Literacy Resources

We met with some wonderful schools today to start to think about action research into supporting children who are eligible for or who receive free school meals. Our focus is  narrowing the gap between their attainment and the attainment of all children. As a team we trawled through all the most recent research in this [...]

I don’t know what I would do with out Devon School Library Service.  I say ‘Oooh. Have you got a copy of such and such?  I’d really like to have a look at it.’  And if they haven’t got a copy they get one for me.  Which is how I came to have the wonderful [...]

One of my favourite books for the fantasy unit in Yr1 is Harold and the Purple Crayon.  It follows a fairly popular tradition in children’s fiction where the pencil crayon draws the character into trouble and out of it again and again.  Anthony Browne’s Bear Hunt did the same thing as did Doodling Daniel. The [...]

I haven’t written a blog post since the end of the summer term and strangely it is taking me a long time to get going and back into the swing of blogging.  I suspect it is because we are so busy at the moment but really that is a poor excuse because we are always [...]