Many thanks, Tom! ❤️

Looking forward to catching up in a few weeks! 💚

Thank you to @martingalway.bsky.social for hosting such a wonderful event.

As @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social declared so proudly at the opening of the conference, 'Creativity is bubbling under the cracks of the pavement in Bradford'.

My visit to the City of Culture was brief but wonderful. 🌟

I won the Mrs Wordsmith raffle, which was a large gift box or resources to support vocabulary and story writing through games and scaffolding. It's beautiful and will be winging its way to a lovely group of students next week.

@amdassu.bsky.social urged us to support children in writing stories they can see themselves in: their family structure, culture, ethnicity, relationships, politics...

Matt Goodfellow urged us to make space in our day for rebellious writing! With no rules, poetry offers children the freedom from rules that stifle their ability to see themselves as writers and allow themselves to be expressive and have fun.

But what if it could be?

Wilko Wilkes shared his work with us in helping all children, particularly young, disadvantaged boys that they are writers and RAP is one of the most liberating forms of poetry. His performance of the A-Z of Depression was fantastic.