Liz Plane
@lizplane.bsky.social
Primary School teacher. Back to Early Years after a year with Year 3🌷Love Doctor Who, Taskmaster, Luton, Abbott Elementary, coffee, birds, singing, reading, the sea, most people and sunshine. ☀️ ☕️🦅🌊🎶📚
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On the Third Day of Transition to Year R Christmas, my Early Years Advisor said to me…
🎄What does a Dojo (or your chosen extrinsic reward system) give a child that your loving, honest, connected relationship does not?
🎄What does a Dojo (or your chosen extrinsic reward system) give a child that your loving, honest, connected relationship does not?
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
On the Third Day of Transition to Year R Christmas, my Early Years Advisor said to me…
🎄What does a Dojo (or your chosen extrinsic reward system) give a child that your loving, honest, connected relationship does not?
🎄What does a Dojo (or your chosen extrinsic reward system) give a child that your loving, honest, connected relationship does not?
My Spotify Wrapped is all over the place because the kids use it a lot too. But one thing came through loud and clear: Top Genre - Musicals. I have schooled them well!
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My Spotify Wrapped is all over the place because the kids use it a lot too. But one thing came through loud and clear: Top Genre - Musicals. I have schooled them well!
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Most people owning houses worth more than £2 million are richer than the wildest dreams of the majority of the population and knowing other people who own houses worth £2 million doesn't make this any less true.
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Most people owning houses worth more than £2 million are richer than the wildest dreams of the majority of the population and knowing other people who own houses worth £2 million doesn't make this any less true.
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Here's something I posted yesterday on Instagram, so new people there could get a feel for what I do and the reasons behind it. 🙂
If you're an artist, the 'why' sometimes get's lost in sharing the process.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #artist
If you're an artist, the 'why' sometimes get's lost in sharing the process.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #artist
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Here's something I posted yesterday on Instagram, so new people there could get a feel for what I do and the reasons behind it. 🙂
If you're an artist, the 'why' sometimes get's lost in sharing the process.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #artist
If you're an artist, the 'why' sometimes get's lost in sharing the process.
www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #artist
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Since hashtags are not really the same kind of thing here as they were on Twitter, I'll use this thread to collect any of the Ozymandias-related gems I come across in my timeline. If the name doesn't ring a bell, here is the original. 1/
Ozymandias
Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Since hashtags are not really the same kind of thing here as they were on Twitter, I'll use this thread to collect any of the Ozymandias-related gems I come across in my timeline. If the name doesn't ring a bell, here is the original. 1/
Productive day at school today. Didn’t cross any jobs off my to-do list, but did bring order to my cupboard and have a good tidy up in the classroom. Now for a couple of days of rest.
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Productive day at school today. Didn’t cross any jobs off my to-do list, but did bring order to my cupboard and have a good tidy up in the classroom. Now for a couple of days of rest.
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As part of celebrating Bookshop Day, Bert’s is donating £100 worth of books to 12 schools across Swindon.
Literacy levels in Swindon have fallen behind the national average, so we’re making a commitment to do this every year – but it will take us seven years to make sure every school benefits.
Literacy levels in Swindon have fallen behind the national average, so we’re making a commitment to do this every year – but it will take us seven years to make sure every school benefits.
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As part of celebrating Bookshop Day, Bert’s is donating £100 worth of books to 12 schools across Swindon.
Literacy levels in Swindon have fallen behind the national average, so we’re making a commitment to do this every year – but it will take us seven years to make sure every school benefits.
Literacy levels in Swindon have fallen behind the national average, so we’re making a commitment to do this every year – but it will take us seven years to make sure every school benefits.
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fave non-fiction book this year. “Omnibird” by #GiselleClarkson is a brilliant, funny and informative illustrated guide that turns kids into avian detectives. Packed with science & humour it inspires readers to really look at the birds around them and see the extraordinary. @geckopress.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
fave non-fiction book this year. “Omnibird” by #GiselleClarkson is a brilliant, funny and informative illustrated guide that turns kids into avian detectives. Packed with science & humour it inspires readers to really look at the birds around them and see the extraordinary. @geckopress.bsky.social
So excited about today’s post from @bertsbooks.bsky.social I have been eagerly awaiting this final volume of The Book of Dust!
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So excited about today’s post from @bertsbooks.bsky.social I have been eagerly awaiting this final volume of The Book of Dust!
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17 yo daughter made this on our walk:
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
17 yo daughter made this on our walk:
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A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library | LEGO® Ideas
"Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here." Buffy the Vampire Slayer first exploded onto our TV screens in the lat…
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October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Today’s reflections on teaching Reception come via Bishop Ken Untener.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today’s reflections on teaching Reception come via Bishop Ken Untener.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
I had a great time reading Land of Roar by @jennymclachlan.bsky.social to my Yr 3 class last year. Last week one of them came bounding up to me to tell me he’d won a prize where he could choose any book, and he got Return to Roar and was loving it. Properly made my day!
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I had a great time reading Land of Roar by @jennymclachlan.bsky.social to my Yr 3 class last year. Last week one of them came bounding up to me to tell me he’d won a prize where he could choose any book, and he got Return to Roar and was loving it. Properly made my day!
Highlights of my teaching week were being outside with the children. Lots of fun playing with autumn leaves, sycamore seeds and throwing them up as everyone leapt into the air from our climbing blocks. Autumn 1 is exhausting in EYFS, but still full of joy!
October 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Highlights of my teaching week were being outside with the children. Lots of fun playing with autumn leaves, sycamore seeds and throwing them up as everyone leapt into the air from our climbing blocks. Autumn 1 is exhausting in EYFS, but still full of joy!
Look at this! Phenomenal!
Still making, still learning, still experimenting, still chasing.
www.darrellwakelam.com
#edusky #sculpture #artwork #recycle
www.darrellwakelam.com
#edusky #sculpture #artwork #recycle
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Look at this! Phenomenal!
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New blog
ruthswailes.com/handwriting-readiness-and-rhythm-finding-balance-between-policy-and-practice/
ruthswailes.com/handwriting-readiness-and-rhythm-finding-balance-between-policy-and-practice/
Handwriting, Readiness and Rhythm: Finding Balance Between Policy and Practice. - Ruth Swailes
When the DfE Writing Framework (2025) landed, many of us read the line about children in Reception being taught to “form lower-case and capital letters correctly” and felt that familiar flicker of ten...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Rounding off the weekend with smores round the fire pit. Some days are hard, but I like it when they end like this.
October 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Rounding off the weekend with smores round the fire pit. Some days are hard, but I like it when they end like this.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Love this!
daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Love this!
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Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀
October 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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NEW: The dangers of diagnosis.
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The dangers of diagnosis
Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…
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September 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
NEW: The dangers of diagnosis.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...
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