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 ...
Thursday, 17 November 2022

Caroline Benn Lecture: Socialist Education Association talk on 'What have the arts ever done for us?'

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It’s an honour and a delight to be giving this talk in the name of Caroline Benn. I didn’t know Caroline personally but I was lucky enough t...