Sarah Eggleton: Continuing from the previous blog – ‘Closing the word gap – introducing a whole school approach’ this blog will explain how we moved from staff delivering key words in lessons to enabling teachers and students to engage with and interrogate vocabulary to get a genuine deep understanding of it. What we wanted to […]
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Christopher Edge tells us about the inspiration behind his new book How to Write Your Best Story Ever! A bank-robbing banana being chased by a police pigeon, an accident-prone spy with the nickname Double Oh No!, a crime-fighting baby who googles for clues… These are just a few of the fantastic ideas that children have come up with when I’ve visited […]
Read moreThat’s what I heard Georgina Harwood from Cape Town say – she has just celebrated her 100th birthday by skydiving ! Here are a couple of teaching ideas using dictionaries with a focus on improving understanding of grammar… How about a dictionary race? The pupils race each other to find additional adjectives? This will of course reinforce their understanding […]
Read moreLast week I had the pleasure of attending two TeachMeets, one in Oxford at Fitzharry’s School organised by Lisa Probert the Head of Languages, and the other one by Suzi Bewell at York University. They worked hard to get a good crowd of teachers there and the atmosphere was really good at both events. Both […]
Read moreWilliam Hussey, author of Haunted , talks about where ideas come from… ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ That’s the question writers dread most, because, you see, often it’s as much a mystery to us as to anyone! How does the first spark of a story ignite? I believe that the writer’s unconscious mind does most of […]
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