Effective Reading Strategies in the classroom This year in every English classroom across the land, classes will be ploughing their way through a class reader. The potential learning is immense. Tackled in the right way, students will be employing the full range of their mental or cognitive processes, developing their attention span, their recall and […]
Read moreI have to admit that I feel overwhelmed, overwhelmed emotionally at the end of this year. I have been to several meetings, conferences and events recently with groups of keen teachers planning for next year. I admire everyone so much. Teachers are busy revamping their KS2 and KS3 schemes of work, exploring the potential of […]
Read moreThis week I’ve been thinking about changes in language. The heart ♥ emoji was chosen as global word for 2014.You might like to talk to your pupils about the first photo in this article from the Guardian, particularly as Valentine’s Day approaches? The article says: ‘Is there a global word for 2014, uniting us all, no […]
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Imagine you have just finished reading a chapter of the rather gripping novel you got for Christmas. You are just about to turn the light off when your partner presents you with the task of writing a diary entry by the main character. Would you do it? Of course you wouldn’t. You’re tired and if […]
Read moreI hope that you had a really good break over the summer. The holidays are a welcome break from routine and pressure, aren’t they? For a number of reasons we decided not to go abroad this year, one being that I had just returned from two weeks in Germany with the UK German Connection . I was a […]
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