Can an Early Years Approach Inspire the Whole of Primary School? This is a guest blog written by Sarah Smith Sarah originally trained as a social worker before becoming and Early Years teacher. She currently works full-time as an EY and… Read More Why we need to warm up ‘cold call’ This is a guest blog written by Emily Pringle. Emily has been a History teacher for 12 years working in Lincolnshire. She has three children and works 0.8, and is… Read More Maximising the Value: What Can the Education System Learn From the World of Continuous Improvement? This is a guest blog written by Louisa Grimley. Louisa is currently Secondary English Lead at a 4-19 SEND provision in Leicester. A latecomer to teaching, she uses her previous… Read More HWRK Magazine: Creative Writing and Self-Regulation I wrote this article for HWRK Magazine in January 2023 to walk through my process for teaching creative writing using reflection and self-regulation. You can read the whole piece here. Read More ‘Checking out me [grammar]’ John Agard has written this poem in Patois to show that his language and identity is just as worthy as that of the other writers in the English Literary Canon.Y10… Read More GCSE Narrative Writing: Form Fragments ‘Creative’ Writing on the current GCSE specs isn’t really ‘creative’ in the real sense of the word. Students must respond to an unseen prompt in timed conditions and attempt to… Read More Visualise Metaphor Metaphor is one of the key pillars of knowledge in English. Whether we are creating them or encountering them, metaphors highlight the interconnectedness of ideas and experiences. Fundamentally, metaphors are… Read More Revealing the master plan… I have run a few courses this year for people in leadership positions, and shared my ‘master’ sheet as an example of how I try to keep all my plates… Read More Grammar for (academic) writing: sentences working hard… This post is based on my part of a conference talk with Marcello Giovanelli at ResearchEd Warrington in April 2022 based on the work we have been doing for our… Read More Load More Loading More… You’ve reached the end of the list
Can an Early Years Approach Inspire the Whole of Primary School? This is a guest blog written by Sarah Smith Sarah originally trained as a social worker before becoming and Early Years teacher. She currently works full-time as an EY and… Read More
Why we need to warm up ‘cold call’ This is a guest blog written by Emily Pringle. Emily has been a History teacher for 12 years working in Lincolnshire. She has three children and works 0.8, and is… Read More
Maximising the Value: What Can the Education System Learn From the World of Continuous Improvement? This is a guest blog written by Louisa Grimley. Louisa is currently Secondary English Lead at a 4-19 SEND provision in Leicester. A latecomer to teaching, she uses her previous… Read More
HWRK Magazine: Creative Writing and Self-Regulation I wrote this article for HWRK Magazine in January 2023 to walk through my process for teaching creative writing using reflection and self-regulation. You can read the whole piece here. Read More
‘Checking out me [grammar]’ John Agard has written this poem in Patois to show that his language and identity is just as worthy as that of the other writers in the English Literary Canon.Y10… Read More
GCSE Narrative Writing: Form Fragments ‘Creative’ Writing on the current GCSE specs isn’t really ‘creative’ in the real sense of the word. Students must respond to an unseen prompt in timed conditions and attempt to… Read More
Visualise Metaphor Metaphor is one of the key pillars of knowledge in English. Whether we are creating them or encountering them, metaphors highlight the interconnectedness of ideas and experiences. Fundamentally, metaphors are… Read More
Revealing the master plan… I have run a few courses this year for people in leadership positions, and shared my ‘master’ sheet as an example of how I try to keep all my plates… Read More
Grammar for (academic) writing: sentences working hard… This post is based on my part of a conference talk with Marcello Giovanelli at ResearchEd Warrington in April 2022 based on the work we have been doing for our… Read More