This year, our Year 6 production is themed all around the World Cup. Why not? We’ve been reading ‘Kick’ by Mitch Johnson in class, we’ve...

Last year, I looked into a range of possible 'Home/School Reading Diaries' for children in school. Ours was internally produced and in...

Without a shadow of doubt, the last few years have seen some truly wonderful children's books being released. From Sky Song to Squirrels...

Slow Writing The new curriculum has placed editing and re-drafting at the heart of writing and this is no bad thing. Those who rush a...

Being a teacher takes a multitude of finely honed skills, from solving petty crime like a trained detective to imitating a court jester,...

How many times have we all said, “Read it with a little more expression,” to one of the children in class who is robotically decoding...

Some Reading Thoughts As a Year 6 teacher, I've been thinking long and hard about teaching reading (especially since the SATS tests have...