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May 22, 2018 · reading,noun phrases,Neil Gaiman,Gabriel Tallent,grammar
First, I have to update on a truly traumatic reading experience, in Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute...
May 4, 2018 · reading,writing,inspiration,author,teaching
Here is the butterfly diary. Having not blogged for over a year, I’m going to try a new approach,...
Ordinary Primary School, like schools all over the country, is facing a huge budget deficit...
September 25, 2016 · school,learning,Tests
Last time, I wrote about avoiding testing in the early days with a new class. Since then, a...
September 3, 2016
Mists are coming creeping and mellow fruitfulness is in the air. It’s time to go back to school....
It’s time to celebrate Shakespeare. Here are ten appoaches to his drama and his poetry - all easy...
January 26, 2016
Look at these Google-question lists. They draw wry attention to the different kinds of questions...
January 17, 2016
There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. (William Cowper) Mr Cowper got it...
Why do we need National Poetry Day? Maybe because when it comes to daily, weekly and termly...
September 1, 2015
It’s nearly time. Pencils are sharp, if not brains. The first day’s lunchboxes are not quite...
July 1, 2015
Just like the two Saint Michaels of education (Morpurgo and Rosen), something in me baulks at the...