Dear colleague
Here are some links that I hope you find helpful:
Schools Week have just published my article on to turn the ‘Wasted Years’ into the ‘Ambitious Years’. If you’d like me to work with your team on support for KS3, I have some availability, and you can book a call with me here.
Live webinar: ‘What works for primary writing?’
The primary curriculum accelerator session on Monday 17th November 3:30-4:30pm will be with Shareen Wilkinson.
Shareen will share insights from her latest book ‘Disciplinary Literacy in Primary Schools’ and is available to schools with a subscription to The Teachers’ Collection.
If you’d like your school to have access to this training and the brilliant teaching resources, you can join here.
Curriculum Conversations: A reference pack for senior leaders in secondary
The best discussions aren’t about spreadsheets or data drops, they’re about the substance of what we’re teaching, why it matters, and how we can make it more accessible and coherent for our pupils.
To support this work, we’re creating a new Curriculum Conversations Reference Pack, drawn from 'Huh: Curriculum Conversations Between Subject and Senior Leaders'.
Each page focuses on one subject and includes:
- Five questions to guide rich professional dialogue between senior and subject leaders
- Three documents that every senior leader should read to deepen their understanding of that subject’s landscape
If you’d like to know when the pack is ready, or if you’d like to use this design for your own subject or trust materials, you can join the waitlist here.
StrictlyRE 2026 - early bird ends this month
A saving of £15 on tickets for StrictlyRE 2026, offer ends Friday 31st October 2025.
It’s the UK’s biggest RE conference, where you’ll gain valuable insights, practical strategies, and inspiration to enhance your teaching practice.
Themes: Authenticity – Real voices, real RE, Belonging – Together in RE & Challenge– Aim higher, reach further.
Birmingham, Saturday 31 January 2026 8:45am-4:50pm.
If you are a NATRE member you get £40 off (early bird plus member discount) not a member join and get this great saving too! Booking here.
Pandemic Superheroes - A free nationwide oral history and performance project for schools, youth theatres and youth clubs working with children aged 9-13.
In Summer 2026, thousands of children across the UK will take centre stage to share their own stories of the pandemic, not just of loss, but of courage, creativity, humour and resilience.
Pandemic Superheroes invites schools to help shape a brand-new musical, based on children’s lived experiences and voices. Express your interest here for participating in 2025-26. Deadline Friday 5th November.
A new podcast Catching Up with Dr Sarah Mosely and Ginny Bootman, where inclusive education meets real-world practice.
Dr Sarah Moseley, literacy and SEND specialist, and Ginny Bootman, SEND and relationships specialist, bring you lively and down-to-earth conversations about what really works in classrooms today.
The Thinking Deeply about Primary Education Conference on Saturday January 17th in London. I really enjoyed the conference in Cardiff in September and if you’re a primary practitioner I can highly recommend this brilliant range of contributors, organised by Kieran Mackle. Booking here.
Introducing the Cultural Education Network – a national initiative powered by Arts Council England that places arts, culture and creativity at the heart of learning.
Whether you're a teacher, a freelance teaching artist or work at a creative or cultural organisation, the Cultural Education Network is here to support you.
The Network offers free one-to-one sessions with Cultural Education Specialists, designed to help you overcome challenges and unlock new possibilities in your work.
Ready to grow your practice? Book your one-to-one session today.
Building Teams with Lekha Sharma and Sam Crome
We are delighted to have two of the sharpest thinkers on culture and team building!
Their self-paced course ‘Building Teams’ is now on Myatt & Co.
They answer some of the questions they receive about what it takes to create a setting where there are high levels of trust; how to think about building trust when it has been eroded; how to be patient, plus plenty more. Available with an annual or school subscription.
Finding My Voice: A whole school approach to oracy and personal development
If you are looking for light touch, high impact ways of developing oracy and personal development in your contexts, you’ll find these ‘Bites’ on Finding My Voice helpful.
For example, What makes me shine? This lovely provocation for pupils from Christian Foley is one of the prompts to support personal development in primary. And a neat provocation from Manny Awoyelu on the power of an idea.
And if you’d like to explore the programme, there’s a 14 day free trial, to Finding My Voice and you can sign up here.
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Until next time
Mary