Shining a light in the winter months

Winter festivities activities for the primary classroom.

An introduction to ESSENTIALspelling

Michelle Nicholson introduces ESSENTIALspelling, an exciting new resource from Herts for Learning.

Read it like you mean it!

A timely blog from our archives, reminding us that reading fluency has been high on our agenda for some time.

Oh, what a Journey!

In need of inspiration? Join us on a journey to see how one group of Hertfordshire junior schools reignited a passion for reading and writing.

It’s no doddle writing a good model!

Penny Slater presents her view that a good model for writing should always be the starting point for planning successful written outcomes.

Fixing Full Stops: a glimmer of hope

In this guest blog, Danielle Hassell (teacher at Holyrood Catholic Primary School) reflects on the impact of Fixing Full Stops, CPD offered by Herts...

Naughty Neil Gaiman! (and why we should use his texts in KS2)

Describe the content of the blog in one short sentence to display in site searches. Texts that confound and disconcert can have great benefits for KS2...

Spelling SOS KS2 Project summary autumn

This blog explores the outcome of our autumn Spelling SOS KS2 Project.

KS2 Spelling: all spelling statements are equal, but some spelling statements are more equal than others.

KS2 Spelling: all spelling statements are equal, but some spelling statements are more equal than others.

'Write away!' and other lessons derived from the 2018 KS2 Writing Moderations

Clare Hodgson, Lead Moderator for Key Stage 2 Writing, reflects on last summer's moderations and draws out some successes and key lessons for the...