It’s a question often asked as there is now so much technological support to help us as adults – “Hey Siri, how do you spell collaboration? Alexa, can you spell pedagogy?” Never mind wonderful Google who will send us to dictionary.com in a second. However, as teachers, we know spelling Read more…
‘There can be no greater legacy than giving young people the tools they need to save our planet.’ (Sir David Attenborough)
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s a busy Monday morning at Wolverham Primary School and Head of School, Jenni Ogden, has given up some of her valuable time to talk with us about Pathways to Write and how they have used it to develop their text-based curriculum. The school have been piloting our units and Read more…