The Teaching Realm

Today Beth Southern, director of the EAL Hub, joins us in the Reading Realm to discuss her career, her earliest memories of reading and writing and her top picture book

Karl Duke joins us in The Reading Realm to discuss picture books, Shaun Tan and how to foster a love of reading! Name: Karl Duke Twitter handle: Duke Skywalker (@KarlDuke8)

Kate Owbridge is the Executive Headteacher at Ashton Primary School. Here, she talks about Joyce Grenfell, Malory Towers and When God Was a Rabbit… Name: Kate Owbridge Twitter handle: @kateowbridge

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things Name: Freya Odell Twitter handle: @fod3 Link to blog/website: wheninromeeng.wordpress.com What is your current position? (eg teacher, librarian, publisher etc, what

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things Hannah James is  a Year 6 teacher. Here she talks about black-out poetry, The Diary of Anne Frank and how a

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “I’ve always known I wanted to work in education, even from a young age when I played ‘teachers’ with my sisters…”

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “I was always told a story before bed when I was younger. This developed my love of reading at such a

Dawn Finch is a bestselling children’s author and librarian known for her work in library activism. She is a Trustee of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and a member of the the Society of Authors’ Children’s Writers and Illustrators Committee (CWIG).

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things Allana is the co-founder of BAMEed, which is a grassroots network aimed at ensuring diverse communities are represented throughout the education sector. 

Name: Hilary MacMeekin Twitter handle: @HLMacmeekin What is your current position? Headteacher, 10 class primary, Wiltshire. When, how and why did you get into education? What did/do you want to

The Reading Realm Blog Series: Educators doing extraordinary things “Truthfully, I can’t remember a time without reading and writing. There is a photo of me as a tiny baby on