Keep calm and carry on teaching

Reconnect with your children, re-establish classroom culture, learning behaviours and reactivate and assess prior learning to enable and secure...

Getting metacognition into remote learning

Strong metacognitive skills support pupils as independent learners. Sophie MacNeill suggests how these could be developed in remote learning contexts.

Formative assessment while remote teaching

Revisiting a formative assessment video resource from the Digital Classroom Toolkit for this new period of remote teaching

Fluency: the bridge from phonics to comprehension

A summary of the session with Professor Tim Rasinski, hosted by Herts for Learning - 17th November 2020.

KS3 (Year 7) Reading Fluency Project: text selection guidance

Guidance for choosing the right texts to engage and enthuse Year 7 pupils taking part in the HFL KS3 Reading Fluency Project.

BHM - The context, two books and a rallying cry

Writing this blog as someone who has worked closely with schools on anti-racism and race equality for many years and who has a mixed heritage daughter...

Post-COVID recovery: getting pupils back on track

Sophie MacNeill shares some key thoughts on how we can approach the recovery journey ahead of us

Revisiting video for distance learning

In this post, Chris Carter provides some tips for teachers about recording effective videos and shares some great apps and software for creating fun...

Effectively supporting primary to secondary transition

As transition approaches, Sophie MacNeill explores some thoughts on ideas for supporting our pupils through moving from Year 6 to Year 7.

Let’s get blogging. Three ways to create individual pupil blogs

Blogging has long been a popular way for giving pupils and students a reason to write, with a real audience from which, if enabled, they can receive...