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...

Going wide on greater depth writing

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

All Hail Macbeth!

In this blog, Kathy Roe shares how one school brought the drama of Shakespeare's Macbeth to vivid life - through drama and writing - drawing upon HfL...

Top tips to support NQTs in getting off to a flying start

In this blog, Kathy Roe (Primary English Adviser) explores some of the challenges facing a Newly Qualified Teacher at the start of their first year...

This year’s KS2 reading test: a secret shared and some questions to ask

Read on and download a set of question stems to support you in responding to this year’s reading test.

Developing children’s critical thinking through picturebooks

It would be silly for me to say that the quote above gives you all the reasons you need to buy this book; that in reading it, you’ll know exactly how...