A Level Language students might want to take issue with this bit of opinionated fluff that seems to have found its way into a national newspaper not because it is knowledgable or interesting but because itās written by someone famous.
Regular reminder that what Britain desperately needs is ālow skilledā care workers - and that these jobs are not actually low skilled at all and should be welcomed by an immigration system that appreciates their huge value. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mark Chadbourn
Barbara Bleiman
Today I went to Auschwitz. I wanted to bear witness & remember. However much you think you know, you cannot really understand until you stand on that ground & see the scale, the enormity, the cold calculation, the ruthless, inhuman cruelty. My family - Sarah, Carola, Judith - you are remembered.
With Sports Days coming up, in schools everywhere, here's my poem from 'Snap!' about what can go wrong!
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Barbara Bleiman
In Poland, eating chopped herring, pickled cucumber, potato cakes & dumplings, I taste my middle European roots, via S African boerewors & biltong, to English fish & chips & apple crumble. A tragic (& joyous) 100+ years of migration & a perspective through which to view that of other people today.
Peter Kahn and Caleb Femi close our Talk, Drama and English teacher conference with a engaging session on the power of poetry!
Barbara Bleiman
Frances Ryan
Primary school to secondary school transition books for children. ššš¼
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Primary to secondary school transition books including titles by Matt Goodfellow, Anne Fine, Katie Kirby, Rosie Jones, Lisa Williamson, Libby Scott, R...
Barbara Bleiman
The hill I will die on: I really donāt like ālikeā ā or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de BerniĆØres
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de BerniĆØres
š§µšø Last week, we were delighted to co-host with @theclpe.bsky.social the latest community conversation, Children's Literature: Speculative Fiction and Colonialism, organised so brilliantly by @darrenchetty.bsky.social.
Through a series of activities and group, room and author-led conversations...
