PrimaryOdds’n'Ends

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 this fabulous, cruel [...]

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 [...]

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