Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. Phd Phil of Ed. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. P4C. Children's Books. Teaching. Writing. Rep: @rachelpmann
London, England
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Darren Chetty retweeted
Huge congratulations to Catherine Johnson who was awarded the Malorie Blackman Impact Award at the #DBAAwards at Waterstones Piccadilly last night and to all this year's winners 💐 @The_DBAwards
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Author of new Welsh history book says ‘children can handle more complexity than we give them credit for’ nation.cymru/culture/author-…
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it's genocide ( @Oxfam )
it's not genocide based on the definition of genocide I invented literally right now ( @jkirchick )
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Congratulations to the winners of The Week Junior Book Awards 2026 announced last night at a special ceremony in London. Jack Mackay's GLOAM bagged 2 awards with Paterson Joseph, Helen Rutter, Jamie Smart & Farhana Islam also taking home prizes 💐
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ALT Graphic with photos of four of the winners of The Week Junior Book Awards: Jack Mackay, Farhana Islam, Paterson Joseph, Helen Rutter. Also logos of the sponsors The Bookseller, voxblock, CarverPR, Lovereading, Place2Be, The Week Junior Science and Nature, World Book Day, Go All In the National Year of Reading.
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Investigate what really makes a great pal, and build belonging, confidence and persuasive writing skills in your class with @rapclassroom's adorable picturebook, I’m Going to Make a Friend. Free PDF of activity ideas from @BookSuperhero2 teachwire.net/teaching-resou…
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Sophie Anderson has a magic touch for reworking fairy tales & this collection of 12 stories brims with everything that makes her writing so appealing. NEW Book of the Week A YEAR OF FAIRY TALES is a treat for all her fans & fairy tale devotees. @Usborne
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ALT The cover of Sophie Anderson's collection A Year of Fairy Tales which is the new Books for Keeps Book of the Week. Cover illustration is by Elisa Paganelli and includes an image of the House with Chicken Legs as well as other characters climbing a beanstalk.
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Yesterday's reporting was bizarre. The true face of the Free Speech Union is this. Ed Sheeran, a 400 million-dollar worth celebrity, who cancelled his friend following the instructions of even richer stadium owners who asked for this cancellation, somehow ends up being the one who is cancelled!
It is time for the Free Speech Union to stop pretending being pro-free speech, change its name to, I don't know, the St George's Free Speech Brigade, and embrace its true self.
The whole Macklemore–Palestine episode has thrown Ed Sheeran’s tour into chaos.
It has raised serious questions.
To what extent should venue owners and concert promoters be able to dictate what an artist can or cannot say on stage?
We should also be alarmed that Ed Sheeran is being “cancelled” because he has not publicly expressed the ‘correct’ opinions strongly enough.
As Ed Sheeran said: “I have my own personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have them.”
Yet, because he does not choose to air those views publicly, the cancel-culture mob are after him.
Now, ClassicHits Radio station in Ireland has refused to play Ed’s music for the foreseeable.
Darren Chetty retweeted
This is a fantastic book to promote some interesting thinking about just what makes a friend. I had such fun creating this resource and will be testing out the activities with my own class very soon! @rapclassroom @sandhyaprabhat @LittleTigerUK #ImGoingToMakeAFriend
Investigate what really makes a great pal, and build belonging, confidence and persuasive writing skills in your class with @rapclassroom's adorable picturebook, I’m Going to Make a Friend. Free PDF of activity ideas from @BookSuperhero2 teachwire.net/teaching-resou…
Darren Chetty retweeted
Out now! September issue #BfK280. Authorgraph interview David Solomons, Windows into Illustration Carly Gledhill, 20 years of Lulu, Guy Bass & David Roberts interview, NEW Beyond the Secret Garden, NEW insights into reading for pleasure & more inc reviews bit.ly/4rfrQtp
ALT The cover of the UK's children's book review journal, Books for Keeps September 2026 issue, no. 280. Cover features illustration from Guy Bass and David Roberts' new book THE WORST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN.
Darren Chetty retweeted
Investigate what really makes a great pal, and build belonging, confidence and persuasive writing skills in your class with @rapclassroom's adorable picturebook, I’m Going to Make a Friend. Free PDF of activity ideas from @BookSuperhero2 teachwire.net/teaching-resou…
Darren Chetty retweeted
CLPE supports teachers from Early Years to Y7!
Download your FREE Early Years teaching plan from our All-Access Membership, based on 'I’m Going to Make a Friend' by @rapclassroom, to support oracy, storytelling, play, imagination and writing here: clpe.org.uk/books/book/im-go…
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Whatever Arday did, he didn't conspire to commit criminal acts. If Orr manages to keep his Cambridge academic position, we will all know the colour -- sorry, reason --why.
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James Orr has been forced to step down from Reform UK for his unethical behaviour. Fortunately he still has his other job, which is teaching ethics at Cambridge University.
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Our NEW issue is here, #BfK278 with interviews, features & children's book reviews. Includes Brian Moses, Natalia Shaloshvili, Alexis Deacon, Everything with Words, Letterbox Library recommends, new Beyond the Secret Garden AND @michaelrosenyes #KidLit
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ALT Graphic advertising the new issue of children's review journal Books for Keeps and some of the lead features in the issue, including interviews with Brian Moses, Michael Rosen and Alexis Deacon. Books for Keeps is free to read.
Darren Chetty retweeted
Difficult to overstate what a disgustingly deranged and bigoted individual Cleese has become, tweeting this bile and these lies the day after an attack on a mosque.
Not sure I can ever watch Monty Python again in the same way.
Nice to see Starmer's concern for so many of his voters
One way to reduce Muslim worries about safety
would be for them to stop laying emphasis on taking over other people's countries, with all the killing of infidels that this would apparently entail
This looks like aggression to non-Muslim people of an anxious disposition
Goodness knows why
Darren Chetty retweeted
Looking forward to considering Nurturing Young Writers @HertsEnglish Conference- Do join! The programme is packed with keynotes and workshops exploring synergies between research, policy and practice including @RealGeoffBarton @rapclassroom @ShareenAdvice @CLSJ_OpenUni
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ERIC HUNTLEY (1929-2026)
RADICAL ACTIVIST, WRITER AND
PUBLISHER OF THE BLACK DIASPORA
fyi: @JacquiMckenzie6 @melissasigodo #Justice_4_DandG
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Yesterday evening with @clpe1 we hosted 'Exploring the archive (ILEA & EMC): the past, present + future of antiracist education + children's literature', organised by
@rapclassroom. A packed house for an after-school event - so much commitment to anti-racist pedagogy.
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Lessons from the Archive - ILEA, Children’s Books, and Antiracism.
You’re warmly invited to join me to explore the Inner London Education Authority’s archive and discuss the past, present and future of antiracist education and children’s literature.
A facilitated conversation: Celia Burgess-Macey, Kandace Chimbiri & Darren Chetty in association with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and the English and Media Centre (CLPE & EMC).
Wednesday 28th January - 5pm - 6.30pm (GMT)
Register / queries: [email protected]
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