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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

My son is nearly 4 and he’s obsessed with the tv show which is totally fine by me. He now loves trolls and giants and witches and has a decent grasp of the lore around them in north European tradition. I know it’s for older kids but it really works for the whole family

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Also take a look at Beyond the Secret Garden for great critical look at children’s fiction

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

if you’re looking for alternatives: - Diane Wynne Jones is fantastic (maybe you’ve see Howl’s moving castle) - Kiran Milwood Hargraves MG fiction is great with lots of adventurous girls and myths and legends - Hilda which is novels/ graphic novels based on scandanavian myths

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is such an important thread… countering misinformation in the online space. Another reason why the predominant theory of knowledge transmission that has obsessed the education sector for the past 10 years has done a huge disservice to our children…. bsky.app/profile/elio...

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London Association for the Teaching of English @lateteachers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

LATE Spring Conference alert! Saturday 18th April, at UCL IoE in London, speakers, workshops, bagels!

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is a lovely thread for #TeamEnglish I love seeing annotations and training pupils how to make their own is so important. I really enjoy teaching exam classes and seeing the systems and detail pupils come up with. My own texts were quite sparse as a student.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

An infamous headteacher once said in an interview that she had explicitly taught her child all their complex vocab deliberately. she argued it didn’t happen by accident but by deliberate instruction and repetition. Total nonsense

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@bobeaglestone.bsky.social is absolutely right and, contrary to the headline, he’s not against 19thC novels, he just thinks there needs to be more choice of excellent books for our students . The length issue will still arise though- I think certain books should be taken off the spec every 5 years

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sad that for #WorldBookDay2026 the only £1 books for my son’s age are netflix tv series based rather than books by a wonderful picture book author, equivalent to the MG ones. Bear Rescue, Skandar and Against All Odds are great but he’s never going to read them if his books are cheap nonsense

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I think theres a point at which people are lying and gas lighting too though- yes different realities but if we take the by election, there wasn’t cheating and the greens won, reform choose to lie and news outlets Cherry pick what’s shared + reported.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

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STUDYING CLASSICS AT UNIVERSITY - OF GODS AND WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

A University Taster Day of mini lectures and interactive experiences for school students.

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thank you so much to the 350 secondary English teachers who filled in our Poetry Survey & those whose extra comments have been so fascinating. We'll be quoting some in the report! The prize draw for £150 of EMC resources was won by Vicki Callaghan, Hollyfield School, Kingston

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Genuinely interested in who this is for. Who is it that would need a tool to tell them what to do next. I’m finding the digital and app based interventions into what used to be reflective conversations problematic.

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Colleagues are looking for teachers and teacher educators (secondary/post 16) to participate in a research project - Decolonising STEM and geography education in secondary schools in England and Scotland. Details in the attached flyer

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Exactly and we’re bloggers- who had some good ideas for ‘how to teach‘ things the right people to advise on national policy? the audacity of gove who’d availed himself of the full education system + uni deciding we don’t need experts was astonishinf

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I love every example you share, I’m not working in a school at the moment I’m on maternity leave but I love the work produced bt opening doors I have to say

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Scroll down for ‘Nymph and the Goblin’ pupils’ work. Thanks to Crown House @mrstopcatteacher.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social www.crownhouse.co.uk/opening-door...

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Opening Doors to Quality Writing

Ideas for writing inspired by great writers for ages 6 to 9

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Also, never read this poem and am now excited to add it to my stash of great to teach poetry. What a fantastic use of voice!

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I LOVE this- being ambitious but using art, oracy and drama to include the texts. More of this at KS3 please!

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

No problem at all, I loved Emag when I taught a level and a precocious gcse class would enjoy some of the more general articles on say the gothic. Great examples of critical writing by students which again are useful at Alevel or for gcse taster lessons/ examples of great writing!

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This is not a separate issue to SEND and curriculum reforms. This is the issue. How we view those around us and believe they should be treated and spoken about should be core to your pedagogy and curriculum

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Emagazine is such a good investment. The archive of articles is so useful for thinking about critical perspectives. Give pairs or small groups different articles to look at, summarise or argue with. There will be tonnes on any text your studying. #TeamEnglish

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Looking for useful articles for A Level students to read on the Gothic? Here's a little sample of what's on offer in emagazine. Share with your students if you have a subscription. If not, why not subscribe now? www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

emagazine articles on English Language are carefully curated, to be both challenging & accessible to A Level students, cover the exam specification topics, offer fresh ideas & research & introduce them to linguists, research & up-to-date thinking. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The evidence bases they chose to draw from were heavily cherry picked. I’ve seen a lot of oracy stuff saying ‘oh no turn and talk and rehearsal are dialogic, how can you say they aren’t, we actually have always known this’ and it’s clear they havent engaged with dialogic teaching at all really

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I think it’s worth looking at why it was convenient and to whom. The attitudes towards children, young people, working class and minority people knowledge and practice can’t be ignored.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Exactly this, and you’ve been saying that for ages- the exams are wrong. We know that in English there’s been a mismatch between disciplinary practice and schools for quite a while, the curriculum review was fairly disappointing though, I felt. Some positive words but no real change

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I’ve seen a few of this type of blog recently, going to list some blogs by people consistently arguing for high quality progressive pedagogies for years.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I don’t now want to see lots of blogs by people who have suddenly discovered that using children’s lit at ks3 is good or strctured group talk works well etc. go back to the people who’ve been experts on that for decades.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is true and I think fair play for reflecting on this but now it would be good to see people who argued vociferously against ’prog’ baddies to *ask them* what could be done, to find a balance and to think about what assessment could look like.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I think it’s similar in English- disciplinary practices are a kind of knowledge- what we do with the stuff we read and how we do it- is very different if you look at a lot of gcse vs HE or professional English, media and drama roles.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Definitely- think the issue is that what a lot of KR has become is quite a stripped back understanding of fairly complex things. In a bid to ensure we don’t overload working memory etc we aren’t really giving children a full picture a lot of the time. So yes, more knowledge, more space for questions

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is why the curriculum writers chose are a problem- I agree we need more diversity but it’s about their attitude towards English education too. The link between learning to perform and about performance, language and expression or thought has been eroded over 10 years.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Whe I did GCSEs my media coursework was on the party political broadcasts of the BNP and the word ‘chav’ I learned loads about racism and class and it was closely aligned with A View FRom the Bridge- our modern text and Seamus Heaney’s poetry

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yeah I think the idea that any subject is need to know is flawed. I think media has also become totally separate from English because of ebacc and gcse reforms. This means it’s not about ‘reading’ or media texts in the same way as it used to be.

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James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I remember tweeting years ago, when the term was suddenly all the rage, that no school could possibly lay claim to "knowledge-richness" if it ignored (or even sneered at) media education. The Govian, selective evisceration of the English curriculum didn't help.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I agree that knowledge is important BUT I also think we need to ensure we’re teaching them to discern and to question texts, to recognise propaganda etc. Followed you for a while and I think we broadly agree but not every advocate of KR curriculum wants to raise critically thinking children

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I liked it- it’s not as dark as blackadder but it’s really well written and basically does the experiment you’re doing but sets in in Shakespeare’s Elizabethan era rather than blackadders

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

i Mean Ben Elton kind of showed us with Upstart crow- I thought that worked but I’d like Robert Webb in there in Hugh Laurie’s role

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Well indeed. It’s no surprise when there’s such pushback against classroom talk, work in groups or children’s own knowledge/ creating of meaning. High control environments require high control over meaning too.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Assumed you would be but I feel like RR used to be quite big and now indont hear much about it. It gave us huge improvements when we didn’t as an intervention whej I was HOD.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

But also a lot of people think it’s about pre teaching vocab and telling children meaning not asking them to create meaning, so they findnit Hard to do independently

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

6/8 All of this happens when we share books and talk about them with children. We need children to have opportunities to misunderstand, and then to discuss this with them. We need to provide texts that are curious, fascinating, unusual. We need to ensure they know how texts and words work.

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

These habits are what the Hackney reading programme/ reciprocal reading was based on (also small group) its the strategy I have found works enormously well. It’s fallen out of fashion which is a shame- small groups of readers trained in good teading skills vs a ‘knowledge’ approach….

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳 It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like! It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids. Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Buy tickets – Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom

Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom, Sat 28 Feb 2026 - Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children ...

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is an incredibly important blog by my colleague Lucy Hinchliffe on behalf of @engmediacentre.bsky.social All English teachers should take a look & DfE should definitely be talking to us about this. If they get this wrong, nothing else will go right in the Nat Curric for English.

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yesterday we posted a series of blogs outlining the direction we would like curriculum reform to go in and airing some of our concerns about where it might go. Here's an additional blog focusing on assessment www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/curricu...

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Curriculum reform + getting formative assessment right

The importance of curriculum reform promoting formative assessment and combatting the dominance of the summative

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Dr Myfanwy Edwards @myf1990.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Anyone know where the figure skating finals are? Meant to be 6.30 but it’s snowboarding? #olympics #winterolympics

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