Saturday, 16 November 2024

I was asked to comment on a 'teacher model' for writing in a primary school. I did.

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  This is a tweet I received. I replied like this: 1. It's a nonsense. It's no help for children to write interesting stories or non...
Thursday, 7 November 2024

How and why the Primary English 'Writing' curriculum has got it wrong

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1/ Because the Primary English curriculum for writing has got distorted to focus on 'grammar', we overlook that writing can be deve...
Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Bear Hunt and how it became a legal matter

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I posted a blog here and linked to it on X (formerly Twitter), the blog 'The True Story of the making of the book of 'We're Goin...

Writing workshop - the 'how' of writing

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Yesterday, I met up with several hundred teachers in Colchester to talk about writing. I talked about how I had turned an episode from real...
Saturday, 21 September 2024

The reason why Year 6 children in England 'do grammar' is nothing to do with 'grammar'! It's entirely to do with the government deciding it had to assess teachers.

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The piece of official writing that I'm referring to in this post, is at the bottom of the post. It comes from the Bew Report (2011) and ...
Thursday, 19 September 2024

The Meteorite Gove hit schools and left this kind of chaos (and wrong advice) for children on how to write.

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  As teachers know, a crazed and obsessive meteorite-like thing hit schools in around 2010 and schools have never been the same since. It wa...
Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Goldsmiths University of London - strike

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My union branch ie Goldsmiths UCU has voted for indefinite strike action. We are faced with something like 95 redundancies with department...