Laura Spargo
📚✍️ Dedicated Primary English specialist.
🇬🇧🇪🇸🇦🇪 Experienced international educator.
✨️📨 Weekly blog, Glimmers in Education: substack.com/@lauraspargo
- ✍️ Have you seen the incredible collections of writing over on the @crownhousepub.bsky.social Opening Doors web page? 🔉 *New pieces of writing* - do take a look. You're sure to be impressed! @openingdoors.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social #EduSky #Writing
- 📖❤️ Last week marked the beginning of #TheNationalYearOfReading2026 - how incredibly exciting! ✨️ I also wanted to mark the occasion by writing a glimmer about my initial recommendations to #GoAllIn2026: open.substack.com/pub/lauraspa... @literacy-trust.bsky.social
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- 🎧💡✨️ Can't wait to give this a listen. 💬 'Ambition for all' - the most important approach to continue to prioritise in 2026. #EduSky #CurriculumAndAssessmentReview #UKCurriclum #Education #TeachingAndLearning
- ✨️ If you're looking for ideas to support high-quality English learning experiences in Reception and KS1 - look no further! 👇🏻
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- ✨️ My visit to @hallsvillesch.bsky.social was so special, I had to write a 'glimmer' about it! ❤️📖 Authentic considerations for embedding a truly inspiring reading culture and curriculum. @justimaginecentre.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lauraspa...
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- ✨️ How fantastic to spend the afternoon with leaders and teachers at @hallsvillesch.bsky.social and @scottwilkieprimary.bsky.social ✍️❤️📖 We explored how a range of Opening Doors strategies (and the principles behind these) will continue to inspire ambition in ALL pupils. @openingdoors.bsky.social
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- 💡Bob Cox (@openingdoors.bsky.social) and I both sharing in our enjoyment of reading the latest issue of @natefeed.bsky.social 'Teaching English' magazine! 💭 Great minds thinking alike! @thecockerill.bsky.social @suepinnick.bsky.social #EnglishTeachers #InitialTeacherEducation #EduSky
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- Inspirational writing and amazing display at @hallsvillesch.bsky.social, inspired by the poem 'High Flight' written by 19-year old Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John Magee. The unit for sharing this poem with your pupils can be found in @openingdoors.bsky.social Opening Doors to Quality Writing.
- 🎄 Can't wait for this *free* special, festive event. 💭 Get your thinking caps on (santa-themed optional 🎅). Details to register below 👇🏻 #PrimaryReading #Teachers #FreeClassroomResource #EduSky
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- A delight to read!
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- ✨️ A pause in the middle of an exceptional day of thought, inspiration and the power to make meaningful change. @empathylabuk.bsky.social #EmpathyEducation #EduSky
- ✨️ What an incredible morning visiting @hallsvillesch.bsky.social to experience their immersive learning experiences, reading environments and investment in teachers' professional development- and curiosity. 📖 It is true, at Hallsville you're never far from a book! @justimaginecentre.bsky.social
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- 👀 Oracy, poetry and grammar for purpose. ✨️ What an excellent celebration of ambitious English opportunities for all. Thank you for sharing, @thinktalkleah.bsky.social! @openingdoors.bsky.social #EduSky #PrimaryTeachers #Reading #Writing #PrimaryEnglish #Poetry #Oracy
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- 🌟 The power of poetry to inspire and include all is truly great. 👀 Do take a look at this exciting training session taking place in #Newham. 💬 Please do share with colleagues who may be interested in attending. @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social #EduSky
- Great spot, Bob. Thank you for sharing. What a poignant poem and one that certainly would move and engage learners during this important week of remembrance.
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- 👀✨️ This looks like such a fantastic event! ✍️💡 'Write to Inspire'. What an aim to instil in the pupils who we teach. 😁 Sounds like a whole lot of joy @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social #EduSky #PrimaryWriting #PrimaryCurriculum #PrimaryEnglish
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- 👀 Are you looking for inspiring English units which both challenge and excite your pupils? 🌟🔗 Do take a look at the *FREE* units and webinars (supported by the amazing @englishassociation.bsky.social ) over on the @openingdoors.bsky.social website. 😁 You won't be disappointed! #FreeWritingResources
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- 📖 A lovely way to spend a Saturday afternoon. 💭 If you haven't read Squid Squad by @aoifedooley.bsky.social I would highly recommend doing so. 😆 Full of laughs, vibrant characters and exquisitely illustrated detail. ❤️ I just love Zing! @justimaginecentre.bsky.social #EduSky #PrimaryReading #books
- 💭 A pleasure to spend an afternoon thinking about poetry & prose. 👻 Even better to be adding a sprinkling of Bram Stoker & Edgar Allan Poe. 💡 Imagine the ideas these rich texts can generate. 📢 Join us at @hallsvillesch.bsky.social on November 26th to find out more! @openingdoors.bsky.social
- 😂 Spending some time with my friend's son today, I just had to share some laugh-outloud poetry. 📚 He tells me he's doesn't like reading, I know it's because he's on a journey to find the right things to read. I know what I'll be buying him for Christmas @joshuaseigal.bsky.social! #Poetry #EduSky
- ❓️If English is reduced to a weekly spelling test & monitored minutes of reading - what messages are being sent home about the value of literacy? ✨️ Read my glimmer in full for further thoughts 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/lauraspa... @justimaginecentre.bsky.social @openingdoors.bsky.social #EduSky
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- 👏🏼 Oh how fantastic! 👀 Take a look at some truly special writing! 👇🏻 #edusky #primarywriting
- 🍾 Fantastic to toast this exciting new release at today's RfP conference. So much to think about on my drive home. ❤️📖 At thoroughly superb day! @teresacremin.bsky.social @debbiethomas.bsky.social @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social #RfP
- ✨️ Wonderful to see the Opening Doors books at the @openuni-rfp.bsky.social and @uklitassociation.bsky.social Reading for Pleasure Conference in Milton Keynes today. @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social @crownhousepub.bsky.social #ReadingForPleasure
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- 📚❤️ Could there be a better end to the day than taking the "blue book" (i.e. everything you need to know about Opening Doors) to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social? @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social #edusky #primaryenglish #reading #writing
- 💡Poetry, prose & penny dreadfuls. A wonderful way to end the afternoon, hearing how @ipatedu.bsky.social have created exciting writing opportunities using the Opening Doors strategies. The OD team are feeling inspired! @openingdoors.bsky.social @thinktalkleah.bsky.social @juliesargent.bsky.social
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- ✨️A lunch time pause at today's Opening Doors celebration. 💡Hearing from Penn Wood and Mulgrave Primary describe their journeys, with diverse literature and lots of chance to get writing! 📚❤️✍️Looking forward to this afternoon. @openingdoors.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
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- ✨️ I am so excited about tomorrow's Opening Doors showcase event. 💡 A day of exploring the creative and innovative ways which educators have created English curriculum opportunities which inspire and engage using the Opening Doors approaches and principles - it is sure to be a special occasion!
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- ✨️ What a truly wonderful way to celebrate the beauty of poetry & its power to encapsulate & evoke emotions. ❤️ I laughed, I shed a tear, I was wholeheartedly inspired. 🙏🏻 Thank you @justimaginecentre.bsky.social, @piecorbett.bsky.social, @zarow.bsky.social, Michaela Morgan & Tom Morgan-Jones.
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- ✨️ Happy National Poetry Day everyone!✨️ A wonderful opportunity to delve into the work of @katewakeling.bsky.social through a totally *free* lesson sequence planned by @openingdoors.bsky.social searchingforexcellence.co.uk/wp-content/u... #NationalPoetryDay #EduSky
