It’s a funny feeling, almost new each time I experience it, an anticipation of loss that is somehow fresh and … More
Tag: PGCE
The class of my dreams
The Class to the Class of 2014 after Raymond Carver The class with beautiful scarves The class who learned … More
Lifesaving Poems: Riddle 7 (The Exeter Book)
Sometime in 1997 I went to hear Kevin Crossley-Holland give a reading at Exeter Central Library. I’d heard he was … More
Scribbling With Delight
When I speak to trainee primary school teachers about their views of poetry I am often struck by their divergent … More
Lifesaving Poems: Shel Silverstein’s ‘Not Me’
I wrote yesterday about pitching poems in the classroom which are aimed not at the crowd but perhaps one … 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
On Saying Goodbye to Primary PGCE Students
For the last nine years at the end of the first week in July I have been saying goodbye to … More
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted … More
Writing and Silence
Originally posted on Anthony Wilson:
I love the silence that descends on a classroom full of people who are all engaged…