Spelling SOS KS2 Project summary autumn

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

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...

The missing piece: making spelling stick

In this think piece, Sabrina Wright reflects on some of her own recent CPD and undertakes a personal exploration of how it might link to the teaching...

Steps to Spelling: track back to leap forward

Sabrina Wright begins a short series of blogs looking at spelling - in particular, how to identify and address gaps in learning so that children are...

Take one book: Christmas special!

Christmas is coming, and it is time to dig out the usual array of Christmassy texts to inspire a seasonal unit of reading and writing.

Primary writing ITAFs: what's new; what's changed; what's gone

Another new school year, another assessment framework – but just how different is it?

researchED 2017 workshop 2: primary grammar - what really matters in transition

Martin Galway outlines his presentation at this year’s researchEd conference on primary grammar and the transition to key stage 3.

Supersonic Phonics

With an area of learning such as phonics that needs to be undertaken daily for it to have an impact, it’s very easy to become entrenched in doing the...