Friday, 27 June 2025

Some first thoughts on where we are with the Goldsmiths Inquiry into Antisemitism.

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Just as I suspected, people have already started interpreting the KC's report into antisemitism at Goldsmiths as if it were a survey. I...
Thursday, 26 June 2025

Why do children not like writing (see the recent report from the National Literacy Trust)

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We used to say to children (when it came to writing) any of the following: what do you want to say? (topic) who would you like to write it f...
Thursday, 19 June 2025

Stories on a gravestone in Cartmel Priory, Cumbria

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 On June 17  I was out and about with an old friend of mine and his wife from the days I did medicine.I was in Cumbria because I was doing ...
Saturday, 7 June 2025

Two new poems for Gaza - a) Keir Starmer and the 'Massacre of the Innocents''; b) No Famine

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  Keir Starmer and the 'Massacre of the Innocents' Keir Starmer was asked today what he thought about   the moment in the Bible   wh...
Friday, 6 June 2025

Before Gove, Blunkett and Baker, there was no good research on the teaching of English...WHAT?!

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One of the successes of the revolution that overtook the subject of English in schools in England from about 1988-2012, was its skill in wip...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

5 blogs on the Grammar test for primary school children (2022-25)

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 Below are five blogs about the Key Stage 2 Grammar test for 10 and 11 year old pupils in maintained schools in England The first four are m...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Bernard Newsome and this question: What else is writing other than 'grammar'?

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  I've just heard that Bernard Newsome, a former colleague of my father at the London Institute of Education, died in April. He was a fr...