Taking the faff out of TAF

Sophie MacNeill explores key findings from the 2018 Key Stage 1 moderation cycle

Going wide on greater depth writing

Martin Galway begins a fresh series looking at the longer term development of 'greater depth' writing.

Understanding emotions and choosing respect: Anti-Bullying Week 12-16th November 2018

The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) are the official organisers of Anti-Bullying Week. This years theme is ‘choose respect’.

Early Reading Project: findings from the pilot

Rose Blair explores how this flagship project, run jointly by the HfL Early Years and Primary English teams, has doubled the progress of struggling...

'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...

Explaining World War 1 to young children – Can it be done? Should it be done?

How do we, as educators and parents, include younger children to commemorate the centenary of the ceasefire of World War One? In our guest blog...

Early findings from the SOS Spelling KS2 project

With 18 schools across Hertfordshire now involved in HfL’s SOS Spelling KS2 Project, Sabrina Wright reflects on what has been learned from the project...

Love that Book: The Velveteen Rabbit (by Margery Williams and William Nicholson, 1922)

Ahead of the HfL English advisory team’s annual conference, ‘Love That Book’, Kirsten Snook reflects on one such book that has a special place in her...

Love that Book: The Black Book of Colours by Menena Cotin and Rosana Faria

It is not often a sighted person gets to step into the world of the blind but the beautifully written ‘The Black Book of Colours’ enables just that...

Love that Book: The Spider and the Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi, based on the cautionary tale by Mary Howitt

Lure the children into some deliciously dark reading and writing this autumn with DiTerlizzi’s delightfully macabre interpretation of Mary Howitt’s...