@clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social
Teaching and Learning Lead.
English teacher. North East England.
MAT SP Literacy.
Associate Consultant: National Literacy Trust. Anti-racist ally. Linguistic justice.
Blogs about English teaching & Literacy.
https://clarefeeneyuk.com/
English teacher. North East England.
MAT SP Literacy.
Associate Consultant: National Literacy Trust. Anti-racist ally. Linguistic justice.
Blogs about English teaching & Literacy.
https://clarefeeneyuk.com/
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Yet another article which only draws on the opinion of one woman (and she is talking about Reception).
I wonder if anyone is noticing how invisible women are in the reporting of the education sector.
schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-adviser...
I wonder if anyone is noticing how invisible women are in the reporting of the education sector.
schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-adviser...
RISE advisers reveal ‘hostility’ from ‘stuck’ schools
Leaders recruited to the government’s RISE improvement programme have faced 'hostility'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yet another article which only draws on the opinion of one woman (and she is talking about Reception).
I wonder if anyone is noticing how invisible women are in the reporting of the education sector.
schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-adviser...
I wonder if anyone is noticing how invisible women are in the reporting of the education sector.
schoolsweek.co.uk/rise-adviser...
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Do join us on Tuesday for this free seminar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-to-r... it’ll be useful! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @raesnape.bsky.social @primarychamp.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social please share! All welcome!
Write to Read: Motivating and Engaging Literacy Learners
Centre for Literacy and Social Justice Seminar
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Do join us on Tuesday for this free seminar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-to-r... it’ll be useful! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @raesnape.bsky.social @primarychamp.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social please share! All welcome!
It's good to see the outreach team from Cambridge Uni doing some great work in the North East. I was lucky enough to help out at their Interview Conference today, along with other teachers who were providing practice interviews. Such a privilege to support Eng Lit students on their journey.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It's good to see the outreach team from Cambridge Uni doing some great work in the North East. I was lucky enough to help out at their Interview Conference today, along with other teachers who were providing practice interviews. Such a privilege to support Eng Lit students on their journey.
Really looking forward to the #ReconstructingReading conference this week from the National Literacy Trust. Lots of interest from our Reading team within school. We'll probably watch recorded sessions together so we can reflect on what we can do better.
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Really looking forward to the #ReconstructingReading conference this week from the National Literacy Trust. Lots of interest from our Reading team within school. We'll probably watch recorded sessions together so we can reflect on what we can do better.
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Listen NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
While you're at it, join the Empire Club to listen ad-free and binge the next 2 episodes in our Writers of Empire series!
empirepod.supportingcast.fm
While you're at it, join the Empire Club to listen ad-free and binge the next 2 episodes in our Writers of Empire series!
empirepod.supportingcast.fm
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Listen NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
While you're at it, join the Empire Club to listen ad-free and binge the next 2 episodes in our Writers of Empire series!
empirepod.supportingcast.fm
While you're at it, join the Empire Club to listen ad-free and binge the next 2 episodes in our Writers of Empire series!
empirepod.supportingcast.fm
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Was Charlotte Brontë's “madwoman in the attic” a Jamaican heiress? Did Jane Austen's Mansfield Park sideline the slave wealth of its characters? How was her own family tied to the Caribbean plantations?
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Was Charlotte Brontë's “madwoman in the attic” a Jamaican heiress? Did Jane Austen's Mansfield Park sideline the slave wealth of its characters? How was her own family tied to the Caribbean plantations?
Decolonising the nineteenth century novel.
An excellent listen for students and educators.
Fascinating links to historical research presented in Dr Kauffman's new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery.
#teamEnglish #EduSky
An excellent listen for students and educators.
Fascinating links to historical research presented in Dr Kauffman's new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery.
#teamEnglish #EduSky
⏰NEW EPISODE OUT TODAY⏰
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
Austen and Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Dr Miranda Kauffman, to discuss the often-ignored connections between these famous authors and slavery heiresses.
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Decolonising the nineteenth century novel.
An excellent listen for students and educators.
Fascinating links to historical research presented in Dr Kauffman's new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery.
#teamEnglish #EduSky
An excellent listen for students and educators.
Fascinating links to historical research presented in Dr Kauffman's new book, Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery.
#teamEnglish #EduSky
I wonder if anyone else has had an issue with flags appearing outside their school? On Tues, Armistice Day, we arrived to find flags on all the lamp posts directly outside our school. A generous take is that they were put there for Armistice but the HT v quickly emailed the sch community to ...
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I wonder if anyone else has had an issue with flags appearing outside their school? On Tues, Armistice Day, we arrived to find flags on all the lamp posts directly outside our school. A generous take is that they were put there for Armistice but the HT v quickly emailed the sch community to ...
This is really good. Overall, a very positive assessment of the CAR for English/Literacy. It does offer some important challenges and sets out hopes for the next steps.
Useful links at the end to responses from other bodies in the English community. That's my weekend reading sorted.
Useful links at the end to responses from other bodies in the English community. That's my weekend reading sorted.
Announcing publication of our response to @beckyfrancis.bsky.social & team #curriculumandassessmentreview after consultation with our community & English related networks. Special thks to our Cross-Sector Educational policy lead @bobeaglestone.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/the-english-...
englishassociation.ac.uk/the-english-...
The English Association’s response to Building a World-Class Curriculum for All: the Curriculum and Assessment Review | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is really good. Overall, a very positive assessment of the CAR for English/Literacy. It does offer some important challenges and sets out hopes for the next steps.
Useful links at the end to responses from other bodies in the English community. That's my weekend reading sorted.
Useful links at the end to responses from other bodies in the English community. That's my weekend reading sorted.
A superb read on the Curriculum & Assessment Review.
World Class or Bottom of the Class? A Deep Dive into the Curriculum and Assessment Review
It's taken a while to digest but here are my initial thoughts on the Review and its implications for schools and school History #historyteacher #EduSky #Anthopocene
www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/world-c...
It's taken a while to digest but here are my initial thoughts on the Review and its implications for schools and school History #historyteacher #EduSky #Anthopocene
www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/world-c...
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A superb read on the Curriculum & Assessment Review.
This response to the CAR recommendations for English will be well worth reading.
Due out tomorrow.
Due out tomorrow.
Agree with this: again, the @englishassociation.bsky.social and the Common English Forum will be working on this too
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This response to the CAR recommendations for English will be well worth reading.
Due out tomorrow.
Due out tomorrow.
Yesterday, I was trying to find positives in the CAR for English Lang but I also feel disappointed it chose not to make recs which would align the subject more closely with some core disciplinary concepts. For eg, it's not clear if it will enable students to study sociolinguistic issues around ...
KS4 English Lang - well, in some ways the recs are a vast improvement.
Reading & writing a range of more relevant text-types.
This could be v good if it entails teaching 'big ideas' eg audience, purpose, spoken & written lang variation according to socially-situated contexts, critical literacy.
Reading & writing a range of more relevant text-types.
This could be v good if it entails teaching 'big ideas' eg audience, purpose, spoken & written lang variation according to socially-situated contexts, critical literacy.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yesterday, I was trying to find positives in the CAR for English Lang but I also feel disappointed it chose not to make recs which would align the subject more closely with some core disciplinary concepts. For eg, it's not clear if it will enable students to study sociolinguistic issues around ...
I don't think there was a comment about the current stipulation of studying texts only by British writers.
I wonder if this might change.
I wonder if this might change.
KS4 English Lit. A missed opportunity & not addressing the elephant in the room - assessment. Disappointing to see the continued fixation on reading a whole 19th novel. Hard to see where the flexibility is to enable the study of contemporary, diverse texts. Do fewer poems?
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I don't think there was a comment about the current stipulation of studying texts only by British writers.
I wonder if this might change.
I wonder if this might change.
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I guess the key question now, especially with perhaps related concerns around the wellbeing of young people who are not in the workforce, is: is incremental change enough?
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I guess the key question now, especially with perhaps related concerns around the wellbeing of young people who are not in the workforce, is: is incremental change enough?
Yes. Discussion of the role of curriculum, and, significantly, assessment, in young people's well-being was largely absent. Yet these stats are deeply unsettling & should be a call to action.
Although OECD data was referenced multiple times, neither the widely-known stat from the OECD’s PISA data that UK 15-year-olds reported among the lowest life satisfaction among tested nations, nor TIMSS’ findings re high numbers of English 14-year-olds disliking school, featured.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yes. Discussion of the role of curriculum, and, significantly, assessment, in young people's well-being was largely absent. Yet these stats are deeply unsettling & should be a call to action.
Just taking a moment to read and reflect on the CAR.
There are many general statements that are welcome such as the recognition that sequences of learning differ between subjects, the nat curriculum is a tool, teachers are the curriculum makers etc.
A few thoughts on the English/literacy bits.
There are many general statements that are welcome such as the recognition that sequences of learning differ between subjects, the nat curriculum is a tool, teachers are the curriculum makers etc.
A few thoughts on the English/literacy bits.
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just taking a moment to read and reflect on the CAR.
There are many general statements that are welcome such as the recognition that sequences of learning differ between subjects, the nat curriculum is a tool, teachers are the curriculum makers etc.
A few thoughts on the English/literacy bits.
There are many general statements that are welcome such as the recognition that sequences of learning differ between subjects, the nat curriculum is a tool, teachers are the curriculum makers etc.
A few thoughts on the English/literacy bits.
I'm just settling down to read this. I don't read much crime fiction but the opening is gripping and I can already tell it's going to be a page-turner.
(I was happy to find this lovely hardback copy in my local library.)
#booksky
(I was happy to find this lovely hardback copy in my local library.)
#booksky
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm just settling down to read this. I don't read much crime fiction but the opening is gripping and I can already tell it's going to be a page-turner.
(I was happy to find this lovely hardback copy in my local library.)
#booksky
(I was happy to find this lovely hardback copy in my local library.)
#booksky
'destabilising standard language ideologies'
the spelling bee is... 'a public ritual of linguistic discipline. It doesn't just reward memorisation; it performs a particular vision of language as precise, codified, and rule-bound, and positions that vision as natural, inevitable, and good' compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
'destabilising standard language ideologies'
Yes. Hard agree.
It will be. These are incredible people who are engaged in a wide range of fascinating research into the development of reading and how to teach it effectively.
They are the people who should have written the reading framework (with a few others).
They are the people who should have written the reading framework (with a few others).
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yes. Hard agree.
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The #cogsci of reading, shared by the people who actually do the research. This will be spectacular!
#ReconstructingReading
bsky.app/profile/jonn...
#ReconstructingReading
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The #ReconstructingReading online festival takes place during the week of 17th November. @literacy-trust.bsky.social have put together a line-up of outstanding speakers. Tickets are available for individual sessions or the entire week. More info here: literacytrust.org.uk/training-and...
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The #cogsci of reading, shared by the people who actually do the research. This will be spectacular!
#ReconstructingReading
bsky.app/profile/jonn...
#ReconstructingReading
bsky.app/profile/jonn...
#ReconstructingReading online festival.
There is an excellent line-up of experts working at the cutting age of reading research and practice.
The festival has a Primary age focus but much of this could still be relevant for secondary reading leads.
#literacy #reading
There is an excellent line-up of experts working at the cutting age of reading research and practice.
The festival has a Primary age focus but much of this could still be relevant for secondary reading leads.
#literacy #reading
The #ReconstructingReading online festival takes place during the week of 17th November. @literacy-trust.bsky.social have put together a line-up of outstanding speakers. Tickets are available for individual sessions or the entire week. More info here: literacytrust.org.uk/training-and...
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#ReconstructingReading online festival.
There is an excellent line-up of experts working at the cutting age of reading research and practice.
The festival has a Primary age focus but much of this could still be relevant for secondary reading leads.
#literacy #reading
There is an excellent line-up of experts working at the cutting age of reading research and practice.
The festival has a Primary age focus but much of this could still be relevant for secondary reading leads.
#literacy #reading
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Long Island is a great sequel! I read with bated breath towards the end, waiting for the unravel...
Also, this episode of Take Four Books - Toibin talks about 3 books that influenced the novel. I found it so interesting, esp his inspo for the opening.
#BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Also, this episode of Take Four Books - Toibin talks about 3 books that influenced the novel. I found it so interesting, esp his inspo for the opening.
#BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín on his latest novel, Long Island, and its connections to three other works.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Long Island is a great sequel! I read with bated breath towards the end, waiting for the unravel...
Also, this episode of Take Four Books - Toibin talks about 3 books that influenced the novel. I found it so interesting, esp his inspo for the opening.
#BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Also, this episode of Take Four Books - Toibin talks about 3 books that influenced the novel. I found it so interesting, esp his inspo for the opening.
#BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social
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Fantastic piece! I checked back on my latest poem about animals for little ‘uns - a draft - and found this!
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Fantastic piece! I checked back on my latest poem about animals for little ‘uns - a draft - and found this!
The main study Cameron links to is well-worth showing AL students as it's a cool example of how to set out a Language Investigation.
pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The main study Cameron links to is well-worth showing AL students as it's a cool example of how to set out a Language Investigation.
pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...