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In this re-blog, Jon Biddle lists 23 ideas to get your school away from creating […]

We must read TO our children throughout their school years. They are never too old to hear a story. We must teach through stories at all ages and use them as a context for learning and a link to different issues. […]

One of the greatest challenges to the quest to raise attainment in our schools is […]

Sitting the A’Level Creative Writing (CREW) exam with my students last week felt a little […]

I was once a National Strategy English consultant (nice work if you could get it); […]

The end of National Curriculum levels at KS3 was an opportunity to step away from […]

Many of you will know I have written about this before… I have a real […]

So, the new school year has taken hold with a vengeance. Preparations for an imminent OfSTED […]

If children groan and grumble when having to read with you or anyone else you […]

Anyone can pull a great lesson out of the bag, especially for observation and especially […]

I am in the first term of my first headship of a primary school that […]

Tip #1 Smile Teaching is an inherently stressful profession. It’s a lot like spinning plates. […]

Covering probability or data handling in maths and using lesson time to generate data? Well, […]