Don't forget your full stops!

This blog offers a range of strategies to help address the perennial problem of missing full stops - here focusing on a year 3 classroom.

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.

A field guide to great writing

Children bursting with excitement and brimming with pride: isn’t that every teacher’s dream ....

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.

researchED 2017 workshop 1: exploring the complexities of reading comprehension difficulties

In the first of a two part blog, Martin Galway shares his thoughts on presenting a pair of workshops (one on grammar and, here, a late-notice addition...

Celebrating primary writing: Love That Book…and run with it

Martin Galway shares some of the wonderful work carried out by the pupils and staff at Hare Street Primary School, Harlow, inspired by the Love That...

Come aboard the hogwarts express!

Monday 26th June 2017 marks twenty years since the first publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In this blog, Michelle Nicholson...

Year 6 writing – in search of GDS: verb forms – the key to control

Martin Galway completes his series of blogs on the Greater Depth writing standard for year 6 writing and makes good on his earlier promise to return...

KS1 writing: what a wonderful sentence that is!

This blog explored aspects of the 2017 KS1 ITAFs for children's writing. While much of the advice is still relevant, reference must be made to the...