Ruth Swailes

Early Childhood Summit: Meaningful Moments, Warm Connections. Nurturing Relationships, Inspiring Futures Create an environment built on respect, sense of agency, value for each other, and meaningful interactionsOpportunities to explore and enhance understanding to best support children, their families,

Looking forward to giving the keynote at this event. There are a few tickets left and you don’t have to work in Waltham Forest to attend! www.wftradedservices.uk/Event/272210

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!

Meet the men bringing pub-based CPD to the nation Ever sat in an inset day wishing you could be in the pub? Well education CPD over a pint is now a reality

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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!

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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!