Cross Curricular
Inspire Education
We have joined forces with our friends at Gluu and Inspire.Education who would like to tell you more about their fantastic work with schools. Tara Jones and Christine Major from Gluu created this blog for us.
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Raising awareness and understanding of environmental issues: empowering our pupils to make a difference through an engaging and thought-provoking Literacy curriculum.
‘There can be no greater legacy than giving young people the tools they need to save our planet.’ (Sir David Attenborough)
Cross Curricular
Developing Vocabulary
In the 2014 National Curriculum, the need for pupils to have an ‘acquisition and command of vocabulary’ was a key statement. The role this would play in their learning and development was clear, but 5 years on how many of us are sure about how and when to teach this? Read more…
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Book Review: Wisp – A Story of Hope
We stumbled across ‘Wisp: A Story of Hope’, a truly stunning picture book, by chance while gathering together resources for our SMSC units of work on the theme of Refugees. Among the books we chose, Wisp stands out like a shining light: one of those rare children’s books that gives Read more…
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Promoting SMSC and British Values through an engaging Literacy curriculum
With a curriculum packed full of valuable content and pressures on primary schools to deliver on ever more challenging targets in end of key stage testing, the teaching of SMSC and British Values is often an area that is squeezed out – relegated to a few token days or a Read more…
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A Mastery Approach to Writing, Continued…
We had been speaking to Head of School at Wolverham, Jenni Ogden, in our previous post about her experience of Pathways to Write and the mastery approach to writing her school have been piloting for us. Not only have Wolverham embedded Pathways to Write as an approach for their English Read more…