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

8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More

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

What Michael Gove says about trainee teachers having the opportunity to observe and learn from teachers in school is critically important. … More

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