This is a guest blog written by Lucy Wood Lucy is an experienced primary practitioner and has had the privilege of teaching, learning and leading across a diverse range of settings in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands. Following the recent arrival of baby number 3, Lucy has chosen to extend her time out of …
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 Y1 teacher in a small village school. She is also the SENCo at her school. You can find Sarah on Threads: sarah.smithette This blog was edited …
Can an Early Years Approach Inspire the Whole of Primary School? Read More »
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 a Regional Representative for the Maternity Teacher Paternity Teacher Project. She is passionate about effective CPD for teachers: helping to support CPD within her school …
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 experience in change management to help shape staff development and curriculum engagement/design. She is passionate about well-being and sits on her school’s well-being committee. She …
Alison Lister Ali Lister is an Associate Assistant Principal at an inner city Leeds secondary academy serving an area of high deprivation. She leads English as well as Literacy Across the Curriculum. Ali is passionate about making education accessible for all through the empowering facets of literacy, especially reading and oracy. When not in the …
Leila is an English Literature graduate with no real experience in teaching writing, or, indeed, writing creatively herself. She started her teaching career with little knowledge or understanding of how to help pupils write well. In my experience, most English teachers are those who have studied English (be it linguistics or literature), rather than those …
Teaching Writing: Reflections from a Head of Faculty Read More »
It is the first week in December, and as I stand at the front of my classroom I can feel the rainwater in my shoes: it is a bleak day to do duty, and I realise I am still absent-mindedly carrying the bottles that I have confiscated on the yard. My Year 10 class observe …
The Power of Simplicity: Supporting Reluctant Writers at Key Stage 4 Read More »
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lotand write a lot.” Stephen King The thought of reading and writing “a lot” to be a writer might dismay some students, and if you asked a student, ‘Why do you write?’ their response might be, “Because I …
Why is effective talk important? On attending my first Oracy Pioneers session with Voice 21 I was astounded to discover the profound impact which talk, or lack thereof, can have on students. Of course, in preparation for attending the course I had begun to reflect on this: What opportunities for talk did I provide in …
“In my writing life, I seem to have navigated an odd course between fiction and its negation, always half-wishing when I’m immersed in one that I were embarked on the other. I want the free flight of story when I’m hunkered down in facts and wish for a character who could offer a statement contradicted …