Alison Edwards
@ALibraryscience
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Chartered school librarian and tabby cat lover. Will do (almost) anything to get teens reading. High jinks may ensue.
United Kingdom
Joined March 2014
If you love Tiramisu you need to sashay on down to Paradiso Artisan Tiramisu in Sheffield. This is the classic tiramisu with biscoff topping and it was glorious 🤩
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Enjoyed a wonderful afternoon tea @ChatsworthHouse with my friend. Beautiful food and drink in a lovely setting with mismatched Wedgwood crockery. Perfect 🤩
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Thinking about our students today receiving their results. I remember talking to them in Y7 about their GCSEs and the need to aim high. Wishing them all the best on their onward journey, and reminding them that the path to success is rarely linear. @FirthParkAcad.
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This is so powerful and yet so simple.
When recommending a book to a child, 'Here's a book I read, loved and think you'll enjoy' carries more weight than 'Here's a book from a list that someone else says is good'. Lists can be a real help and a great starting point but knowing (at least some of) the books is crucial.
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Shutting things down by stealth.
Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care. Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly.
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Watching the guys on the Pickleball court this morning has made me somewhat of an expert
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RT @Literacy_Trust: What a beautiful space 😍. Libraries are the heart of a school but 1 in 7 state primary schools does not have one, mea….
librariesforprimaries.org.uk
We work with hundreds of schools across the UK to give them the training, resources, books and furniture that they need.
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RT @whatSFSaid: Why read books? Because books are still the most powerful, reliable, transportive & magical storytelling technology we've i….
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Yes, definitely explicitly teach vocabulary in the classroom, but the best and time-honoured way to expose children to new language is to read. Read to them, expect them to read to you. Use your local library, it’s completely free.
The reading gap. Approx one in four pupils move to secondary school without having met the expected standard in the key stage 2 national reading test. This holds many of them back in secondary school, both in their English lessons and more widely across the curriculum. /1.
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Death.
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Mashing a cup of tea is about as exciting as it gets on this wet, windy day.
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Watching the premiere of Kensuke’s Kingdom on BBC1. Such a fantastic read and I’ve used extracts from it so many times for reading intervention over the years. A classic from Michael Morpurgo.
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Such a sad loss to children’s literature. He’ll always be remembered with gratitude for lighting up young lives.
Children's author Allan Ahlberg dies aged 87
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