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Just updated this post to include all my picturebook recommendation links.
It has 3 lists for Year 3-6.
A picturebook biography list and list of picturebooks bout loss.
Hope it’s useful.
Simon Smith
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Simon Smith
@smithsmm
Principal, Learner, Teacher, mad about children's books, Views are my own. #PrimaryPicBookClub.Proud to be part of the @enquiretrust. Raring to go!
- My wife currently has COVID. I’m testing everyday before I go to work. From Monday I’ll have to pay £5.99 for each test so I don’t put my teaching, support staff or children and families at risk. Testing for school staff should continue to be freely available .
- So I can go out and spend £80 on a meal tonight with my wife and my 2 boys and we’ll get £40 off. Yet a family with two children who have lost their jobs that I’ve been delivering food parcels to only get £30 for a week. Something is properly messed up.
- If you’re swearing and doing rude hand gestures towards the public you should not be allowed within a mile of the @educationgovuk Children need role models not adults who behave like petulant children.
- What I’ve learnt about schools this year is that by the end of today everything will be sorted, routines and systems will be in place and they’ll be cracking on with the job. Schools, headteachers, school staff. You continue to be amazing. You’ve let nobody down.
- We didn’t. Staffroom was closed. Staff were isolated in their bubbles with their class, they had dinner in their classroom with their class. We also have no alcohol in our workplace. I thought I was over #Partygate seems I’m even more angry about it now. Thanks @Mike_Fabricant"I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink" Tory MP Michael Fabricant urges Boris Johnson to apologise bbc.in/364xut5
- Tax cuts for the rich paid for by your children’s education. That’s quite a look the Tories are going for.
- Don’t forget children don’t see the world as we we do and neither should we expect them to. This Maurice Sendak quote sums it up perfectly.
- Retweet if you think A level appeals should be free rather than cost £111. #FreeAppeals
- My teachers are better teachers because they have a life outside of school. Give the job your all, then walk out the door and make sure you give life your all too. It is just a job, one of the most important jobs perhaps but it is just a job.
- A boy was really struggling with school trousers due to sensory issues, it was leading to him getting upset coming to school. Chatted with parent and he now comes in jogging bottoms. His attendance has improved, he is happier and learning better. No fuss.
- Over 30000 dead, 649 new deaths over 5000 confirmed new cases yesterday and these are the headlines. Literally you could not make this up.
- The best thing to happen during this year is that children wear PE kits to school on PE day. It’s an utter revelation.
- When I was a class-teacher my son was rushed into hospital. It was touch and go. My headteacher’s response was “Why aren’t you coming into school his mum is with him?” This defined how I treat staff at my school...essentially I do the opposite.
