Six points for building a reading culture
Some cynics claim that Ofsted’s renewed focus on reading from the 2022 framework has made everybody jump to attention in this area, but many schools have placed reading at the …
Some cynics claim that Ofsted’s renewed focus on reading from the 2022 framework has made everybody jump to attention in this area, but many schools have placed reading at the …
Disclaimer – I do not affiliate myself with any exam board in this post. During my teaching career, I have marked for several boards over the years and marked for …
Matthew Evans’ excellent blog, When is a school not a school? examines the critical question of what a school is, both physically and in philosophical and conceptual essence – both …
I treasure classroom routines. Some are school-wide, some are specific to my faculty, and some are mine – but all of them are designed to ensure that each child is …
In Lockdown 1, I subscribed to Beachbody UK. Beachbody is a subscription service which streams exercise classes to your TV. If you have ever completed a Shaun T workout, then …
Securing an NQT post is an amazing but daunting feeling. The realisation that you’ll be moving from constant observations, hand-holding, daily advice, an ITT timetable, glorious uni-release days, into the …
Over the last decade, we have seen a glossing of the educational philosophies and landscape. We have polarised ourselves into camps – we are traditional or progressive; we are Team …
‘…our human speech is naught. Our human testimony false, our fame and human estimation words and wind. …Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth…’ Robert Browning The Ring …
A lamp is lit. Until this moment, when the flame of the lamp flares blue, then settles to steady yellow inside its ornate globe, the young man had been impressed …
Within this poem is a mind, a body, and a world beyond repair. There is a patina of respectability; there is a semblance of order in these four tightly-held stanzas, …