Practical makes perfect: developing vocabulary in the primary classroom

The Herts for Learning Primary English team provide a focused blast of ideas and advice for developing language use in class.

Reading for pleasure: how buddying it up can help

Simple, effective and fun – one school’s experience of developing engagement with reading and reading expertise.

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.

Can you recommend a good book about the Romans?

Penny Slater explores the thorny issue of book recommendations and the desire to make links to the wider curriculum.

Love that Book: The Secret of Black Rock - a whole school study

In this blog, Martin Galway shares how a whole school book study supported collaborative, systematic CPD, subject knowledge development, a sense of...

Love That Book KS1: Last Stop on Market Street

In this blog, Kathy Roe takes Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena and illustrated by Christian Robinson as inspiration, and provides some...

Love That Book: 15 Things not to do with a puppy (& a few things you can do with your class)

Jane Andrews provides writing inspiration for Year 2 based on one very entertaining book.