @stbarnabas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
UK Parliament Week incoming. We’re hosting the Worcestershire Debating Competition- it’s going to be a good one. #Oracy #Debating #EduSky
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Dr Anna Nolan @annanolan.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
This is gorgeous. What a wonderful welcome 🥰
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Every one of our new children have had Frank and Bert personally delivered to their houses. One of our best grannies has knitted us our own Frank and Bert with their own special bag to keep them safe. Bring on back to school time!
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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Have just finished rewriting the overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. It's still a work in progress but please feel free to use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
A little jaunt in to Birmingham to see the Benjamin Zephaniah street exhibition. Go while you can, finishes soon.
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James Theo @jamestheo.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Unsurprising. Some of the people banging on about how nice this place is and how awful Twitter is happened to also be some of the worst behaved people on Twitter.
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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 19/08/2024
One thing I find nauseating about Blue Sky is the notion that this is the "good place" and everyone congratulating each other on being so lovely and wonderful. People are people, wherever you go.
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James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
I've been working a bit on modelling, as a key element of effective #adaptive_teaching, so here is a new blog post collating some thoughts on how it can be planned for. #EduSky #UKEd #UKEDU
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Modelling and how to plan for it
The current focus on ‘adaptive teaching’ has meant that the craft (or art) of teacher modelling has rightly been foregrounded, as a crucial mechanism for making learning accessible. Interestingly, whe...
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Mrs Spence @mrscspence.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
It’s not often I come across a John Burningham that I don’t know but this charity shop find is a special one. I love the photography/sketch illustration. @smithsmm.bsky.social I bet you already know about this one?
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Rachel Higginson FCCT @creativehigg.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
It's an honour and a joy to be working with @marymyatt.bsky.social Emmanuel Awoyelu, Christian Foley and an incredible technical and artistic team on 'Finding My Voice', the whole school approach. Can't actually believe this will be alive the schools in the UK and abroad in September!
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