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Laura Spargo @lauraspargo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

✨️ Well aren't I lucky? A treasure found in Foyles on the Southbank on my way to the @theclpe.bsky.social CLiPPA Poetry awards. What a way to start the day! @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social

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The Children's Bookshow @childrensbkshow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Primary schools 📚️ inspire a love of reading and enrich your pupils' cultural capital at our upcoming author events. Book your seats now before they're gone 👉 tinyurl.com/kb4tybpn #PrimaryTeachers #ReadingForPleasure #ChildrensBooks #CulturalCapital

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Laura Spargo @lauraspargo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚃 Making my way to Manchester for the @natecommunity.bsky.social Conference. 💭📚 I'll be talking KS2-KS3 transition, offering helpful approaches to support ambition and inclusion for all pupils. #BuildInNotBoltOn 👋 Hope to see you there! @openingdoors.bsky.social @thecockerill.bsky.social

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@poetrybyheart.bsky.social What an incredible experience feeling the power of poetry delivered so well and in such a setting by students and teachers. It is a privilege being at the Globe. @lauraspargo.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social

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Paddy Carroll @pynchonic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is so exciting and well be wonderful

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

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David Litchfield @dc-litchfield.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NEW BOOK NEWS 💫✨ I can’t wait for you all to meet ‘Little Ghost & The Robot’ in shops this October 👻🤖❤️ published by Quarto Kids/Frances Lincoln Children's Books

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Paddy Carroll @pynchonic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@hywelroberts.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social Many thanks to all three of you. Throughout our Y6 writing moderation meeting today, we kept referencing the work that we have accomplished through support, advice & resources from you. Thanks again.

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Such a privilege for the team to be at the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference! Thanks!

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Free resource on close reading. The journey to understanding should be exciting and full of dialogues! See below videos.files.wordpress.com/gD2H7H5I/cur...

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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

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thinktalkleah.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just booked my ticket for the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference, Senate House, June 13th. A core of us from the @openingdoors.bsky.social team will be on our stall over breaktimes, flying the flag for rich, creative English for all 📖✏️🧞‍♀️🧚🕵️‍♀️🧛‍♂️

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-conferenc... 👇See you there!

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Top class event and I’m proud to be supporting and sponsoring it! @englishassociation.bsky.social 👇

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thanks Kew Green for your response! It’s the final session in a series of insets, a great way to embed a richer curriculum! We have all enjoyed it! @lauraspargo.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social

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Karl Duke @karlduke8.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I think when I’m hobbling around without my own teeth and original knees I’ll still be buying #joetoddstanton books. His latest is a wonderful story told in his own incredible illustrative style. My favourite? Quite possibly. #picturebooks #thelostrobot #teaching

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runawaymaryk @mkat90.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I had no expectations for Dicken’s Great Expectations, but after less than 100 pages in I gotta admit that I’m hooked. I would’ve never picked this up if it wasn’t on my list of “classics everyone should read”. And that’s exactly why I’m doing this.

The text at the beginning of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"When I sit down and write something, I feel I’ve got somewhere. I feel better after doing it. Also, Rupert says I’m intolerable if I’m not working so if I wasn’t writing it would drive him insane." - lovely interview with Alan Bennett by @emmavj.bsky.social:

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Playwright Alan Bennett: ‘I have a fear of books’

Now publishing his fourth collection of diaries, the 91-year-old legend of British letters talks about shyness, ‘feeling every minute’ of his age and the surprise of finding love

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National Association for the Teaching of English @natecommunity.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

‘As spring arrives, there are reasons to feel optimistic about the future of English, but at the same time, some longer-standing features of the subject remain worth reflecting on,’ says NATE Director, @thecockerill.bsky.social, in our March updates. mailchi.mp/8c7214ddbb78...

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Darren Townsend @forrishilier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

One thing that our secondary school librarian said to me a while ago is that she's seeing a sharp reduction in the number of children that have a library card, despite primary schools pushing reading & doing library visits.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"My interpretation with King Lear over the course of the unit has changed, but in a way that has allowed me to grow overall." I love seeing students getting used to the idea of an evolving interpretation being a good thing 😎

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Mrs Top Cat Teacher @mrstopcatteacher.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Overheard on a watercolour Saltmarsh

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Another hub is opening led by @thinktalkleah.bsky.social via Inspire Partnership @ipatedu.bsky.social at Blackfield Primary, Southampton. It's open to all. Thanks Inspire! Let me know if you would like a hub opened in your area. searchingforexcellence.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Laura Spargo @lauraspargo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Look at that for perception! I love the use of the word 'globe' to be really specific.

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Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Illustration by Vicky Cox from ‘Opening Doors to Quality Writing 6-9’ 👇

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Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One week now till publication on March 5th (World Book Day) and I’m delighted that this book has been chosen by @SchoolReading as their fiction book of the month. Huge thanks,& also to Scallywag Press & illustrator Bethan Welby. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-rel...

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

Thanks Myfanwy! I think you know @thinktalkleah.bsky.social Please keep telling people! The independent and joyful writing that comes from the pupils lifts teachers’ spirits too! @englishassociation.bsky.social

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Mrs Top Cat Teacher @mrstopcatteacher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Oh it’s amazing. I’ve given lectures at university for ITTs and I always read this to them to show how you can elevate a poem from a read to a performance.

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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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Mrs Top Cat Teacher @mrstopcatteacher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

NYMPH! NYMPH! WHAT ARE YOUR BEADS? I flipping love it. We’re being ambitious as they’re Year 1 but it’s such a beautiful poem to act out with character voices and we’re going to create some water colour art of their own Saltmarsh. I wonder which characters will be overhead on theirs?

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

Well, we are here to help with the ‘Opening Doors’ series! Click on each book for examples of pupils’ work across the country. KS1,2,3 www.crownhouse.co.uk/bob-cox

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