On 6th May 2023, millions of people worldwide watched a new king being crowned, but many question whether the monarchy is an outdated...

What cleaning up has to do with classroom motivation.

Shared texts for teaching Film Review writing.

In May 2021, The Times Education Commission was set up to ‘ examine the future of education in light of the Covid-19 crisis, declining...

Assessing writing has always been tricky - it's highly subjective and can be hard to pin-point what makes one piece of writing better...

A Forward -Thinking Curriculum: Let’s Get Down To The Nitty Gritty Educational Consultant and Author, Kate McCallam, shares why grit is a...

Full article (abridged version in newsletter at bottom of page) Being a Writer-Teacher by Kate McCallam Kate is a Y6 veteran and a...

The brilliant, John Hegley, has some fab poetry that can be easily adapted and played with in class. Take a look: A Declaration of Need...

This is a fabulous free resource that every English teacher should download and use with their class. It is written for pupils and gives...

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Teaching with Minecraft

I loved this cross-curricular project and so did the children. It was a brilliant geography-biased topic following our history-biased WW2...

* Context: The following literacy lesson (unit) is part of our wider class theme, Re-building Britain (After The War). It is essentially...

The teacup smelt of floral gossip and a side of old ladies; it smelt of betrayed friendships and broken trust.

I might spike a sparrow, might murder a mouse, then, I’ll bring it back bloody, my prey, my house

Despite my continual attempts to bring this to your attention, you have simply ignored my requests or have made false promises. The former o

It had been a disappointing term at St Oswald’s. For most of the boys in 3F, creative writing was on a par with country dancing and food tec

This caused unneccessary tension in the home and was an additional burden for working parents to bear.

....it was already full, for this was a city, a busy city, and it sang to the tune of Work, Work, Work.