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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
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Mr D
- Mar 27
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...
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Mr D
- Dec 17, 2021
Resource Round-Up 2021
It's that time of year again when we pay homage to the resources that have inspired us over the last year, and what an unbelievable year...
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Mr D
- Jul 18, 2021
Story Speculations
A while ago, when we were all allowed to have CPD in one room and have face-to-face conversations with each other as professionals (is...
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Mr D
- Mar 13, 2021
Focus on Fluency
It was a long while ago when we first picked up on the positive benefits of teaching reading fluency in the classroom. In our first post...
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Mr D
- Dec 15, 2020
Resource Round-Up 2020
2020 has been an incredibly trying year for many of us and teachers have often been thrown to the dogs by factions of the media desperate...
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Mr D
- Nov 14, 2020
The 'Series of 7' (7 Micro-Rules of Non-Fiction)
This is the final instalment of our 3-part series that has explored some of the key aspects of literature that we believe children should...
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Mr D
- Jul 14, 2020