SuperEggMan

Back in the dim and distant past, when the dinosaurs roamed the earth it became clear that someone needed to look after “The Egg.” Luckily, from another egg was born “SuperEggMan.” Now he wasn’t one of those superheroes with tights and a red cape but he could fly. Given that he looked after eggs this [...]

Hooray for Roald Dahl

We’ve been rereading ‘The Twits’ and the BFG this half term. Dipped into Matilda and Boy too. Interesting piece by Will Self in today’s Guardian. Tails of the unexpected Roald Dahl’s children’s books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence. The new film version of Fantastic Mr Fox is an ideal introduction to [...]

Pie’s (now where does that apostrophe go?) the man!

In ten years of being a late trained Primary teacher, I’ve struggled with the seemingly impossible demands of the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. As I think I’ve alluded to before the Literacy Strategy has caused more heartache and lost sleep than numeracy but then I haven’t got A level English but an engineering background. I’ve [...]

Digital Starters

A brilliant post from Simon Mills about using Wallace & Gromit videos as digital starters for explaining processes. The Tellyscope The Snoozatron There is an ongoing list of ‘Digital Starters’ or Multimodal Starting Points which can be found on our school site – E-Learning – English – Film

24 Ideas for Inspiring writing

A Google Docs presentation 24 Ideas for Inspiring Writing from Mark Warner. Also a new website

Passion for poetry

A few choice words from the Guru by David Ward An article about Cliff Yates ideas for poetry teaching. Cliff Yates from the Poetry Class – This is just to say Poetry Class “taking the fear out of teaching poetry” National Poetry Day on October 9th – here