Sunday, 20 July 2025

Review of my book of political poems

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  Qualms are Quivers of Disquiet: ‘Words United’ by Michael Rosen  19 July 2025 / Posted by Jim Aitken   Post Views:   191 By   Jim Aitken M...
Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Learning how to write and speak: 'how we break things down' may not always be the best way to 'build things up'

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When we teach 'language' or 'a language' there is an immediate problem of methodology. It's the tension between 'how...

Open letter from Jewish academics at Goldsmiths in response to the Report of the Independent Inquiry on Antisemitism

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15 July 2025 We are an informal group of Jewish staff members at Goldsmiths, University of London. We welcome the Report’s careful and cruc...
Monday, 14 July 2025

A brand new document on writing in primary schools, and they didn't ask writers to help them! Lols

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  This is how the new government Writing Framework ends: Acknowledgements This guidance would not have been possible without the support and...
Sunday, 13 July 2025

How do you become 'fluent' at reading? Ruth Miskin knows.

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Maybe I'm slow off the mark here but I was alerted this week to a programme that is on sale now that will teach children 'reading fl...

Gaza: this is the word

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Gaza I'm sorry. This. This is the word. This is the word that can't say. This is the word that can't say what needs to be said. ...
Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Bulldozers just been shipped to Israel from US. Here's a poem about bulldozers.

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  July 9 2025, headline in Times of Israel IDF receives bulldozer shipment from US that was reportedly held up by Biden administration One d...