Friday 27 May 2016

Grammar: why am I talking about it?

Wednesday 25 May 2016

BBC's 'Last White People on Earth', last night

Tuesday 24 May 2016

How to engage an audience? Good conjunctions and suffixes. [Irony alert]

Monday 23 May 2016

How SPaG wastes space and wastes the mind.

Sunday 22 May 2016

To be or not to be that is the exam question.

Thursday 19 May 2016

What is real science and how much of it can you teach at GCSE?

To those defending this year's GCSE Science exams

Wednesday 18 May 2016

16-step programme to make education better. Not.

"My kid did fine, so the exam must be fine." Not.

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Core knowledge - a riff and some questions

Sunday 15 May 2016

Transcript of planning meeting at Exams HQ - revealed!

Are arts subjects getting squeezed out by the eBacc system? A teacher replies yes, here's how

Thursday 12 May 2016

This year's Phonics Screening Check - here it is.

Grammar Lesson - poem

They say we've politicised the children's stress. No, it's the stress that's political.

Wednesday 11 May 2016

The children's SATs stress is the symptom, not the 'illness' itself

People who design tests don't care if the fact is right/wrong - it's the child that has to be!

What we could do with language if we weren't shackled by SPaG

Tuesday 10 May 2016

The 8-point purpose of SPaG

Today's SPaG paper

Monday 9 May 2016

Tests: the more 'reliable', the less 'valid'.

Tell the children to tick one box.

"in tears because they didn't have time to finish..."

Today's SATs: 'floods of tears"

Tears during today's SATs

This year's SATs reading test - leaked!

Today's Reading Comprehension Test - important press release

Ads have different 'rules' for how to punctuate. Why pretend they don't?

SATs are not the 'basics'.

Saturday 7 May 2016

Please share my birthday message

Friday 6 May 2016

David Crystal talks about 'traditional grammar'

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Notes for media people re testing and 'grammar'

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Comment on education and testing from Facebook

Govt pretends this morning that there is only kind of testing. Untrue.

This morning's 4 false arguments in defence of the SATs and SPaG/GPS

Monday 2 May 2016

How SPaG/GPS makes a difficult description even harder

Are the grammatical descriptions that children have to learn, helpful?

Sunday 1 May 2016

How to use my poetry videos as starting points for writing

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