Category: General News
Enhancing skills to support catch-up and consolidation of learning
27 April 2021We need to catch up and we need to do it now! Do we? What and who are we catching up with? We are in the middle or rather hopefully coming to the end of a pandemic. It says it all in the title ‘pandemic’. …
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Creative Writing and its Benefits
11 September 2020Creative Writing to enhance reading Reading provides great scaffolding for learning to write but writing also helps students to further develop their reading skills. It exposes learners to the letter shapes and to spell or write words, they need to sound them out. Remember, our…
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Primary Practical Science
30 July 2020Investigations and practicals are always popular with students and are essential to skill our future scientists. Unfortunately, they can be time consuming and expensive, the two things teachers are always short of. I would like to share my top tips for practical’s in science. When…
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Enquiry-based Learning
30 July 2020To start this blog, I will ask you to search online ‘pictures of children learning in a classroom’. How many of the pictures show a teacher at the front of a class directing learning? How many show children learning without an adult? Why does the…
Read more Learning phonics in a home environment
30 July 2020Phonics, what’s all the fuss about? Learning to read is essential for a child’s learning journey. Without the ability to read fluently, children cannot move on to the ‘reading to learn’ stage. In our modern society a huge amount of information is online and often…
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