@ruthswailes
Award winning Early Years and Primary Advisor, lead curriculum developer and author. Unashamedly child - centred EY nerd. Occasionally outspoken rebel with a cause. No unsolicited DM’s unless I know you, thanks. Ruthswailes.com
Wondering whether there are headteachers and senior leaders in your networks who may be interested in this @moremorrow.bsky.social @edfinch.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social @happyheadteacher.bsky.social #EduSky
You might be able to guess who the “lady” banging on about bold beginnings, was!
It’s an “unconference” very informal, usually in a pub!
What a fantastic day we had at #BrewEd26 . Good for the soul!
#Brewed26 Next up @ruthswailes.bsky.social talking about the importance of an enabling environment in education.
The rucksack is ready…
Bring on BrewEdWake2026!
Off we go in Jersey !
Looking at Th Wirral from a different angle today.
Ready to head out to Jersey to work with teachers and leaders on all things Early Years.
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Ready to go in Nuneaton with Heads, EY leads and Sencos.
What a great day we had today. Day 4 of our 6 day writing project. We’ve been looking through the lens of different theorists, research and developmental approaches to writing and collating children’s writing from across the Wirral to share with schools.
The week ahead brings day 4/6 of our Wirral writing project. 2 days working with Holy Family MAT, leading training sessions for Heads, EY leads and TAs, then off to Nuneaton to work with a consortium, finally ending the week in Peterborough, leading training on children’s writing.
A couple of days filming…
They already found me, and some of my colleagues. Hey-ho. 👋🏻 authoritarians. @ruthswailes.bsky.social @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social
Skipping in Scarborough!
6 weeks, 30 days, 21 training sessions, 15 school visits and an awards ceremony. It’s been quite a busy half term. Have a lovely break, everyone !
I’m so proud of this. It was a tremendous privilege to be commissioned to develop this curriculum idea and then to write it. Now I get to train the teachers all over the world who use it in their classrooms every day. I have to pinch myself sometimes!
Delighted to be assistant editor on this , coming soon…
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Happy Friday!
I’m thrilled to be part of the fantastic #BrewEd X @WomenEd event at WX Wakefield on Saturday 7th March. Tickets are here:
www.wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Details?event=BrewedxWomened
Don't miss this fabulous line-up!
I’m really proud to be a member of Leeds Learning Alliance. This conference is going to be great. Will I see you there?
I'm looking forward to leading this next month. It's open to anyone who wishes to attend. If you're interested in writing development then do come and join us!
Thank you to all those primary teachers filling this in for us! If you are involved with KS2, we'd love to hear from you! Please share @ruthswailes.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social @writingrocks.bsky.social
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I’ll be publishing the trajectories, when I’m really happy that they’re right. They’re work in progress at the moment, and being trialled in some schools. I’m already tweaking!
I hate it. I hate that AI offers to rewrite my emails and has rendered a Google search useless. I don’t want to outsource my thinking, thanks very much!
It’s been great to work with schools across the Wirral. 6 face days involving training, sharing ideas, moderating, and developing a writing progression exemplar for Wirral schools. I’ve also been working on handwriting and oral story telling progressions for schools to use.
Day 3/6 of our Early Writing project. It’s free for Wirral teachers to attend. We’re focussing on developmentally appropriate writing practice in early years. It’s been a real pleasure so far!
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
