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Rethinking the Reading Spine for Primary Schools – 2025 Update
In 2018, I wrote about building a primary reading spine shaped around Doug Lemov’s Five Plagues of Reading — archaic language,...
Mr D
Aug 17, 2025


Resource Round-Up 2022
Once again, across the country, teachers have been tested in new and unpredictable ways throughout 2022. The cost of living crisis has...
Mr D
Dec 18, 2022


Stop Screaming at Similes (like a Banshee)
Teaching similes shouldn't annoy me, but it does. I recently spent hours planning a lesson with visuals, videos and carefully constructed
Mr D
Aug 28, 2022


D.I.S.C.O. Questions
Welcome to our first guest blog! Behind the many Spurs-obsessed tweets of @SimonGood21, lies a deputy head of a two-form entry Nottingham...
Mr D
Mar 27, 2022
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