Siân Davidson
@English_MrsD
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Head of English | Literacy Lead | MEd | Founder of @NIEngTeachers | Primary Governor | Girl-Mum x2 | All views my own.
Northern Ireland
Joined January 2018
NI teachers - does anyone know when we will have access to 2025's CCEA Analytics? Not sure why it isn't instant once A Level results are released.
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Knowing people for the majority of your life is such a privilege. 33+ years of friendship here & still going strong ❤️
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Tip: my personal goal for the summer is to limit kids' screen time - it's always their first go-to when boredom hits! We've set timers on their devices (2 hours per day) to help them start to manage & think about the time they spend on screens (my girls are 8&6 for reference).
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So many great parks across NI to explore! We love Stormont & Hillsborough Forest Park in particular. Most have coffee facilities!.
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Ulster Museum in Belfast is a 👌🏻 free activity with a picnic in Botanic Gardens afterwards. One of our favourite days out.
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Local libraries always have free activities on. This is my local branch - check out yours for similar.
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IKEA is always a go-to for us. My kids are getting a bit old for the creche now but they love going to the kids' bedrooms section and playing in the rooms.
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Parents in NI! The summer hols can be tricky to keep kids entertained. I made a thread a couple of years ago for parents to share activity ideas across NI. Let's do it again for 2025!.Any other general summer hol parenting tips & hacks also welcome! 👇🏻.
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Someone needs to explain this to me in absolute layman's terms because I do not understand.
A cross-community sports summer camp in County Down is cancelled after an Orange lodge and others objected to the involvement of a "small group of children from a GAA club".
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My kind of culture on this Glorious Twelfth. San Gimignano - probably the most beautiful place to wile away the hours eating pizza and Dondoli's ice cream!
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We are off to Tuscany tomorrow and I don't think I've been more excited about a holiday, ever. I can't wait to roll home after a fortnight of pizza, pasta and Chianti wine 😋 (If, of course, we don't boil in the heatwav 🥵).Summer has arrived ☀️.
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Not sure how we made it - but we did 🙌🏻 15th year in this teaching game. over and out 🎉
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I was absolutely delighted to chat to P7 staff at one of our feeder primary schools about how best to prepare P7 pupils for English in 'Big School'. Looks like you are more than 'Year 8 Ready' now, guys!
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RT @janeconsidine: All modelled writing MUST be done LIVE with a pen in your hand either on a visualiser, the board, the flip chart or a ta….
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How do you do it? I think next year I will move to Google Forms at the end of each unit - even though it eats into lesson time - as it's much quicker for me than trawling through handwritten notes!.Have you done pupil focus groups before? If so, I'd love to hear your experience.
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Pupil Voice: we are in the process of gathering feedback from pupils to better inform next year's SOWs. All KS3 booklets have an evaluation page at the end & I'm currently collating feedback from a sample of each unit. They will also fill out a general Eng survey on Google Forms.
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