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Cass & Anna - The Educakers

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We are Head and Deputy at Lingfield Primary School, Surrey, with a passion for school improvement. We have worked together for over 13 years and care deeply about authentic school culture; doing less better and eating cake!

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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As part of our partnership with Reach Foundation & rethinking parent events to make them more relational, we have changed our Meet the Teacher meetings this year. Info covering routines, expectations & a typical school day were shared beforehand, so we created more of a marketplace.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nothing flashy about this post — just a slice of everyday Primary leadership. Here at Lingfield, we have an FYI board in our staffroom. It acts as a small nudge towards best practice, as well as a place to gather staff feedback, ideas and suggestions.
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Richard Selfridge @richardselfridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's been quite the week for those focusing on primary data. Here's an update from James Pembroke...
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A little bit of presentation polishing ready for our first ever slot at @researchEd on Saturday. And The Educakers can’t do their work without some rather large slices of cake and copious amounts of tea and coffee (all squeezed onto a very small table).
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InsightHQ @insighthq.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
👋 Hello from Databusting Surrey! Some great conversations are taking place here at Lingfield Primary School as @jpembroke.bsky.social and @richardselfridge.bsky.social explore practical approaches to assessment and data. A big thanks to @theeducakers.bsky.social for inviting us!
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tickets are still available for this brilliant @insighthq.bsky.social Databusting event that we're hosting on Friday 26th June. It'll be a great way to end the working week!
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Mary Myatt @marymyatt.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
New post: High expectations, high support on the great work of Charlotte Bunyan and colleagues @theeducakers.bsky.social substack.com/@marymyatt/n...
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High expectations, high support
Well hello there, and welcome to update #192!
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It's that time of year again when the writing moderation emails have dropped into Head's inboxes. I wrote this blog last year sharing my experience as a Year 6 teacher and previous moderator for Surrey so I thought I would share it again in case it helps anyone! You've got this! 💪Anna.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We've got a rare and exciting opportunity to become a class teacher here at Lingfield! Please share this post far and wide for anyone who may be interested! Thanks in advance!
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Really enjoyed listening to this episode of Mind the Gap with @teacherhead.bsky.social @emmaturner75.bsky.social @mrcraigbarton. We loved it so much we've put it on our Monday Briefing for all of our staff to listen to. So much sense about MWB's and Do Nows. Anna.
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Inside Craig Barton’s 16-Book Teaching Project, Mind the Gap, Ep.117 (S6,E15)
Podcast Episode · Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe · 6 March · 58min
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If you’re deep in SATs prep and counting down the days, this might be worth a read. A reminder to find the good bits — something we probably all need on a Friday evening. Anna SATs Season: Finding the Good Bits open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...
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SATs Season: Finding the Good Bits
A Slice of Everyday Primary Leadership
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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
💡NEW POST 💡 'SHARE to support struggling readers and writers' S – Scaffolding challenging tasks H – High expectations for every student A – Assessment-driven adaptations R – Responsive interventions E – Explicit teaching alexquigley.co.uk/share-to-sup...
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SHARE to support struggling readers & writers
Where do teachers start when it comes to supporting students who struggle with reading and writing? There is so much written and argued about reading and writing, that busy teachers can feel a little ...
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
And this is one of the many reasons I love teaching Year 6; they’re good fun! One of our Year 6’s made their teacher this today 😂 @mrboothy6.bsky.social @sarahfarrellks2.bsky.social @WhiteRose
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
s an English SLE, teaching reading and writing has always been an interest of mine. Popping into some Year 6 writing lessons over the past couple of weeks has been an absolute joy.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Really helpful on-line network meeting yesterday with @walkthrus.bsky.social & hosted brilliantly by @LisaWorgan. We listened to a great case-story from a school in London & then went on to talk about our own implementation and use of the WalkThrus using the model of START to shape our discussion.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Cake by name, cake by nature... Everyone is dressed up as a 'word' today and I just couldn't resist. #worldbookday #primaryteaching
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One of our key SDP priorities this year is vocabulary development. We call it 'Words, Words, Words'. Using Primary Reading Simplified by @suchmo83.bsky.social as one of our key texts, we’ve developed our approach to explicitly teaching vocabulary across EYFS and KS1.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Today it was great to see Year 6 using resources to explore what actually happens when finding the mean average. Physically redistributing amounts really helped the children to see that the mean is about equal sharing of the total — not just “add and divide”
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We're really excited to announce that @insighthq.bsky.social @jpembroke.bsky.social @richardselfridge.bsky.social will be running their 'Databusting Surrey with the Educakers' event with us in June. Have a look at the link below for more information. We'd love to meet so many of you in person!
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Databusting Surrey with The Educakers
A practical one-day workshop for primary and MAT senior leaders on making assessment and data work in practice, without adding to workload.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Absolutely agree Phil - a great read! @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @suchmo83.bsky.social @emmaturner75.bsky.social @teacherhead.bsky.social @pepsmccrea.bsky.social (amongst many other greats) have all inspired our T& L, SDP priorities, curriculum development, CPD or our own blogging.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We were lucky enough to welcome a select, but wonderful, few HT's & DHT's to our school today as part of Linking Local Leaders run by Schools Alliance for Excellence. We kick started the session by watching @PepsMcrea's Alignment: The Secret Sauce of Effective Schooling? lnkd.in/eZnvC26a
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We are feeling over the moon after receiving this acknowledgement from Bridget Phillipson. What a credit to our team here at Lingfield and their on-going hard work. 🥳 Well done to you too @strickomaster.bsky.social and everyone at Duston School. Happy Friday everyone! 🎉
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Bread and Butter of our Maths Curriculum A brilliant twilight session tonight led by our KS1 and KS2 maths leaders, Hayley and Karina. Their deep knowledge of our school, our maths curriculum, @whiterosemaths and how children learn underpinned everything they shared with staff.
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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
So here they my favourite 40 picturebooks of 2025 (actually there are 42). Merry Christmas! #FavePicturebooks25 #PicturebookPage
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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Finally, despite my interest being primarily in primary, I rarely do niche content from there. However, this is a great post from the @theeducakers.bsky.social on making the most out of "early work" or "morning work" - a staple of most UK primaries. Enjoy! substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Early Work: Making the Morning Count
A Slice of Everyday Primary Leadership
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
How do you use the first 20 minutes of the day? In our school, Early Work is purposeful: catch-up, retrieval, review, pre-teaching & checking in with children. Have a read of our latest blog below open.substack.com/pub/theeduca... All shares and retweets gratefully received.
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Early Work: Making the Morning Count
A Slice of Everyday Primary Leadership
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Baroness Estelle Morris kicked off the Surrey Education Partnership today. A really engaging speaker outlining some of the history of the education system and promoting the importance of school partnerships. “your experiences, if they don’t affect your practice they affect your approach”
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Tonight’s staff meeting was brilliantly led by Alex and Elliot who shared key takeaways from their Retrieval and Feedback training with @katejonesteach.bsky.social last term.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We're excited to be hosting two more training sessions with @earlyexcellence.bsky.social If you're interested in effective KS1 provision or writing outcomes in EYFS, then have a look at what's on offer.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We loved talking to you and we're really excited about what we can hopefully do together!
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School Data Updates @jpembroke.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Databusters are getting the band back together and going on the road with a new one-day course: AM: external data: IDSR, ASP, performance measures PM: internal data: TA, tests, SEND, reporting to parents/govs @insighthq.bsky.social schools, get in touch if you’re interested
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AR @psalisbury.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Right I've written a blog. At least I think I have as this may not work: philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/r... It's pretty dull.
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Relationships with parents
Establishing good relationships with parents is essential for many reasons, and children benefit more when there is a strong relationship and good communication between the two. Working with parent…
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Whilst Cass and I love education, we also love cake, hence - The Educakers. It's Wednesday which means there's a staff meeting after school, and most importantly, 🍰Cake Club 🍰.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Absolutely love this book. Read it a few years ago for our Year 6 book club and couldn’t put it down. Bought it for my friend’s son for Christmas this year too. It will be one of our Just Read texts too @marymyatt.bsky.social
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I’ve had such a lovely time in the run up to Christmas reading some of these stories every night with my daughter. There are some classics in there and some lovely new ones. The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland has been a real favourite.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Feeling incredibly grateful for our supportive governors who truly have our backs and challenge us when it matters. 🎄 This morning they treated our staff to a beautiful Christmas spread to say thank you.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I know everyone is tired and it’s the end of a long term, but I love this time of year 🎄 I started my morning watching our Pre-School class perform Christmas songs for their adults on the stage in our gym – and honestly, it’s my favourite performance of the whole school year.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A really useful read & something we've been grappling with recently as the number of children with SEND increases in our school. We want to be able to accurately reflect & celebrate the achievements & progress of all of our children &, as @jpembroke.bsky.social says, labelled bands don't do this.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A little bit of Christmas cheer for our staff room as we head into the craziness that is the end of Autumn Term. Sometimes it’s scrabble, sometimes a jigsaw puzzle and there’s rarely not food on the table. It’s the little things that bring the extra glimmers of joy when the job is hard and busy.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Why I Can’t Teach Without a Visualiser... this week I’m talking all things visualisers — the perfect partner to my previous mini whiteboards post. Like I said a fortnight ago, I genuinely couldn’t teach without either. open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...
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Visualisers: The Classroom Tool I Can’t Teach Without
A Slice of Everyday Primary Leadership
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
And the love letter for mini whiteboards continues. A thread.... As described in the blog, we still needed to iron out our consistent routines for how to use and show mini-whiteboards in the classroom and this week, as a staff, we agreed that.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
You gotta love a GoPro day! 🤪 staff absence 🤪 parent emails 🤪 Y6 maths tutoring 🤪 pupil progress meetings 🤪 room set-up for a 40 member LA board meeting 🤪 school tour 🤪 meet and greet 🤪 usual corridor duties
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thanks to @pepsmccrea.bsky.social for his introduction to this week's staff meeting where we were discussing our "Agreed Consistencies" for transitions. We will now codify this in a one-pager so the routines are captured for everyone. Check it out on here: 👇 youtu.be/L-1BqYCQj_o?...
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Alignment: The Secret Sauce of Effective Schooling?
YouTube video by Peps Mccrea
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey @mrzachg.bsky.social Here's what 1 of our teachers, said in his recent review of your book for a network of schools we are working with. Also referenced is the must have Rosenshine's Principles in Action from @teacherhead.bsky.social Thanks for sharing, Elliot!
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Thank you to @adamboxereducation.bsky.social and @laurastam for the final kick of inspiration yesterday morning to get this blog about mini-whiteboards finally out of my head and into the world. Mini-Whiteboards: A Long-Overdue Rant (and Love Letter) open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...
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Mini-Whiteboards: A Long-Overdue Rant (and Love Letter)
A Slice of Primary Leadership
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Why Reading Aloud Works, by @MaryMyatt open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...
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Why Reading Aloud Works
Well hello there, and welcome to update #162!
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you to the schools already signed up to join us for this event. We have a few more spaces available and would love to welcome you. #qualitycontinuousprovision #playmatters
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 Over the past couple of weeks, my 5 year old & I have enjoyed our collection of Halloween books. Each year we add to the collection and this year’s gems 💎 were from @flaviazdrago.bsky.social and Rebecca Green. Such beautiful stories and illustrations.
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This term in DT, Year 6 took on the challenge of designing, making and evaluating a security alarm system to help Lance and his friends protect themselves in the office at Crater Lake by Jennifer Killick. @mrboothy6.bsky.social
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Cass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
School improvement isn’t always about big, shiny new initiatives. It’s often about the smaller steps—the quiet, deliberate tweaks that build momentum over time. In this evening’s staff meeting, we began by revisiting our Culture Deck—a shared foundation that guides how we work together.
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