How my overactive mind created a monster!
You know what it’s like, your body finishes school for the Easter holidays…..but your brain has other ideas. As English lead, I am keen on giving children a purpose for their writing – and if that links to reading for pleasure as well, then so much the better. So my brain said what if children…
Books with ‘Extras’
I’m a sucker for a book with ‘extras’! My class know this and always ask ‘is there another bit’ when we finish a story. These notes, questions and interviews somehow make you feel closer to the author and the story. A wonderful example of this is in The Titanic Detective Agency by Lindsay Littleson. The…
Back to school!
Teachers: Back to school this week so time to get my ‘Whole School Reading’ head on. Whole School reading inset on Wednesday but ‘end of term me’ obviously had very little faith in ‘end of holiday me’ so training was mostly organised in July. As the new DFE Reading Framework came out just before the…
Small steps!
So why am I writing this, and why are you reading it? Before Lockdown I was happy to read and recommend books to children and staff at school, and pass on resource ideas to colleagues in my roll as Assistant Head and Reading Champion at a two form entry primary school in Kent. My use…
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