A Reading Blog

Reading is an environmentally triggered skill. You have to be taught in order to learn. Children, however are not blank slates. The experiences they...

Ten top tips for core subject leaders

Kirsten Snook reflects on what makes the biggest differences to increasingly busy subject leaders with increasingly tight budgets.

Well, buckle my shoe: it’s 32! Analysing the 2019 PSC

Download our free Phonics Screening Check analysis tool for the 2019 PSC words.

Far more unites us…

Teach about diversity and tolerance through looking at family types.

When writing for learning becomes writing for pleasure

Find out how Hermelin, the Detective Mouse by Mini Grey and HfL planning (available to download) can make children want to write and write and write.

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.

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...

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...