Wednesday 22 November 2023

Some responses to this week's Covid inquiry

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  (1) Patrick Vallance (from Guardian Nov 20 2023) Vallance diary: “PM meeting – begins to argue for letting it all rip. Saying yes there wi...
Friday 17 November 2023

Some ideas about writing and recovery

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This week, I gave a talk to Lewisham headteachers about writing and recovery. I read some poems and talked about why and how I wrote them. H...
Thursday 25 May 2023

My thoughts on this year's Key Stage 2 Grammar, punctuation and spelling test (which used to be the SPaG test)

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I am looking at the 2023, 'Key stage 2, English grammar, punctuation and spelling test. Paper 1:  questions' My first thought, as ev...
Sunday 21 May 2023

Three Twitter threads on reading, language and a response to an article in the Sunday Times today by Nick Gibb

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  TWITTER THREAD ON NICK GIBB AND READING BEGINS HERE: I will try to tackle the untruths (in this article below by Nick Gibb) in my tweets ...
Friday 19 May 2023

How to massage the media to send out a message to make people believe that 'Literacy' standards in England are improving:

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  Guardian: 'Despite the improvement in ranking, England’s score remained virtually unchanged since the last round of assessments in the...
Monday 3 April 2023

Focussing on the feeling in the flow: how to avoid critiquing 'Highway 61 Revisited'.

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  I go on and on being amazed by 'Highway 61 Revisited'. How could someone that young have produced such images, feelings, sounds, ...
Tuesday 3 January 2023

Fronted adverbials? What about fronted adjectivals?

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  Anyone who teaches KS2 children (10 and 11 year olds) knows that they have to learn about fronted adverbials. In spite of the complicated ...