Scribbling With Delight

When I speak to trainee primary school teachers about their views of poetry I am often struck by their divergent … More

Finding ‘And Yet the Books’

One year I decided that I would decorate one of my teaching rooms with my collection of Poems on the … More

For the last nine years at the end of the first week in July I have been saying goodbye to … More

As I say in my previous blog post, I owe my knowledge of ‘8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970’ to the … More

PGCE students are so dedicated. They burn with desire to be amazing. They hand in their work and have beautifully … More

Last week I had the privilege of taking my Primary PGCE English specialists on a trip toLondonfor the final … More

Artwork: Kate Vaughan What Michael Gove says about trainee teachers having the opportunity to observe and learn from teachers in school … More

I love the silence that descends on a classroom full of people who are all engaged in the act of … More